October 28 - Cleveland - The Grog Shop The Clarks have been around for over two decades and are still going strong, although they're still relatively unknown outside of the Midwest. Tonight, they'll make an appearance at The Grog Shop, along with Cobalt and the Hired Guns The Clarks describe themselves with pride as a band that’s “always fashionably in style and fashionably out of style all at the same time. They’ve never struck arena-rock poses – never had any gimmicks or affectations at all. They just get onstage and get it done. And they’ve never found a reason to do it any o...
Ever watch those crazy Comedy Central Roasts of washed up stars and end up on the floor from laughing so much? Most of the time you are not laughing your ass off at the stand up routines by the big name people but instead those no-buddys that you can never remember the name of by show’s end. Quite possibly one of the funniest of those ‘no name’ comedians is Jeffrey Ross, who is making a welcoming stop at Cleveland’s own Hilarities this weekend. Ross's hilarious performances at such roasts as Joan Rivers, Hugh Hefner, Pamela Anderson, Donald Trump, Jerry Stiller, Drew Carey, Shaquill...
2RUZ_Qqhgsg You may not have heard of the former percussionist of the eclectic band Cibo Matto, Duma Love, but he has accomplished a lot throughout his musical career. He has performed twice on The David Letterman Show, beat boxed on The Beastie Boys’ Check Your Head album and sang with Yoko Ono. Last year in July, Love contacted producer J. Shepherd of Intolerance Records in Akron to create an album, but there was a problem. Duma had only nine days to record over fifty hip hop, R&B, rock, punk and classical guitar tracks, with only him and J. Shepherd playing the instruments. Lo...
-->by D. Beall Buzzbin Magazine recently talked to tenured Blues Traveler Ben Wilson about the band's current tour, the road, bootlegging, and absent friends. Oh, and Bruce Willis. “We tour all the time. Before me, they used to do two hundred shows a year, now it's still pretty close to one hundred.” Keyboardist and contributing songwriter for Blues Traveler Ben Wilson is sitting in his hotel room in Council Bluffs, Iowa after playing Bonaroo over the weekend. Blues Traveler tours extensively every year, but Wilson explains how this tour differs: “This tour is about trying to do an...
