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Alive Summer Music Tour at Park Street Tavern

Alive Summer Music Tour at Park Street Tavern

By Chris DeVille

Grab an OYO cocktail and rock with Mount Carmel and Forest & the Evergreens

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Jared Mahone Band wins Verizon's Indie Icon contest

The Columbus "garage soul" band will play the Essence Festival in New Orleans.

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Neko Case, Frightened Rabbit, Savages add Columbus shows

Two big gigs at the Newport this October, plus a buzz band at The Basement.

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Drake/Miguel/Future, Vampire Weekend, Franz Ferdinand announce Columbus shows

Two humongous concert announcements plus a reasonably large one.

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Concert review: Japandroids at the Newport

Iconic performance was fine start to summer

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Concert review: The xx and Grizzly Bear at the LC

Show was one of summer's early highlights for writer

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Saintseneca signs to Anti- Records

Columbus folk band joins the label home of Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Neko Case and more.

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Staff pick: Mount Moriah’s Southern rock is plainspoken but sneakily satisfying

When Chapel Hill guitarist Jenks Miller isn’t plumbing Greek mythology with his metal project Horseback, he’s naming his dusky, female-fronted alt-country band after a mountain from the Bible. The guy got a lot out of his comparative religion courses.

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Local music: Bella Ruse brings musical marriage to the Rumba stage

Joseph and Kay Barker got married last year then instantly uprooted from Minneapolis to Columbus. The idea was to move closer to Kay’s friends and family (she’s from Cincinnati), but also to plant themselves in a central location to take their folk-pop band Bella Ruse on the road.

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Concert previews: Alabama Shakes’ fuzzed-out Southern rock will be electrifying at the LC

What a ruckus and uplifting year Alabama Shakes have had; this fuzzed-out, Southern rock group has garnered three 2013 Grammy Award nominations and a “Saturday Night Live” appearance earlier this year.

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Staff pick: Dawes is the latest roots-rock band to graduate from Rumba to Bluestone

Rumba Cafe is the place most upstart roots-rockers perform when they blow through Columbus (like tumbleweeds, obviously). The tiny Summit Street bar breeds loyalty, so even when bands outgrow the space, they keep coming back. Fortunately, a partnership with The Bluestone means Rumba can keep reeling in acts like Justin Townes Earle and Lucero even when stuffing them inside Rumba becomes a fire hazard.

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Staff pick: Pop experimentalists Julian Lynch, The Luyas to assist each other at Kerouac

From the same suburban New Jersey scene that bred Real Estate and Titus Andronicus sprang Wisconsin-based academic Julian Lynch, either one of today’s most approachable experimentalists or among the most experimental pop acts depending on how you tilt your ear. Lines, Lynch’s latest, presents electro-orchestral psych-folk built to mesmerize.

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Sensory Overload: Bummers offer poised, energetic, enthralling rock show

When you have a group of women crowded up front dancing together, each of them filming Vines of you and repeatedly singing a coordinated chant about your months-old band, it’s safe to say you are off to a head start.

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Concert preview: The National, Ohio sons turned indie titans return to headline Next@Wex Fest at the LC

By now, listeners know what to expect from The National. Nobody does downcast-yet-uplifting elegant midlife crisis rock better — or more singularly — than the Brooklyn-based Cincinnati natives.

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Alive Summer Music Tour at Park Street Tavern

Grab an OYO cocktail and rock with Mount Carmel and Forest & the Evergreens

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Breakaway Music Festival coming to Crew Stadium in September

Artists include Kendrick Lamar, Bassnectar, Empire of the Sun, Twenty One Pilots

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