Ladies and gents, start your summertime engines! The new issue (4/15) of Rolling Stone has this tantalizing and very colorful tour ad for the upcoming Tom Petty tour:
Happy 30th Birthday, R.E.M.!
Dear R.E.M.: Happy birthday! Today, you turn 30 years young — a milestone birthday that might make your car insurance a wee bit cheaper and keep you from being carded as often. On April 5, 1980, you played your first show at a church in Athens, Georgia. Back in those days, you were a ragged […]
Your Help Needed: Venomin James Drummer Critically Ill
Musician Jared Koston, drummer for Cleveland-based metal band Venomin James is currently battling stage 4 melanoma cancer, he is at home with HCA. Diagnosed with two brain tumors stemming from the cancer, Koston and his family are struggling to make ends meet financially while they fight Koston’s illness. Auburn Records president Bill Peters recently released […]
Jackson Browne, Public Enemy + more are headed to Cleveland!
Quite a few show announcements have been hitting our email in the past 48 hours, so I thought I’d share a few of them with you here. While it hasn’t been officially announced by Live Nation, I’m very excited to finally see a Cleveland date confirmed for Jackson Browne and David Lindley (with full band). […]
Kevin Smith plots live SModcast tour
As I mentioned in my last post, my comrade Jack shared a piece of good news with me regarding a cool upcoming gig here in Cleveland, and for those of you that haven’t heard yet, here’s the dirt! Filmmaker Kevin Smith and cohort Scott Mosier are hitting the road for a week’s worth of live […]
Show of the Week: Henry Rollins at the Kent Stage
My pal Jack (a.k.a. the guy who should blog again because I love reading his stuff) wrote in with rave reviews for last week’s Experience Hendrix gig in Akron. Duh. Like you would have expected anything less than awesome with the list of players attached to that show? Thanks to Jack, I felt like I […]
‘Cause a Cheap Fix is What I Need
Hey gang, this post is for all of you who, like me, had your concert life torn asunder by your personal life and missed the Cowboy Junkies over the weekend. As unforgivable as that statement was for me to type, I immediately appeal to the greater good by providing the ATV community with a cure […]
Blue Arrow Records Turns One
Congrats to Pete and Debbie at Blue Arrow Records! Here’s to many more! (P.S. – Saturday seems like it might be a great day to go have some fun, and buy some vinyl. Right?)
Show of the Week: Cowboy Junkies at the Ohio Theatre
Is it possible to have two shows in the category of “show of the week” within the same week? My good pal Stereo Dictator once said something about “my site, my rules” or something along those lines, so I’m going to go with it. (Actually, he said “my stereo, my albums, my choice,” but you […]
Show of the Week: Experience Hendrix
The good news is that a bunch of really great guitar players will be in Akron tomorrow night. The bad news is that if you don’t have tickets already, you’re probably out of luck. Live Nation Cleveland just announced that the Experience Hendrix show happening on Tuesday night at the Akron Civic, is sold out. […]