On the evening of May 15, Rachel Widomski was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver outside of Haiku restaurant. Rachel’s severe spinal cord injuries will leave her paralyzed for life. Please join us in a city-wide fundraising effort to help support Rachel and her family during her long road to recovery.
Benefit Concert
Saturday, June 7 5:30pm - 11:00pm
Corner of North High St. & Hubbard St. (next to Haiku)
Round out your Gallery Hop evening with a free outdoor concert featuring local music acts. Volunteers will be on hand to accept donations to Rachel’s fund.
5:30 pm - DJ True Skills
6:00 pm - Bob Ray Starker
7:00 pm - Megan Palmer
8:00 pm - Karate Coyote
9:00 pm - Paper Airplane
10:00 pm - Two Cow Garage
Columbus R+B Singer, Middle Child and internationally known producer J. Rawls are celebrating the release of their new album, Rawls & Middle. The picture above has Middle addressing a panel that Talib Kweli and I sat in on at Millenium Community School about a year ago. On the Rawl’s & Middle album, the song “Music Over Madness” pretty much details what the outspoken singer had to say that day about the current state of Hip Hop Commercial Radio. Rawls is sitting down, grinning in the back. Rawls is the guy in a white hat and striped polo for those playing along at home that don’t pay attention Hip Hop much.
The release party is at Club Karma Tonight in Downtown Columbus. Eric Roberson is also perfoming
May 29, 2008 – 11:26 pm | Written by Chip Midnight
Been waiting for this one for a while now - almost a year to be exact. The Hot Damn showed up on my radar after I heard a tune on PatRadio’s podcast last August, the band’s sound decidedly different than the flavor of the year (shit-gaze) here in Columbus. There isn’t anything lo-fi about this foursome, it’s mass market material written for the Alternative Press / Hot Topic / Urban Outfitters crowd and while usually I’d cringe at any band that can sell loads of records to that demographic, there is something about The Hot Damn that makes me really excited.
Matt and Ash were nice enough to send me a copy of the CD earlier this week and I’ve been spending a lot of time digesting it. Really, what I think, is that you get three different bands in one with this self-titled release - there is the post-emo / Warped Tour-ready sounds of the songs sung solely by Matt (do I detect a little Ben Gibbard in his vocal style?); there are the songs that Matt handles the lead vocals and Ash provides the female backup (these songs, like “Lefthand, Righthand”, bring to mind one of my favorites, Helicopter Helicopter); and then you’ve got the songs that Ash sings lead on. Now, I’ve only had one opportunity to see the band live (opening for Great Northern) but I don’t remember Ash really stepping up to the front on many of the songs. Not sure if the songs weren’t written at the time or she’s found a new self-confidence, but the songs she sings (which I’m assuming she wrote as well) bring to mind some of the early ’90s female-led indie rock bands like Madder Rose, The Melting Hopefuls, and even a bit of our hometown heroes, Scrawl. I hope as the band matures, Ash continues to keep up with contributing - as it is, she handles vocals on maybe 1/3 or 1/2 of the songs.
The Hot Damn will throw themselves a CD release party on Friday night at the House of Crave (the club above The Basement). I’d be there if I wasn’t headed to Cincinnati to see Blind Melon. I’m not sure if this is the highest compliment I could throw at the band, but I will say that if The Hot Damn were an out-of-town band, I would do everything in my power to see them every time they play in Columbus. As it is, I’ve missed out on a BUNCH of shows since first discovering them but plan to make up for that over the summer.
You can stream the entire new CD here (do it … it’s FREE to check it out, you’ve got nothing to lose). And you can hear Pat from PatRadio interview the band - and play 4 tracks from the CD - on his most recent podcast here. Hot Damn, indeed!
A lot of people are riding pretty hard for “The Boss’”, Rick Ross decision to not wear a shirt.
I still am partial to a shirtless Gucci Mane. While Ross gets points for being super fat and having cool looking tatts, I feel like some sort of stylist gets paid 250 dollars an hour to make sure his stomach is angled correct and the right oils are applied. (more…)
The Columbus Music Co-op is pleased to announce the launch of the Columbus Musician’s Assistance Program (CMAP) pilot. Under CMAP, mini-grants will be given to working Central Ohio musicians who are lacking health insurance coverage and are experiencing health-related financial hardships.
Musicians will be able to submit requests for assistance with:
* Medical bills/treatments/office visits
* Vision or dental services
* Prescription medications
* Drug & alcohol addiction treatment
Grants will be awarded in amounts between $0-$1,000
Camu Tao from Columbus, Ohio passed away earlier today due to complications from an ongoing bought with cancer. Camu was crucial in putting Columbus on the map with his brilliant, futuristic production, and in the pocket off-kilter flow as shown with the MHz, SA Smash, and the Weathermen as well as his solo work. He was just extemely gifted.
Camu also had a strong sense of humor.
I remember being at Przm’s house a long time ago; someone had fallen asleep. Camu dumped ketchup on the guys shirt. He then woke the man up from his slumber and told the groggy man that he had been shot. The now awaken man freaked out for second then was just angry cause he now had a stained shirt.
Although that is a silly story, I am just trying to say Camu was both constantly creative whether it was on a big scale like working with EL-P and Cage. Or just doing dumb shit like making prank calls.
I wasn’t close to him like I was Przm or Daymon. Hell, we were pretty much in a disagreement most of the time. But I can tell you Camu had a presence that was undeniable and charismatic. Camu Tao was a genuis.
Columbus and Hip Hop in general will greatly miss Tero Smith (Camu).
The Dirtbombs are beloved inside our message board. Seems like they come up in conversation all the time.
The band is coming to Columbus on Sunday at The Basement. We’ve got a quick hit and run contest where we’re giving away two pairs of tickets for the show. Winners will be chosen TOMORROW.
To enter, send an e-mail to wintix@donewaiting.com with the subject of DIRTBOMBS. Make sure your full name is in your e-mail address or in the e-mail body. Random winners chosen tomorrow, people.
If you remember a few years ago we signed up Team Donewaiting.com for this event. We had an amazing amount of people donate money making our team the 2nd highest fundraiser. We’d like to do it again this year.
PetPromise is dedicated to helping to create a world where there are no more homeless pets through education, rescue, sterilization, and adoption. More info here.
If anyone would like to run/walk on May 24th (pets welcome) in the Arena District of Columbus Ohio, please send me an email. If you can’t run and would like to donate a few bucks for a good cause please visit the dontation website here. So far we’ve raised $410$445!
But! One lucky donewaiting.com reader will win a pair of tickets for the show, for free free free free free. To enter, send a blank e-mail to wintix@donewaiting.com with the subject line “ZION”. A winner will randomly be chosen on June 1.
Columbus’ number 1 son, Envelope, is finally dropping the follow-up to his local classic, Insignificant Anthems. The new album Sharkbolt comes out July 8th. Lope will have a release party July 11th at Skullys here in Columbus..
I don’t want to give too much at this point.,,, But I can say it is produced entirely by Blueprint, and Shark Bolt is much darker than his previous album. Dood also got a little cynical. Shit a lot happened in the past couple years.
Columbus Power-Violence revivalists, Weedsteeler, once again became the most vocal proponent in the “Punks Should Ride Skateboards Not Bikes” movement with the above declaration. While I applaud the sense of design, culture, history and spelling–fact is gas prices are at 4 nearly dollars a gallon –So I am not sure if Weedsteeler will win this arguement.
But regardless these stickers are funny and available at Embassy Boardshop.
In related Columbus Skateboard hate-mongering; Iglu has a new myspace. The skategang put a bunch of video clips in their blog, like this one:
That’s what people in our message board are thinking. With only 2,800 tickets available, and on a weekend date, it seems likely that the show was drawing lots of people from the region, not just Columbus.
May 13, 2008 – 10:34 pm | Written by Chip Midnight
It’s so damn easy to throw out Sabbath references about any band that plays through the primordial sludge amplifier. It’s become too easy and perhaps a bit lazy but then a band like The Sword has to drop an album like Gods of Earth which reeks of pot smoke and many, many hours of Iommi/Osbourne/Butler/Ward worshipping. There’s, of course, heavy doses of desert rock (ala Kyuss) mixed in to the Austin, Texas band’s sound as well which ain’t a bad recipe when all’s said and done.
Duffy booked these guys at the High Five a few years back and though the kid has never professed his love for metal / stoner-rock, he was floored by these guys enough so that he’s going to be headbanging front and center during The Sword’s return.
Torche, described by some as a “metal band for those who don’t like metal”, and Stinking Lizaveta, described by Trevor Danger as “an instrumental jazzy Sabbath”, open the show which is guaranteed to sell out (a limited number of tix will be available at the door but once they’re gone, they’re gone).
I hate writing shit like this and I hate reading shit like this but The Sword is poised to move onto bigger and better things (summer plans = Bonaroo, Ozzfest, opening for Metallica in Europe) so try to catch ‘em at the Ravari Room so you can say “I saw them before they were playing arena stages.”
Been waiting for this one for a while now - 
