Music Resource Center is excited to announce its second quarterly live music series, The Sampler, will be held on Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Aspiring MRC recording artists, vocalists, and musicians will engage the stage. The Sampler grants exclusive access to hear and enjoy the latest music from the center’s diverse community of teens in grades 7-12, who may one day be the music industry’s next innovators. The performance will be held at The Venue, MRC’s sleek black-box/lounge-styled space, and is open to all ages, free of charge.

Royal Holland recently visited Leesta Vall Sound Recordings in Brooklyn, NY to record an in office live-to-vinyl session with engineer and owner of Leesta Vall Aaron Zimmer. The session took the course of a Saturday afternoon finding Holland and 3 members of backing band The Rotation (Freedom Nicole Moore, Matt Retherford and Charlie Smith) crammed into a tiny Brooklyn office space. The results of the session were 12 unique takes of 4 different Royal Holland songs (Demimonde, The Grave, Statues and Shore) cut in real time to vinyl record on a lathe that was made in the 1950’s.

I hate to pick favorites, but Current Events is one of my favorite bands in the scene right now. They have heartfelt lyrics, charisma for days, and are busting with talent. Today they are releasing a video for their song, “Cupboard.” Daniel Chimusoro and Cory Woodruff with Scout Media Co handled the production and filming of the video.

Deicide is about as legendary as you can get in the dark world of Death Metal. Formed back in 1987 by vocalist Glen Benton and drummer Steve Asheim, the group rose to the mainstream with their second album, Legion. (My personal favorite.) Deicide has gone on to release 11 studio albums, 1 live album as well as a few music videos.