The site that was once home to the Virginia Street Brewhouse and the Knitting Factory didn’t stay vacant long after its late January closure.
Revenant Music Hall, a new nightclub and performance space at 211 N. Virginia St., is scheduled to host “The Boom,” a celebration of local electronic music, on Friday, Oct. 9. That show will be followed on Saturday, Oct. 24, with a performance by national DJ GorillaT.
“The word ‘revenant’ stands for someone or something coming back after an absence, so kind of a rebirth of something special, something big,” said Tyler Burt, general manager of Revenant Music Hall. “This really is a legacy venue that’s right in the heart of downtown Reno, and it’s an awesome, medium-sized venue that can kind of do it all.”
Burt is a DJ/producer who goes by the stage name of Tyberius, and he was most recently the general manager at Dead Ringer starting in 2023. He has also worked as a Reno show promoter with the company RVLTN, among others.
He’s joined in running Revenant by owner Fady Mehanna, who also owns Whisky Lounge and Tequila Catador in Midtown and has worked with Burt on local EDM shows for the past 15 years. He finalized ownership of Revenant in June.
Mehanna said Revenant will be open only for shows, similar to the hours when it was Virginia Street Brewhouse. Show-goers will witness a completely new sound and lighting system that Mehanna said has been tailored to the space by PK Sound, based in Canada.
“The major problem in this building before was the sound,” Mehanna said. “Because you can’t just come in and put speakers up and fire everything up and say, ‘Let’s go.’ You need to do some study on the sound.”
Burt added that the system features “integrated robotics inside of the PA that allows us to adjust in real time to further tune and focus the sound to fit this room and complement whatever act we have onstage, whether it’s a band or a DJ.”
Revenant has also hired sound and lighting engineers who will be trained by PK on the system, Mehanna said.
There are also renovations underway to the first-floor bar area, and the second floor of Revenant will now be a VIP experience space with its own dedicated speakers that sync to the audio on the larger first floor, Burt said.
Burt and Mehanna said the Revenant music calendar will feature music beyond EDM, including local and national artists.
“It will be 50 percent EDM DJs, and the other 50 percent will be bands, whether that’s a rock band or a country band or a metal or punk band,” Burt said.
Burt and Mehanna agreed that the goal is to open Revenant up to as many people and as many facets of the music scene that they can.
“We’re focused on being a local, community-driven venue,” Burt said. “Obviously, at the end of the day, this is a business, but we’re here for the love of music first.”
For more details, go to @revenantmusichall on Instagram.
Iron Lung, the band, and Iron Lung Records are back in Reno
Iron Lung bandmates Jensen Ward and Jon Kortland grew up in Reno and started their hardcore/power-violence duo in 1999. Both have lived elsewhere over the years, including stints in Seattle and Oakland, and now they are back in Reno.
“We’ve gone long stretches of not living in the same place,” said Kortland, Iron Lung’s guitarist/vocalist, who moved back to Reno in 2020 while Ward stayed in Seattle. “We’ve probably lived longer in separate towns than we have in the same city.”
Moving back for what they both called family reasons, Kortland and Ward—who returned in September—say they are in Reno to stay. They’ll continue to tour with the band and also run Iron Lung Records, an independent label that’s released more than 300 records since 2007. The duo’s move back to the Biggest Little City includes a label showcase taking place Saturday, Oct. 17, at Holland Project.
“We did (the label) primarily to release records for bands that we liked a lot and were our friends,” Iron Lung drummer/vocalist Ward said. “Looking at it now, our tastes are toward underdog bands we think are great, but that some other people don’t really care about at all.”
Among the many international punk, hardcore and noise bands whose albums Iron Lung Records has released are Reno bands Rotary Club and Clarko, and the legendary group Gehenna, with one Reno member.
“We knew all of them as friends, but they are great bands,” Kortland said of Rotary Club and Clarko.
Said Ward: “And conceptually, they have something that’s a little more than what an average band would have. They’ve clearly thought about what band they want to be, and that’s who we want to work with—people who are taking a minute to think about what they are making. It’s a little bit of that extra spice we like.”
Rotary Club is one of the bands that’s joining Iron Lung for the Holland Project showcase, which will also include Fake Dust, a Portland, Ore., grindcore band that impressed Ward and Kortland during an outdoor skatepark show they both played in that city in 2025.
Kortland and Ward were a bit cagier about identifying the other performer for the show: Tony Bluetile from the San Francisco Bay Area, so viewers will be no doubt surprised by what they hear.
“I can’t give any details about him, or it would spoil it,” Ward said.
Coming up for the label, Ward and Kortland said, are albums by Reality’s Demise, a fast hardcore punk band with members between Colorado and Missouri; and Persona, a queer hardcore band from New York. There are also new records from Fashion Change and Brain Tourniquet.
Get more details on the label at ironlungrecords.bigcartel.com and on the Iron Lung Records showcase at hollandreno.org/events/iron-lung-2026.
No One Good brings the heavy on its new album, ‘Bang The Set.’
One of the more popular new Reno bands from the past few years is No One Good, who have earned a following for their speedy, aggressive mix of punk and metal. Now, the group has released its first full-length album, Bang the Set., delivered to streaming services on Sept. 25.
The 10-song set features band members Jaden Lynch on vocals, Zach Hurley on guitar and bass, and Carson Hansford on drums. They’ve been together since 2022 and recorded the album at Mayhemeness Recording Studio in Sacramento. Hansford said the album is also for sale on CD at their shows.
“We’re stoked to finally share it with everybody and hope people like it,” Hansford said of the new album. “We do take our music pretty seriously despite what our song titles might suggest.”
And what are those titles? Here’s a sampling: “JCPenney Liquidation Sale,” “Nightmare Blunt Rotation” and “You Might Think I’m Some Idiot Jerk From Stupid Town, but I’m Actually a Genius From Harvard.”
These new songs are already well known to fans of the band, Hansford said.
“All of the songs (on Bang) have been in a constant rotation in our 2026 sets, and now that the album is out, we have made the shows completely out of these new songs,” Hansford said.
To find out where No One Good is playing next, go to @noonegoodnv on Instagram.
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