Join us for amazing masterclasses by the stellar Pinchas Zukerman, violin and Amanda Forsyth, cello on Friday, January 31 at 4pm in the Rhinehart Music Center at Purdue Fort Wayne. What a great start to our 2020 guest artist program!
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There I was, trying to find someone on Craigslist willing to lower their standards enough to play music with me, when I clicked on a link to a local m...
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The Gods are angry. Mankind has pulled the last straw. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have arrived into the Fort and they go by the name of Auto...
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When I was asked to review the latest Christmas album by Rick Brown, I thought I knew what I was in for. After all, I knew that Brown was the saxopho...
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Do not be alarmed, gentle reader. You may see that Under Indiana Lights is a “family band” and have your head filled with images of Partridge Fam...
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I first read of Jan Krist nearly 20 years ago. A review of her album ran alongside an album that has since become a cherished favorite and for some r...
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There be some weird, freaky shtick in the Fort these days. First you’ve got Christians putting on monster masks and singing horror songs and going ...
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The Facepaint EP is the debut recording from Audio Mimes, a new four-piece band with members born and raised in the Fort. It is a subtle mixture of s...
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When the moons aligned and bassist Doug Roush and drummer Keith Roman at long last formed a musical venture, they decided to keep guitars out of the ...
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Last summer A New Definition ripped the roof off of Columbia Street West, walking away with the coveted top prize in the whatzup Battle of the Bands ...
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I had the honor of reviewing Left Lane Cruiser’s first album four years ago, and it left a definite impression. Out of the literally hundreds of lo...
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It’s amazing what we don’t know about people. That old guy you passed on your way out of the grocery store? He could be a NASA scientist. The you...
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Kendallville's Forgiven has been knocking around for a good long time, honing their skills to a razor-like precision. Their debut album, 2002's Main t...
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They say that you can't keep a good man down, and Nod Arvefel is out to prove the point by releasing Guilt Trip, his seventh full-length album of ori...
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I’m not sure what events Indianapolis-based Eisenhower Field Day are competing in but my money is on the 400-yard dash. Take a listen to their thir...
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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...
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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...
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Nod Arvefel is back with his fifth full-length album, and he's never sounded better. 4th Man In the Fire contains an assortment of songs (12 to be ex...
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Joey O. is a guitarist̥s guitarist. He uses Fender guitars and real Fender amps Рnone of that simulated amp-modeling chicanery. His play...
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OnMay 18, 2007 a city-wide multi-media Christian worship service was held at the Foellinger Ampitheater. The event was arranged and performed by a gr...
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Anyone familiar with the work of Fort Wayne photojournalist Ellie Bogue knows she has a good eye. With the release of her first CD, Lay Your Burden...
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Fans of tasty guitar instrumentals rejoice: Bryon Thompson has released Starting Now, his fourth collection of top-notch pop-rock compositions! ...
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Making Waves: A Demonstration of Kymotropic Inventions sat far too long in my stack of albums to review, mostly because I didn’t know how to t...
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Churubusco, Indiana’s F***ing Panthers have a penchant for four-letter words, punk rock bravado and metal guitar blasts. They want you to know they...
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     As advertised by the title, A Dozen Distractions, the debut album by the modern folk band, The Distractions, delivers an even dozen or...
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Hold your noses ’cause the boys from Columbia City are back with yet another aromatic love offering. That’s right, Catbox are back with another 1...
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For years Jim Steele has been an in-demand jazz and session keyboard player in the Fort Wayne area, even snagging the Best Keyboard Player Whamm...
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If you think that all Christians wear dour faces then you've never met Nod Arvefel (also known to certain Angolian's as Donald Lefevra). I've ne...
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Homeless J. have been a Fort Wayne staple for many years, ultimately securing a major label deal and then
disappearing when their label underwent some...
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After two years the whimsical power trio
known as Definitely Gary finally follow up their
smash-hit debut album (No. 2 in two out of every
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In some alternate universe singer/songwriter/writer J. Hubner is a mid-level improvisational jazz musician who lives in outer Queens and makes ends m...
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Jonny Katt and Josh Hatfield form the nuclease
of the band, with dual guitars and vocals.
Bassist Derek holds down a solid low end and
Andrew n...
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For those who dont hang around the bait
shop, The Drunken Fisherman are Matt Weirick of
Archie Blowers and the Swingin Angels, Cliff
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It seems that Fort Wayne native Diana
Bush-Harris has been making quite a national
splash lately with her debut album, By My
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Somewhere during his life, guitarist Joe Evans got the bug for the blues. With no vaccine available Joe decided to nurture this infestation by teaming...
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Karen Moussou believes “that the more we shine the light of God and see the beauty and oneness of each and every person, the more fear and darkness ...
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Cathy Serrano spends her days as one of Fort Wayne’s m...
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Not much is known about the shadowy figure of Jeff Lipman except that he has a timegun and isn’t afraid to use it. I’m not sure what this timegun ...
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Caleb Jehl has one seriously spiffy web site (www.calebjehl.com), so I had some seriously spiffy expectations for the music on his debut CD, the creat...
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Born and reared in the foreign land of the
UK, Andrew Booth ended up spending his college
years at Taylor University, where he indulged his
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My cousin Jason Hoffman give me this here John Minton disc called Going Back To Vicksburg (and a player ‘cause papa ain’t seen fit to replace the ...
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Gravity Bastards dont believe in
overwhelming their listeners with pages of liner
notes. Their latest album, Newtons Law,
contains only the na...
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Mike Conley is a name that should be well
known to every whatzup reader. Not only
does he constantly perform solo and duo gigs
around the area, b...
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I don’t know if Frances Miller and Jesse Stoltzfus are an active couple (and my deepest apologies to their respective significant others if they are...
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Bassist John DeGroff was an original member of the founding
Christian rock band Petra. Although Ive never been a fan of this
band, from the ins...
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The boys in Buttonhead are back with their
second album, the aptly descriptive Number
Two. This time around they made the trek to
Syracuse and Ti...
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Hold onto yer Underoos, kiddies, cause the
circus is comin to town! Um, that would be
ElectroCult Circus, a freewheeling band of
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The nearly black cover art is an apt
portrayal of the contents within: dark, brutal,
and dangerous. Fort Waynes own death metal
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Lori Triplett has been awing and inspiring audiences in Ohio for the past year and has now begun to advance upon Fort Wayne with her album Dawn firmly...
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After many years of delighting Fort Wayne area audiences with their crisp brand of radio-friendly rock, Go Dog Go have decided to put themselves to sl...
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Fans of Industrial Strength’s ultra-aggressive music have reason to rejoice now that the band has called off their two-year self-imposed hiatus. Bas...
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Pay no attention to the guitar upon the cover. At first glance I thought this album would be a taste of alternative country with perhaps a dash of blu...
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“Nobody loves the loser,” intones Eric Klingler on the opening track of Twisted Troubadour. The following tracks make it clear that Klingler himse...
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Fort Wayne’s John Shaffer is one of those musicians who has been around the block a few times, always close but as yet unable to grab the brass ring...
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Lee Miles has logged a very credible amount of radio airplay for such a short career. His first band, Hagas, started things off with “Just Like You,...
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With no warning the very first song, "Just Over You" kicks in with full band and Chris Shaffer's distinctive, raspy voice singing "Everything's weird ...
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Mark Paul Smith and his band of merry minstrels are back with
Falling Star, a second collection of easy-on-the-ear
"middle-of-the-road" songs sur...
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The Chronics have long been a powerful mainstay in the Fort Wayne original music scene - but change is good, and a wee while back the feminine founder...
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When Life & Times by IPFW professor John Minton came across my desk I immediately feared the upturned and haughty nose of academia. The artwork was ve...
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Ten seconds into the first track of pleased to meet you by
Definitely Gary you know there's something just a bit different about
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If a competition were held in which local guitarists battled to the gruesome death in a bold display of technical wizardry, my money would be on Bryon...
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One thing that had never occurred to me was to wonder if there
was such a thing as Christian Jamaican music. Donahue Stewart, recent
island trans...
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What started in 1998 as an excuse to get out of the house and jam with friends soon became an excuse to pack Katy’s Kapers with a growing fan base. ...
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“This is the new and many releases for a new wrestling company out of Fort Wayne.” So began the confusing letter that accompanied FWWA The Music V...
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Frank-O Johnson released his first album when he was just a wee lad of 14. He went on to become part of the classic Motown team where for eight years ...
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Kerry Rutherford has been everything from a shrimp cannery worker to an intuitive arts practitioner to a communications workshop facilitator (plus m...
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When the new Downbreed came into my hands to review my ears visually cringed. Oh no! I thought, As a putty-bodied dorky white guy advancing sw...
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Following her local debut album, When You Love Someone from earlier this year, Amy Lee Moser has once again teamed up with Jon Gillespie at his Monast...
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Since Im a crusty, bitter hermit and dont get out much, when a local CD comes into my claw-like hands it brings all the excitement and uncertain...
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In a musical world awash with stylistic hybrids of every imaginable type, it’s only natural that music would eventually return to a pure rock origin...
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Every now and then, just as I’m slipping into a chronic state of musical ennui, an album comes along to rudely shake me out of my doldrums. The self...
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This time around the band consists of Nic Roulette on vocals, Kenny Taylor on guitar, Jamie Simon on snare and kick drum and Patrick Borton with th...
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As many people shy away from classical music, I’ve lived my life with an unhealthy fear of jazz. It’s such a daunting form of music to get into wi...
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You may have caught three-piece Girth playing at the Firefly Coffeehouse (or one of many other fine whatzup sponsors), showcasing their unique brand o...
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In May 2000 Mr. Dark and his brother, Shadowjack (renowned bassist for Chaotica), descended into their murky Warsaw studio to begin work on their la...
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Frank Lenz is a third-generation professional musician whose career as a studio musician began as a drummer at age 13. Since that time he has logged c...
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Bluffton based-American Made have released their self-titled debut collection of songs, 10 tracks of modern rock n roll sure to appeal to fans of B...
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Doc Wadkins and the Hard Pack are self-described heavy metal Rock-N-Roll veterans. But when that genre went the way of an empty can of AquaNet,...
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For some time, the name Joseph Decuis has been associated with world-class dining in Roanoke’s historic downtown. With the release of The Musicians ...
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When Christian vocalist Amy Lee Moser decided to record an album, she turned to Monastic Chambers. However, she had one big problem: she was a singer,...
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Conceived by Josh Macke (vocals/ guitars), Arms And The Boy are an attempt to translate his personal experiences into accessible music. Enlisting th...
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Local musician Lucas Alvarez is the musical purists worst nightmare. Over the course of two albums with the band Someband and six solo albums, Alva...
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Although Cryptic is new, many of the members have chalked up years of experience in area bands. Guitarist Bill Klug, along with vocalist Terry Linn...
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Mark Allen has modest goals for his self-released, self-titled EP: he just wants to sell the CDs he’s having produced. Despite the opportunities of...
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i’m not really sure what they’re eating down there in texas — it could be the grilled armadillo, the famous sheetcake, or cookies smaller than y...
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Known for bringing an infectious party atmosphere to any venue, the Wailhounds decided to take five years to hone their skills to perfection before he...
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When I first got to know the music of Mark Hutchins, it was his first New Pale Swimmers album that did the trick. Short, simple, messy, memorable, od...
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Fort Wayne native Ty Causey has been causing a bit of a stir in certain R&B circles, receiving very favorable reviews for his vocals and co-writing ...
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With enough experience to be called veterans, Rob and Susan Suraci have released their first album, Then And Now. While regulars at Toast & Jam Coffee...
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Rick Callender, known in certain circles as Bink, is the mainstay at local coffee houses. Of the few times I ventured out with my accordion, intent ...
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Fort Wayne native Amanda Perez came from a large family full of musical talent. It’s not surprising then that her own life, from her earliest memori...
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To my siblings and me, jazz will forever be known as "Boompa music" after my grandfather who played this music continuously in his Wabash home. So ...
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When a CD such as Just A Smile Away comes into my hands, it’s nice to be reminded that there is more than just rock, metal and alternative music bei...
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By now, every faithful reader of whatzup knows the story of Abraham cum Jettingham and their rocket fuel-driven rise to national awareness culminating...
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If you’ve not heard of Fort Wayne’s Fawn Liebowitz, you must be living under a 2 ton heavy thing. For the past four years, the seven talented musi...
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Just in case there was any doubt in your mind, Downbreed isnt a Top 40 boy band created by auditioning a bevy of perfect smiles to find the perfe...
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After quite a few years spent playing and producing the music of others, Fort Wayne native Arvel Bird has finally released a full album of violin, ...
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Award-winning commercial artist Bryon Thompson has released his second instrumental guitar CD, Set Your Sights, which continues the imaginative journe...
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Call it a hunch but I’m willing to bet that Kevin Hambrick, the lone creative force behind Blueberry Hurricane, has more than the national average o...
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Much like Fort Waynes own Strut Train, Buck Enterprises began as a ska band that managed to evolve into a horn-enriched hard rock band once the ska...
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