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Hillbilly Casino / Three Step Windup
Show of hands: how many out there remember when Nic Roulette and the Blue Moon Boys used to tear up Fort Wayne stages on a regular basis? Okay, you can […]
Longsleeves / Constellation
Don’t go into Constellation, the new release by San Diego’s (late of Northeastern Ohio) Longsleeves, looking for snappy choruses or arena-rocking riffs. Or many recognizable instruments, for that matter. Not […]
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Cathy Serrano / Dark Hearts, Simple Treasures
A few years back Cathy Serrano stunned the local populace with a folksy album drenched in Native American flute. This debut album, Share The Wind, was a bit short on […]
Last Chance at Failure / International Sick Day
At the risk of sounding outmoded, dated and (proudly) un-Bluetooth-ed, I maintain that MySpace is still a great place to find new bands and get a little inside dope on […]
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Chavar Dontae / One Of Those Days
Okay — to call this debut by Toledo, Ohio’s Chavar Dontae “local” might be a bit of a stretch (I once caught some flak for classifying the Glass City as […]
Joel Gragg / When The Dust Settles
We survived the fire / we survived the flood / We survived the waves that tried to swallow us up,†sings Joel Gragg in a weathered, half-whispered, yet defiant voice […]
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GoodbyeWave / Memorial Day e.p.
It’s been only a matter of months since an energized J. Hubner shared his last goodbyewave release, bright lights, strange nights, with us, and he appears to have shifted gears […]
Kyle Morris / Pica
Kyle Morris is helping the environment, whether he intends to or not. Self-contained, armed with pretty much just an acoustic guitar and an expressive, worn-just-right voice, Morris creates a startlingly […]
Kill and Eat / Green Bushes
Enigmatic as all get out – with a website to match (www.killandeat.com) – the northern Indiana (they refuse to pinpoint their home base) combo Kill and Eat grace us with […]
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Brother Believe Me / Things Change
When you think of rural Lima, Ohio, what kind of music comes to mind? Country? Polka? Being smack dab in the Midwest, you might expect a little metal here, some […]