Tag Archives: CT

Shows: 5/23-6/19… And Beyond!

Posted by on May 18, 2013 15 comments

Listings are at Alternative Control’s discretion and may not reflect set order.  We do not attempt to list all shows at all venues, but we do try to include the good metal shows.  (And sometimes other shows that look cool.)  See something we missed? Want your shows listed? Leave a comment or contact us.

Local Metal and More

5/23

  • Sadplant, Pickpocket, and Big Mark T and the Double Barrels at Cherry Street Station in Wallingford
  • Michelle Riganese, Malcolm Tent, and Brute Force at Two Boots in Bridgeport Read more »

Dudes in Our Metal Scene: They’re Not All Rape Machines

Posted by on May 1, 2013 1 comment

Metal dudes: They're actually pretty nice!

 

A week or two ago, Metal Cyndicate released a podcast (Episode 15: AlcoholiCAST) that caused a furor in the local metal community.  On-air guest Matt “Rape Machine” Broderick ruffled feathers by listing his least favorite Connecticut bands.  Seems like the fastest way to make yourself unpopular, but someone who calls himself Rape Machine clearly isn’t concerned about that.  What really ruffled my feathers, though, was his assertion that people don’t like his nickname because metal fans have become “a bunch of fucking pussies.”  He went on to say that the “exclusivity of metal […] weeded out some of the fucking cunts, but now every bleeding vagina likes some extreme metal band…”

That’s so ridiculous that it doesn’t even justify a response…  Read more »

The Spaceland Ballroom Completes Rodgers’ Hamden Music Trifecta

Posted by on April 6, 2013 No comments

Steve Rodgers outside his newest venue in Hamden, Connecticut. Photo by Marilyn Catasus.

 

By Laurie Lawless

Originally published in The Mercurial.

Moving away from making music to providing an outlet for it was a crucial turning point in Steve Rodgers’s life. It was 2003 when he decided to open The Space, an all ages concert venue, in an old, beat down 1960s industrial park in Hamden, Connecticut. Now, almost a decade later, The Spaceland Ballroom is set to open this Friday – Rodger’s third music venue in the same industrial park. Read more »

Review: Heavy Breath’s Muddy Life

Posted by on March 15, 2013 No comments

If you’re trying to get a girl to sleep with you for the first time, Heavy Breath’s Muddy Life is not the album to put on.  But if you’ve got an Al Qaeda operative tied up in your basement and you need to find out where the bomb is RIGHT NOW – or if the CIA is tied up in your basement and you need to know if Obama’s next drone strike is coming to your neighborhood — turn that shit on full blast.

Muddy Life is not subtle or agreeable.  It’s abrasive.  It’s fucking loud.  I’d say it’s “raw,” but the recording quality is very clear.  Speaking of explosives, the three-song EP begins with “Chekov’s Bomb,” a foreboding scream into the universe.  Read more »

Kayotik’s Born Through Brutality

Posted by on March 12, 2013 No comments


Brutality is a concept oft-discussed in death metal circles.  A band releases a new slab of tunes and writers and fans alike immediately hold it up to some hypothetical scale to see if it measures up.  Local death/grind merchants Kayotik not only embrace this challenge but laid down the gauntlet in the very name of their EP: Born Through Brutality. Read more »

Mouths Agape at the Cartoon Museum

Posted by on February 3, 2013 No comments

By Christopher Baldwin and Carrie Johnson

On a Saturday afternoon, Carrie, Jim Clegg of Pink Missile fame and myself decided to take a little day trip up to Cheshire, CT to visit the Barker Character, Comic and Cartoon Museum. We didn’t really know what to expect, riding on a recommendation from a couple of friends of ours who said the place was worth the trip. After working around Jim Clegg’s world-domination schedule (which I might add usually keeps him thoroughly detained), we set up the date and off we went on a surprisingly enjoyable non-alcoholic adventure. Some red Gatorade, anyone?

First things first, we all met up at Seaside Tavern for some tasty sliders. You can read more about the food at Seaside here. After gorging ourselves at the capacity and speed of Hungry, Hungry Hippos, we piled somewhat uncomfortably into my truck and took off for the highway. Read more »

Cry Havoc’s Jonny Disaster on The Band, The Songs, and The Connecticut Punk Scene

Posted by on January 24, 2013 5 comments

The people have spoken, and they want to hear about New Britain punks Cry Havoc!  These guys have been tearing it up since mid-2006, opening for old-schoolers like DRI and Leftover Crack, as well as contributing to Connecticut’s thriving punk scene.  (Maybe Stamford’s metal crowd could take some cues…)  Alternative Control talked with lead singer Jonny Disaster last week to find out what makes Cry Havoc tick. Read more »