http://www.columbusalive.com/content/ Music Stories from Columbus Alive Copyright 2012, The Dispatch Printing Company Copyright 2012, The Dispatch Printing Company http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/alive-summer-music-tour-at-park-street-tavern.html Grab an OYO cocktail and rock with Mount Carmel and Forest & the Evergreens chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/alive-summer-music-tour-at-park-street-tavern.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/local-music-bella-ruse-brings-musical-marriage-to-the-rumba-stage.html 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. chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/local-music-bella-ruse-brings-musical-marriage-to-the-rumba-stage.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/concert-previews-alabama-shakes-fuzzed-out-southern-rock-will-be-electrifying-at-the-lc.html 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. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/concert-previews-alabama-shakes-fuzzed-out-southern-rock-will-be-electrifying-at-the-lc.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/concert-preview-the-heavys-thick-neo-soul-will-get-you-up-and-sweating.html This band’s name is indicative of the sound it produces. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/concert-preview-the-heavys-thick-neo-soul-will-get-you-up-and-sweating.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/concert-preview-one-direction-might-steal-your-girlfriend-but-could-earn-brownie-points.html Guilty pleasures arise! http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/concert-preview-one-direction-might-steal-your-girlfriend-but-could-earn-brownie-points.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/concert-preview-catch-the-revivalists-before-it-blows-up.html The Revivalists are a hard act to pin down. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/concert-preview-catch-the-revivalists-before-it-blows-up.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/staff-pick-mount-moriahs-southern-rock-is-plainspoken-but-sneakily-satisfying.html 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. chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/staff-pick-mount-moriahs-southern-rock-is-plainspoken-but-sneakily-satisfying.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/concert-preview-the-national-ohio-sons-turned-indie-titans-return-to-headline-nextwex-fest-at-the-lc.html 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. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/concert-preview-the-national-ohio-sons-turned-indie-titans-return-to-headline-nextwex-fest-at-the-lc.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/staff-pick-dawes-is-the-latest-roots-rock-band-to-graduate-from-rumba-to-bluestone.html 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. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/staff-pick-dawes-is-the-latest-roots-rock-band-to-graduate-from-rumba-to-bluestone.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/staff-pick-pop-experimentalists-julian-lynch-the-luyas-to-assist-each-other-at-kerouac.html 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. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/staff-pick-pop-experimentalists-julian-lynch-the-luyas-to-assist-each-other-at-kerouac.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/sensory-overload-bummers-offer-poised-energetic-enthralling-rock-show.html 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. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/13/sensory-overload-bummers-offer-poised-energetic-enthralling-rock-show.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/06/locals-park-street-festival-original-music-guide.html Although the Park Street Festival music lineup remains dominated by cover bands, there’s a healthy sprinkling of original local music throughout. If you just want to get funky with your favorite hits, you can probably drift anywhere, but if you’re looking for something new, let Alive be your guide. chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/06/locals-park-street-festival-original-music-guide.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/06/concert-previews-friday-fight-passion-pit-vs-french-montana-vs-the-uncluded-vs-merchandise-vs-atlas-genius.html Your guide to navigating a crowded night of music. chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/06/concert-previews-friday-fight-passion-pit-vs-french-montana-vs-the-uncluded-vs-merchandise-vs-atlas-genius.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/06/concert-preview-anthem-slingers-japandroids-set-to-raise-fists-spirits-at-the-newport.html Celebration Rock, Vancouver duo Japandroids’ splendorous second LP, feels like all chorus all the time. It comprises eight humongous, cathartic, breathlessly aerobic tracks of perpetual youthful exuberance, the sound of the good old days transmuted into now and forever. Drums reverberate to Earth’s molten core; guitars ring out to the far reaches of the stratosphere; voices strain; forearms pump. “We yell like hell to the heavens!” is a battle cry and a modus operandi. chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/06/concert-preview-anthem-slingers-japandroids-set-to-raise-fists-spirits-at-the-newport.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/06/concert-previews-saturday-showdown-the-postal-service-vs--kylesa-vs--blowfly.html Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. Saturday offers no reprieve from the concert congestion that is Friday’s live music schedule. There’s just a lot of notable stuff happening this weekend. Here’s a guide to navigating Saturday. chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/06/concert-previews-saturday-showdown-the-postal-service-vs--kylesa-vs--blowfly.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/06/sensory-overload-domes-at-its-best-when-at-its-loudest.html One of the reasons I prefer psych-pop over just plain psych is its emphasis on songs over textures but not at the expense of textures. With a record like Tame Impala’s two LPs or Of Montreal’s Satanic Panic in the Attic or, hell, Sgt. Pepper, you get the mind-bending sonics melded to songs that would be awesome even without the psychedelic sheen. I enjoy a good space voyage as much as anybody, but I like to have somewhere to land intermittently. chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/06/06/sensory-overload-domes-at-its-best-when-at-its-loudest.html