Northside Bar and Grille is located in one of the more economically and culturally resurgent corners of downtown Akron, next to what might be the city’s most iconic culinary institution, Luigi’s, and the best possible example that the once burned-out Rubber City is trending upward, the rock star-owned vegan restaurant Vegiterranean. Before vegan restaurants and multimillion-dollar condos, the Northside district was a couple of family businesses, a metal catfish statue and the vague suspicion that your car was going to get broken into. But people came. They didn’t have a choice, really...
The word on Relaxer is strangely specific and strangely unanimous. Across the board, what you’ll hear people say is that they are one of the most impressive bands Akron has produced in recent years. And one of the laziest. Their lineup is a patchwork of some of the area’s most influential musicians of the past decade. Lead guitarist Jamie Stillman and drummer Cory Race are in Party of Helicopters. Keyboardist Steve Clements was in Houseguest. Rhythm guitarist/vocalist Joseph Scott is in Michigan’s White Pines along with Clements. Clements and Stillman were in the short-lived Drummer, ...
