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Royal Crescent Mob - Omerta
On October 28, tickets quietly went on sale for the first Royal Crescent Mob shows since 1994. The shows are on December 16 in Columbus...
Drew Layman
Nov 9, 20224 min read
əkoostik hookah – Under Full Sail
If you never experienced the late South Heidelberg in person, some scene setting is in order. The old south campus institution was...
Drew Layman
Oct 18, 20226 min read
Lil’ Bow Wow – Beware Of Dog
When Reynoldsburg’s Shad Moss woke up the morning of September 8, 1993, he had no way of knowing that his life would be forever changed...
Drew Layman
Oct 9, 20225 min read
Megan Palmer - Forget Me Not
By the time Megan Palmer performed with club owner Dan Dougan’s band The Wahoos at Little Brother's one Wednesday night in 2002, she’d...
Drew Layman
Sep 20, 202215 min read
Nancy Wilson – Something Wonderful
Five months after her debut album was recorded and one month after it was released, Nancy Wilson was back in Capitol Studios with Billy...
Drew Layman
Sep 2, 20225 min read
Caamp - Lavender Days
As I get older, I seem to reflexively tune out pop culture. The constant churn of trends gets increasingly exhausting. Even for things I...
Drew Layman
Aug 14, 20223 min read
Donna Mogavero - Acoustic
One of the stalwarts of Columbus music, Donna Mogavero had been performing regularly for over ten years when she decided to finally...
Drew Layman
Aug 7, 20224 min read
Rusty Bryant – America's Greatest Jazz, Vol II
By 1961, when Rusty Bryant ’s America’s Greatest Jazz, Vol II was released, Dot Records' experiment with jazz was all but over. Dot had...
Drew Layman
Jul 24, 20224 min read
The Uneasy Coexistence of Ohio State Football and Columbus’ Music Scene
Ohio State football plays such a prominent role in Columbus culture that it is inescapable and disruptive of everything from weddings to...
Drew Layman
Nov 18, 20215 min read
Rusty Bryant Plays Jazz
The artistic leap from Rusty Bryant’s first album, 1956’s America’s Greatest Jazz , to his second, 1958’s Rusty Bryant Plays Jazz , is...
Drew Layman
Oct 30, 20214 min read
The Singles Era
These days when everyone has GarageBand in their pocket and easy access to world-class audio editing software, it’s easy to forget that...
Drew Layman
Oct 3, 20215 min read
Hank Marr Quartette - Live At The Club 502
Columbus has a remarkable pool of talented Hammond B-3 organ players. Bobby Floyd, Tony Monaco, Linda Dachtyl, and Nate Hollman are just...
Drew Layman
Apr 25, 20213 min read
Honeysuckle Strange at 25
Howlin' Maggie 's Honeysuckle Strange turned 25 yesterday. It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that it’s been 25 years. I...
Drew Layman
Apr 10, 20215 min read
Rusty Bryant And The Carolyn Club Band – America's Greatest Jazz
In 1956, Elvis had the number 1 song with Heartbreak Hotel and Columbus was a very different place from today. Saxophonist Rusty Bryant ...
Drew Layman
Mar 26, 20213 min read
The Quiet One
I’ve never really known what my ideal pursuit would be. If I ever had any aspiration at all as a kid, I guess being a writer for Rolling...
Drew Layman
Mar 21, 20214 min read
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