
Photography by Tsuru Prints available here Happy Monday to you, my friends! How was your weekend? Mine? Well thanks for asking... it was jim-fucking-dandy! Saturday was the AGORA Art Show and Festival , I had a piece in the show & volunteered for a few hours, and Baby had a booth selling her amazing designs , lots of great art, designs, music (more on that later this week), and, of course, food! We were there all day and had one hell of a time. [...]
Since I already gave away that Miranda Sound's self-titled record is my favorite of Columbus album of 2008, I figured I should post all top ten. So here they are, though after the top three the order itself doesn't mean a whole lot--some of these will switch spots with others, depending on the week, day or whatever mood I'm in. The point is, these are all great records. 2008 was a good year for Columbus music. (Links go to previous reviews.) 1. Miranda Sound - Miranda Sound 2. Times New Viking - [...]
Reviews of recent (and not so recent) Columbus albums: The Lost Revival - Homemade Confetti Let me first say that I'm way late on this one. The Lost Revival released its debut, Homemade Confetti , earlier this year, but it somehow passed me by. That band wasn't hiding under a rock, either. The seven-piece multi-instrumentalists have become known for their intense live shows, earning them a spot opening CD101's Summerfest this year. Homemade Confetti , which was apparently recorded in one weekend, doesn't [...]

For some reason the Other Paper never got the Melty Melty preview I wrote up on the website, so here it is, even though the release show was last weekend. Of all the local releases this year, Rise of the Birdmen is one I highly recommend picking up. ---- On Melty Melty's debut album, Rise of the Birdmen , singer Sean Gardner sounds like a man who has come to grips with technology's aggravating tendency to implode. "Machines can tumble on over, it doesn't even matter to me/ Machines can burn out their [...]

It's about time. I saw a bootleg of this being passed around at one of Miranda Sound's final performances but when I tried to pry it loose from Brian Kopaz's hands, I nearly lost my life. Was the wait worth it? Are you kidding me? I think Sean Gardner probably calls each of his projects "the closest thing to my heart" but I don't doubt that if he had to pick just one project to pursue in the future, it would be this band which also includes another former Kopaz [...]