Off’s Always On Mouthpiece

by Chris Aponick

Once you get to talk to Off!'s Keith Morris, it's no surprise that the Black Flag and Circle Jerks co-founder Keith Morris is making vital music more than 30 years after the dawn of hardcore.

Since forming Off! in late 2009, Morris has been eagerly kicking against barriers, boundaries and genre classifications, almost as a direct repudiation of the closed off attitude of some people in the...

Rock Stars Are Dead

by Kyle Eustice

Beach House may have a penchant for ethereal melodies and evocative lyrics, but behind the music is a woman with backbone. Lead singer Victoria LeGrand has a no holds barred attitude when dealing with her career. Since rising to prominence with 2010’s Teen Dream (Sub Pop Records) and touring a vast amount all over the world, the Baltimore-based singer/keyboardist has become a pro at deflecting...

10 Years Tour & BryanStars Interviews with Backstage Entertainment

by Jeremy Lafrentz

Sokol Auditorium hosted a packed event hosted by 89.7 The River last Thursday, September 27^th. The “Cutting Like Knives” Tour made a stop in Omaha and featured the bands 10 Years, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, and The Last Place You Look. Also joining them on stage were the local guys in Screaming For Silence. For being a Thursday night, the place was packed as Omaha showed the love for the bands...

Ukulele Jazz

by Chris Aponick

Rebecca Lowry, the heart and voice at the center of All Young Girls Are Machine Guns, may have just inadvertently made herself seem like a gin-soaked inebriate on her band's new album, Here's Hopin' Tomorrow Never Comes.

But while her lyrics are dappled by happenings around cocktails and corner bars, All Young Girls Are Machine Guns' music flits by like a windblown feather on the sounds of...

Static-X Tour Interviews with Backstage Entertainment

by Jeremy Lafrentz

One week after unveiling the new “BSE Box” during our Backstage Entertainment interviews, we got to use it for four interviews during the Noise Revolution Tour. The tour had quite a few bands performing on Sunday, September 23^rd and featured the bands Static-X, Emmure, Ill Nino, and 9Electric. We got a chance to talk to all four of those bands during their time in Omaha.

First, we spoke with...

August Burns Red Tour Stops in Omaha

by Jeremy Lafrentz

On Sunday, September 16^th, Sokol Auditorium hosted a great show with a lineup consisting of The Overseer, The Color Morale, Of Mice & Men, and the headliner August Burns Red. These guys have been around the country on their current tour and were excited about their trip to Omaha. Backstage Entertainment got a chance to talk to three of the bands performing that night and here’s what they had to...