Reno Noise is team of music-invested journalists who, in the Reno scene, connect musician to musician, musician to fan and fan to fan through reporting, filming, recording and through an extensive social network. We’re students of the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Contact us at: Renonoisebox@gmail.com
STAFF:
HEATHER LARA
Heather is a print journalism student at the University of Nevada, Reno and will be graduating this May. From one coast to the other, music has helped shape who she is today. She helped establish Reno Noise in 2009 with three other journalists, Erik Stabile, Brad Nelson and Jessica Pacheco. She enjoys every genre of music but especially alternative rock, country and pop. However, she grew up listening to classic rock and can’t help but bust into song if AC/DC, REO Speedwagon, White Snake or Journey plays on the radio. She applauds the effort of any musician who has the courage to play in front of an audience and enjoys going to concerts and rocking out to any song that has a head-bobbing, foot-tapping catchy beat.
COURTNEY LAUBACHER
Courtney is a 22-year-old small town escapee. She received her Associate’s Degree in general education, and is now working on her Bachelor’s degree in electronic media journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has worked in radio for the past 4 years and now wants to be in front of the camera. Courtney loves celebrity entertainment and film. Her dream job would be either making fun of people on Chelsea Lately, work as an entertainment reporter for E! News, or be a film critic like Roger Ebert. She loves horror movies, music of all genres, and cuddly kittens.
BRAD NELSON
Brad writes about music. Most of the time that is all he really cares to do. His first great love in this world was Michael Jackson’s Thriller—his parents gave him a cassette copy at age 6. For several years he marveled at how such consistent, catchy catharsis could emerge from one man. He has spent most of his writing career marveling at consistent, catchy catharses and the artists at their warm center. He loves and will write endlessly about any and every genre, though among his favorites are: jazz, punk, soul, noise, modern classical, terrible indie rock, emo (unsung hero of modern music!) and the sometimes brilliant and weird things that inhabit the top 40 from time to time. He is a print journalism major at the University of Nevada, Reno. He writes a music blog called (desperation + noise). At RENO NOISE, Brad writes, interviews, shoots video and collapses.
JESSICA PACHECO
Jessica Pacheco loves writing about people. For some reason she feels she has horrid luck with irony so she always fears the unexpected (and also embraces it). She is a journalism major at the University of Nevada, Reno who will graduate in December 09. She originally hails from the bay area, California and has a strong desire to live in San Franciscon so she can test gadgets and write for WIRED magazine. She also fears living in SF because she is sure a catastrophic earthquake will destroy the city the day she arrives (There is that irony again). She used to want to study forensic science, but then she realized she had neither the stomach or the attitude (she digs life a lot). So she decided to try her hand at her life-long love of writing and perhaps get paid for it in Journalism. She is fascinated by new media and plans to devote a large chunk of her life to studying and cultivating it. She is in Taiwan right now studying Chinese and will hopefully come back speaking the sino-language of the future. She loves Broadway, Canadian girls named Chelsey and walking on crunchy leaves in the fall.
ERIK STABILE
In 2009 he founded the Reno Noise news and social networking site together with three talented journalists, Brad Nelson, Jessica Pacheco and Heather Lara. Erik is a purveyor of media, a fan of collaborative efforts, the Sierra Nevada mountains and everything music. He comes from a small simple town where music became his lifeblood. He bought his first guitar in an alleyway and nothing has been the same since then. His first concert was B.B. King. It left a lasting impression and a musical addiction. In 2004 he came to Reno and received an education from the University of Nevada, Reno in print journalism. He is a fan of the First Amendment. He loves Reno and he hopes to see the music scene grow into something collectively devastating.
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