In my capacity as music writer, I have been asked by Editor-in-Chief Bob Fitrakis to write a review of the police band Hot Pursuit's 1988 D.A.R.E graduation concert at St. John Arena. This has presented some difficulty -- first, I wasn't...
06 March 2014
I once got a job writing for a magazine because of a James Brown tribute I'd written focusing on his shiny patent leather shoes during his performance on the old '60s television show, Shindig.
When the Stones played the Shoe back in '97...
26 February 2014
I really wanted to write that Columbus band WV White got their name from the documentary the Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. But I just read an interview with band in Agit Reader that stated they took their name from a butterfly. I am...
26 February 2014
An often overlooked ravage of age is the diminished capacity to attend late night musical events, especially those beginning past midnight. I can still pull it off, but usually pay for it with an episode of the yips the following morning,...
26 February 2014
Brian “Clash” Griffin has been writing songs since the age of 15 and performing in the central Ohio area since 2000. As an activist, he has passionately performed at many rallies, demonstrations and protests over the years promoting the...
26 February 2014
As we come to the close of Black History Month, may we add a special one-time Lifetime Cosmic Eternity award for Greatest Electric Psychedelic Black Man with Cherokee Blood, namely Mr. Sir Jimi Hendrix?
Inarguably Jimi's blackest album...
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