You gotta figure ex-Skid Row singer/Broadway star/actor/televison host Sebastian Bach has plenty of options when it comes to how to spend Super Bowl Sunday, but he will be here in Akron at his good buddy Tim "Ripper" Owens' Taphouse restaurant for a signing and meet and greet. But before you throw on you neon pink…
Malcolm X Abram: Area band showcases a good idea
On Saturday night, my lovely wife and I trekked to downtown Akron for an engagement party (congrats, Doug and LeAnne!) and wound up checking out a sizable chunk of the This Is Akron showcase at Musica. Unfortunately, I committed a double transgression as both a Morehouse Man and a professional journalist and brought no writing utensil, causing me to rely on my sieve-like, short-term memory, so please forgive the generalities, but I hope you’ll get the drift.
Malcolm X Abram: Web links
• The Strange Familiar: Being Me www.youtube.com/embed/NW63lS9_MW4 • Red Sun Rising: Beautiful Suicide www.youtube.com/embed/4SFUPmkmyHg • Winslow: Live at Musica www.youtube.com/embed/V3ThifVoA60 • The Ryan Humbert Band: Hand Me Down Heart www.youtube.com/embed/2lIdTRtmDsA Read Soundcheck, the blog by Malcolm X Abram.
Soul Train creator and host, television pioneer Don Cornelius dead at 75
This is sad. For anyone who spent their Saturday mornings watching Soul Train, as I did growing up, Don Cornelius was one of the coolest cats on television. His legacy as an African-American television pioneer cannot be overstated. R.I.P. From the L.A. Times "Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius was found dead at his Sherman Oaks…
Downtown live music venue Musica plays host to local band showcase, Friday and Saturday
This weekend downtown music venue Musica (51 E. Market) has two nights featuring some pretty darn good local bands. First up is Friday night which will be headlined by the indie rock & folk flavored band Bethesda (Shanna Delaney, Eric Ling, Justin Rife, Jesse Sloan, Dan Corby, Christopher Black, and part-timer Estee Beasley) who released…
Sound Check: 5 cool things to do this weekend
1. “This is Akron” Local Music Showcase: Way Past Curfew, The Big Sweet, The Strange Familiar, Ryan Humbert, Winslow and Red Sun Rising. 6:30 p.m., Saturday at Musica, 51 E. Market St. A nice mix of bands and genres featuring an R&B band(!), indie rock, pop rock and Yuengling! Each band plays a 40-minute set.…
Abram Five — week of Jan. 26
1. “This is Akron” Local Music Showcase: Way Past Curfew, The Big Sweet, The Strange Familiar, Ryan Humbert, Winslow and Red Sun Rising. 6:30 p.m., Saturday at Musica, 51 E. Market St. A nice mix of bands and genres featuring an R&B band(!), indie rock, pop rock and Yuengling! Each band plays a 40-minute set.…
Glen Campbell carries on despite Alzheimer’s diagnosis
Glen Campbell wants you to know that he has Alzheimer’s disease.
The pop and countrypolitan icon also wants you to know that he’s facing it head-on, and before the degenerative brain disease takes his memories, his music and eventually his life, Campbell is going to go out doing what he loves, singing and playing for fans on his Farewell Tour, which stops at the Kent Stage on Sunday.
Sound Check: Rise Against keeps punk spirit alive
Punk’s not dead, it just smells funny. Pop-punk has more or less run its course as a constant chart-topping, commercial radio force, with only a few established bands still able to make splashy Billboard debuts.
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross band together on ‘Dragon Tattoo’
As the lone artistic voice behind Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor regularly had the pleasure of answering to no one during NIN’s approximately 20-year run of emotionally damaged hard rock. Now in his mid-40s and into his second career as a film composer, the former Clevelander not only is having to learn a new discipline, but adjust to ceding control and holding back his reflex of saying “no.”
Details: Rise Against, Brian McKnight
Details What: Rise Against with A Day to Remember and the Menzingers. When: 6:30 tonight. Where: M.A.C. Center at Kent State University, 1025 Risman Drive. Tickets: $35. Information: 800-745-3000. What: Brian McKnight When: 8 p.m. Saturday. Where: Akron Civic Theatre, 182 S. Main St., Akron. Tickets: $59, $47, $27. Information: 330-253-2488, 800-745-3000. Read Soundcheck, the…
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band coming to Quicken Loans Arena in April
BROOOOOOOOSE!!!! Ok, got that out of the way, here is the official word from The Boss and Livenation Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be touring extensively in the US and Europe in 2012, making a stop April 17th at Quicken Loans Arena. Tickets for the concert go on sale this Saturday, January…