Golden Nights; Meet the Real Shaun Soho

Local Band Crash Midnight Announces Partnering with the Las Vegas Golden Nights MEET THE REAL SHAUN SOHO

Las Vegas Hard Rock breakouts, Crash Midnight, drop their third of four brand new singles for 2021 with “Blackout” on Oct 8th - a searing rock anthem that will be echoing this fall throughout Las Vegas - where the band has established itself as the highest-drawing independent rock act.

The band is proud to announce partnering with the NHL’s Las Vegas Golden Knights to have the new single featured during games this season. Combined with the launch of a Crash Midnight signature “Smash Midnight Blackout” whiskey smash cocktail at Corduroy (the coolest rock bar in downtown Vegas), fans will be getting a steady dose of Crash Midnight everywhere they go in the Entertainment Capital of the World!

“Blackout” is a raw, “punks in the street” homage to the band’s formative years running in the Boston club scene. It came together during the year-long shutdown of live entertainment, which gave the band an opportunity to really look back on where things all started and use some of that as inspiration for a few of their new songs. “Blackout” took on a whole new meaning for the band though when the Las Vegas Strip literally went dark during the height of the pandemic. mous Sand Dollar in Las Vegas to celebrate the single’s release that Sand Dollar appearance has now come and gone. The band is announcing a New Years’ Eve show with Quiet Riot (featuring the return of original member Rudy Sarzo!) at Fremont Country Club in downtown Las Vegas! Tickets are available now at CRASHMIDNIGHT.COM

SHAUN SOHO: “This one is rapidly becoming one of our favorites live. The swagger of the riff gets me into it instantly. I’d been saving these little lines of lyrics that were inspired by all the shit we got ourselves into running in the streets of Boston’s bars and underground parties when we were first starting out, but I hadn’t put them together or found the right song for them yet. Once we started messing with this riff, everything just stuck right in there and felt exactly right. Our co-producer, Tristan Hardin, helped us find the right balance between the raw, gritty feel we were going for and still making this thing sound huge. Our hometown NHL team, the Vegas Golden Knights, dug the track too and will be using it all season long during their games at T-Mobile Arena. It’s going to be wild to hear this thing blasting through the speakers there. Big shoutout to VGK President, George McPhee, for helping connect us with their guys over there to make this happen. Shaun Soho told us: “We’re looking forward to New Years’ Eve 2022. Alex Grossi from Quiet Riot has become a good friend - he’s actually joined us on stage this year - and it’s going to be cool to share the stage again with him and the guys from QR. DJ Lethal from House of Pain and Limp Bizkit is joining the bill too so there’s going to be a lot to take in that night. Fremont Country Club has become like our second home downtown here in Vegas. It’s a great venue and really supports the scene out here.”

Shaun Soho continued: We partnered with “Corduroy,” our favorite rock n’ roll bar in downtown Las Vegas to create a Crash Midnight signature cocktail called the “Smash Midnight Blackout.” It’s a take-off on one of our favorite drinks we used to have all the time back in Boston called a whiskey smash. We also just got word that one of our heroes, Cheetah Chrome from The Dead Boys, is going to be jumping up to play a couple songs with us at the end of our set on New Years’ Eve. Basically, just bourbon, simple syrup, mint and lemon, but these guys added some of their homemade ginger beer, a dash of bitters, and some activated charcoal to turn in jet-black. Then they serve it in a glass skull mason jar so you’re sitting here with this bad*** black skull drink. It’s definitely a head turner, with a lot of people going “yo what’s that?!” and taking pictures and everything. If you’re out on Fremont Street in Vegas, you gotta try one.”