Indie rock heroes raise money for a good cause at WonderBus festival
Ryan Yoo & Yvonne Pan, Director of Design & A&E Editor, respectively
August 23, 2019
Last Saturday marked the first annual WonderBus festival held at The Lawn at CAS, a 30-minute walk from The Ohio State University. WonderBus was organized by The Elevation Group, the same group that organizes the annual LaureLive festival at Laurel School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. LaureLive celebrate...
Bon Iver makes a solid return, but gets stuck in the middle
Jackson Rudoff, Director of Web and Multimedia
August 23, 2019
Justin Vernon, or Bon Iver as he’s known when leading his main band of the same name, is a tough artist to pin down. Since releasing his first album in 2008, his style has metamorphosed considerably along with his portfolio. He is no longer just an indie-folk singer, having worked with everyone fro...
Tech N9ne celebrates new album N9NA at the Agora
Yvonne Pan, A&E Editor
June 18, 2019
Rapper Tech N9ne has had quite a year, after briefly being mistaken for dead when battle rapper Tech 9 committed suicide on March 24. Just weeks later, Tech N9ne released “N9NA,” his fourth album in five years, on April 19. Few artists, if any, share the extent of his legacy. Tech N9ne, born Aaron...
Beachweek makes a debut
Yvonne Pan, A&E Editor
May 17, 2019
With a name like Beachweek, this band, formerly known as The Sublets, evokes a lively, yet unfamiliar scene in often overcast Cleveland, with music to match. Lead singer and guitarist George Chase explains the original band name belonged in the pop punk genre that the band felt they had grown out of...
Laurelive 2019
Ryan Yoo, Director of Design
May 16, 2019
LaureLive is an annual music, arts, and culinary festival hosted from June 8-9 2019 at Laurel School’s Butler campus, located about 35 mins away from campus in Russell and Chester Townships. Through the festival, the Laurel School, an all-girls K-12 college private independent preparatory school, aims...
Faimous band stops in Cleveland on North American tour
Yvonne Pan, A&E Editor
May 10, 2019
With a name that is a homophone of “fame,” it’s no wonder The Faim has earned international recognition. As the band explained on Instagram, “The word FAIM means Hunger and we felt it truly represents our ever growing and undying passion for music.” The Australian band has almost 300,000 month...
“Ventura” combines best of Anderson .Paak
Chris Heermann, Social Media Editor
April 19, 2019
If I could only use one word to describe Anderson .Paak’s new album, it would be “Groovy” with a capital G. With “Ventura,” .Paak returns to the mellow tones that gained him his initial audience. While his albums “Oxnard” and “Malibu” had a certain appeal, their sounds were different fro...
Aaron Lee Tasjan rocks Beachland Ballroom
Sunayana Jampanaboyana, Staff Reporter
April 19, 2019
Aaron Lee Tasjan pulled out a blank page from his notebook and a black Sharpie, titling the page “Cleveland Rocks.” He then casually posed a question to bassist Tommy Scifres: “Hey Tommy, what do you think we should open the show with?” They decided that “The Rest is Yet to Come” was the ...
Music Industry rebounds after a period of decline but how are artists affected?
April 12, 2019
After a long period of decline, the music industry celebrated a return to pre-2007 revenues earlier this year with the release of the latest annual report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Worldwide music sales totaled 19.1 billion dollars in 2018, finally surpassing t...
Who are the Springfest headliners?
Chris Heermann, Social Media Editor
April 12, 2019
Much like Butch Cassidy, my first thought when the Springfest committee released the headliners to this year’s concert was, “Who are those guys?” Coast Modern? Echosmith? MadeinTYO? As someone who rarely listens to the indie pop genre, I was lost. So naturally I opened up Spotify and searched u...
