Last week, a beautiful EP by new artist Arms&Suites went up for free download. Lush, deep bass, floating vocal snippets, and sublime synths careen around an echoing space. The four track EP is available through Bandcamp and well worth the effort to snag. Arms&Suites EP (Download) Tracklisting 1. My Masterpiece.mp3 04:07 2. Brainwash 03:36 3. [...]
Like all good revolutions, ours started in a bar. A year ago, we met inside the Spitfire Saloon at the edge of Cleveland, on West 117: the bar’s owner, Stosh Burgess; former Free Times marketing guy, Ray Leonardi; former Free Times classifieds sales leader, Alice Leslie; and me, a guy who had written [...]
DOWNLOAD!/STREAM! I’d really like to include a tracklisting, but it’s all kinda lost to time. There’s a bit of everything rock related, though. Anything garagey like the Box Elders or the Coachwhips crops up. But there’s some older, psych/beat sounds from Serge Gainsbourg, Unfolding and the Artwoods. Cop it well…
The annual Ohio Bigfoot convention wrapped up yesterday. Among those on hand was Bob Gimlin, one of the men who captured the shaky footage of a Northwestern “bigfoot” jogging along a riverbank–his film remains the best evidence of this creature to date. The Bigfoot Field Reporter has the full review.
One of the best online music sources for many years has been the Rhythm Incursions radio show/collective. Take a moment and look through their amazing catalog of mixes and features from the last few years. This past week they joined up with Donky Pitch crew for a one year anniversary mix by ringleader Fulgeance and [...]
Under the cover of night, local politicians, newsmen, and quasi-celebrities made their way into a recording room at Cleveland State, May 3, to record “Please Stay, Lebron,” a musical plea to the North Coast B-ball messiah. The song and the video, soon to be viral, was the brainchild of Mike Polk, best known for [...]
It’s hard to be so arrogantly condescending that a room full of fellow politicians simply laughs at you, but former Shaker Heights Mayor Judy Rawson managed to pull that off with a flourish at a Cuyahoga County Council Planning forum on April 28. Billed as a discussion of the “role” of the new county [...]
We should never do special issues—that was one of Ray’s warnings when we launched The Independent last August. Ray is our marketing director. We worked together at the Free Times, where he was their marketing guy, too. Special issues, like “Best Of’s” and “Back to Campus” editions, are ridiculous undertakings for small publications. It [...]
