Columbus Alive's Bands To Watch 2013 w/ Forest and the Evergreens, Saturday Giant & The Girls! January 26, 2013 Skullys Music Diner (Apologies for not catching all the bands but I am old and it was cold) Forest and the Evergreens Saturday Giant The Girls! [...]
Credit: Angel Ceballos Zola Jesus is touring America in 2012 in support of their critically acclaimed album, Conatus , which is out on Sacred Bones now. Tour Dates after the jump. ZOLA JESUS TOUR DATES Feb 01 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Feb 03 Austin, TX – Parish Feb 04 New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks Feb 06 Tampa, FL – Crowbar Feb 08 Orlando, [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Here's the Breeders' Kelley Deal covering the Black Swans song "Slide on Down" from the album Change . On accordion is Christie Hunt and Paige Bellar of the Dayton band "Jasper the Colossal" is on electric. You can catch Kelley Deal's newish band R. Ring Friday at Skully's, part of the Ohio Film + Music Festival .
Comedian Andy Milonakis and recent Soulja boy Signee MTV Riff Raff were in Columbus Tuesday. Danielle Kline took photos. Read my review in The Other Paper . After the jump more photos and a video Andy Milonakis performing a new song. Click here to view the embedded video.
MP3: Street Clothes Los Angeles' Fool's Gold recently released Leave No Trace , the follow-up to their 2009 self-titled debut album. Their lineup (which still includes Columbus ex-pat and multi-instrumentalist Brad Caulkins) and sound have changed a bit since the first album and previous tours , and the new album reveals a band that is focused on what it wants to be. Leave No Trace features 10 new songs that delve into a wide range of styles and textures. While their [...]
Nick Tolford & Co , Envelope & Detox , Freaky Franz & Cornelius Jackson, DJ Johnny Cashola , DJ True Skills are performing at Skully's Tonight for Daymon Day Eve. The 5 dollar cover raises money for parade costs. I wrote a story about the Daymon Day weekend in the Other Paper . I didn't get to use quotes from everyone I talked to.. So after the jump, Mike O of Nick Tolford & Co , Johnny Cashola , Envelope and Freaky Franz [...]
MP3:Icebird(RJD2 & Aaron Livingston) \"Going and Going and Going\" (RID2 RMX) MP3:Icebird(RJD2 & Aaron Livingston) \"Going and Going and Going\" (Illvibe RMX) Two Weeks ago ICEBIRD (RJD2 and Aaron Livingston) leaked their first single, "Going and Going. And Going," off their upcoming album the Abandon Lullaby which drops October 11th. Now Icebird is back with two official remixes. One by the Columbus ex-pat, and one by Sonny James of the Ill Vibe Collective. "I always liked how 12 inch releases back in the '90s [...]
The Wet Darlings are doing things the right way - playing shows both in and out of town, generating press, recording new music, getting radio play on CD101 (are we still allowed to call it that?) - and generally just having a blast in the process. Tonight they'll be releasing So Long, Lover , a 6-song EP recorded at Earthwork Recording Studio (Newark, OH). Things start going down around 9pm at Skully's with Ghost Shirt and Yellow Light Maybe rounding out the bill. [...]
...while we've been hearing rumors for a while now, yesterday it was confirmed that longtime Dayton faves Captain of Industry will play a pair of reunion shows in May. Following the release of their third album The Bronze in 2008, the band did an East Coast jaunt, then quietly faded out. COI's endlessly inventive twists [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. I'm not sure what you're up to tonight, but if you like super totally bad ass live rock shows, then there's no reason you shouldn't be attending this show. I saw Priestess open for High on Fire last time they came through (which was the night I called 911 for the first time in my life because some chick fell through my glass coffee table and was bleeding from her back) and 2 things real quick-they slayed my brain and their albums [...]
Metal Rob tells me to put all my money in Intronaut stock. "They have the potential to be the next Mastodon ," he says. I have little reason to doubt Metal Rob as he is all knowing. Intronaut's third album, Valley of Smoke , was released this week and is full of proggy, post-metal with jazzy instrumental Sabbath-y breakdowns. The one thing that always kept me from digging this band as much as Metal Rob were the gutteral, barking vocals but they've remedied that on Valley of Smoke with, [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Yeasayer - O.N.E. Tomorrow marks the return of Brooklyn-based Yeasayer (and our friend Ahmed Gallab aka Sinkane ). It's been over a year since their last show at Skully's, but between a new record, constant touring of the world and television appearances, this comes as no surprise. Odd Blood has received acclaim from multiple reviewers across the US and UK since February and supplied the demand of fans globally, including appearances at [...]
I really don't know what to make of the Ohio Hip Hop Awards. But they happened this weekend in the Cleveland, and I guess it is of note that Columbus emcee, Copywrite won Ohio Hip Hop Album of the Year for his ep, The Rebirth . Skullys Music Diner won the Ohio Hip Hop Award for Best Live Venue. For full listing of winners click here . Also peep Copywrite's weekly freestyle series on Hip Hopdx .
The Dollyrots will be at Skully's on Monday, August 30 along with The Cliks and Hunter Valentine. Sure, it's a Monday night, but the show starts at 8 and should be over before anybody turns into a pumpkin. I hit up a campus-area CD store last week, the day A Little Messed Up was released. The CD store owner told me that his UPS shipment hadn't come in for the day and he wasn't sure whether or not this CD would be part of [...]
Welp. I'd link to think anyone who claims to like music is aware of this. But we all have our own lives to lead. HOWEVER, All Eyes in the underground hip hop galaxy focus on our city as we being the home of some of the greatest talent ever celebrate the release of Camu Tao's King of Hearts album on Def Jux/Fat Possum Records. El-P is flying in to present our city the album, and enjoy the city that Camu loved. ooohh so a national release in Columbus...say word.. but wait..lets not get too cool. [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Andrew Graham & Swarming Branch played the Rumba last night, and Philip Kim shot some video that captures the band's live vibe pretty well. Says Graham, "This is a leaner, meaner swarming branch that practices every day. The lineup is Dane Terry , Chris Burney [ex-The Sun], and Flagships -era RTFO Bandwagon drummer Sean Leary , recently re-transplanted from Boone, NC." You can catch Graham solo tomorrow night (Saturday, 7/31) at Rumba and with his Branch on Tuesday, August 3rd, [...]
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists Skully's I Columbus, OH July 10, 2010 Tin Armor Full set
Here is a picture of Stalley at Bodega. The narrative is that Stalley moved to New York to play basketball from Ohio. He eventually linked up with Mos Def, Dame Dash, etc, and now is getting back in touch with Ohio. He went to a Cavs game with the Eighty81 crew. . He visited his old high school in Massillon. . He hung out in the Short North with me. . And he recorded music with some Columbus artists which is availble below. The Smoking Section put up an EP [...]
Here is a picture of Stalley at Bodega. The narrative is that Stalley moved to New York to play basketball from Ohio. He eventually linked up with Mos Def, Dame Dash, etc, and now is getting back in touch with Ohio. He went to a Cavs game with the Eighty81 crew. . He visited his old high school in Massillon. . He hung out in the Short North with me. . And he recorded music with some Columbus artists which is availble below. The Smoking Section put up an EP [...]
A little bit of everything Saturday night at Skully's as 3 locals ( Blastronauts , The George Elliot Underground , Karate Coyote ) and an out-of-towner (Athens' Manor Animals ) keep the rock rolling (as opposed to the Rick Rolling ) during this Memorial Day weekend. Not really sure of the genesis of this show but it could be the end of a weeklong celebration for The George Elliot Underground who released a new EP, Summer of Weird , earlier this [...]
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Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead (from Tomorrow's Harvest)
Julia Holter - World (Official Video)
Washed Out - Paracosm (Official Album Trailer)
She & Him- I Could've Been Your Girl
Action Bronson - "Strictly 4 My Jeeps" (Official Video)
Daft Punk - Lose Yourself to Dance (Simøne Remix)
New Diarrhea Planet – “Separations”
Birthday wishes from Ray Stevens
HAERTS: “All The Days”
