event JJO Band Camp: Mudvayne, Black Label Society, Static-X, Dope
Mudvayne and Black Label Society and Static-X and Powerman 5000 and Red and (hed) P.e. and Pop Evil and Kicking K8 and Hurt and Dope and Deaf Pedestrians
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Sun Aug 9
11 am
JJO Band Camp: Mudvayne, Black Label Society, Static-X, Dope at Alliant Energy Center
Scouring this year’s installment of WJJO Band Camp for any break from formulaic, mutt-faced audio-vomit can be frustrating—it's hard to spot anything but prepackaged angst at the annual hard-rock fest. On The New Game, headlining band Mudvayne has stumbled to a level of homogenized melodrama that even its admittedly compelling rhythm section can't redeem. Bands like Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society, Static-X, and, even more so, Dope do little more than pile one nauseating, shouted rock cliché atop another with maximum predictability. Band Camp follows the radio-rock and department-store take on heavy music to the point that its dozen-plus bands seem to bleed into two at most.
Alliant Energy Center 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison, WI
Scouring this year’s installment of WJJO Band Camp for any break from formulaic, mutt-faced audio-vomit can be frustrating—it's hard to spot anything but prepackaged angst at the annual hard-rock fest. On The New Game, headlining band Mudvayne has stumbled to a level of homogenized melodrama that even its admittedly compelling rhythm section can't redeem. Bands like Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society, Static-X, and, even more so, Dope do little more than pile one nauseating, shouted rock cliché atop another with maximum predictability. Band Camp follows the radio-rock and department-store take on heavy music to the point that its dozen-plus bands seem to bleed into two at most.
Updated 07/30/2009
