He's My Brother She's My Sister , the acclaimed Los Angeles band, will be bringing their unique stage show back to Cleveland, and the Beachland Tavern on Tuesday May 29. He’s My Brother She’s My Sister are led by a brother and sister duo, the dueling lead singers and songwriters Rob Kolar and Rachel Kolar, tap-dancer Lauren Brown, cellist Satya Bhabha, lap-slide player Aaron Robinson and Oliver Newell on upright bass. Their music has been called “flamboyant folk,” “psych-acoustic,” and “vaudeville-y,” with “earthy swagger.” No doubt this is due to their mix of musical ...
February 2 - Akron - Annabell's How many musicians are there today? Thousands of post-college hopefuls record in their basement, packing into old vans, traveling across the country in search of a dream. Cellist/songwriter Christopher Bell started just the same way 5 years ago. He kept going, in car, on bike, in a canoe and even on foot, for over 650 shows in 5 years. This February Bell heads back out with two new albums, Live In Your Living Room and Christopher Bell on his self-described trip to ‘have a little fun, tell a couple stories and make them dance.’ Bell attacks the cello, in...
Sick of the same old blockbuster? The ones with the same faux pas set pieces and locations ripe from the Universal Studios backlot. Then head to Cleveland this weekend for taste of something a little different. On Sunday, February 20th at 2:30PM, The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque will be screening “Double-Stop”, an independently-produced 1968 film that was shot in Cleveland in 1967. Filmed in 35mm with a Hollywood crew, the film was shot on location in Shaker Heights, Bratenahl and Universal Circle. The film was made at the height of Cleveland's racial tensions of the 1960s an...
River City Extension co-founder Joe Michelini has always had a love for music. Even at an early age, Joe knew exactly what he wanted in life. He started writing songs in high school, and began playing at coffee shops in New Jersey in hopes of spreading his music throughout the state. Joe, who was raised to play not only the cello but also the piano, first began jamming alone under one name, though switched gears when he found out someone else had beat him to it. “I found out there was a band with the original name I had chosen somewhere in Pennsylvania. I figured if, god for...
By Samson Stryker You know when you walk into a record store and all the music clerks are busy putting away albums while some obscure but really cool band is blasting in the speakers? You want to ask who is playing, but Lou Reed in there. That has to be him! Oh man… this is burning my brain… WHO IS THIS BAND? Meet Lucibel Crater. Lead by cellist Leah Coloff, the Brooklyn based band put out “The Family Album,” an interesting collection of 10 songs packaged into one beautiful masterpiece. Add in a thunderous back beat, spoken word, Paul Chuffo’s piano and a handful of nontr...
