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Smashing Pumpkins
Machina/The Machines of God

Whatever one’s take on the Smashing Pumpkins’ critically mixed and commercially ignored 1998 album, Adore, it signaled a stylistic fugue for Billy

Golomb
The Beat Goes On

There is simply no local bias anymore. It’s truly exhilarating to see exhilarating music in your region, made blocks from your house, knowing

Waiting for Britney Spears
by Jeff Weiss

The primary conceit, and ephemeral joy, of Jeff Weiss’s freewheeling ode to a time in Hollywood when celebrities were simply “famous for being famous”

Guinea Worms
Duct Tape You

File under “things I should have listened to when I was handed them.“ The Guinea Worms’ Duct Tape You is a chunk of amber, preserved and blown out to make

Hovvdy
A&R Music Bar, Columbus, March 20

When it comes to first impressions, I’ll have to be completely honest and confess that from my perspective, the Austin

Horsegirl

Horsegirl

It’s telling that Horsegirl’s 2022 debut, Versions of Modern Performance (Matador Records), is still in my “new” pile. It’s a grower. It’s a legitimate piece of art. And in many ways, it stands as a harbinger of a new Chicago sound that has since brought about a wave of young bands (Friko, Lifeguard, Post Office Winter) in Horsegirl’s wake.

At the time of the album’s …


Sonic Temple
Historic Crew Stadium, Columbus, May 17–20

I started a leisurely Friday at the Sonic Temple Festival with a set from the LA-based, post-hardcore, post-pandemic formed quartet

Breeders
Kemba Live, Columbus, September 8

It didn’t matter that after their tour launch at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was cut short by weather, the Breeders played their first

Nelsonville Music Festival
Nelsonville, July 21–23

Another year and another Nelsonville Music Festival are in the books. What was most apparent this time around were the tweaks and constant tinkering of

Wednesday
Ace of Cups, Columbus, June 30

Asheville, North Carolina quintet Wednesday, barrelled into Columbus’ modestly sized Ace of Cups in a veritable cloud of buzz. Mentioning the size of the

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