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Date: Sunday, July 15, 2012
Start Time: 7:30 PM
Event Type: Special Events, DJ Events
Last Updated: July 09, 2012
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KISW (99.9 FM) PresentsRedline ChemistryOtherwiseGirl On FireWill Wakefield And The Congress HotelPlus GuestsOtherwiseLas Vegas will always be the city of sin, but it means a lot more to Otherwise. While the rest of us go there to let off steam, roll the dice and enjoy the eye candy, Otherwise grew up in the shadows of all the bright lights and broken dreams. Las Vegas is their home, and its where theyve lived life, faced death, and climbed the mountain of trials and tribulations that have become True Love Never Dies, their debut album for Century Media Records.We werent as aggressive when my brother and I first started jamming together, but then things started to happen people died, relationships ended, and life got more real, says OTHERWISE frontman Adrian Patrick. Despite being raised in a tight-knit family, Adrian only started playing music with his brother guitarist Ryan Patrick a few short years ago. Our writing was a lot simpler when we started, but as circumstances forced us to grow up, our music matured with us. Tragedies and loss are part of life, and our music is one of the ways we maintain a positive outlook, despite the setbacks.Nowhere is that more evident than on the bands breakthrough single, Soldiers. The song began as a metaphor for the battle that unsigned bands go through to get their message heard as artists, then quickly transformed into an anthem for everyone living on the front-lines of life. When I started writing the lyrics, I was staring at my bandmates and thinking that they are my brothers in arms, says the singer. It was going to be our anthem, but by the time I finished I realized it was an anthem for our whole nation. We are all soldiers fighting for something, whether its to put food on the table, to be heard, or just to be happy. Every soldier is human, and were all human.Already hailed by Fox News as the No. 1 unsigned band in America, Soldiers became the song that brought the local Vegas rockers to the national spotlight. Hand-picked to perform alongside Avenged Sevenfold and Five Finger Death Punch on the mainstage of the inaugural 48 Hours Festival in October 2011, MTV Headbangers Ball host and Sirius XM DJ Jose Mangin was so impressed by OTHERWISE that he immediately added Soldiers into rotation on Sirius XMs Octane channel.In a matter of weeks, the track reached the top of Octanes charts, the single sold more than 10,000 units independently, and Las Vegas best-kept secret was making tremors at a national level. They signed with Century Media Records in December, began recording their debut album with acclaimed producer Jay Baumgardner [Godsmack, Bush, Papa Roach, Seether, Sevendust, P.O.D.] at his NRG Studios in January, and in February embarked on their first national tour as a band, opening for Pop Evil.