By Chuck Yarborough, The Plain Dealer April 07, 2013 It’s raw, it’s nasty and it’s a strangely melodic sonic onslaught, unleashing a full-frontal assault of screaming vocals, chunky and distorted guitar chords, machine-gun bass lines and sweaty, mortarlike drum beats. Midwestern Electric is exactly what a rock band should be. And it’s all by accident. [...]
By Chuck Yarborough, The Plain Dealer April 07, 2013 The Lottery League is all Ed Sotelo’s fault. Sotelo, according to his friend and fellow co-founder of the Lottery League’s Council of Chiefs, Jae Kristoff, posted a drunken rant on MySpace saying that all of Cleveland’s many bands should just break up and start again. “MySpace” [...]
Now in its third season, bigger and better than ever. The Lottery League brings its “Big Show” to the world-famous Agora on Saturday, April 13th, FREE to all! All 42 newly drafted bands of the 2013 Lottery League will perform for the first time ever on three stages within the Agora. 2013 Lottery League Big [...]
By Chuck Yarborough, The Plain Dealer “This is the band I’ve wanted to be in my whole life.” Jack Storey, sweat beading on his forehead and breathing heavily, had just finished belting out the lyrics to “And What If Kevin Chang Scares the Success Out of You,” one of the driving songs he and Midwestern [...]
By Chuck Yarborough, The Plain Dealer It’s a good thing the 169 musicians who are participating in Lottery League 2013 are so good at singing and playing; almost to a person, they stink as bowlers. That was evident Thursday night at Madison Square Lanes in Lakewood as the league held its “Slot Selection” night for [...]
Lou Muenz website is regularly updated with lots of great Lottery League 2013 news, photos and video. Check out Lou’s site for photos from our League Bowling Night and updates from La Rascasse, The Dirty Connotations, Dinosaur Throat, Jean-Claude God-damn and more! Click here or the image below for more! Get even more from Lou…
Chuck Yarborough for the Plain Dealer who will be reporting on the 2013 Lottery League throughout the two month journey to the Big Show, and specifically participant Tony Erba and his newly formed band, has just posted his write up for Cleveland.com about last night’s Draft. So if you love stories about genius ideas, the [...]
Want to relive the 3 hours of the 2013 Lottery League Draft Night all over again? Well, good news! Just posted on youtube by Peter Beurmann (the man behind all the live stream tech for the Beachland and the Lottery League) is your dream come true. It’s just like being there live last Friday night, [...]
The Lottery League got its start in 2008, when The Council of Chiefs — Michael Pultz, Jae Kristoff, John Delzoppo, Nate Scheible, and Edward A. Sotelo — were looking to inject a new dose of vitality into Cleveland’s familiar music scene. The idea they hit upon was the unique Lottery League concept — one that [...]
