Bobby's Place, 1202
West 18th St - Karaoke every Tuesday night
Presque Isle Gallery And
Coffee Shop - Open Mic - Wednesdays - 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Docksider - Wednesdays- Starts at 10:00 PM - Open Mic
with
Doug Phillips
Brewerie at Union Station
- Open Mic with Katie Chriest and Sheldon Peterson (7-10
p.m.)
Docksider - Thursday - All Musicians Jam hosted by
Rodger Montgomery Blues Band
Erie Book Store, Poetry
Scene - Open Mic Poetry - Fridays 6:30 - 8:00 PM
The Station Dinner Theatre
- 1st Friday of every month - Piano Bar and karaoke. 10:00
PM
I'm accepting applications and
am booking 3 bands to play Discover Presque Isle on Z102.3's
beach 8. I'm looking for rock bands only. Classic rock to
current rock, ONLY! No heavy metal, folk acts, polka, rap, r&b
or country, please--keep you Gaga to yourself, haha! If you're
interested in applying, shoot me a message!
5:00-6:00 ANNA ZOE ~ 6:15-7:45 ROGER
MONTGOMERY ~
8:15-10:00 RON YARSOZ’S P.O.T. ~
10:15-12:00 HANDS OF THIEVES -
Brewerie
Ray Lanich's Band - Sherlocks
Colony Club House Band with Gene Leone
(7 p.m.) - Colony Pub
Acoustics with Rick and Joe (7-10 p.m.) - French Quarters
Rob Vance with Acoustic Gypsies' Amy and Mike - Night Flights
Rodger Montgomery and All Musicians Night - Docksider
Friday 4/9
Small Town Rollers - The Copper Coin
Steve Trohoske's 12th Annual Birthday
Bash
Ahimsa Beat, Monstro, David Fiuczynski~ Happy Birthday, Steve - Docksider
Impact! ~ Loudmouth ~ Grave Of A
Cynic ~ Thrown Under The Bus and Save Point (6pm) - Forward Hall
5:00-6:00 TONY KELLOGG ~
6:15-7:00 BREAKING THE CIRCLE ACOUSTIC ~ 6:45-7:45 COLONEL MUSTARD ~
8:00-9:00 THE BLUE GORILLAS ~
9:15-10:45 EAST AVE ~
11:00-1:00 ERIC BREWER AND ...FRIENDS - Brewerie
Ron Yarosz P.O.T. (8pm) - Nelson's
Matty B & The Dirty Pickles - Doc Hollidays
New Wave Nation - Sherlocks
Outlawed, Cheap Thrill - Scully's
Ron Yarosz's Power Organ Trio - Nelson's
Rick and the Roadhouse Rockers - Scooters
M-80s - Presque Isle Downs
Money Shot - BW Saloon
Matt Gavula (5-8 p.m.) - Presque Isle Downs & Casino
Songs of the Soul with artist Erica Whiting, musician Anne
Denning (7 p.m.) - Eclectic Etceteras in Edinboro
Emil and the Palookas - the Villa in Cambridge Springs
Saturday 4/10
Anatomy Of Thought, Tyrannic Fusion -
Edinboro University Student Center
Shotgun Jubilee - Nelson's
Precinct Aflame, Alexander, Silence
the Sanity, The Faded Fallen (9pm) - The Crooked I
Thirst N Howl (8pm) East 27th &
Wallace Street- ST. JOHN'S HOLY ROSARY
Pop Rocks - The Oasis
Perdition, Here Lies Another,
Feargrinder, Scars Of Ruin - Springside
Ric and Brian Butler - Scotty's
Treble Makers - Beer Mug
Rattlebox (9 p.m.) - Sandbar
Geek Army - Doc Holliday's
Jack the Dog - BW Saloon
M-80s - Presque Isle Downs & Casino
RPM - Sidelines
Created for Worship (7:30 p.m.) - Faith Cafe
Money Shot - Sherlock's
Bill Burke Ensemble - Docksider
Fiin - South Erie Turners
5:00-6:00 TOM HITT ~
6:00-7:00 BUS 17 ~
7:15-8:15 DEADHORSE ~ 8:30-9:30 SPOONER ~ 9:45-11:45 THE BOODLIES ~
12:00-2:00 MATTY B AND THE DIRTY PICKLES - Brewerie
Jimmy 13 - Sullivan's
Black Diamond - Star Club
Tom Beam and Last Band Standing (7:30 p.m.) - Living Water
Oasis in Girard
Salmon Frank (8 p.m.) - Charlie's Pub in Edinboro
Akoostikatz - Jammin' Vine in North East
4 Jays - American Legion in Fairview
Burnin' House - the Villa in Cambridge Springs
Rick and the Roadhouse Rockers - TNT's on the Hill in Sugar
Grove
Loose Change Band (8-11 p.m.) - Sugar Grove AMVETS Club
Contels - Ashtabula Eagles Club
Duke Sherman Band - Plummer's in Ripley, N.Y.
Dirty Mountain Band - Pine Junction in Findley Lake
Sunday 4/11
Blues & BBQ (5-9pm) - Nelson's
Rodger Montgomery and All Musicians
Night - Beer Mug
Triumphant Swing Band (17-piece big band, 6 p.m.) - Summit
United Methodist Church
Necessary Experience (4-7 p.m.) - Last Shot
Tom Hitt and Open Mike (4-8 p.m.) - Creekside in Waterford
Wednesday 4/14
Tyrannic Fusion - Hot Topic
Parental Advisory Tour with Nashville
P., Green Jelly, Psychostick - Sherlock's
Walter Trout and the Radicals, Rodger Montgomery Blues Band -
Docksider
Sam Hyman - Alto Cucina
Erie
Band Video Of The Week: Mala Sangre
CD Review: Laura Marling, I Speak Because I
Can
by Joshua Love, pitchfork.com
Reviewing Laura Marling's
Mercury Prize-nominated debut album, Alas, I Cannot Swim, in
2008, I worried that the then-18-year-old might too
quickly shed the teenage guilelessness that contributed so
greatly to the record's appeal. Marling possessed an
undeniable knack for writing about young love with
directness and authentic feeling, but at times her
pseudo-profound poetics suggested the young folkie was in
too much of a hurry to be a serious adult.
Clearly, I significantly underestimated Laura Marling's
capabilities. Her sophomore effort, I Speak Because I Can,
finds Marling, still only 20, shrugging off virtually all
traces of girlishness and wide-eyed charm, instead delving
into darkly elemental, frequently morbid folk. And yet,
astonishingly, the expected growing pains never come. To say
Marling evinces wisdom beyond her years on I Speak would be
a criminal understatement, considering she's created a
haunting, fully flowered gem of an album despite being
younger than two-thirds of the Jonas Brothers.
These are folk-rock songs, but Marling doesn't lazily trade
on it like so many other would-be old souls. Instead, like
Fairport Convention or Nick Cave or Cat Power, she uses folk
as an archetypal form to get at the essential realities of
love, sex, heartbreak, and death. Sometimes she does it with
heart-stopping quietness, her voice dropping to
conversational tones on "Made by Maid" and "What He Wrote".
Just as often, Marling sets her allegories to raucous
musical accompaniment, an especially impressive feat
considering the calm of her debut. The bluesy jig of opener
and first single "Devil's Spoke" might elicit a few
less-than-ideal comparisons with KT Tunstall, but Marling
blows that kind of politely insistent stuff out of the water
on the soaring, thunderous "Rambling Man" and the gypsy-ish
breakdown of "Alpha Shallows" (which makes up for that
song's momentary slip into sub-Dylan poetic doggerel).
It would have been all too easy for an album like this, so
grimly fixated and coming from someone of such tender age,
to be written off as the work of a morose young Romantic.
However, Marling seems to have a great deal of
self-awareness of her melancholic bent, lightly skewering
herself on "Goodbye England (Covered in Snow)" for writing
an "epic letter" to an estranged lover that's "22 pages
front and back/ But it's too good to be used." And yet,
she's not playing dress-up. She's a wholly developed artist
in full command of gifts that may not yet be finished
arriving.
Band Profile: Desperate Echo, Girard, PA
We are an aggressive rock to heavy metal band that has a different approach
to the usual sounds of the genre. We are also an all original
band. Jamie and myself (Dave) have been in several bands in the past and met
each other playing in one of those bands. Since then, we decided to work
together because we shared the same vision about where the music could go
and also knew that neither one of us is limited by ability. We got to do a
really big tour show and nailed it perfectly after only being together as a
band for 3 weeks with 7 originals!!! Now that's chemistry! After that show,
our bass player quit, and we got rid of our rhythm player as it was no
longer needed. But we recently added another member on vocals, so now we
have 2 vocalists (one to do the cleans & the other to do the growl/scream
vocals). That pretty much sums it up for now...
INFLUENCES
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many to mention here unless I had a few
hours to try to type them all in. Seriously. Everything from classical
composers to some of the heaviest metal bands of today, and everything in
between.
EQUIPMENT LIST
Just as in the influences section...we have so much gear that it would take
me forever to list it all. Put it this way...we can do our own sound at a
huge venue with our own gear and we use a lot of it even at practice. So
hang on to your hats!!!
quickly shed the teenage guilelessness that contributed so
greatly to the record's appeal. Marling possessed an
undeniable knack for writing about young love with
directness and authentic feeling, but at times her
pseudo-profound poetics suggested the young folkie was in
too much of a hurry to be a serious adult.
band. Jamie and myself (Dave) have been in several bands in the past and met
each other playing in one of those bands. Since then, we decided to work
together because we shared the same vision about where the music could go
and also knew that neither one of us is limited by ability. We got to do a
really big tour show and nailed it perfectly after only being together as a
band for 3 weeks with 7 originals!!! Now that's chemistry! After that show,
our bass player quit, and we got rid of our rhythm player as it was no
longer needed. But we recently added another member on vocals, so now we
have 2 vocalists (one to do the cleans & the other to do the growl/scream
vocals). That pretty much sums it up for now....jpg)