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/2013/05/23/concert-preview-alkaline-trios-latest-illustrates-bands-unstoppable-nature.html Alkaline Trio has become the standard in dark punk rock. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/concert-preview-alkaline-trios-latest-illustrates-bands-unstoppable-nature.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/locals-camu-tao-a-death-remembered-and-a-legacy-never-forgotten.html Saturday will mark the five-year anniversary of the death of one of Columbus’ greatest native musicians. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/locals-camu-tao-a-death-remembered-and-a-legacy-never-forgotten.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/locals-speed-governor-scrappy-indie-rock-trios-album-release-show-doubles-as-a-sendoff.html Chris McConnell’s arrival in Columbus was what allowed old Bowling Green music scene buddies Justin Hemminger and Nick La Russo to get their band off the ground after five years of false starts. Four years later, McConnell’s imminent departure is what motivated that band — the scruffy, scrappy, indie rock combo Speed Governor — to finally record and release an album. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/locals-speed-governor-scrappy-indie-rock-trios-album-release-show-doubles-as-a-sendoff.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/staff-pick-melvins-at-ar-music-bar.html If Rock on the Range performances by Soundgarden and Alice in Chains have stoked your appetite for the sounds of Seattle, the Melvins will take you back even further. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/staff-pick-melvins-at-ar-music-bar.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/preview-dont-miss-chance-to-see-ex-sonic-youth-great-lee-ranaldo.html It’s been more than a year since Sonic Youth went on hiatus, but that clearly doesn’t mean the band’s former guitarist, Lee Ranaldo, isn’t still kicking out new music. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/preview-dont-miss-chance-to-see-ex-sonic-youth-great-lee-ranaldo.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/preview-of-monsters-and-men-bound-raise-arm-hairs-at-the-lc.html Indie-pop six-piece Of Monsters and Men came to light with 2011’s My Head is an Animal, a set of empowering tunes that seem made to raise arm hairs and form goosebumps. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/preview-of-monsters-and-men-bound-raise-arm-hairs-at-the-lc.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/concert-previews-an-evening-with-the-avett-brothers.html Perseverance is key for many roots rock bands, especially in a modern musical landscape that caters predominantly to the ever-growing electronic and experimental music scenes. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/concert-previews-an-evening-with-the-avett-brothers.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/preview-a-great-big-world-at-rumba.html Despite its name, A Great Big World’s music is not rampant or too superfluous. The band name, pulled from the lyrics of its song “Cheer Up!,” represents the expansive aspirations of the band’s music and of band members Ian Axel and Chad Vaccarino. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/preview-a-great-big-world-at-rumba.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/alive-summer-music-tour-at-columbus-commons.html EYE, Way Yes and Angela Perley & the Howlin’ Moons kick off Alive’s summer concert series chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/alive-summer-music-tour-at-columbus-commons.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/preview-father-john-misty-reaches-surpasses-genre-boundaries.html Too often folk music is pigeonholed into a genre solely defined by an exhausted acoustic aesthetic and a vocalist that is equally as subdued. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/preview-father-john-misty-reaches-surpasses-genre-boundaries.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/five-bands-to-see-at-rock-on-the-range.html Soundgarden (9:30 p.m. Sunday, Monster Main Stage) http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/five-bands-to-see-at-rock-on-the-range.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/cover.html With Rock on the Range looming, let’s explore some of the more memorable rock/jock intersections. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/cover.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/staff-pick-eat-skull-shifts-gears-from-clamorous-intensity-to-soft-focus-psych.html 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. chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/staff-pick-eat-skull-shifts-gears-from-clamorous-intensity-to-soft-focus-psych.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/rock-and-roll-softball-who-says-punks-cant-play-ball.html 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. chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/rock-and-roll-softball-who-says-punks-cant-play-ball.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/music-preview-ms-mrs-pop-sensibilities-will-take-you-away.html 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. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/music-preview-ms-mrs-pop-sensibilities-will-take-you-away.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/music-preview-ancient-wisdoms-sludgy-riffs-help-perpetuate-luring-mystery.html 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. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/music-preview-ancient-wisdoms-sludgy-riffs-help-perpetuate-luring-mystery.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/meet-the-crews-soccer-rockers-sloan-and-the-keepers.html 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). chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/meet-the-crews-soccer-rockers-sloan-and-the-keepers.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/local-music-folk-rocker-hebdo-aims-to-spirit-you-away.html 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. chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/local-music-folk-rocker-hebdo-aims-to-spirit-you-away.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/kenny-lectros-color-themed-dance-parties-becoming-big-hit.html 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. justin mcintosh http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/kenny-lectros-color-themed-dance-parties-becoming-big-hit.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2011/04/28/staff-pick-lennon-orchestra.html Who doesn't love The Beatles? OK, a surprising number of folks don't, but those people are idiots. The rest of us would definitely enjoy 3.5 hours of Fab Four classics as performed by Joey Hebdo and his inimitable Athens-Columbus ensemble. chris deville http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2011/04/28/staff-pick-lennon-orchestra.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/preview-fall-out-boy-might-require-leaving-your-adult-musical-notions-behind.html 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. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/preview-fall-out-boy-might-require-leaving-your-adult-musical-notions-behind.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/sensory-overload-fake-islands-has-good-ideas-but-focus-needs-refined.html Ideas are what make a band exciting. Songwriting is what helps those ideas cohere and connect. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/sensory-overload-fake-islands-has-good-ideas-but-focus-needs-refined.html