In this week’s cover story, Scene takes you into the world of The Lottery League, where 147 local musicians were driven from their comfort zones and randomly drafted into 33 new bands with only one rule: No one could be in a band with someone they’d played with before.
In the end, metal heads ended up with pop singers, classically-trained violinists with hardcore kids. On April 12, all 33 bands will finally emerge from nine weeks of practice to display their mutations for a marathon gig at the Beachland Ballroom…
This article appears in Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2008.