This post is coming a day later than I anticipated due to replacing my primary computer, but we're back in business with that big LOCAL CONCERT ALERT from last week for our Sault Ontario readers! Some new videos from a local solo artist cap things off, so here's what you should know!
Juno Award-nominated Kingston southern hard rock quintet
The Glorious Sons will headline at
The Sault Community Theatre Centre on Sunday, May 29th! While they have reportedly played in the Soo before (I admittedly could not source the date), this will definitely be The Sons' first show of this scope here, having become one of the most prominent domestic rock bands since the mid-2010s with hits like "S.O.S. "Sawed Off Shotgun" and "Panic Attack", which hit #1 on both the Canadian
and American mainstream rock charts! With two gold albums and a lot of familiar songs if you listen to Canadian rock radio (more on that in a bit), fans of The Glorious Sons won't wanna miss their heartland-inspired brand of original rock & roll in under three months' time! While not listed with local advertising, Kitchener rock musician
J.J. Wilde is opening throughout The Glorious Sons' Unfinished Business Tour this year, so I'd expect her here too.
Making her own local debut, J.J. won the Juno for Rock Album of the Year in 2021, and her skilled & diverse brand of rock music should be a fine compliment on this tour! A co-presentation of
LopLops Lounge,
Music Tourism, and Lisa Zed Productions, this is the second hard rock show at the former Kiwanis Theatre of May 2022, following the long delayed
Queen: It's A Kinda Magic tribute one week prior. Intriguingly, the radio sponsors of this show (both owned by Rogers Media) are
Kiss 100.5 (Sault Ontario's top 40/adult contemporary station) and
Sudbury's
92.7 Rock (née Q92). One doesn't play The Glorious Sons from what I can tell, and the other isn't in the Soo, though 92.7 Rock is our closest Canadian FM rock station. From what I understand, this is largely an effort to try and expand Q92's audience via promoting a regional concert, and note that The Glorious Sons are
not playing in Sudbury on this tour.
Given that Rock 101 in Sault Michigan doesn't really play The Glorious Sons from what I've heard, this would at least be a way to get the word out to a Northern Ontario audience via a station that does play them regularly, and seeing as Rogers owns two stations in the Soo, could this be an early toe in the water towards seeing if a Sault Ontario rock station on FM is viable as a third? I have tuned in to 92.7 Rock on trips a fair amount (it starts to come in around Spanish if you're driving east on Highway 17), and it is an entertaining station with lots of Canadian content and specialty programming that would definitely be a welcome local compliment! The same playlist and branding is used simultaneously for Timmins and North Bay's rock stations, FYI. If you want to tune in to 92.7 Rock without driving 3-4 hours east, 92.7 Rock has free streams on their website and TuneIn.
As for the concert proper, it has an 8:00 PM start time, no age limit, and tickets (on sale here) run for either $85 in the floor seating or $79 in the balcony. This may seem expensive, but support this show if you can to encourage more major touring bands to come here, as Canadian rock bands without substantial American radio airplay are sadly not guaranteed draws in this market. As of right now, face masks and proof of double vaccination are required to attend, but check back with the SCTC's website in case this changes for better or for worse. Visit the official Facebook event page and the above links for more details on what should be a huge concert!
Finally for today, here's some new videos from prolific local extreme metal/folk punk musician
Chase Wigmore's Facebook page in the past week! None are tied to one of his various teased albums in the works (at least, not by name), but it's good to see that he has been keeping busy so far in March!
One video from the 1st features Chase showcasing what happens when a single piano note is played in increasingly fast succession, to the point where it reaches "ludicrous speed" (unfortunately, Chase didn't let us see the note get to plaid!) On Friday, he uploaded a solo cover of Leadbelly's
"Where Did You Sleep Last Night", which definitely owes more to the original than the Nirvana cover. The low framerate webcam quality and dark lighting are unfortunate, but Chase gives this blues standard a nice grit! Embedded below is a new original song-in-progress named "The Chaotic Rite", so what should you know here?
A twelve minute+ video uploaded in black & white, this is an acoustic performance, but rather than hewing to his folk punk work, Chase is in full-on finger style, fast-as-hell mode here, so if you want to see Chase's pure guitar talent at work without any extreme genre trappings, this would be a good (if long) way to do it! Check out "The Chaotic Rite" for yourself below!
That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the site this week! Thanks everyone!
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