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John Reis of Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From the Crypt, Hot Snakes, and PLOSIVS has announced that he will be releasing a solo album as Swami John Reis. The album is called Ride The Wild Night and will be out digitally February 18 and physically on March 4 via Swami Records. J. Sinclair K. of Hot Snake...
Ride The Wild Night is neither completely similar nor dissimilar to Reis’ previous bands (Hot Snakes, Night Marchers, The Sultans, Rocket From The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu), yet the sound is immediately familiar and assuring. The music is an amalgam of Sixties folk-punk, Seventies punk-punk and pre-Vietnam War rock ’n’ roll.
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Twenty-one years. That’s how long Chris Goldsmith has been working at the Belly Up Tavern. But there was nothing that happened in those 21 years that could have prepared him for 2020, the year that the coronavirus pandemic shut down the country’s music venues in one sudden, shattering swoop.
“It has been surreal. That is the best way to describe it,” said Goldsmith, president of Belly Up Entertainment. “The club is usually such a vibrant, crazy place that is so full of life, and for the last year, I have spent far too many hours in the club as an empty shell of its usual self. “