SouthGang

August 16, 2017

DOME AND DUMBER … Rock N’ Skull loses venue along with Steel Panther, Warrant, FireHouse and Lita Ford

DOME AND DUMBER Rock N’ Skull loses venue along with Steel Panther, Warrant, FireHouse and Lita Ford PEKIN, Illinois — In what seems to be a neverending saga, the Rock N’ Skull story just keeps getting dumber and dumber. First off, the story Metal Sludge reported back on July 6th that Steel Panther was being cut from the roster, is still not officially confirmed. But according to the event promoter, a poster (inset right) that was leaked in recent days clearly has[…]

June 7, 2017

GOING GOING GONE … Wildside are the latest in a string of casualties for Rock N’ Skull festival

GOING GOING GONE Wildside are the latest in a string of casualties for Rock N’ Skull festival UPDATED: WildSide frontman Drew ‘Rose’ Hannah posts statement and Rock N’ Skull adds a band! PEKIN, Illinois — In what seems to be somewhat of a domino effect, yet another band has pulled out of the Rock N’ Skull festival. The latest casualty are Los Angeles based rockers WildSide, who were slotted to perform on day 3 of the event. Metal[…]

May 21, 2017

ROCK N’ FAIL … SouthGang pulls out of Rock N’ Skull after ‘Contract negotiations fail’ with the promoter

ROCK N’ FAIL SouthGang pulls out of Rock N’ Skull after ‘Contract negotiations fail’ with the promoter MARIETTA, Georgia — SouthGang has dropped off of Rock N’ Skull. SouthGang was first announced last November (2016) that the group would appear at the October 2017 event. Now after being advertised for nearly 7 months, it looks like that is no longer the case. Rock N’ Skull promoter Justin Murr confirmed the news with a posting on Facebook that[…]

April 18, 2017

SHOCK ME … Rock N’ Skull rumored to be losing headliner Ex-Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley

SHOCK ME Rock N’ Skull rumored to be losing weekend headliner Ex-Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley PEKIN, Illinois — Metal Sludge has an industry insider alleging that former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley will not be appearing at Rock N’ Skull 2017 as advertised. The annual event is in its 5th year and the event’s promoter Justin Murr has said: “Go big or go home” in early promotions for the late fall festival. But now it appears that[…]

March 13, 2017

YOU DON’T SAY … SouthGang’s Jesse Harte on Rock N’ Skull’s Justin Murr; ‘flaky’ and ‘he never sent the deposit’

YOU DON’T SAY SouthGang’s Jesse Harte on Rock N’ Skull promoter Justin Murr; ‘flaky’ and ‘he never sent the deposit’ From The Inside — Metal Sludge is here to shed a little light on our recent Rock N’ Skull story. In short Jesse Harte of the band SouthGang offered up information that we have screen captured below. Why the screen capture? Why not. Mr. Harte felt the need to screen capture and share my[…]

March 12, 2017

DROP N’ SKULL … Rock N’ Skull rumored to be dropping more bands from 2017 event

DROP N’ SKULL Rock N’ Skull rumored to be dropping more bands from 2017 event PEKIN, Illinois — According to sources Rock N’ Skull will soon announce dropping more bands off their 2017 event. A band member close to the event, alleges that the promoter is approaching select acts with an offer or option to ‘pull out’. One of our sources also alleges some of the groups are resistant to do so. The source noted these groups have[…]

September 13, 2016

TAINTED LINEUP … Jesse Harte posts “Southgang 3.0 possibly in fetal stage”

TAINTED LINEUP Jesse Harte posts “Southgang 3.0 possibly in fetal stage” Facebook — In a social media post from over the weekend Ex-Southgang frontman Jesse Harte has posted the possible rebirth of his former band. Harte a native of Georgia along with his old bandmates wrote on facebook; “Southgang 3.0 possibly in the fetal stage. What do you think about that idea? \m/” Fans immediately jumped all over his post with hundreds of ‘likes’ and[…]

September 4, 2016

YES OR NO? Top 15 Glam Metal Bands You’ve Never Heard Of

YES OR NO? Top 15 Glam Metal Bands You’ve Never Heard Of Ranter In Shades — There are always obscure bands within any genre of music that put out albums with great deals of potential. These are some of my favorite glam metal bands that came out between 1989 and 1992 that put out some pretty awesome albums that ended up being overlooked thanks to bad timing, lack of promotion and the music scene changing.[…]

September 1, 2015

LOVE AIN’T ENOUGH Southgang singer Jesse Harte ‘Butch Walker give me a call…the fans want it’

LOVE AIN’T ENOUGH Southgang singer Jesse Harte ‘Butch Walker give me a call…the fans want it’ Facebook — Who remembers Southgang? Of course you do. The band’s voice Jesse Harte has taken to his official Facebook to post a message to his old bandmate Butch Walker earlier tonight and wrote; “Butch Walker give me a call” adding “The friends and fans want it. Let’s do it. One song.” In the recent year or two several hairbands from the hey-day[…]