A NOT-SO-STANDARD CHRISTMAS What better way to celebrate getting drunk with your family (or because of your family) this holiday season than to accompany it with the joyous sounds of a good Christmas tune? However, not every Christmas song is worth blasting over your Bose on Christmas Eve as you watch your aunts and uncles bicker over who’s getting Grandma’s china collection when she dies. Check out this list of six unique holiday tunes to add to your iTunes playlist this Christmas Eve. MARAH – “SILVER BELLS” Brooklyn-based roots-rock band Marah took an interesting approach ...
While being no more than three years on the scene, Akron's Shivering Timbers has bloomed rapidly into one of the most touted bands from the Northeast Ohio region. Composed of husband-and-wife duo Jayson and Sarah Benn, the group's sound comprises folk-tinged indie rock that blends enough styles to make it nearly uncategorizable. The band's strength is in its ability to shift dynamically from sing-songy nursery rhymes to noisy jams that bring to mind the more cohesive compositions of Cap 'n Jazz. In between, the group dabbles between gospel, punk and blues. The band's records are truly a tes...
Sonic Youth would not exist without its core – Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore. While others members have come and gone over the last 30 years of the band's existence, the husband and wife duo has always been the key to holding Sonic Youth together. Now word has come through that Moore and Gordon have called its splitsville, which in effect has placed the legendary indie rockers in limbo. Gordon and Moore announced in a statement that they are separating after 27 years of marriage but will continued with a planned Sonic Youth South American tour in November. The press release goes on to stat...
Husband-and-wife duo Shivering Timbers got their start when The Black Keys’s Dan Auerbach overheard the songs they’d written for their daughter Suzi. Hear them yourself when they hit Annabell's tonight. 8/13 Annabell's • Akron ...
Some people have all the luck: Husband-and-wife duo Shivering Timbers got their start when The Black Keys’s Dan Auerbach overheard the songs they’d written for their daughter Suzi. They’ll be joined by Cincy’s folk-punk trio The Tillers, just a few months after their SXSW appearance. ...
Husband-and-wife duo Stacy Earle and Mark Stuart will be bringing some Tennessee charm to Wilbert’s. Stacy is Steve Earle’s little sister and, though she doesn’t have his boozy swagger, she and her husband Mark write songs that are the diaries of their lives, good times and bad. Bring some cry-in-your-beer money — ’cause you’re gonna need it. March 18th at Wilberts in Cleveland ...
I have wronged Akron’s Shivering Timbers. On two separate, sigh-laden nights I watched them perform. Earlier this year I stumbled into Annabell’s after consuming what felt like half of the Matinee’s supply of Two-Hearted because Unnamed Girl A had said “blah, blah, blah…go away” a few hours earlier. Shivering Timbers played upstairs… I remembered that much. But I couldn’t for the life of me remember what they sounded like (or walking to my friend’s house and passing out on his couch, for that matter). So, this past summer, I made it my goal to catch them at th...
