Twas a Saturday night and I don't remember if the moon was bright but yours truly went a-roving. First stop: the Basement, my most favorite place for near-guaranteed intimacy in Columbus, where you can technically get close enough to the...
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03 October 2013
While recording his new album, Superorganism, Mickey Hart donned an EEG cap and a computer channeled the electrical impulses of his brain waves into sounds. From there, according to his silly liner notes, he incorporated them with his...
27 September 2013
This is as deep as Vampire Weekend got for me Monday night outdoors at the LC Pavilion, as I pondered how to describe the Brooklyn band's South African township-meets-new-wave music.
A quirky swirl?
A swirl of quirk?
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12 September 2013
Like an old-fashioned Saturday night tent revival, the world's greatest funk trombonist came to town and made the lame dance and the doubters believe. Fred Wesley, 70 years old and a man who helped give funk the feel in its infancy (when...
12 September 2013
What is a “scene” anyway? What does it look like, sound like or even feel like? What does it mean for a city to have a “music scene?” And if you were asked, “what is Columbus's music scene like?” How would you answer that question? I...
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