El Salón de la Fama del Rock and Rol l eligió para este año a 6 bandas de apoyo que durante 3 décadas fueron pasadas por alto. The Comets, Blue Caps, The Crickets, Famous Flames, The Midnighters y The Miracles formarán parte del salón de la fama, a pesar de los años que su talento se mantuvo sin reconocimiento. Originalmente estas bandas de apoyo no fueron consideradas cuando sus respectivos frontmans (Gene Vincent, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, James Brown, Hank Ballard, [...]
While Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson has shown little willingness to eliminate the 8% admissions tax on small music venues, progress has been made. There is more awareness of the issue in city hall and amongst the public and there's a feeling in both the government and the clubs that middle ground can be found. Recent articles in the Plain Dealer and The Scene Magazine drive this point home. Speaking to the Plain Dealer's Thomas Ott , Councilman Joe Cimperman describes negotiations where neither side is taking a hard line. Beachland owner Cindy Barber, whose club has taken [...]
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MP3: Bill Fox - I Only Did it Cuz I Felt So Lonely MP3: The Mice - Little Rage I think we've spent plenty of time talking about Bill Fox's two solo albums and most recent record , One Thought Revealed , so let's take a second to revisit Fox's beginnings with Cleveland power-pop band The Mice . Fox started the band with his drummer brother, Tommy Fox, eventually bringing bassist Ken Hall on board. The For Almost [...]
It's been a bit since we've posted on a band from our very own Buckeye State, but I've been meaning to get the word out about Cleveland duo Bears for a hot minute. "Eleven a.m." is the first single from the band's forthcoming album Greater Lakes, and it's the kind of low-key indie pop that [...]
Tuesday, January 31st : Purling Hiss, Puffy Areolas @ The Happy Dog . Friday, February 3rd : Amen Dunes, Mountains, Imaginary Softwoods, Wild Orphans @ The Happy Dog. Waterloo Alley Cat Fundraiser @ The Beachland Tavern with The Very Knees, Shitbox Jimmy, Volcano Fortress. Saturday, February 4th : Swindlella, Mole People, Butch Raid, Library Time @ The Happy Dog. Tuesday, February 7th : Boddie Records Night @ The Happy Dog - Tom Welsh, Associate Director of Music at the Cleveland Museum of Art will be [...]
Tweet vaso link With Cloud Nothings' new album, Attack On Memory , out today, the band released the video for first single, "No Future/No Past" yesterday, and it's a pretty good one. It features a middle aged man levitating his way out of his house, into the streets and into the woods. We never quite know what it is that's happening, or what it is he's looking at, particularly when he's scared, but it's still an interesting ride. And what a fantastic song. [...]
Chip Tha Ripper returns with new project that features production from Lex Luger , Hi-Tek , Dot Da Genius and more. Wale , Kid Cudi , Krayzie Bone are some of the notable guests on this here tape.. Peep the tracklist after the jump. Download Tell Ya Friends at Live Mixtapes
MP3: To Be Sure MP3: Todos On Tuesday Numero Group , Chicago's masters of the amazingly detailed reissue, takes another dip into Ohio's unsung soul history with a self-titled release from Los Nombres . Los Nombres were a late 60s Latin Soul group from Lorain with a sound matching up with their more famous counterparts in New York and Los Angeles. Fresh off their two Grammy nominations for their recent monster of a Syl Johnson anthology, Numero continues to release lovingly crafted [...]
Bears are a delectable pop band out of Cleveland, Ohio that blend indie pop sounds with psychedelic instrumentation and the clash between sleepy and mopey vocals. If there's anything I like, it's rainy-day pop music, and that's precisely what this is. Greater Lakes is the band's new LP - their third at that - and it comes out on Misra Records on Valentine's Day 2012. Word is floating around that this is their best album yet, and with a few listens, it's easy to [...]
MP3: Bill Fox - Whithering Soul That right there is the album art and single for the first widely released Bill Fox record in more than a decade. One Thought Revealed comes out Jan. 17 through Jar Note Records , but you can preorder the CD now. In one sense, the album is exactly what you'd expect: superb songwriting from someone CMJ once called "one of the most important artists of our day." It follows the folk-inspired trajectory of Fox's previous solo records (Shelter from [...]
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MP3: Here I am Cleveland R+B singer Lolah Brown becomes one of the rare human beings to get an original Fly Union produced beat without FlydotU on it. Stunning!
Tuesday, January 3rd : Goodmorning Valentine, Light of the Loon, Mike Uva @ Beachland Tavern . Thursday, January 5th : Johnny & The Apple Stompers, Shouting Thomas Torment, Crooked River Blues Band, Wolfboy Slim free show @ Grog Shop . Friday, January 6th : Waterloo Alley Cat Project Kitty Consciousness Kick-Off with Night Sweats and Restless Habs @ Beachland Tavern. Voxcaster, The Swimfan, Beach Stav, John Kalman free show @ Grog Shop. Saturday, January 7th : Ohio Civil War, Non Fiction, All [...]
The Christmas hangover is still upon us. Whether you are back at work or not, people are still caught in the holiday spirit. However, one rapper got me out of it for a moment with his awesome sound. D.Worthy originally from Cleveland but relocated to Vancouver, Washington is a rapper with awesome flow over great [...]
It's that time of year to look back on the past 12 months and say "what the hell happened to the last 12 months?!". It's also that time of year where us music bloggers and self-proclaimed critics take the time to put together some Best Of lists for your reading pleasure. They don't really mean a whole lot and you can love 'em or leave 'em, but it seems like the right thing to do to sum up the year in preparation of the next. This year we're featuring personal lists from all of our fantastic writers. [...]
I love watching great performances or well-made documentaries featuring my favorite artists from the comfort of my couch. In 2011 a number of fantastic music-related films came out and it was nearly impossible to pick the 10 best efforts, so for 20112s list of my favorite concert films of the year, I expanded the list to 15 and there were still a few fine efforts which didn't make the cut. So with that in mind, we continue our long-standing tradition of detailing my top music-related DVDs/Blu-Rays of the year... 15. [...]
How cool is this? The Beachland Ballroom and Heineken USA are teaming up to give one lucky soul free passes for two to every show and every event at the Beachland Ballroom in 2012. Entry is a snap - All you have to do is visit this page on facebook, right here, and fill in a few details and that's it. You're entered. The contest will run now through December 29th.
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Tweet vaso link These perky Cleveland indie rockers were whipping a lot of excitement in the latter half of 2010 with singles "Understand At All" and "Even If It Worked Out"- frantic, sugary, 2 and half minute bullets of songs. Their eponymous debut however fell shy of the standard set by those punchy little tracks, dissolving into fuzzy, slightly over produced sameness that any C86 inspired band can sail close too close to. However, last month we saw [...]
The Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame has announced the class of 2012, and, to be honest, it's not that bad of a class. Joining hard-rock titans, and unquestioned headliners Guns 'N' Roses at the induction ceremony on Saturday, April 14th at the Cleveland Public Auditorium will be two bands from the alt-rock era - The Beastie Boys and Red Hot Chili Peppers, '60s singer/songwriter, Laura Nyro, '60s folk singer, Donovan, and the constantly overlooked, but overlooked no more, The Small Faces and Faces. Yes, believe it or not, Rod Stewart once had a respected career and that [...]
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