23.Sep.2011 John Soeder of The Plain Dealer Lists 25 Cleveland Bands to Watch
Have you seen the Plain Dealer today? Music critic, John Soeder, has penned a massive feature on 25 Cleveland bands to watch. Cleveland Rocks, Pops, and Raps features bands covered extensively on I Rock Cleveland like Herzog, Megachurch, and Prisoners, names nationally known in the underground, like Mark McGuire , and some familiar names from [...]
21.Sep.2011 Classic Guided by Voices Lineup to Release New Album on New Year’s Day
The rumors are true. For months I’d been hearing from sources of varying quality that Guided by Voices had either planned to record a new album or were already knee deep in the process of recording. Those rumors hit a fever pitch during the Pitchfork Music Festival this past July when people who’d just attended [...]
19.Sep.2011 Cleveland Music Clubs Unite In Effort to Alter Cleveland’s Admission Tax Policy
While Cleveland’s music clubs have not always had each other’s best interests in mind, one issue has united them, and that issue is the city’s 8% admissions tax on live concerts. Music fans were admittedly shocked when news came out in July that the Beachland was facing a $400,000 bill to the City of Cleveland [...]
16.Jul.2011 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival Day 1: From the Rocker’s Notebook
* For a company who sells products to make men clean, why did I feel so dirty and sticky when I walked by the Axe tent? Oh, it was the girls in tight, short shorts and winged, angel dresses, and the strip club vibe of their portable lounge. Classy, Axe. Very classy. * Animal Collective [...]
17.Apr.2011 From the Rocker’s Notebook: Record Store Day in Cleveland 2011
* Talk to people at the record stores on Record Store Day and you quickly find out no one likes the exclusivity of the event. The record buyers don’t like having to get to the record store early only to get shut out of limited edition releases. The sellers don’t like the unpredictability of the [...]
12.Apr.2011 Record Store Day on Waterloo: Special Events, Bands, DJs, and…Records
The original idea behind Record Store Day was to take one day out of the year to celebrate record store culture, not the big box music sellers like your Best Buys and Targets, but the smaller independents with their almost organized inventory and know-it-all clerks who probably won’t help you find that Third Eye Blind [...]
25.Mar.2011 Guided by Voices and Neko Case Highlight Additions to the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival
Complain and you shall receive. That’s today’s lesson, kids. After noting that the original lineup announced for the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival was lacking in star power, they went and added Guided by Voices and Neko Case to Friday night’s schedule. Other acts added include festival vets Kurt Vile, Health, No Age with Gang Gang [...]
22.Mar.2011 The Big List of Record Store Day 2011 Releases
For crate diggers like myself, Record Store Day is the undisputed king of unofficial holidays. Why? Take a look at some of the releases announced for Record Store Day 2011: The Black Angels – Another Nice Pair (Reissue of LITA EPs) on Red Vinyl The Black Angels – Phosphene Nightmare 10″ on colored vinyl Deerhunter [...]
11.Mar.2011 Have you noticed? The Nelsonville Music Festival Has Quietly Put Together a Solid Lineup
Lost in all the announcements for Coachella, Sasquatch, ATP, and Pitchfork, a little music festival in Nelsonville, Ohio, has started to put together a very solid lineup. The 7th annual Nelsonville Music Festival goes down Friday, May 13th to Sunday, May 15th on the campus of Hocking College (That’s about 3 hours south of here) [...]
06.Mar.2011 From the Critic’s Notebook: News and Notes from The Beachland’s 11th Anniversary Variety Show
* Those who showed up to the Beachland’s 11th anniversary party Saturday night hoping to catch another glimpse of local buzz band, Cloud Nothings, didn’t actually get to see Cloud Nothings, but were instead treated to a unique, solo-acoustic set by the band’s frontman, Dylan Baldi. Don’t read too much into his band’s absence. This [...]
