If you haven't heard, Matthew Specktor wrote a semi-autobiographical novel called That Summertime Sound about a nameless Los Angeles protagonist who spends a between-college summer in Columbus in the mid '80s. The book is chock-full of thinly veiled references to

CD101 presents The Whigs and The Features tonight at the Newport. $5 gets you in the door and a couple of hours of good midwest sounding rock."Right Hand on My Heart" sounds like Columbus circa '93 (ala Greenhorn, Big Back

is a new feature in which we ask an Ohio-based artist, music enthusiast, etc. to tell us about a few bands (past or present) from the state of Ohio that deserve some love. Our first installment comes courtesy of Jerry

MP3:Blakroc feat. Raekwon - Stay Off The Fuckin FlowersRae easily has the best Hip Hop album of this year, with his stellar Only Built for Cuban Links 2And on this new Blakroc jawn he has a couple of lines that

There's a lot of talk about Noah and the Whale's upcoming three day stay at the Mercury Lounge, but let it not go unnoticed that Robert Francis will be opening each night. Francis just released his second album, Before Nightfall.Complete

MP3: My HeartThe continuing flow of freshness coming out of Sweden in the last two years has made my faith in music exceedingly high and my bank account balance exceedingly low (yes, I do still pay for music). One of

MP3: Ambling AlpAhmed Gallab (not pictured) of Sinkane has been drumming for Yeasayer for a few months now and will be well into 2010. He appears on this first song from the new record (download it above).

In association with BenCo Presents. Tickets available on Ticketweb now. $10. Get excited. (We'll have a pair of tickets to give away soon, too.)Free download of the new single, "Take it Upon Yourself," at Sloanmusic.com.

MP3:Greenhouse-Gettin ThereA lot times I get emailed MP3's and they aren't near anything but my blackberry so I don't get to put them up until they are a few days old. So I've decided from now on, when I post

MP3:Le Principle - Your Magic (Original Mix){Le Principle is a new disco house project Adulture is part of. Adulture is playing at Trauma tonight)Trauma is a fetish ball that the Evolved tattoo doods put on. I end up at it

Speaking of Jay-Z...Nardwuar is now on WFMU.

Columbus musician Brian Harnetty's collaboration with Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Silent City, saw its European release last month, and it's getting some good press over there. Seems like a good time to remind everyone about this overlooked gem. It's an album

Ticketholders for the Jay-z show in Columbus at the Schottenstien Center have nothing to worry about. Jay is still performing in Columbus tonight. According to several sources including Thisis50.com, the Jay-z and Alicia Keys World Series duet will take place

All things considered, this seems like a decent deal. $23 at the Newport door tonight will get you the opportunity to hear Queensryche play selections from Rage for Order (1986), Empire (1990), and their latest, American Solider (2009). Seeing as

the gore vidal of rap or still a cornball in fact?Don't ask me why. But every now and again, I look around the internet to see what Anticon is up to. Well, Sole from Anticon has recorded perhaps the worst

Photo by Jillian MapesI remember the first time I heard the name Andrew Bird. Though I'm somewhat ashamed to admit this, it was Friday, April 13th, 2007. (Yes, the last time he played the Southern Theatre.) The sweetly meek Chicagoan

Remember when Black Keys were in Mass Appeal Magazine alongtime ago?(I read it at a Books A Million in Lafayatte, Louisiana during the process of stealing the Espo book, "the Art of Getting Over". I had already placed the book

Mount Carmel has been getting some local love on the message board recently, and the band's profile is sure to grow before our very eyes with news of the trio's next record coming out on Siltbreeze — an especially familiar

New Ted Leo song: