Headlined by eccentric singer/songwriter E, these alt-rockers have as much Hollywood cred as they do music, with appearances on soundtracks like "Shrek", "Knocked Up" and "American Beauty". On their last tour, E handed out ice cream — just one more reason to catch them at the Beachland. 8/3 Beachland Ballroom • Cleveland ...
No one told me the luchadors were coming to town. Really, with 11 studio albums, three live albums and two collaboration albums, these guys are no joke. Now the boys who gave Psycho Beach Party its sound are bringing it to the Beachland....
It wasn’t too long ago that the Collinwood neighborhood was considered a good place to become the victim of a strong-arm robbery. The streets were largely deserted after sundown. Beyond the lights of the Beachland Ballroom, nightlife was nil. But an enterprising group of artists, musicians and entrepreneurs saw potential in the rough-looking neighborhood. Soon new shops, galleries, restaurants and bars began springing up, mostly around the Beachland and specifically along Waterloo Road. The Collinwood neighborhood became a magnet for those looking for a place to claim their own, away...
Forgotten Souls of Antiquity have a sound from an all but forgotten period in music: the ‘50s. Remnants of the decade can be found in today’s music, but it’s nothing like the pure ‘50s rock and roll this Cleveland band is creating. On the self-titled album to be released June 18, whether it is rockabilly, like the opener “Belly of the Beast, or instrumental surf like “Highway Pipeline,” Forgotten Souls of Antiquity fit its Facebook description of “loud and old.” The band rounds out its sound on its debut album with remakes of “Down by the Riverside” and “No Surf...
If anyone knows his way around a Motown recording studio, it’s Dennis Coffey. His musicianship can be heard on recordings by The Temptations, Diana Ross and the Supremes and The Isley Brothers, and he even scored a ’74 blaxploitation flick. His 1971 instrumental single “Scorpio” peaked at number six on Billboard. 6/8 Beachland Ballroom ...
If you are still reeling from the absence of the Cleveland International Film Festival and can't wait until next March to get your film festival fix, then the Ohio Independent Film Festival may be just the solution. Started in 1993 by the Cleveland based non-profit organization Independent Pictures, the festival has been known for its screening of edgier films that have fallen off the radar of the typical mainstream fare. The small but consistently intriguing festival will take place May 18 through May 21 at both the Beachland Ballroom (15711 Waterloo Road) and Arts Collinwood (15605 Waterl...
Begun in 2008, Record Store Day was intended as an international jollification of the wondrous world of music — and since then, it’s become more raucous and widespread than ever before. Each April 16, the day marks sales, events, concerts and more for the hundreds of indie music-store owners across the globe. In Akron, nestled in the flourishing Highland Square, Square Records carries an array of vinyl and compact discs. Owner David Ignizio welcomes Record Store Day with open arms — and crossed fingers. “It's a tremendous help to all the independent stores, but it can also be inc...
The Beachland Ballroom is the perfect place to hear the celebrated “American Music” of The Blasters. Part rockabilly and part bluesy punk, The Blasters dish out some of the tightest and passionate rock and roll tunes your ears could ever hope to hear. The guitar playing alone is worth the price of admission. Get your booty to this show and bear witness to one of the greatest rock acts on the planet. Mar 18th Beachland Ballroom ...
This year marks the 25th-anniversary of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, a documentary hailed by rock and film cognoscenti as one of the greatest rock documentaries of all time. To honor the occasion, the film will serve as the “opening band” for the touring comedy showcase, the Found Footage Festival, in a one-night-only engagement at the Beachland Ballroom on Thursday, March 17 at 8:00pm. Tickets are $10 and are available at www.foundfootagefest.com. Heavy Metal Parking Lot is a mid-1980s time capsule from the golden age of heavy metal. Directors Jeff Krulik and John Heyn, armed only with a c...
Irish rock band The Coronas will be at the Beachland Ballroom Tavern Tuesday night! You might as well start celebrating St Patty's Day a couple days early kids! also on the bill: Good Morning Valentine $10.00 adv / $12.00 dos ...
Ready for a little celebration this weekend? Everyone's favorite Cleveland music hall, The Beachland Ballroom, is commemorating their 11th year anniversary with a 3-day festival of killer music. Built in 1950 as the Croatian Liberty Home, The Beachland Ballroom and its tavern was active on many social and political fronts and was a true Cleveland landmark before becoming he city’s most eclectic music club in the year 2000. Beginning Friday, March 4th, festivities will get underway in the ballroom with a performance by Paul Thorn and the Band. Thorn's latest album, Pimps & Preachers, i...
Currently residing in The Netherlands, though born in Belgrade, formerly Yugoslavia, blues musician Ana Popovic first learned to play guitar at the young age of 15. Debuting in 2000 with her album HUSH, she later released a second album along with a live CD/DVD there after. Popovic has even chalked up a few accolades including the “Jazz a Juan_Revelation 2004” in Juan Le Pins, France. In 2007, she signed her first US record deal with L.A.'s Delta Groove Music and recorded “Still Making History”, which spent 19 weeks on the Billboard blues chart. Her latest album “Blind for Love...
1. Mon. 10/11 @ Kent Stage, Kent Travis Tritt will be playing a rare acoustic evening in Kent tonight. This guy has won a Grammy, blown up the Billboard charts and gone platinum a few times. Needless to say, this show will be entertaining. 2. Wed. 10/13 @ Peabody’s, Cleveland Alt-metal legends Helmet are back around with a new album that we’ve listened to extensively and like a lot. We even interviewed the band, read it in the current issue of Buzzbin. LA-based prog-metallers Intronaut and Cleveland’s favorite stoner metal band Forged in...
Like many self-sustaining recording/performing artists Peter Case knows all too well the meaning of getting a second chance. Without any multiple-album deals to pad his wallet, the veteran folk rocker who is embarking on a national solo tour, was near death’s door a mere year ago. The one-time leader of the 80s pop rock band The Plimsouls found himself on an operating table with no insurance to pay for double-bypass, open-heart surgery. Thanks in part to a diehard Case fan, and with a lot of help from his friends who rallied around their fallen comrade. Case got some relief on his ...
The Beachland Ballroom has had many quality performers play on its beloved stage over the past 10 years, since the venue re-established itself under its current name. Musical types have ranged from punk, country, country alt, blues, jazz, rockabilly, surf, folk, bluegrass, metal, grunge, new wave, old wave, …well you get the picture. Very rarely has one single national touring act filled the room of the converted Croatian Liberty Home environ with a more versatile sound, and under as many different monikers, as Dave Alvin. Originally, he and brother Phil fronted their band the Bla...
It is never easy to hop right back into the performance groove when you have not performed as a unit on stage for nearly a year. However when Kim and Kelley Deal and their band The Breeders hit the Beachland Ballroom stage this past Thursday, they proved that practice can be over-rated. True, while Kim had toured recently in the Middle East with the Pixies, Kelley had not played live since December. The Deal twins were coming through NE Ohio en route to Monticello, New York for All Tomorrow’s Parties annual event with a stop in Philly in between. So being the firs...
There is one thing a person gathers when talking with Grammy-Award winning roots rocker Dave Alvin-he eat, sleeps and breaths American music. You can call what he plays rockabilly, soul-laced rock, doo-wop, bluegrass, boogie-woogie, delta blues, honky tonk, country, rock and roll or west coast jazz; at the end of the day it is American music. The one-time lead guitarist of the legendary LA rhythm and blues rock band The Blasters has reinvented himself time and time again over the course of his three decade career as he has traversed the encyclopedia of blues hybrid genres. He has ...
A rolling Pixie gathers no dust seems to be the way Kim Deal is looking at life as an alt rocker in the midst of the 21st century. Fresh off the European tour with the Pixies, the veteran bass player is working on new demos for her longtime side project The Breeders for a potential upcoming album which would be the band’s fifth and ninth overall release. As it was in the beginning, Deal uses her band as a creative outlet which affords her more artistic freedom than that was gained with the aforementioned Pixies. Playing in the shadow of Pixie frontman Black Francis, Deal is able to...
It was a night of glam and slam on stage this past Wednesday as two of punk rock’s founding fathers showcased their new creation, Batusis, at the Beachland Ballroom. Despite the deaths of Dolls greats Arthur Killer Kane and Johnny Thunders, and the Dead Boys’ Stiv Bators, the surviving leaders of those two bands are more than alive and kicking as they paid homage to their fallen comrades. Legendary Dead Boys guitarist Cheetah Chrome and New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain showed why they are still rocking three-plus decades later. The two were joined by onetime Cult drummer Lez W...
Singer-guitar player Erika Wennerstrom and drummer Dave Colvin are no strangers to The Beachland Ballroom. The two members of Heartless Bastards have played the familiar Cleveland venue as members of the Dayton group Shesus as well as with their current band of greater renown. So the comfort level with which they and bass player Jesse Ebaugh, guitarist Mark Nathan and fiddle player Zy Orange Lyn hit the stage with was aptly familiar. Wennerstrom strolled out onto the stage, sporting a mid-length, creme-colored business dress and rattle snake pumps. How was she going to rock the hou...
