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As Columbus prepares to be holed-up in a wintery tomb of Midwestern sleet and gray, drab skies for the next two months, let’s review the albums that will get you through another winter and made 2011 a melodic triumph. 10…. [Read More]
Every few years there is a British invasion that wrecks havoc on the US. The Beatles and the Stones in the 60s, The Smiths and the Clash in the 80s, Oasis in the 90s, more recently, the brilliantly troubled Amy… [Read More]
“This is the start of something good, don’t you agree,” crooned chariot-ridding Gavin DeGraw as he and an audience of several hundred belted note-for-note in complete harmony. And it was good. Really good, actually. A seemingly rare musician to find,… [Read More]
In between the excessive amount of cookout grub consumed and the backyard shenanigans that Labor Day brings about, Guster makes its annual ramble to Columbus this weekend in support of the band’s new EP On the Ocean. And not a… [Read More]
To Incubus purists, a first listen of the band’s new album If Not Now, When? paints the Brandon Boyd Gang as a bunch of lovelorn softies who’ve traded in their overdrive distortion for piano ballads. But don’t be misconstrued. Incubus… [Read More]
The Goo Goo Dolls are in a precarious situation. Rusted by the road, yet still bright enough to almost sell out the LC Pavilion, they have become aged mascots of a simpler time – a time that lead Goo John… [Read More]
2011′s Comfest was of particular interest to me. Well, let’s be honest, I’m interested every year. But this year, it wasn’t so much the bands I was interested in — it was Comfest itself. If you are a Comfestite, you… [Read More]
This past Sunday marked the fourth time The Airborne Toxic Event made their way to Columbus to give the city lessons on how to be happy about being sad – while looking like they just strolled out of an AllSaints… [Read More]
Friday’s Wet Darlings show was one of special note. Not only was it Friday the 13th – the day Sean S. Cunningham and Dan Brown turned into pay dirt. Not only did it mark The Wet Darlings’ first (of many)… [Read More]
Sometimes the perils of superstardom are far too alluring for even the most bookish of Victorian-style storytelling gentlemen. In the wake of cementing their first bona fide hit with the lush, straightforward The King is Dead, an indie album that… [Read More]
Reason no. 387 why CD101 Day sold out in record time with a music spectacular, which was, well, spectacular: Fitz and the Tantrums’ lead soul man Michael Fitzpatrick looked every bit the part of a post-Ziggy David Bowie donning a… [Read More]
Modern-day boxcar vagabonds and alt-country rockers Old 97′s rode into Columbus last night like tattered gunslingin’ gauchos looking to cause a good old-fashioned dustup. Rhett Miller with his signature raspy croon, sang country standards infused with contemporary vernacular that tell… [Read More]
Ramblin’, howlin’, boozed-up, and reverb-laden, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears serve a calling higher than teaching one how to rub a “Sugarfoot” or the exact GPS coordinates to “Booty City.” They fulfill a cultural obligation to uphold the music… [Read More]
Silhouetted by vibrant hues and shades of blue, the godfathers of indie-art rock Interpol gave Columbus a live tutorial on how to stay relevant in indie’s perpetually changing industry. Hitting the road in support of their new self-titled LP, their… [Read More]
“So tell me, it’s good to be back,” rasped Tokyo Police Club’s bookish indie-rock frontman Dave Monks during Sunday’s quick-hitting, lots-of-oomph performance at the Newport Music Hall. For the grew-up-too-fast youngsters from Ontario, it is so good to be back. Tokyo… [Read More]
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