22.Aug.2010 Cleveland Rock is Dead, Long Live Cleveland Rock
Strangely enough, it wasn’t the move of Black Keys drummer, Pat Carney, from Akron to NYC, or the seemingly imminent relocation of bandmate Dan Auerbach, which led me to start taking stock of all musicians who have departed the Cleveland-Akron Metro over the past year. Rather, it was the less publicized breakup of Cleveland rock [...]
26.Oct.2009 Drummer, Other Girls, Royal Bangs @ Beachland Ballroom Cleveland and Unsparing Sea @ Beachland Tavern Cleveland 10.24.09
If you came out to the Beachland Ballroom Saturday night hoping to hear the blues, you’d have left the venue damn well p*ssed. In spite of the American roots rock pedigree of Drummer’s bassist, Pat Carney, aka, the drummer for the Akron blues, duo, The Black Keys, the assembled super-group of drummers who comprise the [...]
23.Oct.2009 “Diamond Caverns” and “All I Want” by Unsparing Sea
In speaking with Unsparing Sea’s JR Bennett a few weeks back, he stressed the importance of not recording the same album twice when he and his bandmates went to work on the follow up to their stunning debut, A Cloud in the Cathedral. It’s a fine sentiment, to be sure, but so many here in [...]
19.Oct.2009 Rocktober Week 3: The Son of The Return of Rocktober
Monday, October 19th: Old Canes, American War @ Beachland Tavern. Converge, High on Fire, Keelhaul @ Grog Shop. Tuesday, October 20th: St. Vincent @ Beachland Ballroom. Wednesday, October 21st: Langhorne Slim, Dawes, Mike St. Jude & The Valentines @ Grog Shop. Thursday, October 22nd: Hallelujah The Hills, The Lighthouse & The Whaler, and Chad Hill [...]
16.Mar.2009 Monday Miscellany
*Hanging out at the Beachland Ballroom and Tavern this past Saturday night for the Wussy, Unsparing Sea, and Good Touch Bad Touch show, and people were still talking about all the sh*t which went down during the Black Lips show earlier in the week. Let’s just say, the truth as to what really happened may [...]
10.Feb.2009 An IRC Internet Premiere: “Wolves at a Wedding” and “Held in Light” by Unsparing Sea
Unsparing Sea’s debut cd, A Cloud in the Cathedral, a masterful suite of nautical inspired folk birthed on the shores of Lake Erie, and carried by the unique voice of Cleveland via Nashville resident, JR Bennett, was one of those releases which caught a lot of people off guard. It certainly surpirsed me, as its [...]
20.Sep.2008 From the IRCWHQ Newsdesk: Just About Every Cleveland Band You Care About Is in the Studio
*The Suede Brothers recently returned to Suma Studios where they recorded their debut cd to lay down the tracks for a new EP. *Unsparing Sea are about to head to Mammoth Cave Studios in Akron, OH with Tim Gerak (Six Parts Seven) to record the follow up to their incredible (and I don’t use that [...]
04.Jan.2008 "Where Serpents Held Esteem" by Unsparing Sea
Listed in the Big Book of Rock Rules, between Rule #6, “Bottled water is for nine piece indie pop bands with xylophone players and hand clap girls,” and Rule #8, “Bigger doesn’t mean better, it means bigger,” is the all important Rule #7, “When recording a debut disc, err on the side of brevity.” Even [...]
