The show must go on: How live music is adapting to the pandemic July 27th, 2020 by Abbey Marshall The old adage demands, “The show must go on.” But during the COVID-19 pandemic, musicians are asking: Should it? If so, how? The days of crowded venues with fans packed shoulder-t...
Sober Chronicles | Intervals June 18th, 2020 by Marc Lee Shannon In my music theory studies many years ago, I learned that an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds. The space between the notes that, along with the rhythm, tempo, meter a...
The Oakdale House Experience | Meet Adam and Kenny, who run a charming DIY venue in West Hill March 5th, 2020 by Nic deCourville With the closure of the Hive Mind in February, Akron bid a tearful goodbye to another DIY venue. While art spaces in the Rubber City seem come and go, one venue has maintained a presence ...
KRS-One and the Jungle Brothers bring true-school hip-hop to Musica February 20th, 2020 by Kyle Cochrun On Saturday, hip-hop’s premier philosopher, KRS-One, and most criminally underappreciated posse of Afrocentric spokesmen, the Jungle Brothers, will perform at Musica. Columbus-based DJ/produ...
Kent’s new venue The Dome is ‘all over the place, in a wonderful way’ December 2nd, 2019 by Derek Kreider From the middle of a residential neighborhood, the Dome blooms like some weird mushroom. The former strip club turned music venue is slowly but surely carving out a place all its own in the...
The apocalypse, synthesized on ‘Happiness’ by Incentive November 18th, 2019 by Kyle Cochrun Uniontown-based producer James Osborne uses synthesizers to forecast the end of the world. Think rutilant dust plains split by rift valleys gushing hellfire, bulbous purple clouds raining m...
Hardcore band Coop turns horror movies into songs October 10th, 2019 by Conor Battles Friday the 13th is an appropriately eerie time to catch up with Coop, Akron’s hardcore masters of horror. When we meet on Sept. 13, frontman Zach Butcher wears a t-shirt for the 1...
Last Letter Project honors friend with memorial show, overdose response training September 9th, 2019 by Noor Hindi Jaclyn Wright describes her best friend Garrett Janos as “quick to laugh” and “charming, yet so sarcastic.” He was the type of person who always had a funny story to tell and loved listeni...
The Lowsiders to release debut album ‘Can’t Stop the World from Spinning’ Aug. 24 August 19th, 2019 by Brittany Nader The Lowsiders, a three-piece psych-blues band from Akron, will release their debut, full-length album on August 24. Can’t Stop the World from Spinning contains 10 tracks of gritty rock...
Eddie Gancos, of CityCop and Alomar, is having a hell of a year May 29th, 2019 by Kyle Cochrun Eddie Gancos has had one hell of a start to the summer. The Akron-based singer/songwriter’s band CityCop released their latest EP, titled Nesh, on May 24 through Little Elephant records....
