In our first proper news post of 2023, we're mostly looking at LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS in the Eastern Upper Peninsula for the first couple of months of this year, but a few videos from each side of the border will cap things off well. Here's what you should know!
Kewadin Casino have announced concerts at
The Rapids Lounge in Sault Ste. Marie and
The Northern Pines Lounge in St. Ignace for the first three weekends of the month/year, as seen in the entertainment pages linked above! For reference, the two newer bands playing this month are Charlevoix classic rock cover quartet
Derailed and Mackinaw City blues/country rock cover band
Mighty Hiawatha, but the only unequivocally heavy band booked in the six weekends booked so far are Traverse City classic metal trio
Peril, who will return to The Rapids Lounge for their first 2023 shows anywhere on Friday, January 20th & Saturday, January 21st! Not only that, they're not booked anywhere else through February, so if you want to take in Jeff, Adam, and Brooks' hard rocking old school covers and possible originals, head to the Soo Kewadin later this month, especially as they haven't rocked The Rapids Lounge since August of last year!
As usual for Peril's E.U.P. dates, these are 21+ affairs with no cover charges and no age limits. See above for more details! Now, while Kewadin haven't went beyond January 21st for lounge concert scheduling yet (they've generally announced things monthly or bi-monthly in recent memory), Peril and their sister bands Scarkazm and Project 6's concert schedule through February was announced on Scarkazm's Facebook page on Monday. The acoustic Project 6 (no relation to locals Project 906) only scarcely play north of the Mackinac Bridge, but Scarkazm are Kewadin regulars and, according to the band, they'll bring their original & cover metal stylings back to The Northern Pines Lounge on Friday, February 17th & Saturday, February 18th! Scarkazm play live much more frequently than Peril do, so fans downstate will see planet of them beforehand, but Scarkazm were last seen in St. Ignace in November.
Like with Peril later this month, Scarkazm's shows next month have 9:00 PM start times, no cover charges, and 21+ age limits. It's great to see Peril and Scarkazm come back to the Soo and St. Ignace once again, and having talented and familiar bands from downstate reliably making the trip north for concerts multiple times a year is always welcomed, so hopefully both bands get great responses across both weekends! Visit the above links for more on these new dates, and stay tuned for more!
Next up, let's head north to Sault Ontario for some new "Reel" videos on local concert venue/nightclub
LopLops Lounge's Facebook page! Full disclosure, I'm not a fan of Reels, as they're basically TikTok video clones that are vertically oriented and short by design, unable to play while on a separate tab, and impossible to embed externally, but at least they don't vanish after viewing them like "Stories". LopLops have dove head first into making Reels in the past two months, largely to promote and show clips from shows they put on, either at their Queen Street East homebase or elsewhere. These principally included two
Wyld Stallyns concerts last month, with LopLops filming The Stallyns (minus Josh) covering The Spencer Davis Group's
"Gimme Some Lovin'" at the Bookclub show on December 17th, while the headliners were filmed covering, believe it or not, Neil Diamond's
"Sweet Caroline".
The Wyld Stallyns' video sounds good while it lasts, but the Bookclub video (despite being uploaded in monochrome) is longer and captures more of the solid crowd in attendance, fitting given how "Sweet Caroline" is suited to audience involvement! Their last two reels are from the My Son The Hurricane show at the Bushplane Museum on New Year's Eve that The Stallyns opened, and while only the headliners were filmed for Reels, you do get a sense of their amped up, fan friendly brand of brass-hop via the eclectic covers therein! As I can't embed Reels here, give these and more a watch above or at this link, and here's to a big 2023 at LopLops!
Finally, here's a new video from St. Ignace, Michigan metalcore quintet
Heavy Lies The Crown's Facebook page earlier today, which appears to be our first sample of their recent songwriting efforts! The guys have been taking time away from the stage since the fall to work on new material (their first with this lineup), and the video features a 62 second instrumental clip set to a filtered version of a 1990s Jell-O commercial parody from
SkyCorp Home Video. Just as a warning, the video has adult language and situations, it just
looks like a real old commercial at first, but
click here if you want to see the original without H.L.T.C.s music or filters. They've definitely amped up the humour in their social media since last year's lineup changes, and this fits in that vein! The audio clip is promisingly heavy & technical, though obviously incomplete, so check it out for yourself below!
That's all for today, but stay tuned for weekend concert previews on the site next! Thanks everyone!
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