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Local music: Folk-rocker Hebdo aims to spirit you away

Local music: Folk-rocker Hebdo aims to spirit you away

By Chris DeVille

Joey Hebdo didn’t know he was making two EPs when he commuted to Athens to record with longtime producer Josh Antonuccio, but in a deeper sense he knew exactly what he wanted to make.

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Concert Review: Foals and Surfer Blood at the Newport

Occasionally aimless noodling undercut Foals' otherwise energetic set

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Preview: Fall Out Boy might require leaving your adult musical notions behind

Having ended their two-year hiatus in 2012, Fall Out Boy got back together to bombard us with more of their own brand of heavily pop-infused punk music.

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Music preview: Ancient Wisdom’s sludgy riffs help perpetuate luring mystery

Touring in support of its latest record, Deathlike, underground rock outfit Ancient Wisdom harkens the melodious whine and balladry of Alice in Chains by means of lead singer Nathan Opposition.

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Five bands to see at Rock on the Range

Soundgarden (9:30 p.m. Sunday, Monster Main Stage)

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Meet the Crew’s soccer rockers, Sloan and the Keepers

When Carlos Mendes joined the Crew in 2012, the defender and part-time percussionist recruited goalkeepers Andy Gruenebaum and Matt Lampson plus midfielder Eddie Gaven to play music. They got together weekly to play covers and jam. Mendes was the driving force (and the guy who supplied all the gear).

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Staff Pick: Eat Skull shifts gears from clamorous intensity to soft-focus psych

Of all the non-local bands that ran with the Times New Viking/Psychedelic Horseshit/Pink Reason clique in the heyday of that laughable-but-useful buzzword “shitgaze,” Portland’s Eat Skull was always my favorite.

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Music preview: MS MR’s pop sensibilities will take you away

Within a week of releasing its debut record, Secondhand Rapture, pop duo MS MR are scheduled to deliver a performance that can be seen firsthand.

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Local music: Folk-rocker Hebdo aims to spirit you away

Joey Hebdo didn’t know he was making two EPs when he commuted to Athens to record with longtime producer Josh Antonuccio, but in a deeper sense he knew exactly what he wanted to make.

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Rock and Roll Softball: Who says punks can’t play ball?

When a bunch of Columbus punk rockers from bands such as New Bomb Turks, Gaunt and Greenhorn started playing softball on Sunday afternoons circa 1990, none of them realized the tradition would last nearly a quarter century.

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Kenny Lectro’s color-themed dance parties becoming big hit

This year is, Kenny Lectro declares, the year of pants. And why shouldn’t they be? Pants changed his life. Specifically, these silver metallic pants he’s wearing now.

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Sensory Overload: Fake Islands has good ideas, but focus needs refined

Ideas are what make a band exciting. Songwriting is what helps those ideas cohere and connect.

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Preview: Father John Misty reaches surpasses genre boundaries

Too often folk music is pigeonholed into a genre solely defined by an exhausted acoustic aesthetic and a vocalist that is equally as subdued.

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The Rock/Jock Timeline: Alive explores the intersections of music and sports

With Rock on the Range looming, let’s explore some of the more memorable rock/jock intersections.

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Staff Pick: The Stepkids appeal to cratediggers and All Good crowd

Austin’s annual SXSW is supposed to be about discovering new music, but usually it devolves into a race to see all the bands everyone is already buzzing about.

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The List: 10 bands that should play Rock on the Range

With Columbus’ only major music festival skewing to hard rock, we sometimes get a little envy of some of the rare performances and reunions other festivals get (e.g. Blur at Coachella). Here’s a dream lineup that fits right in Rock on the Range’s musical range.

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