There’s just something fun about weird; people are drawn to the strange and unusual by nature,” Georgie D’Kay observes, as we discuss Devilstrip Dolly’s, her soon-to-open art gallery in Akron. D’Kay is no stranger to the alternative art scene: She makes and sells horror dolls and other macabre artwork and actively promotes the “Keep Akron Weird” movement. Byopening what she envisions as an “anti-gallery,” she wants to provide a home for the offbeat and macabre artists who have had difficulty finding acceptance and promotion for their work in more mainstream a...
Comprised of Brian Lake on vocals and guitar, Sayer Payne on bass and Travis Kuhlman rounding out on drums, Buildings is a forced to be reckoned with. With influences ranging from the likes of The Melvins, Unwound, Fugazi and Jesus Lizard, Buildings have constructed a unique sound all its own. Buzzbin Magazine caught up with singer Brian Lake as the Minneapolis natives prepared to head out on the road with a planned stop at Akron’s Annabell’s this Thursday. How did the formation of Buildings first come about? Travis (the drummer) and I met at a These Arms Are Snakes show. He looked me up...
By Chris Drabick Between 2000 and 2005, the number of independent record stores went from a high of 3800 to less than 2500 just half a decade later. In an era in which the download was costing the brick-and-mortar record store 35% of its population, Square Records was birthed in 2003. Storeowners and operators David Ignizio and Juniper Sage (joined until 2005 by their former partner Geoff Crowe, who left to develop the graphic design firm Smoke Signals) thought, despite the changing music business climate, that they could turn their passion in to a career. “We all moved away fro...
