Last Month's Poll Results & Our New Poll!

It's now time to wrap up last month's poll on the SMS and launch a new one! As you may recall, we posed this question to you guys last month: What was your favourite new local metal, hard rock, or punk album of 2020? Only 10 votes, which is disappointing, but thanks to everyone who did vote, especially with a fairly interesting final tally, which you can see below!

The Bear Hunters - The Dead Testament (3 votes, 30%)
A Dire Setback - A Dire Setback (3 votes, 30%)
Mike Haggith - If Ever Comes The Day (2 votes, 20%)
Other (2 votes, 20%)
9 Times Dark - Vicissitude (0 votes)
As It Stands - The Lost Tapes (0 votes)
Either of Crucify The Whore's new albums (0 votes)
Tarnished - Down To The Wire (0 votes)

What do you guys think? Regarding the albums with no votes, I'm most surprised that As It Stands' long-belated EP didn't get any votes, especially knowing how popular they were a decade ago. The other three options were tempered by lower-profile release methods, or in Tarnished's case, not being based on this side of the border. I can't speak for the two "Other" votes, but the three top vote-getters predictably got the most positive attention in the poll, validating their contemporary fandom and successes! Mike's positive votes show that he has maintained his local following since moving west, and with A Dire Setback & The Bear Hunters tying for the lead, both metalheads and punk fans had their say! In ties like this, my tiebreaker is to give the edge to the newer album (as it had less time to garner the same votes), so I'd consider "The Dead Testament" as the winner, but both were very solid new albums that deserve to be checked out!

Thanks to everyone for voting! As for this month's poll, you may recall me mentioning last month that I was condensing our 2020 wrap-up polls from five to two due for obvious pandemic-related reasons. One is now in the books, and this month's poll poses this question to you guys: COVID-19 aside, what was the biggest local metal, hard rock, or punk news story of 2020? This was a tricky poll to narrow down choices for, given how different of a year 2020 was in pretty much every facet, but it certainly wasn't boring! As noted above, the COVID-19 pandemic alone will not be an option in the poll, as that is a wide-sweeping blanket topic that, in & of itself, isn't a local music story. It certainly impacted everything, and it undoubtedly defined 2020, but we're trying to be specific to newsworthy events. Similarly, I'm not including specific concert cancellations as options, because pretty much everything after mid-March had an identical fate, and where do you draw the line?

I narrowed down your choices this year from our usual 25 to 20 (hopefully we can bump back up for 2021), and of course, "Other" is back too if you would prefer. Now, here's a little on the final options!

A Dire Setback release their self-titled debut CD: As alluded to above already, local punk trio A Dire Setback put out their long awaited studio album in March, early into the pandemic, and it recieved a strong reception from fans despite their release party being forced into a virtual setting. This was a fun album from this prominent local band, but was this the most newsworthy item in the poll?

As It Stands posthumously release "The Lost Tapes": Another of last year' new album crop, defunct local hardcore quintet As It Stands surprised many fans when they finally mixed and released their 2011 Mississauga recording sessions for their planned EP almost a decade after the fact. This was a nice surprise, even minus the Blink-182 cover, but would it earn your vote here?

The Bear Hunters release "The Dead Testament": Winners of the above poll (using the release date tiebreaker), local death metal standouts The Bear Hunters finally released their sophomore album in a sudden Bandcamp posting in November, opting to just get it out in some form despite the pandemic. The improved production quality accentuated the brutality well, but would you vote for it?

The Borderline Internet Radio hits the airwaves: Back in February, a new locally-focused radio alternative debuted when The Borderline launched with a large rotation of Sault-area musicians plus a number of scheduled programs featuring live hosts. While not on AM or FM, The Borderline has already developed a good following, but was it's launch #1 of these choices?

Concerts resume on a limited basis in the summer: For obvious reasons, live concerts did not take place for much of 2020, but select bands returned to some semblance of a live schedule from July through the second Ontario lockdown in December, with artists like Fort Creek, Soundcheck, and Tym Morrison playing to multiple socially distanced crowds. Would the return of concerts get your vote?

Eric Martin from Mr. Big hits Kewadin Casino in February: One of three major venue headlining concerts we got in 2020 before things turned upside down, former Mr. Big frontman Eric Martin and Trixter alum P.J. Farley played a special unplugged concert at The Dreammaker's Theater one year ago. The biggest was yet to come for hair metal fans, but did this top 2020 for you?

The Hair Scare Live rocks Kewadin Casino in February: Just a week after Eric Martin's Kewadin Casino gig in Sault Michigan, Rock 101's Hair Scare and host Scott Cook helped bring a hair metal feast to the same venue, courtesy of Cinderella's Tom Kiefer, Kix, and Faster Pussycat. This was the last major hard rock concert before the pandemic, but was it your biggest news story?

The Inner City Surfers release their new single: Over a year after recording three new songs locally in conjunction with their 2019 reunion show, local punk veterans The Inner City Surfers released "Excess Express" on YouTube and major streaming platforms. Fans took to the bluegrass-influenced punk song like it was 2005 all over again, but was it the most newsworthy item of all included here?

Live-streamed & virtual concerts gain wider popularity: With normal concerts out of the cards from mid-March onward, many local bands and event organizers shifted their focus to the internet to continue performing for an audience, notably including Mike Haggith, Tarnished, and Tym Morrison's regular weekly at-home gigs. Did this emerging trend strike you as newsworthy?

Long & McQuade moves to MacDonald Avenue: Moving during a pandemic can't be ideal, but local chain music store Long & McQuade (merged from Northland Music & Thomas Walls School Of Music) opened in the former Northshore Sports & Auto site in July, giving local musicians a new larger location and inventory for all of their needs. Would you vote for this story?

Mike Haggith releases "If Ever Comes The Day": After opting to postpone his planned "Bridges" album, former Din frontman Mike Haggith released his 50th canon solo album and first in 5 years back in May, complete with it's own release party shoved to a digital format. This intensely personal concept album recieved many positive reviews, but were you among them?

Mikey & His Uke launch his quarantune video series: A surprise daily treat during the first lockdown came via Inner City Surfers drummer and prolific local/Toronto punk frontman Mikey Hawdon's increasingly popular series of short vocal/ukelele song uploads, which slowly grew in prominence and quality into their current far-flung juggernaut. Was this #1 for you?

The Rad Zone moves to Queen Street East: After two decades at the former Wellington Square Mall, local record/skateboarding/video games/etc. store The Rad Zone packed it's bags and moved downtown into the former Foch Cleaners location in February. The pandemic didn't make for an ideal first year there, but was The Rad Zone's big move last year's biggest news story?

Reggie's Place re-opens under new ownership: After being closed for a year, popular Queen Street East bar & concert venue Reggie's Place was bought by Randy Lapossie, re-opened in September, and became one of the few repositories for a concert calendar last fall, even booking more hard rock than they once did. Would you vote for the return of Reggie's here?

Room 21 closes after Acoustic Heartstrings concert: A venue closure that had nothing to do with the pandemic, Albert Street West acoustic nightclub Room 21 announced that they were shutting their doors in February due to their host restaurant Low & Slow's move downtown, ending their two year run with a three band Valentine's Day show. Is this your preferred choice?

Rotaryfest music lineup takes place virtually in September: Ensuring that our annual summer festival took place in some form in 2020, Rotaryfest was delayed to the early fall and held virtually, with a pre-recorded YouTube concert headlined by Crystal Shawanda. No hard rock bands played (cover songs aside), but did Rotaryfest's 2020 changes top last year for you?

Shit Liver upload their 2016 tour documentary: After a four year wait, local/St. Catharine's grindcore trio Shit Liver finally posted the video of all of their antics from their cross-Canada tour run in the second quarter of 2016, including highlights from their Oddfellows Hall sho that April. It was great to see this video at long last, but would you vote for it here?

Tarnished release their "Down To The Wire" EP: The only high profile album to come out last year from a Sault Michigan hard rock act, "Down To The Wire" gave fans a nice compact package of five upbeat and heavy original music, and it gotr some strong publicity in the area during the first lockdown! Was this EP last year's top story of these choices?

Theory Of A Deadman rocks Sault Ontario in February:A rare hard rock concert hit The Sault Community Theater Center last year when Canadian rock radio mainstays Theory Of A Deadman returned to the region for a well recieved headlining date alongside openers W3apons. As the last high profile Sault Ontario event before the pandemic, does it earn your vote?

We Will Rock You musical takes place in January: While not a concert in the traditional sense, the touring production of the Queen musical We Will Rock You made it's way to GFL Memorial Gardens last January, featuring Queen's classic songs in a jukebox musical format. Definitely an interesting way to experience Queen, but would you vote for it in this poll?

Other: Did we miss something you'd rather vote for? Was a specific unlisted concert or album more to your liking? Was there a pandemic-influenced event that struck you as more newsworthy? Remember, the question begins with "COVID-19 aside,". If, for whatever reason, we missed your own top news story of 2020, then "Other" is for you!

VOTE TODAY! You have until March 19th or so to cast your votes, and as always, it will be interesting to see what comes out on top here, perhaps more than ever given how screwy of a year that 2020 was! That's all for today, but stay tuned for a new news post tomorrow. Thanks everyone!

Our Poll On Your Favourite New Albums Of 2020!!

It's around this time of the month when we begin posting our year-end retrospective polls for the previous year, but as you'll recall, 2020 was not a normal year by any stretch. Usually, we have five polls to go up directly relating to the previous year (on new bands, album releases, news stories, concerts from the second half of the year, and on the whole year), with a poll on concerts from the first half of the year launching in July. Given the obvious pandemic-related circumstances we lived through in 2020, I am slashing our polls to just two for this year. It's impossible to do one on your favourite new bands, as not enough had the chance to fully debut last year (The Bridge Heads & Fort Creek publically launched in 2019, 9 Times Dark & The Isolation Sessions haven't played live yet, and that's about it for new local hard rock acts.) As for our year-end polls on your favourite concerts... our pool isn't all that great to draw from.

In terms of public Sault Ontario concerts with a half/majority lineup of metal, hard rock, or punk bands, Sault Ontario didn't have much in the 2½ months of normalcy we enjoyed before the pandemic began (remember, January-March aren't peak times for shows in good years), and with the exception of outdoor Heyden event Squatfest, most of the heavier concerts we saw in the late summer and onward were via cover acts on the bar circuit with limited audiences due to social distancing restrictions. Even if I were to include some of those, it's not really fair to assess a concert when they aren't capable of hosting a full audience. As such, I will only be doing two polls this year, with next month's devoted to news stories from a very newsworthy year, and I do plan to roll at least a few concerts into that selection to make up that poll's difference. Now, what should you know about this month's poll?

We're posing this question to you guys: What was your favourite local metal, hard rock, or punk CD of 2020? Between a combination of previously recorded material and musicians working in the studio when they couldn't really go out, we had a surprisingly robust slate of album releases from heavier local acts last year that we can select from! To qualify, albums must have been released for sale between January 1st and December 31st of 2020, so exclusively free releases (like most of Chase Wigmore's 2020 output) are not included. However, "Other" returns as an option if we missed your favourite. Now, here are your choices!

9 Times Dark - Vicissitude: A new solo punk project from local musician Chris Raginskis, 9 Times Dark's debut EP was quietly released in August after being mixed locally at Relentless Audio. We'll likely be taking more of a deep dive into "Vicissitude" next month when we'll likely review it on the SMS, but can you vouch for 9 Times Dark's debut already in this poll?

A Dire Setback - A Dire Setback: The debut album from this popular local punk trio, A Dire Setback had the unfortunate timing of releasing it March, shortly before it's primary CDBaby host shut down, AND during the early stages of the pandemic, forcing their release concert to be held virtually in a Facebook live-stream. This self-titled album got a strong reception from fans, but would you concur?

As It Stands - The Lost Tapes:  Almost a decade after recording their third EP in Mississauga, now-defunct hardcore quintet As It Stands finally had the original songs from those sessions mixed and released last month, giving fans closure(?) with long-awaited studio copies of some of their strongest original material. Were "The Lost Tapes" worth the wait for you?

The Bear Hunters - The Dead Testament: Local death metal fans got a pleasant surprise in November when The Bear Hunters emerged from their "eternal hibernation" to release their second album "The Dead Testament" on Bandcamp! This was a low-key release due to the pandemic, but did the production quality and brutality mesh well for your vote?

Either of Crucify The Whore's new albums: The polarizing but intense grindcore solo project kept busy during the pandemic with two early 2020 albums, namely the full-length "P.C. Sells... But I Ain't Buyin'!" and their second "A Couple of Degenerate Bastards" with long-time collaborator Chase Wigmore. Did you take to Tyler's newest output more than the others?

Mike Haggith - If Ever Comes The Day: With his planned first Thompson-based solo album "Bridges" postponed indefinitely, former Din frontman Mike Haggith released his ultra-personal 50th album "If Ever Comes The Day" in May, which also saw it's release concert moved to a virtual setting. This album saw a lot of positive reviews, but was it your favourite?

Tarnished - Down To The Wire: The only major hard rock/metal album release in 2020 from a Sault Michigan act, local hard rock quartet Tarnished put out their debut album in July via digital platforms, giving ex-Banned frontman Alex Traynor and crew a solid platform as they continued their emergence while they can't play traditional concerts. Would you vote for this one?

Other: Did we miss your preferred option? Was your favourite new local album from a genre we don't actively cover? Perhaps you liked a free album or single release more than anything that actually came out for sale? Did I completely forget about something new from a heavier act last year? If, for whatever reason, we missed the album you loved most, vote for "Other"!

VOTE TODAY! You have until February 19th or so to cast your votes, and it will be interesting to see what readers liked the most, especially when many of us had more time to listen to these albums, in theory! That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news on the site by Friday! Thanks everyone!

2020: A Look Back In The Year Of Local Metal, Hard Rock, And Punk

To end this very strange year, here is our annual retrospective post on the what went down in the local metal, hard rock, and punk scene in the past 12 months! Of course, ⅘ths of it was spent in a pandemic largely devoid of concerts, so I have made necessary changes to how we usually block out our year-in-review posts, but hopefully I hit on every major relevant story in 2020! Now, let's look back at the year that was... such as it was!

Before everything changed, we were lucky enough to have 2½ months of normalcy in the local scene, with three major hard rock concerts taking place in February, including Mr. Big frontman Eric Martin & Trixter bassist P.J. Farley at The Dreammaker's Theatre at the Sault Michigan Kewadin Casino on the 15th, Theory of a Deadman & W3apons at The Sault Community Theatre Center the next day, and Tom Keifer, Kix, and Faster Pussycat at The Hair Scare Live at The Dreammaker's Theatre on the 22nd. Sault Michigan welcomed out of town bands like BRKN Love, Peril and Scarkazm to the area for pre-pandemic concerts, while Bon Jovi Forever returned to Sault Ontario on February 22nd themselves. Other notable early 2020 shows included The Apocalypse Afterparty joining other Soo's Got Talent finalists to kick off Bon Soo at The Machine Shop, and Handsome Sandwich & the debuting Bridge Heads helping close Room 21 on Valentine's Day, among other events.

Unfortunately, everything abruptly started changing for the worse on March 13th when the first wave of concert cancellations and postponements were announced due to the arrival of COVID-19 in North America and the beginning of it's spread, leading to the 3 month lockdown through June, social distancing measures, mask mandates, indoor capacity restrictions, and smaller lockdowns in Ontario and Michigan in the ensuing months as case counts rose. The concert calendar locally ground to a halt, costing the Soo area major March-June concerts from notable touring acts like Black Label Society, Matthew Good, Candlebox, Buckcherry, Queen: It's A Kinda Magic, Sandman, Peril, Whoop-Szo, Scarkazm, First Jason, The Anti-Queens, The Lows, Destroyer, Tripp 'N Dixie, and many others. Rescheduled dates are unclear at best, if announced at all, given the unknown climate of 2021 ahead, but we'll keep you posted!

The pandemic also cost the area virtually every annual concert festival and yearly event you can think of, and public concerts only resumed on a limited basis at some venues in the late summer, notably including Tarnished's Rock The Block event at Crooked Music in Sault Michigan in July, and the Blood Shed Productions-organized Squatfest in Heyden in August. Otherwise, the hard rock concert calendar in late 2020 was primarily the domain of weekend bar cover bands playing at the few venues willing to host bands with capacity and business-hour restrictions. Fort Creek and Soundcheck defied the pandemic with concerts at both local Reggie's taverns, while Tym Morrison hit the downtown Reggie's and the new Motley Market in recent months, and The Wyld Stallyns played a one-nighter at The Rockstar Bar in August during that venue's brief return of live concerts. With the new Ontario lockdown, things are pretty dead again, but fingers crossed for a 2021 uptick!

A number of local musicians adapted to the new normal (especially during the first lockdown) by holding live-streamed concerts on social media, with Mike Haggith's #LockdownLive series, Tym Morrison's regular slate of at-home gigs, and Tarnished's numerous acoustic duo concerts (despite ongoing audio difficulties) the most prominent for heavier genre acts. Mike and A Dire Setback also moved their CD release parties to at-home streams to give them the launch they deserved, while some annual events like Rotaryfest and The Sky's The Limit shifted to virtual editions in 2020, The Wyld Stallyns made an unadvertised appearance in The Zonta Club's Purses, Pies, and Pinot gala, and new events like SooToday's Come Together Sault Ste. Marie, Coronafest, and Northern Superior Brewing's Songs & A Six Pack gave musicians an outlet to perform at a difficult time.

News didn't stop in 2020 outside of the pandemic, and there were good and bad stories to report that had nothing to do with COVID! In January, GFL Memorial Gardens welcomed the touring Queen musical We Will Rock You, while The Rad Zone re-opened in it's new Queen Street location. Room 21 closed in February, but the Soo welcomed The Borderline to the internet radio airwaves, giving a much needed local alternative! During the first lockdown, veteran local punk musician Mikey Hawdon launched his series of daily quarantunes on his uke(lele), which grew to much bigger and better things in recent months! Also this year: Shaun Antler kicked off her local musician archival project, Long & McQuade moved into it's big new location on MacDonald Avenue, Reggie's Place re-opened under new ownership, Tarnished got airplay on 9&10 News' The Four, The Inner City Surfers released their new single...

...frontman Dustin Jones' main band The Rising Tide (and Tarnished) released their own new music videos, Gary Croad replaced Tommy Korcal on drums with Tarnished, and Shit Liver released their long-gestating 2016 Canadian tour documentary. This was a difficult year, but thankfully, it was still a newsworthy one for unrelated reasons!

If being locked down at home did one thing for local musicians, it encouraged them to write and record in studio, and we got a surprising number of local metal, hard rock, and punk albums this year! The aforementioned Mike Haggith ("If Ever Comes The Day") and A Dire Setback (their self-titled album) got their new discs launched via virtual release concerts during the lockdown, while Sault Michigan's Tarnished put out their own EP "Down To The Wire" in July, not long after their Rock The Block concert. Blood Shed mainstays Crucify The Whore released "P.C. Sells... But I Ain't Buyin'!" and their second "A Couple Of Degenerate Bastards" split with Chase Wigmore this year, while Chris Raginskis' debuting 9 Times Dark project released "Vicissitude" in August. 2020 ended with a bang with two long awaited album releases, namely The Bear Hunters' "The Dead Testament" last month and As It Stands posthumous EP "The Lost Tapes" two weeks ago. Here's to even more high profile new albums in 2021!

Given that most bands couldn't play concerts as normal in 2020, the lack of debuting bands was understandable, though we did see the public concert debuts of The Bridge Heads and Fort Creek this year, while The Isolation Sessions leaned into social distancing in their early branding and videos. It would be unfair to call out bands for being inactive in 2020 for obvious reasons, but there were a few notable bands to publically throw in the towel, like Sault Michigan classic rock mainstays Highway 63 this summer, while both X's & Y's and Sault Ontario's Parabol saw their Facebook pages quietly deleted with no public notice then or since. As well, a handful of groups have not been heard from since the second half of 2019, like Treble Charger, AlgomA, Rotopsy, Pillory, Telephone & Address, The Guitar Gangsters, and Coral Fang, who were all moved to our inactive band links this year. Hopefully 2021 is a better one for band activity!

As always, we'll end things with comebacks and returns to activity from prominent bands, and while few had the opportunity to play a concert as part of their resurgences, some familiar faces still made their presences known again in 2020! Acts like Ashoka At The Show, Black Cloud, Foothill Road, Mike Cliffe, Mike McCleary, The Shaner, and SweetKenny all came back to activity this year with new studio material or live performance videos,hopefully presaging more to come in the new year! Also, Ottawa's Bad Chug reunited and relocated to Sault Ontario with a Buckcherry opening slot still waiting in the wings, That's Chester posted a new Pink Floyd cover to honour late bandmate Eugene Orlando, Skeyes of Seven resurfaced to compete in a Corus Radio song contest, ex-No Arrow drummer Joe Falco resurfaced with solo videos on Youtube, and Destroilet came back to sell new t-shirts. Here's to more from them & others in the new year!

2020 was not a great year, but there was enough good in it where you can't completely write it off. That said, 2021 has to be a better year for the local metal, hard rock, and punk scene, how can it be worse? I'll be forgoing our usual "new year forecast" post tomorrow because, frankly, no one knows what 2021 has in store, let alone when we'll have some semblance of a normal concert calendar again, so why waste time when everything could be wrong? In any event, I hope everyone has a Happy New Year, and we'll see you back with next month's "Where Are The New Albums?" post on Saturday, with more news to follow when available! Thanks everyone!

2020: A Preview & What To Watch Out For!!

Happy New Year (and Decade), everyone! As is tradition on the SMS, we're kicking off 2020 with a forecast looking at what will and could happen among local metal, hard rock, and punk artists and events over these 12 months, so here's what we know for upcoming concerts to start things off!

We already have a strong lineup of shows announced for this year, with Kewadin Casino in Sault Michigan welcoming four major headlining concerts to The Dreammakers Theater in 2020 already, including shows headlined by Mr. Big frontman Eric Martin on February 15th, Cinderella frontman Tom Keifer one week later, Black Label Society on March 13th, and Candlebox on April 18th. For ticketing and opener details on all of these dates, visit Kewadin's ticket page! Sault Ontario will kick off an unusually busy stretch for the Sault Community Theater Center with shows from Theory of a Deadman on February 16th, Matthew Good on March 26th, and Queen: It's A Kinda Magic on June 17th, so click here for admission details on those shows. On the Canadian side of the border, look for Tym Morrison's ongoing weekly run at Gliss Restaurant to continue each Friday and Saturday like clockwork, while The Apocalypse Afterparty will help open Bon Soo at month's end, and the First Jason concert takes place on April 26th.

As for remaining E.U.P. concerts that I am aware of, look for Tarnished's own weekly matinee run at Biggby Coffee to continue until further notice, with the other concerts all coming at The Rapids Lounge at the Soo Kewadin or the Northern Pines Lounge in St, Ignace. We knew of some of the earlier Peril & Scarkazm dates already, but each venue's entertainment page is newly updated through July, confirming more dates from those acts, as well as locals 415E & Highway 63, as well as some surprise original hard rock bands from out of town (BRKN Love, The Lows, and Tripp 'N' Dixie). Visit the above links for more on all of these dates, and stay tuned in the coming days for proper SMS write-ups on the new Kewadin lounge gigs and Queen: It's A Kinda Magic, which is also new for our coverage. Moving to shows that aren't publically announced yet, we can expect to see heavier and punk bands returning for various annual events, but which ones would those be?

I'd look towards Rotaryfest (Stages 1 & 2), Toystock, J.D. Pearce's annual Halloween Party, Go Skateboarding Day, the Oh!No festival's multi-venue move to Sault Ste. Marie, The Northern Vibe Festival, Go Skateboarding Day, the Oh!No festival in Leeburn, the Fringe North Festival, and The Soo's Got Talent, among others. Speculation-wise, could heavier bands return to The Fishbowl Festival and The Northern Vibe Festival after being absent in 2019? Will the Go North Music Festival in Richards Landing have punk or hard rock back for a second year? Could a battle of the bands take place after three cancellations in 2019? And what kinds of CD release parties could occur? In Sault Michigan, will heavier acts return to The Sugar Island Music Festival and Rudyard Musicians Festival? Could the teased LemmaFest revival take place as planned?

Follow sources like the SMS, SooToday, Sault Online, the Sault Music News Letter Facebook page, and other such websites to stay in the loop in this regard, as well as the Facebook/social media pages of your favourite local bands. As for album releases, we will have more on upcoming CD and album releases in our next "Where Are The New Albums?" post, which is coming soon (perhaps tomorrow). As of this writing, we have entries for bands like A Dire Setback, The Bear Hunters, Dustin Jones & The Rising Tide, The Elements, Id Iota, Mike Haggith, Pillory, The Sorrow Fields, and Treble Charger, but how many of these acts will get their teased albums on sale in 2020? Also, how prolific of a year will Chase Wigmore and his projects have? Could Mike McCleary resurface with new/re-uploaded albums of his own? What does Blood Shed Productions have up their sleeve? Stay tuned as the year progresses, but this should be an exciting year, no matter what!

2020 is already looking like a busy year, so follow along with us as we cover the whole year, and we will start with this weekend's concert previews tomorrow morning! Thanks everyone!