October 7th, 2013 | by Kevin J. Ellliott | published in What's the Rumpus? | 1 Comment »
Ambition. That was the one word that circled through my head during the entirety of the Gentlemen of the Road stopover in my birthplace of Troy, Ohio over Labor Day weekend. Earlier this summer, in a letter to the editor of the Troy Daily News, I posited the notion that the people of Troy should embrace, not oppose, Mumford & Sons and the throng …
June 12th, 2013 | by Matt Slaybaugh | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
It was a brutally hot Friday afternoon, and I’d just purchased a $7 burrito from a lazily named food truck (The Burrito) after narrowly avoiding a hula hoop that escaped from some young hippie’s undulating waist and flew at my head. It was my first time at the Nelsonville Music Festival, and I thought I knew what I was in for. I made my way …