The Rock-n-Roll Bowling Alley is a Freehold in New Jersey in the Kingdom of Apples.
Overview[]
This retro-style establishment in south New Jersey does, in fact, contain eight (short) bowling lanes, but primarily is one of the main venues of wilder music on the eastern seaboard of the USA. Sooner or later, every changeling band plays the Bowling Alley, with its carpeted walls and combination soda fountain/bar, and wilders will come from as far away as the moon, Vermont, or outer space to see their band of choice. Beverage connoisseurs worldwide also make pilgrimages to the Alley to taste the rare dairy blends mixed here, including the legendary Special Drink.
Bands-in-residence at the Bowling Alley include Rocktalk Jones (heir apparent to the title of Last of the Beatnik Poets), Muffin God, Callard & Bowser, Infinite Hat, the Shock-Mommies, and Watchchildren. All are cult bands, eccentric enough to stand out even in the strange underground scene of wilder music. Their music is sometimes accordion-driven, often in bizarro rhythms, and always lyrically perverse. Together, they make up the board of directors of Rock-n-Roll Bowling Alley, Inc. In secret basements under the Bowling Alley, they display a more studious side by carrying obscure, often dangerous, sonic experiments. There are many failures (and explosions and radiation leaks), but the occasional successes continue to push the boundaries of changeling sonic-Glamour awareness. According to urban legends, passages lead beneath these basements to a submarine dock where the house bands can make emergency exits from filled experiments, anti-progressive forces, or screaming fans.
Politically, Rock-n-Roll Bowling Alley, Inc. remains explicitly neutral in all internecine changeling disputes. The directors are largely apolitical, but they tend, by temperament, toward anarchy; they will take no official stand either to help or hinder the Seelie or Unseelie courts. The only things they really care about are their research and their music.
References[]
- CTD. Dreams and Nightmares, p. 94.