In Charlottesville, the place I stay, we used to have an ideal DIY house-show venue referred to as Magnolia Home. I had loads of nice nights on the market. Magnolia Home was in a rapidly-developing a part of city, and it was already on the point of shut down earlier than the pandemic hit. Earlier this week, the home itself was demolished. That sucks! However the individuals who made Magnolia Home particular are nonetheless round, they usually’re persevering with to do cool issues.
Again within the day, a man named Sam Roberts lived at Magnolia Home, booked a lot of the exhibits, and performed drums within the hardcore punk band Fried Egg. As of late, Sam lives in Richmond, and he performs within the sick-ass steel punk band Non-public Hell; I simply noticed them play an ideal present there final week. Sam can also be one half of White Beast, a bass-and-drums duo that makes actually cool and surprisingly hooky noise-rock.
White Beast’s debut album Struggling Time got here out in 2023, they usually adopted it with their Demons EP final yr. At present, White Beast have a brand new one-off single referred to as “Servant.” It’s massive, bellowed vocals and even greater riffage, and it rocks so majestically that you just might need a tough time believing that that is simply two guys. Pay attention under.
