Rolling Blackout Live Events

Bottom of the Hill

Rolling Blackout , the Bunkermen and Trauma Cheez

Jan 11, 2026

7:30PM

Bottom of the Hill

Rolling Blackout , the Bunkermen and Trauma Cheez

Jan 11, 2026

7:30PM

The new album is a musical tour de force for the boys in the band

This collection traverses from classic metal to jazzy grooves, expressive openness and raging jams. No shortage of technical execution but just as much funktacular. They pay homage to the flaming 80s guitars that anchored the bands development. You can hear the influences late-60s-70s-80s AOR throughout the record. Yet at the time you can hear the influences of jazz, classical and music theory throughout. The band moves gracefully from one style to the next track to tracks. Each song totally flows naturally to the next,. Tempos are mellower than the last release but in a very intentional way. This album feels good. There are just enough time changes to earn the progessive label, and some nice synthesizers drifitng in and out of tracks.

As a trio, Rolling Blackout was wildly improvisational. But after the pandemic, moving to a 4 piece band had the band focus on making room and crafting dual melody lines, and a maturation of the new sound has set in. There is more comfort with just layering and slowing it down. The songs flow musically, seemlessly. The lyrics range from whimsical to spiritual to storytelling and are filled with love, pain and all the emotions that surface, reflecting on life

The songwriting, studio and engineering time is when we push ourselves to new musical heights. It is a challenge and a joy. But 50% of being in a band is being with the audience. This mini site is dedicated to giving everyone a peak at what is involved in being an independent artist these days. The tools are incredible but so is the time. Now it's time get back out and share what we've been working on.