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OF US GIANTS TAKING BACK SACRAMENTO

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04 SOME FEAR NONE

10 Andrew w.k.

13 Of us giants

14 Taking back sacramento

17 ASK HELLEN BACK

18 Rosevilles happiest punk

20 That metal chick

22 Flyer gallery

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S ome Fear None has some lofty

plans in store for you in 2014. Win-

ners of “Most Liked Rock Band” by

KRXQ 98 Rock and Sacramento News

and Review Sammie Award Nominee for

Best Hard Rock in 2013; it is hard to imag-

ine how they will top last year, but they are

on a roll with no signs of stopping. Get to

know some of the most ambitious Rock

artists in Sacramento and become one of

“The Some” of Some Fear None.

Members

Nathan - Vocals

Chuck - Guitar

Gina - Bass

Jason - Drums

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Was there a particular style you guys were aiming for or did it naturally pro-gress to what you guys sound like to-day?

Nathan- We know what we like, so we just play individually what we like and because our tastes are slightly different, that’s where we’ve arrived at our sound. I think we all kind of plugged in our different tastes that we individually like.

How do you express what you want to sound like to people? I don’t know how you do that without having a point of reference. I think we just started playing and when something we liked came out, we said, “Hey, I like what we just did there. Let’s do that again real quick.”

Chuck– Something that’s really important for any band that’s trying to craft an original sound is that things progress organically and it’s mainly off of each other’s influence. What Nathan is saying is that we have a lot of sim-ilarities in the music that we listen to, but there are probably an equal number of dif-ferences between what we like. Jason and I probably have more similarities than anyone else but even we like a lot of different things and on any given day, I might pop off a riff and it catches Nathan’s ear. Same thing with Gina. She came in one day with this little progression for “Tell Me When You Want It To Stop” and it’s simple and basic, but it’s catchy as hell and we just kind of plugged into it and took off with it.

So would you say that your style still sounds the same or is there a little bit of a difference?

Nathan– I think you’ll see from what we orig-inally did on the very first album, it is a broad range of us working out different themes and we wanted to get that album out, so we picked and chose different stuff.

“Bathing In You” for example, compared to “Exit Wounds” or “Eyeful” or “Borne” are completely different songs. Gina wrote Borne 10 years ago, so we have all these different themes. I don’t know if the next al-bum will still have those differences but you’ll see it’s us heading or moving, and not necessarily to a destination.

Jason– I’d say it’s constantly evolving and changing. We all get a little bored with repe-tition and we always have to change it up somehow.

Chuck– You’ll hear this from a lot of different bands and it’s true, each song that we come up with kind of ends up becoming a repre-sentation of that moment in time or that peri-od in time. It was how we were thinking or what we were feeling that day. That new song that we played for you, “Staying on The Zero” with that riff that I came up with actually came about when I came into the band room after having a really difficult day and it just came out. I just picked a couple of notes and started hitting it in a certain rhythm.

Nathan– And I was really sick. I was heavily medicated.

You Wrote lyrics when you were heavily medicated?

Nate– Yes and it was fantastic.

Chuck– The first time that I played the riff and it wasn’t even one of those moments where I was like, “Hey everybody check out this riff.” I was noodling around and I just hit it. Nathan stopped me and said, “What was that? Play that again. I like that.” We took off from there.

Has Some Fear None gone beyond your expectations? If so, how have your goals

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and aspirations changed to meet your next hurdles?

Gina– The answer to that question is yes. Obviously. I think anybody who starts in the music industry has a goal where they want to become famous. I mean nobody says, I just want to write songs in my room by myself and play for myself except for maybe Shawn Ernst. I think subconsciously our goals are to make it big. In hindsight, I don’t think that we anticipated to accomplish what we have ac-complished in such a short period of time ei-ther. I think we’ve worked really hard and what we are doing hasn’t come easy or natu-rally, but I think at the same time, we’re all equally impressed and excited with what’s happened.

What is the one thing you hope people take away from a Some Fear None Show?

Chuck– A t-shirt. No, actually a merch pack would be ideal. (joking) Honestly, One thing that I would want people to take away from a Some Fear None show is memories. Memo-ries of feeling impressed and that feeling you get when you discover something that you would be willing to come back for.

Jason– I would hope that people would have a sense of the music sounding familiar, but still, it’s nothing like they heard before and that It‘s not just another repeat of another band. I hope they walk out of the building af-ter seeing the show, thinking-That was really good. It sounds familiar, but I know I’ve never heard it before- then grab a cd or download it from ITunes or whatever and take it all in. It’s definitely catchy but it’s not mainstream. I hope people would just recognize that.

Gina– I want each fan to take home a picture of one of the members of Some Fear None or something autographed and a connection with us.

Nathan– Being the one that writes all these lyrics, I’m always trying to tell a story. I al-ways want it to be something that the band thinks is cool or agrees with, and it’s a con-stant thing for me to try to make sure that whatever I’m saying is representative of what we want to portray. I actually think a lot about that when I’m writing, but it’s not all about words. it’s about the music too and the com-bination. I think that somehow in some way, everybody kind of has a soundtrack to their life. If you think about different experiences that you have and you can tie some of them to music, If you heard a song, you go, this song reminds me of that trip that we took to the mountains or to the beach or to the what-ever. That’s part of the soundtrack I’m talking about, people take music and they tie it into their lives. I would love for somebody, even if it’s just one person at every one of our shows, to find a place for our songs in their life soundtrack.

Where do you see Some Fear None in 5 years from now?

Gina– I’d like to play Wembley Stadium.

Nathan– I’m not necessarily going to refrain from answering that question, but in a way, I feel like at the rate that we’ve been going, it’s all been rather exciting and fun to see what we’ve been able to accomplish on a yearly basis, maybe even a monthly basis. It’s diffi-cult for me to say in 5 years.

In 2014, for example, we will have some real-ly exciting things happening that have been goals for us for a long time. I think a lot of where we end up 5 years from now will have everything to do with what we accomplish this year. I’m so excited about it that I have a hard time not telling everybody in the world about what it is we’re planning and doing.

To me, it’s just like a dream come true. This is stuff that I’ve always been excited about seeing other bands doing and our band will

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be doing that this year. A lot of it has to do with collaborating and giving people a differ-ent view of what a local band can do. It won’t be anything you’ve ever seen us do before.

Chuck– But it won’t be the last time you see this sort of thing. It’s something that I think expands a band’s horizons, not to sound too cliché, but in ways that sort of elevates that band to a different status and showing that diversity is instrumental in establishing your-self as something more than just this band.

What makes Some Fear None happy?

Jason– Fans make us happy. We are staring out over a crowd and there’s 50 to 1,000 people. You just get pumped. That’s my take

on it. I look out past Nathan’s head because I’m in the back. Gina’s flying around over here and Chuck’s flying around over there. I see a big crowd of people and they’re moving in unison. I’m pumped. That makes me happy.

Nathan– We had a show in Reno and we were down in the green room. Karl (SFN Manager) came down. He told me the place was packed. I remember everything changed for me. It’s packed! I had no idea there would be this sea in front of us.

Chuck– I’ll tell you the other part to that. What gets me pumped up is the very second that we finish a song and you hear people

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just light up. There’s that moment whether you’re a performer or a spectator, I think on both sides of that equation; there’s that mo-ment when the song stops and you can just let go and be like, “Yes, that was the baddest ass thing that I’ve experienced in the last 31/2 to 4 minutes and I can’t wait for the next 31/2 to 4 minutes because I was so pumped up off what they just did.” That feedback you get from the crowd when you finish a song is priceless. That does it for me.

Nathan– You know what doesn’t make me happy? Waiting to play. We get to a show and we have to wait. I literally turn into a complete a-hole. It’s terrible. I actually feel bad after because I don’t want to talk to peo-ple. I don’t want to see people and I don’t know what to do about it.

Jason– You have to mentally block out all the BS. It’s hard.

Gina– Isolation is the whole thing. It’s better to isolate.

Nathan– I wish I could just relax a little better and kick it.

What are some of the values you feel the local music community are lacking?

Gina– More camaraderie and support for one another.

Chuck– Which is not to say that there isn’t some of it out there. I want to make that clear. There is a fair amount of it but Jason and I were lucky enough to have been in an-other period of time when the Sacramento music scene was big and we have something to compare it to. There’s a lot of fractured cliques in the scene right now and I know that term is a little played out and if I could think of another word off the top of my head for cliques I would use it, but it’s what I be-lieve.

Nathan– I think the better question would be the “Why?”

I have no history in Sacramento’s music sce-ne. Literally none. I’m a person who doesn’t have any history, but kind of just dropped in the scene about three years ago. I took a very deliberate position to find out what the scene is about. I’ve dedicated literally years of meeting people, promoters, venues, and learning the system.

I booked our own Ace of Spades shows and I didn’t know anybody. That was a learning ex-perience because I wanted to understand what everybody deals with. I personally be-lieve that what you have relationship wise from the bands and how they react against one another, or with each other and why it’s the way Chuck described it now has every-thing to do with the almighty dollar.

There was a time that you could have a ven-ue that was known for having quality acts come up and perform for that venue. The bands were booked there because of the time and energy they put in to develop a sound, to have good timing, to be all put to-gether, packaged up and ready for that kind of venue. That venue would book those bands. If you wanted to go out and have a good time, you weren’t saying, “Well, I’m not going there unless I know who’s playing.” You would just go there knowing it would be a good night out. The bands performing would be entertaining and solid. There wouldn’t be this whole getting through three lousy bands to get to the band you want to hear.

I think all that shifted to a point where it’s all about how many tickets you can sell. As long as you can sell tickets and get enough peo-ple out there. Anyone can throw together three or four members and show up to play that show. Now you have people that are thinking, well, I don’t necessarily want to play there. Now you have these bands that are picking and choosing. They’re protecting

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themselves and their sound instead of being buddies with everybody and just working to-gether.

Now, its like everybody is protecting their own interest and how can I get to where I want to get and avoid certain things. That to me has made it a little bit difficult as we’ve tried to grow, develop our sound and try to be neighborly.

It's been a huge goal for Some Fear None to be the band that everybody knows as being hard working, that are nice, and that are so-cialable. We support other bands and we try to reach out to other bands. We do shows and deliberately try to identify bands that we think are hard working. We do shows with them and I don’t care how amazing or how many tickets they sell. It’s not going to affect whether I want to do a show with them.

There’s been times where we’ve been of-fered to play shows and the very first ques-tion asked is, How many tickets can you sell? How many can we put you in for? I’m think-ing, is that really all you care about? I believe in some cases, the truth is, they don’t care what you sound like, they have to cover a certain number on the bill and to me that’s a little difficult.

Fortunately, we're at the point where most people know who we are and we don’t have to do a lot of the things that we went through for what felt like years. We had to figure our-selves out and figure out how to protect our-selves.

Now, I absolutely love every show we’ve done at Ace of Spades because we’ve made a point to bring a band that has never played there before. It didn’t matter how many tick-ets you sold. We are doing it again at The Assembly. That to me is the coolest thing. They’re usually younger bands and it’s their dream to play these places . We couldn’t care less about how many tickets they sell. We can carry that burden. That’s more re-

warding, seeing those bands that have never played in that place before getting to have that opportunity and it’s equally as exciting for us as it is for them.

We are doing this for the love of music and that’s why I was having a hard time answer-ing your question about where we see our-selves in 5 years. It’s less important to me than it is to enjoy everything that we’re doing on the way and when it’s all said and done, we will have fun and just have a blast.

Chuck– That in itself is an investment in the scene that we’re so concerned about as far as it being fractured and not as viable as it used to be. By giving these other bands that opportunity to play these bigger venues and bigger shows, they’re probably going to be enthusiastic and put out the best show that they can, and if it impresses 5 or 10 people who will come out to another one of their shows, then we’ve made an impact. We’ve done something that will benefit the scene above and beyond just our show.

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Back on December 23, 2013, Sacramento’s

own K Street venue, The Assembly, played host

to the greatest party I have ever been to. Ever.

And it was hosted by Andrew W.K. himself.

Who is Andrew W.K.? Well, if you don’t already

know, he is a solo artist dedicated to one simple

thing: Partying.

When Andrew’s debut album I Get Wet was re-

leased in 2001 on Def Jam Island Records, it

was a smash among the punk and alternative

crowd.

Combining the hard, drop tuned guitars associ-

ated with early 2000s punk, and the heavy synth

and bass effects usually associated with hip

hop, it proved to be the most uplifting and ener-

getic musical venture of the year. With such

tracks as “It’s Time To Party”, “Party Hard”, and

“Party ‘til You Puke”, its an album that was best

enjoyed at full volume and screamed along to

with all of your closest friends.

As well, the song “I Love NYC” is a staple at

most New York Mets games, and “She is Beau-

tiful” was also featured on the soundtrack to the

movie “Freaky Friday”, starring Lindsay Lohan

(pre-collapse) and Jamie Lee Curtis. This initial

success helped garner a loyal fan base for An-

drew, especially in a far flung place like Japan,

where his later releases The Wolf (2003), Close

Call With Brick Walls (2006), and his Japan only

release Gundam Rock (2009), which was him

covering songs from the Gundam anime series.

As well, his tenacious touring schedule helped

him earn a permanent spot on 2010’s Vans

Warped Tour.

In addition to his powerful music, Andrew has

taken his positive message of partying and hav-

ing a good time to other forms of media. He has

taken his positive message across the country

for self-help and motivational speaking semi-

nars, speaking not of partying, but believing in

yourself and those around you to accomplish

your goals.

As of February 2010, he also hosts the Cartoon

Network show, Destroy Build Destroy, where

two teams get together to literally, blow stuff up

and rebuild the blown up pieces into other crea-

tions.

He even streamed a video of him playing

drums, continuously for 24 hours. I don’t even

know why he did it, but he did.

Now you may be asking yourself, “Why are you

telling me all this?”.

Well, back to the 2013 Assembly show.

Normally, Andrew has a full backing band helping

him crank out his hellacious tunes, but that partic-

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ular night, it was just Andrew, his piano, and a fel-

low musician named “Leggy” (I think). Leggy had

nothing but a microphone for him to use as a back

-up vocalist. Sounds weird, right?

Well, once they took the stage, and the backing

music began blasting through the P.A.’s speakers,

the crowd went absolutely berserk. Myself includ-

ed. It was just in your face, high energy, party rock

at its finest. Everyone around me knew every sin-

gle word, musical moment, and scream that was

issued from Andrew himself. As the show went

on, people began hopping on the sparsely popu-

lated stage and running around, before security

escorted them off.

What happens next really shows the positive atti-

tude that Andrew brings with him.

After a spirited rendition of “Tear It Up”, from

The Wolf, Andrew says,

“It’s great to be here tonight. Here in Sacra-

mento. It’s great to be alive, and you know,

not dead.”

Crowd response: Cheers and screams.

I looked over to the side and Leggy is talking

to the security guys, about what I have no

idea.

Immediately, Andrew kicks into “Party til You

Puke”, and the crowd gets to dancing, mosh-

ing, and whatever else they wanted to do at

that particular moment. One guy gets on

stage and starts dancing, then another, then

two shirtless guys, and five more guys all

flailing around and screaming at the top of

their lungs as best as they could.

The party had moved to the stage and dur-

ing every song after that, the crowd would

surge onstage and party with Andrew. Even

yours truly wound up there headbanging and

screaming with the rest of them. Andrew

even reworked the lyric of “I Love NYC” to “I

Love Saramento”.

During the mayhem of that particular song, I

looked on stage and realized something that I

wouldn’t have seen anywhere else. People from

all walks of life: young guys, middle aged women,

large shirtless men, and even people dressed in

their Sunday best were up there singing along

and partying their hearts out as one united group.

It was truly amazing to see that so many people

could come together and celebrate Andrew

W.K.’s party-tastic message. I have yet to go to a

show that could bring together people like that in

such a positive way.

If you are sad, having a bad day at work, or just

want to party: Andrew W.K. is for you.

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Genre: Indie/Rock From: Turlock, CA

Central Valley California Indie Rockers, Of Us

Giants, have a newly released full length al-

bum titled, “Nova Scotia” and it is definitely

worth a listen. I was hooked on the first go

around and each time I listen, I find some-

thing new to love.

Nova Scotia is a little reminiscent of Alterna-

tive Rock songs of the 90s, but there’s really

no comparing it to any one genre or main-

stream style. The tracks are catchy and have

a way of sticking around in your head after

the music has stopped. Each song has a dif-

ferent flavor that leads you down a different

path, yet each song is tied together by a simi-

lar underlying theme.

The entire album is packed with so many per-

fectly executed vocal styles that I found my-

self shaking my head in disbelief at the talent

it took to pull that off.

The gradual buildup of driving guitar riffs and

crisp drum work accompanied by vocals that

range from sweetly drifting to heart wrenching

seems to be crafted in a way the really draws

out those underlying demons we all hide. As

you journey to the end of a song, you reach a

culmination of completely devastating climac-

tic awesomeness.

If you’re one of those lyrical snobs like me,

you will not be disappointed. There are some

sweet spoken word bits that were a nice

change of pace and lots of hidden quotable

gems just waiting for you to take notice.

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S acramento once was a vibrant city of

music. You could go to just about any

place in downtown Sacramento and be

entertained. $5 at the door got you a

night of hanging out with friends and enough music

to please the joyful soul.

Art Galleries, coffee shops, and just about every

park, or better yet, on a street corner there was a

musician of some sort. You could not go anywhere

without hearing music,. The man standing on the

corner of J street playing his guitar and singing with

his old ass dog giving you that look as you walked

by. Sometimes I wondered if he trained his dog to

give people that look, you know that look of, your

ass better drop some change.

What happened? Why can we not see that any-

more? There are still a few places left that have

stayed with these old ways of attracting people.

With bands that delivered music, not as a tool to

make money, but as a deliverance that was up to

you to take and feel what that band or musician

was giving you.

We were given that light at the end of the tunnel

every weekend and pretty much throughout the

entire week. Seven days a week of excellent, tal-

ented and caring musicians wanting to share that

one song they felt could change the world. It did,

but not in the direction we would think.

Who are you here to see? was most likely the

questioned you were asked when walking through

the doors of one of Sacramento's most legendary

venues, The Cattle Club. The doorman would

make a mark on his dusty clipboard after wiping it

off. While some of the impatient fans were doing

donuts in the parking lot kicking up dust anticipat-

ing that night’s show. The Cattle Club was that one

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continued

place in Sacramento that was everybody's home

for the weekend. That one place you could escape

to and leave everything outside where it belonged.

When you were in the Cattle Club, the only thing

that mattered was what was happening in the Cat-

tle Club for the night. The rest of the world was put

on hold. The Cattle Club was known for it’s talent-

ed local bands that were booked every night. Sure

there have always been those bands that people

say do not belong on the stage, but 99.5 % of the

time, a damn good time was bound to happen and

it did.

There are still some of those musicians from that

era in different bands today. Things back then were

different, of course, but those same musicians had

to adapt to change and try to teach the younger

generation of local talent to accept that change.

The question remains, do they really have to?

Have they realized in a world full of corrupt politics

and the so called “apocalypse” that maybe, just

maybe, there is that one fighting chance we can

bring it back before it all comes to an end.

Will we ever be able to make this scene live up to

the 90’s? I hate calling it a scene, it’s a community

people; Music community. Definition of community:

A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of

sharing common attitudes, interests and goals.

Some will say no, but I have to say yes. First there

are a few things that need to change in order for

this to happen again.

Who am I? I am that guy that gives a shit about

what led to me doing what I do now. Bands like

Snapdraggin, Far, Simon Says, Deftones, Cake,

Oleander, and way too many for me to mention

played a role in a dream that I hoped to fulfill, Un-

fortunately that dream came to a halt before it even

started.

After talking with some musicians who were in

bands from the 90’s, I learned a few things that

could change some minds of hose that say things

could never be the same again, or possibly light a

fire under their little tushies to help bring back

what we all miss. Certain techniques, relation-

ships, and taking back Sacramento is on my

agenda as long as Sacramento bands give me a

chance to learn from them.

I remember one of the coolest things was to hear

98 Rock announce my friends show on the radio

and seeing fliers everywhere. What happened?

Why is there not advertising for these shows?

Obviously, the venues would have to pay for the

radio spots, exactly how much that cost, I’m not

sure.

Now we have Local Licks which has been around

for awhile until they took a break and made a

comeback not to long ago, but what is it going to

take to get people in the right position to do the

right thing? What do we need to do as a music

community to come together and take back Sac-

ramento?

There are so many variables that could be ig-

nored to fill the pockets of some. The other side of

those variables are argued to fulfill a dream, a

dream as a musician. To have that chance to be

heard by the right person. Some just want to play

with no intention on making it to the big stage, but

there are those that are busting their ass trying to

make it, and trying their damnedest to make it

through all the political bs just to share something

with you.

Have people forgot the true meaning of what mu-

sic does for people? Music makes us feel alive.

With music, we connect with others on a level that

is unexplainable. Some make babies to music.

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Whatever one individual’s reason is, we all need

music, but should others road block the path to a

musician's dream,? That dream of a musician

could save the life of one person and I totally can

relate.

I am not innocent, but rather ignorant for getting

involved in the scene with no knowledge on how

to do certain things, and I am always trying to find

ways to improve. I ask musicians that have been

in the music community for a long time questions.

There are few that I go to for advice on how to do

certain things, you people know who you are and

I thank you.

There needs to be change. I am always trying to

improve my involvement and for those that really

know me, know that I am fair and also know I’m

trying to do what’s right. I’m learning everyday and

I’m willing to do ANYTHING that I possibly can to

do my part to improve the music community.

There is rumored to be an underground coalition

that consists of musicians. Musicians that have

said, enough is enough, but no one listened.

These musicians consist of people that have been

involved in the music community since the 90’s

and still today. This underground group consists of

our next generation of local talent, and these mu-

sicians are the future of Sacramento. I want to

shake your hand and I want to join this cause.

I’m not a musician, but I do care. I don’t know

about the rest of you, but I need music in my life. I

need to know that I’m not alone in this world and

through music, I get that. I am calling out to this

coalition and I ‘m asking, (ok begging) can I join

you and take a stand along your side? I challenge

all bands and all fans to stand up and take back

Sacramento.

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I first met Tim at an open mic at Shady Cof-fee and Tea back in 2011, when he busted out an acoustic guitar and played an Opera-tion Ivy cover to a patio filled with a very hip crowd, and rocked every second of it. From there, Williamson and the rest of Rebel Radio have played all through Sacramento and Ro-seville, even opening for such punk main-stays as Agent Orange and Suburban Leg-ends. Williamson, along with his band mates Jason Sensation on bass and Jerred Whitbey on drums, have also put out their first full length album White People Problems which is available for sale at all their shows, and at http://www.reverbnation.com/rebelradio916.

As I sit down with Williamson, he mentions that Rebel Radio and Constellations are both playing at The Press Club on February 4th. To which he adds, offhanded and with a laugh: “We have done that a couple of times and it usually almost kills me.”

This positive attitude that Williamson brings to all his projects is what both keeps him go-ing and makes for great, fun shows. He even cracks a joke about Constellations, by say-ing, “Our keyboardist [Constellations] has his own studio kind of set up, so its a seemingly neverending cycle of recording”, he remarks with another round of hearty laughter.

Roseville may not be the most punk-friendly city in America, but one man is taking charge in his own unique way. Tim Williamson brings his own flavor of punk, ska, and rock to the table, regardless of what your initial perception of his town could be. Splitting his duties between lead vocals and guitar for his 3 piece punk outfit Rebel Radio, and bass for the rock band Constellations, Williamson maintains a very busy schedule.

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1 SYNE FAETH

2 FATE UNDER FIRE

3 MARCH INTO PARIS

4 DOG PARTY

5 FAIR STRUGGLE

6 WALKING SPANISH

7 WRINGS

8 SAD NUMBERS

9 THE ADAM ROTH

PROJECT

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1 Lifeforms

2 LIFEFORMS

3 havenside

4 plague widow

50 IN THE SILENCE

6 DEAD IN SECONDS

7 I WISH WE WERE

ROBOTS

8 DRUMMER DAVE

9 ART OF CHAOS

100 THE KENNEDY VEIL

1 Papa Roach

2 Tesla

3 Some Fear None

4 dalie dough

redline

5 arden park

roots

6 restrayned

7 FRANK HANNON

8 HERO’S LAST

MISSION

9 THE ANDROMEDA

PROJECT

100A MILE TILL DAWN

ALTERNATIVE

METAL

ROCK

As for Constellations, they are a departure from Williamson’s usual punk motif and draw on multiple in-fluences to make their own unique brand of rock music themselves, as he put it. He also adds, “The one guitarist that sings a lot more, Le-shanta [Perera], a guy I have known for a long time, he used to be a rapper. He’s really good. He was also in punk bands when we were kids, so he is all over the place”. These two guys, along with Tony Eddlemon on vocals/guitar, Shea Ritchie on keys, and Josh Branard on drums combine to cre-ate something that is a bit of a de-parture from Williamsons punk roots. For a sample of what they sound like, check out their website at www.consband.com.

As for the future for Williamson, Re-bel Radio is also playing at Luigi’s Fungarden on March 21st, a venue that he calls “a sweet place” and for a man with his punk background, who could argue? Williamson’s atti-tude towards Rebel Radio is, as he puts it, “Its a band full of buddies who just like to make music and have fun, and that suits me very well with my background”.

And suits him it does. Williamson and his crew are always a great sight to see play and will leave you either smiling, dancing, or laughing so hard you spill your drink.

Either way, checking them out is a win for all those present.

- Stefan Adcock, Contributor

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“Post-Mosh” Thoughts

To come away battered and bruised, yet feel so completely alive and re-charged is a difficult thing to explain. Especially to those who don't have this innate mosh pit philosophy. I don't even know why I have it or how I got it. For me, It's a chance to shut-down all intel-lect and let my body feel a language that only this 'different part' of my brain understands. In those post-pit hours, comes pure clarity, a feeling that every-thing in the past happened because it was supposed to happen and any ad-ventures that come my way in the fu-ture will happen for good reason as well.

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My mouth hung open for far too long, the taste it collected I will never forget. I truly felt I should claim temporary in-sanity, if not for myself, at least for eve-ryone else around me. But, now that I know what's really happening here...It's Classic! However, shocking it is. Since "true assholes" are such a rarity inside the Metal community....(written after meeting a true-asshole)

To thread yourself into a throng of peo-ple; To rip away all your social scruples; To shed your social skin. Ya know, the one. The one that says “stay out of my personal space”. The one who frowns on any physical contact that's unneces-sary. Slicing thru a Pit is like cutting into the core of humanity with only the joy of the music still with you. The comfort of a connection with others inside that space with you on a level that polite so-ciety so easily forbids. Inflections of pain are soothed by the helping hand of a stranger. Every push and shove be-come balanced by the acts of steadying and comforting. ▪▪▪▪▪▪▪

As we all know, Moshing is often mis-understood. It's a great way to build lasting friendships. After a show, take a moment to watch the crowds of people hugging and patting each other on the back, as well as checking on and look-ing over one another. It's an amazing sight to see!! This process of "Post-mosh Triage"... ▪▪▪▪▪▪▪

Most girls agree with me that they feel a sense of safety inside the pit, even though it's very physical and very ag-gressive. This is because of the eti-quette being maintained. Guys that mosh are very welcoming to having us girls in the pit. - Believe me, they are pleasantly surprised when they receive a solid hit from a girl!! - Metalheads will naturally create a sense of equality within a pit. People look out for each other, Bottom-line! -Johnna Dean

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A Mile Till Dawn

Rock/Hard Rock

Talented female vocals on a crunchy rock can-

vas.

A Mile Till Dawn Reverb

In The Silence

Progressive Metal

Mood altering ambient music.

In The Silence Reverb

Black

Thrash/Metal

Classic Thrash reinvented.

Black Reverb

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