David Lee Roth was Thee Consummate Showman of the Hair Metal era. With Roth you got the whole shmeer; a natural-born ham and song and dance man, he would gladly have set himself alight and turned flaming cartwheels over the squat Michael Anthony if that’s what it took to keep Diamond Dave in the limelight. […]
For Elvis Aaron Presley, 1973 was a crossroads. He was in the midst of a career resurgence kick-started by the television special Singer Presents Elvis (aka, the ’68 Comeback Special), fortified by a string of hits recorded at Memphis studio American Sound (“In The Ghetto,” “Suspicious Minds,” “Kentucky Rain”) and kicked into the stratosphere by […]
I am a recovering punaholic. When applying words to the page, my mind naturally twists them into witticisms for my amusement. I regard it as a sign of good taste, but I realize that most people prefer their prose to taste good. (Did I also mention that I’m a master metaphor mixologist?) What makes me […]
This weekend, the annual Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival will be taking over the Logan Square neighborhood for three days and transforming it into a full-blown arts district complete with theatre, dance, and performance arts. The festival will run from 4:00 PM – 11:00 PM on Friday, and 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM on Saturday and […]
Word on the street is that there’s a new music festival in town. I know what you’re thinking. “Another music festival? Whatever.” Well, lay that thought to the side because Bunbury Music Festival, hosted by the great city of Cincinnati, isn’t just another music festival. Boasting a lineup that is pretty impressive for an inaugural […]
In the midst of big summer festival rumblings, we were able to grab conversations with The Weeks, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, and Big Gigantic to round out another edition of Festival Fast Talk. The Weeks are a young alternative rock band who in their early twenties have already released three full length albums and two EPs. […]
Did you go to Wakarusa or Bonnaroo? Are you going to make it out to Outside Lands or Hopscotch? Recent scientific studies done in super-official science laboratories have concluded that there are now something like 38,479 festivals a year in America alone. Running from one giganto music event to the next to catch a new […]
Led as always by Anton Newcombe, The Brian Jonestown Massacre has returned with its twelfth studio album, Aufheben. While not a complete washout, in the end it does little to displace the notion that the man’s best artistic days are far behind him. Back in the ‘80s is when I first heard The Chesterfield Kings, […]
The finest examples of indie-pop manage to feel deliciously out of step with current trends, leaving their mark by confidently being themselves in a sea of records spinning variations on the latest thing. London’s Allo Darlin’ has a secure handle on this tradition, and their second long player Europe is not only a well-done expression […]
As part of an ongoing effort to highlight local music, we here at TVD Cleveland have decided to highlight a series of bands at different stages in their careers to show you how the music scene is shaping up around here. We start with a band, Barbacoa, that has only been together for about a […]
The 9th Annual Waterloo Arts Festival is this Saturday from noon until 7:00 p.m. Where else can you enjoy not just the work of some stellar artists and street performers, but the crates of fun at the Rock and Roll Flea market in the Beachland Ballroom, records galore at Music Saves and Blue Arrow, excellent […]
Y’know, despite our own SXSW party, I’m feeling it too. Fuck SXSW. I mean, really—I GET it. I’m oversaturated. Stop with all the emails already…your band so-and-so from such-and-such will be killing it in Austin. Right. Just TRY and stand out. Whatever. OK—right, I’m not going and I’m jealous. (Transparent at all?) Windian Records’ Travis […]
