The other day in the office, we discovered with horror that a couple of our younger co-workers were unfamiliar with “No Reply At All” by Genesis. This is hardly a new thing – a few years ago, I went to see Howard Jones with a friend and her boyfriend and at the conclusion, we walked […]
Tag: 90s
Last Minute Gig Alert: Roger Clyne @ The Beachland Tavern
Thanks to ATV pal Scott Banham for the heads up on this one! If the combination of a frosty cerveza and the music of Roger Clyne sounds like a good time to you (and it should!), you’ll want to nab yourself a ticket for the newly announced last minute Beachland show happening this upcoming Tuesday […]
Shows to Know: Trashcan Sinatras, Helmet + The Godfathers
You know what’s awesome? Hearing news that the Trashcan Sinatras will be back in Cleveland for an acoustic show within the most excellent confines of The Winchester on Friday, March 18th. The gig is part of an upcoming tour that the band describes as a series of acoustic shows and house parties (including a number […]
Interview Leftovers: Steve Gorman of The Black Crowes
I saw The Black Crowes for the first time in 1991, opening for ZZ Top at the Richfield Coliseum. It was a “complicated” tour for the band (that’s the term I used to reference the tour during my recent conversation with BC drummer Steve Gorman) and truthfully, they weren’t very good, which was disappointing to […]
A Very Cleveland Christmas
In the ’80s, a Cleveland Christmas meant several things: Going downtown to Higbee’s to see Santa, watching Mr. Jingeling — the “keeper of the keys” — on TV and hitting the Twigbee Shop. The latter was a store-within-a-store which paired a helpful elf with young children, so they could shop for their parents’ presents by […]
Contest: Win a signed copy of “Looking for Calvin and Hobbes”
One of my favorite books that I’ve read this year, is Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip by Nevin Martell. (You can check out my review at Popdose right here.) Until and unless Watterson decides to tell the story himself, this book is the most […]
Bob Seger Lands Top Selling Catalog Album of the Decade
We’ve got some good news out of the Motor City with the word that our man Bob Seger has officially locked in the top selling catalog album of the decade on Billboard’s Decade End Catalog Albums Chart with his 1994 Greatest Hits release. Greatest Hits spent two years on the Billboard Top 200 before moving […]
Good Listening: Steve Poltz at Daytrotter
Kudos to Jeff Giles for hipping me to the just-posted Daytrotter Session with Steve Poltz. Anybody who knows Poltz will know that he doesn’t mess around, so while some artists might play an unreleased song or two for Daytrotter, Steve played nine. As I said on Twitter, if you’re not hip to Poltz – get […]
Video: Cracker in Iraq
Earlier this week, I spoke with Cracker frontman David Lowery regarding the upcoming winter run of tour dates for Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven. The interview, which will run soon in the Riverfront Times, was a good opportunity to chat with Lowery about a number of subjects. One of the things that I was most […]
Lloyd Cole: Past, Present and Future
While perusing the Winchester’s schedule on Sunday night, my jaw dropped at the show announced for January 27, 2010: Lloyd Cole Trio. I immediately flashed back to 2006. In November of that year, I flew to Cleveland for a few days, with the express purpose of catching Placebo at the Agora and Cole at the […]