Category: Concert Reviews

Posted on: September 23, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Alchemize, Time Still Stands, Euphonic Funk Brothers, The Good Life, Cheap Sticker, GHS Auditorium, Greencastle, Indiana (April 3rd, 2004)

A year had passed since the first time I was exposed to the Greencastle, Indiana music scene. A year since all the name-calling and personal attacks that I had received for my reviews of the three bands that had played, and a year that was an eternity for these bands to refine their style, fall away, or do some combination of the both. Of the three bands that played at…

Posted on: September 22, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 1

GBA, The Good Life, GHS Multi-Purpose Room, Greencastle, Indiana (February 28th, 2004)

Part II: Greencastle Carnival, Saturday, February 28th, 2004 With GBA, The Good Life. Getting ready for the concert, I began to walk over to Greencastle High School in the most delightful mood, as the weather was unseasonably warm for a February day. I had my portable mp3 player with me, and was able to check out one of the tracks that I was told that the band headlining the show…

Posted on: September 21, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

GBA, Totally Rejected Show Review@ Meherry Hall, Greencastle, Indiana (February 27th, 2004)

GBA, Totally Rejected @ Meherry Hall, Greencastle, Indiana (February 27th) The weekend of the 27th and 28th was one in which music reigned, and my free time was sucked up by a number of bands from the Greencastle area. Even before the first show, on Friday (which I held at an old chapel at DePauw), I had wasted so much time throwing up flyers and shamelessly promoting for it. However,…

Posted on: September 20, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

The Charlestons, Tripping Linda, CFD, Levi, Love and Squalor @ The Desert Rose, Lancaster, Ohio (December 27th, 2003)

Searching around the local bandsâ€™ websites in my spare time during the last few weeks of college, I found various hints of a big show happening the 27th at the one sleazy bar at the edge of town. The barâ€™s main claim to fame were their teen nights, smoke-filled affairs that brought together 10-12 year olds trying to pretend they were 16 and 45 year old lechers who think they…

Posted on: September 19, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Totally Rejected, The Hybrid, The Good Life – December 6th, 2003 @ Greencastle Indiana (JMcQ)

Well, another show was put together for Meherry Hall. Taking place during a Saturday night in which I found myself pretty busy, I was able to sneak in a small time before the show was to start. The news of the show was pretty well disseminated, with ample amounts of flyers being printed out and J.J. (The Hybrid) and Zach (The Good Life) coming on my radio show the Thursday…

Posted on: September 18, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

GBA, The Hybrid, The Vroloks – November 21st, 2003 @ Greencastle Indiana (JMcQ)

After a great amount of putzing around on my part, Gabe and Ben from The Vroloks were able to get together a show with another student organization. Learning about it a few days before it was supposed to happen, we ended up plastering it all over my show. The interesting thing about my radio show the night before the concert was the fast that at one point, we had 14…

Posted on: September 17, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

The Good Life and II Deep – November 1st, 2003 Review @ Greencastle Indiana (JMcQ)

Bringing me back to my earliest days in shows, the concert that occurred at Meganâ€™s, a Greencastle High Schooler, brought back a lot of ambivalent memories to my own high school punk experience. This time, there was no screaming at â€œthe fag in the Manson shirtâ€, but getting out there was a more interesting story than any I had encountered up to that point. Earlier that day, I was in…

Posted on: September 16, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 1

Unstable, 22-Left, The Good Life, and II Deep – September @ Greencastle Indiana Review (JMcQ)

Remembering what a fiasco the last time that I reviewed a Greencastle band concert, I looked at this flyer wondering whether or not I should actually go with trusty notebook in hand. Just dismissing the actions of some of the bands and the individuals as an isolated happening, I trekked over to the skate parkâ€™s pavilion and expected pretty much the same style of music and the same talent level…

Posted on: September 15, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Against Me! / Peelander-Z – August @ The High Five (JMcQ)

I went directly to the Against Me! Shows site, and found out that they would be hitting up Columbus Ohio a few short days from that night. Calling up my buddy Shayne, we end up going up a few hours early just to make it in time for the opening band. Not having a concrete idea of where the venue was at (all we knew was that it was on…

Posted on: September 14, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Gooddog Concert Review – 07.18.2003 by JMcQ

For those of you who are not familiar with the owners of Gooddog music, the journey down to their store in Lancaster Is really worth it. Always a force in whatever local music is happening, whether it be making their store the venue for the last two bands at the Utica Show (for details, read the 07/12 review), stocking The Fat Tones CD, setting up this show, or even just…