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LATTER RAIN REVIVAL delivers a powerful wall of sound perforated with intriguing patterns, the sum of which is straightforward and driving yet still intricate. Their aptly named new EP, UNSTOPPABLE FORCE, is available on Bandcamp and a great listen for fans of the good ‘ol days of alternative rock. Be on the lookout for a CD release show soon and follow facebook.com/latterrainrevivial for the latest info on one of Augusta’s newest powerhouses.
Interviewer: Tell us about the making of your video game “Reincarnation.”
Jason Allen Walter: I grew up playing Atari, Nintendo, Game Boy, and Super Nintendo games, and I’ve always wanted to make a video game but never knew how. Matt Porter brought Ian Bogost’s Atari video game A Slow Year to the Morris Museum of Art in 2012, and Bogost’s video game inspired me to make a visual novel called E-Ghost, which I posted on Facebook in its entirety, that is essentially a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure graphic novel that uses mazes to simulate the experience of playing a video game. For the past five years, I’ve been Microsoft PowerPoint as a medium, and eventually, I learned how to use Microsoft PowerPoint to make lo-fi animation for music videos. Then, a couple of weeks ago, I finally realized how to use PowerPoint to make a video game. “Reincarnation” is a video game in a very literal sense because it’s a video that you watch, and there’s instructions you follow in which you move your computer’s cursor on the screen to navigate through the maze. I made all of the items in the game things that I like in real-life, such as Academia cassettes and junk food, so that the game is realistic in addition to being extremely minimalistic aesthetically. Interviewer: Tell us about the release of your video game. Jason Allen Walter: As I was making the game, I announced what I was doing on Facebook, which is pretty much the only forum where I seem to interest any interest in my work. Then, the day before the game was done, I posted the game’s title screen on Facebook. The day after that, I uploaded Reincarnation onto Facebook. I decided to include the game as part of my graphic novel Hand Claps, so I uploaded the video into my Facebook photo album called “Hand Claps.” I love the idea of having an art exhibit of video games, whether they be all mine or others who are interested in making lo-fi video games, but for now, my Facebook profile and the Warvel Comics fanpage are two places where anybody can play Reincarnation. 
Tuesday Open Mic at Joe’s Underground has cultivated some great acts throughout the last few years; musicians, poets and comedians alike come together to perfect their skills and build their repertoire. That is the case with Jaycie and the Beards one Tuesday evening,
Jaycie Ward and Nathaniel Bruner were jamming together on guitar and violin, respectively, and Rafael Gonzalez joined in with his guitar. When Vic the bartender took notice of the instant chemical connection the three made, he immediately commanded them to start a band - and thus Jaycie and the Beards was born. Jaycie and Rafael are self-taught musicians who draw their inspiration from real life and use music as a vessel for self expression. Nathaniel has been playing the violin since age four and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance. The masterful speed and precision he plays with perfectly complements the smooth, soulful vocal harmonies created by Jaycie and Rafael. There is an electricity in the air that surrounds the group and the horizon is dotted with ever-increasing opportunities to shine. Come to Joe’s Underground on August 12th to see for yourself.
“When I say ‘REAL HIP,’ you say ‘HOP’!”
“With each song I write, I paint you a picture of real hurt, real struggle and real success with never giving up,” he explains, which is clear when you watch him take the stage and blast audiences with an intense array of driving beats. He is getting tons of plays at soundcloud and shows no signs of stopping. You can find him at Joe’s Underground’s monthly hip-hop open mics and follow him on Instagram and Facebook @gorganus so you don’t miss some big announcements he has promised will be coming out soon.
Youth is a damn fickle thing. It prescribes to no boxes and defies any attempts by others to put it there. It seeks, and sometimes it finds. In the meantime, it exists, owing itself to no one.
So is the story of Pennsylvania Folk, an Augusta folk band, for all intents and purposes, no longer is. It’s a memory as beautiful as anything this city has yet to offer me. It is promise, and youth incarnate, as bright and bursting with color as the shapes the sun make on the first day spent with a new lover, when everything is newer than new, when everything is precious — like you’d just been born. So, you may ask, why write a music column about a band that no longer considers itself a band? Well, for starters, because the musicians themselves will continue to music, even if it is not the music I remember. Also, because bands are subject to the vicissitudes of life, like everyone else (if not more so), and that’s just how it is sometimes. And because the song you sing in your youth is a song that stays with you.
On March 19, at the end of their last set, the rush of the show settling on the remaining members, Jordan Day and Ross Weglarz, as they sat astride barstools at Joe’s Underground, beers lingered idly in the air between string-weakened fingers as they reminiscenced, a strange sensation for them. Considering their age, this is entirely possible – they are still living life at full speed, forgetting about the brake pedals and barreling forward into uncertainty, as if it were the only face they knew.
Perhaps it was the first time such a moment of epiphany had ever hit them, both core members being so early in their twenties, because a year ago they couldn’t book most venues in Augusta. But here it was, the enormity of time and experience compounded in the face of such frailty as human consciousness, one moment ending and the future split wide open before them, the past suddenly precious – and gone. As memory played across their faces, a realization was made – a year ago that night, they’d played their first gig together. And now, here they were, their pockets jingling with the difference several hundred days can make – especially, the kind of difference time makes when you’re young. 
Music, like so many passions, is something borne in youth and which only finds fruition later in life. When Jordan Day was a child growing up in rural Indiana, cutting donuts in the field close to family’s home, his father beside him, rifling through a collage of tape cassettes and picking one to play, Chuck Berry and Johnny Cash being the mainstays, the dream (and reality) of becoming a musician had not yet grabbed hold – but these moments were a seed, out of which sprang Pennsylvania Folk, a project that for a single year, from 2015 to early 2016, took up his and Weglarz’s energies and, in many ways, informed their lives. Out of those circular truck rides, learning to steer and brake, looping around the yard, tire track overlapping over tire track till the beginning and ending were merely indiscernible points in a continual learning process, Day learned the thump and thud of rockabilly and country, the booming vocals of Johnny Cash and the omnipresence of the sky unfolding overtop the flat expanse of the Midwest, each turn revealing a horizon that never left in the first place and hung like a promise in the review mirror, waiting for the steering wheel to inch one way more than the other, for the tires to line up, informed by this small, almost indiscernible movement, until the increments in these minor adjustments began to add up and the sky from which the circle started stared back once again, the sun progressing at each turn till the horizons all folded into a single moment in time. 
This is where the love of music comes from: immersion and routine, and the eventual travel back that some cannot escape.
Let me say now, theirs is a future I am still excited about. Pennsylvania Folk or no Pennsylvania Folk, they still have beautiful music to make – whether it be the basic harmonies they glean from life, be in it in a band or not, or from the joy that music still elicits from them. They still have music to make. For me, they are a band that will always resonate.
Self-taught and full of dedication, Adam Harris Thompson is getting work done as he plays show after show and further hones his skills. The bearded young man sings and plays his acoustic with a passion and precision that is relatable and emotionally evoking. He’s got a backing band and plans to release a single called “West Virginia” soon. Perhaps the most impressive part is his availability. AHT has 26 shows in May alone. Truly a man with this kind of dedication to his craft deserves audiences, so pick out a date and get out to show! Here are the rest of his May Dates.
 Born in the brick oven and well versed in the black arts, PIZZA HELL STUDIOS is a collaboration of a few local musicians with one thing in common: noize. Avant-garde and atypically auspicious are just a few ways to describe the cacophonic hymns ready to be released on the world. Forget what you think you know about music and open your mind, along with your third eye, to a world of free form music. It is not bounded by convention or precedent; it’s nothing more than a humble tribute to freedom of expression. Each collaboration will be a product of the particular headspace of each artist at the time of recording and thus will contain all the metaphysical nuances that surround the expanded mind.
PIZZA HELL is set to release a collaboration with local noise rockers GLOOM COCOON in the not too distant future. Stay tuned.  If you have been around Augusta in the last few months and caught a band cranking out surf, rock-a-billy, blues and western all in one set, it is very likely you heard The Least Likelys. Our good pal Dewayne Brock is back with a new crew that has the talent and diversity to amaze any beer chugger. John Warren of Electric Voodoo shreds the guitfiddle and Mike Dansevicus of Vicky Grady Band and LaRoxes fame holds it down on the skins, while Chris Green keeps the beats rolling with his groovin’ bass lines. If you want a diverse, good time that goes well with your favorite drink, you better do yourself a favor and go see The Least Likelys. Catch them at the Highlander on March 18th!
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cello, Rob Cox on guitar and vocals and multi-instrumentalist James Grant. Together they stack chords to the ceiling and seamlessly transition between honeyed melodies and dissonant charges to the dark depths of one’s id. They invoke motifs from Dante’s Inferno and apply them to modern life. After listening to their lo-fi tracks on Soundcloud, it all makes sense. Life does not use auto-tune or noise reduction. Life is real. Oh, Pilgrim is real.
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