Subject: Columbus (Ohio)

• May Town's Not-So-Solid Promises to Tennessee State

  What's the delay on the Tennessee State donation? From our Bells Bend correspondent Brenda Butka: TSU has been the targeted recipient of May Town largess--250 acres, a $400,000 donation toward an endowed chair, and $49,000 for students earning credit in a geography class to call alumni and read a script touting the miracles that May Town will bring. Only not quite: documents detailing the agreements clearly state that the donations of land and money are contingent on May Town's success. Tha

  June 3, 2009

• In True Metallikatz Fashion

  August 13, 2008

• Silver Jews Play Exit/In October 12

  August 20, 2008

• I Think Sarah Palin Just Might Be Stupid

  September 29, 2008

• Darls in Charge: Those Darlins Release, or "Drop," Tour Dates

  They told you they're wild ones.Question: Do Those Darlins ever rest? Answer: Apparently not. They've just released new tour dates for the coming months, and yet again, they'll be bringing their Nashville-y Nashvilleness to eager listeners all over this great land of ours. A handful of their shows are with Avett Brothers, Magic Kids, Glossary, and The Features and The Dexateens, respectively. In related Darlins news, the ladies will allegedly be releasing a self-titled full-length on July 7. No

  April 3, 2009

• A Vote of No Confidence

  January 31, 2008

• Our Critics Picks

  October 4, 2007

• Love-Hate Mail

  December 21, 2006

• Dance With the Devil

  Three words we never expected to hear in Nashville: Sátántangó is coming

  December 7, 2006

• The Spin

  February 2, 2006

• Weekend Updates

  Architect Eisenman discusses the essence of his craft

  September 22, 2005

• Late Summer News Roundup

  Husband and wife escape to cheap Ohio motel

  August 18, 2005

• The Renaissance Goes South

  Zeitgeist show features painter's fertile visual imagination and stylistic range

  June 30, 2005

• Weekend Updates

  Soul jazz, cynicism and Thee Shams

  March 24, 2005

• The Longest Yard

  Eddie George's toughest play yet is transitioning from NFL icon to aging athlete

  March 17, 2005

• Frist Center for the Visual Arts ♦ Opening Jan. 24

  Music

  January 23, 2003

• People and Places

  October 7, 2004

• A Different Round Ball

  Soccer may be the only women’s sport guys truly respect

  October 2, 2003

• In Brief

  News from the Nashville Film Festival; new and noteworthy DVDs

  March 20, 2003

• Calexico ♦ Tuesday, 11th

  Music

  March 6, 2003

• Making Plans for Bison

  Ted Turner’s way-out-West concept offers Nashvillians a mighty fine burger and a worthy dining option

  January 23, 2003

• A Family Affair

  Former fugitive Margo Freshwater reunites with her brother after decades apart

  November 21, 2002

• A Lesson Before Dying ♦ Opening Oct. 10

  Music

  October 10, 2002

• Second Coming

  The Buckeyes are back

  September 19, 2002

• Digging Deeper for Roots Music

  It’s time to look below the surface for rich new sources of Americana

  September 12, 2002

• An All-American Fugitive

  When Margo Freshwater escaped from prison 32 years ago, she began a happy and law-abiding life, becoming a devoted mother, grandmother and wife. Now sheís back behind bars.

  August 22, 2002

• A Culinary Tour

  Food Network program visits Nashville, finds some unlikely highlights in the city’s restaurants

  May 2, 2002

• A Work Disincentive

  Public housing residents say MDHA is illegally inflating their rents

  February 28, 2002

• Slow Bar RAINN Benefit ♦ Thursday, 8/9

  Music

  August 9, 2001

• Love/Hate Mail

  Ignoring Nader

  November 2, 2000

• Playing It Cool

  The Nashville Predators Make The Right Moves On And Off The Ice

  October 5, 2000

• Top of Their Class

  February 11, 1999

• Political Notes

  March 6, 1997

• Sound Material for the 'Sounding Board'

  November 28, 1996

• Radio Waves

  March 21, 1996

• The Dead Weather to Tour, Play War Memorial July 30

  The Dead Weather announced today that their debut album, Horehound, will be given unto us on July 14, by way of Third Man Records/Warner Brothers. As rock bands often do, the D.W. will hit the road in support of the album. (The tour is said to be "kicking off" in Louisville June 11, even though there's over a month between that show and the next one, at the 9:30 Club in D.C. on July 13.) What this means for Nashville is that The Dead Weather will bring their four pieces of "dirge rock" to our o

  May 11, 2009

• Screaming Females to Support The Dead Weather

  Steve CrossWhen I saw Raconteurs/Dead Weather bass man "Little" Jack Lawrence at the (awesome) Screaming Females/JEFF the Brotherhood/Heavy Cream show the other week, I remember wondering to myself which band he was there to see, and deciding it was probably Screaming Females. Just call it a hunch. Whether I was right or wrong, it would make sense in light of the news today that The Dead Weather are taking Screaming Females with them on the July leg of their U.S. tour (dates after the jump). S

  May 28, 2009

• Blueprint, Oriana Lee, DJ Bowls & Tunnel Clones at Exit/In 6/19/09

  Where in the hell were you this past Friday, huh? You definitely weren't at the Exit/In, and that's a damn shame--you missed some mighty fine hip-hop. The Spin were a tad surprised when we arrived, more or less on time, to find only a smattering of souls sitting down listening to Boom Bap/Funky Good Time resident DJ Bowls. BPM the Street, the crew behind the Boom Bap and Funky Good Time, is undergoing a reorganization--what with head BPMer Case Bloom relocating to the City of Brotherly Love--and

  June 23, 2009

• Those Darlins take (the) country by storm

  June 25, 2009

• Fleetwood Mac, Blueprint, Tunnel Clones and more

  June 25, 2009

• Blueprint leads a pack of heavy-hitting hip-hop Buckeyes from Columbus

  June 18, 2009

• Kings of Leon Certified Platinum

  Two's a trend, right? First Paramore, now Kings of Leon rock open those platinum gates, for so long rusted shut for any rock act out of Music City. Perhaps it's time to consider the Nashville Curse broken forever. Who'd've thunk it? From the release: RCA Records is proud to announce the RIAA certified platinum status of Kings of Leon's fourth studio album Only By The Night. This is the first platinum record for the band in the United States. This fall, the Grammy Award-winning band will embark

  July 22, 2009

• Leonard Cohen to Play Tennessee Performing Arts Center Nov. 5

  When Leonard Cohen skipped Nashville on his last tour, I was...well, I wasn't surprised, exactly--people skip our city all the time--but I was kind of surprised, in addition to being more disappointed than I usually am. After all, Cohen recorded Songs From a Room and Songs of Love and Hate here (1968 and 1970, respectively, in sessions with Bob Johnston that included Charlie Daniels). Yeah, people record all kinds of places, so that's not necessarily a big pull later on. But Cohen actually lived

  July 22, 2009

• Road Trip to Memphis: Built to Spill at Minglewood Hall Oct. 21

  ​Built to Spill's new album There Is No Enemy (their first in three years after 2006's You In Reverse) comes out Oct. 6. They've scheduled a fall tour that kicks off in Oregon in 10 days, taking these masters of bendy, heartfelt bombast down the West Coast and to states like Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. States just like ours, only in cities that will make us feel like shit when we find out that they won't be playing in Nashville, but Memphis. What's Memphis ever done for anybody? I kid. Hey, wo

  August 10, 2009

• Bosnian, Serbian fight together on Lipscomb's basketball court

  October 22, 2009

• Lo-Pan at Springwater

  November 19, 2009

• Passion Pit to Tour, Play Vanderbilt April 24

  Aw.​Boston-based indie popsters Passion Pit announced today they are going on a U.S. tour that includes Nashville. More specifically, they'll apparently be playing at Vanderbilt on April 24. One would assume that means an appearance at the annual Gathering of the Flip-Floppalos, Rites of Spring, but the schedule over there hasn't been updated yet, and it's a bit early for official announcements from that camp. Vandy does occasionally put on students-only shows, but this seems too close to

  January 8, 2010

• Times New Viking to Play The Basement Feb. 1 [Noise Annoys]

  ​Columbus, Ohio's Times New Viking are coming to Nashville, and they'll be playing at The Basement Monday, Feb. 1. Their spiky, over-overdriven songs are just the thing to counteract chillwaves and the glo-worms and the like. It's rock, you know? Big, noisy, brain-piercing rock. Now, just because they're from Ohio and put out extremely lo-fi recordings doesn't mean you should compare them to Guided by Voices. For a lot of reasons. But I'm going to compare them to Guided by Voices.

  January 12, 2010

• Times New Viking make noise, avoid backlash

  January 28, 2010

• Neil Hamburger, Chris Crofton, Times New Viking and more

  February 4, 2010