Columbus (Ohio)

Christian Columnist: Gay Boy Scouts Disappoint Jesus With Their "Sexual Anarchist Agenda"

Meet Linda Harvey, a talk radio host on a Christian station in Columbus, Ohio. In her free time, she's the founder and main opinion-spewer behind Mission: America, which promotes itself as "Christian commentary on the culture." Harvey is deeply concerned with pressing social issues like "paganism" ( ... More >>

The Postal Service are Coming to Dallas: Presale Starts Tomorrow

Update, 2/20, 9:50 a.m. The pre sales have started for East Coast dates. The link goes live to the right of the date, where it currently says On Sale Soon. Once you click, you get put in a queue for tickets, so I'd try and click as close to 10 a.m. as you humanly can. As in, start refreshing your br ... More >>

The Six Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend

Check out more of this weekend's shows via our shiny new concert calendar Afghan Whigs, Centro-matic Sunday, October 14, at the Granada Theater Within the bowels of the '90s reunion machine, Ohio's Afghan Whigs are one of those bands you never really expected to be spat out again. Their 1993 LP, Ge ... More >>

From Street to Runway

Lydia Loveless Talks Classic Punk Versus Modern Punk and Not Being Afraid of Jesus.

Despite being just 21 years of age, country singer-songwriter Lydia Loveless has the world-weary demeanor of someone twice her age. After leaving home at the age of 14, Loveless found solace in, of all places, Columbus, Ohio, and that city's underground punk scene. Like a lot of punks, Loveless th ... More >>

Ocean Prime's Sonny Pache On His Beautiful Dysfunctional Kitchen Family

Ocean Prime Dallas​While Sonny Pache, 29, was studying finance in college in Ohio, he always ended up cooking for his five roommates. Apparently he wasn't half bad, because the roommates were always telling him he should trade in formulas for recipes and go to culinary school. Eventually he listen ... More >>

Attack Attack!'s Andrew Wetzel: "Being Labeled Emo is Just Gay."

​Walking through the mall in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, Andrew Wetzel of the metal band Attack Attack! sounds a bit winded over the phone as he makes his way to a semi-quiet place to talk. After composing himself, though, the drummer was more than happy to discuss with us a variety of issues. ... More >>

Times New Viking, Crystal Antlers

Monday, June 6, at Dada

Erykah Badu to Join My Morning Jacket As Guest For Streaming Tuesday Night Concert

Once-in-a-lifetime events sometimes happen more than once, turns out. Next Tuesday night, when My Morning Jacket performs in its hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to celebrate the release of their new album, Circuital, they will be joined on stage by one Erykah Badu, just as they so memorably were t ... More >>

Q&A: The Black Lips' Jared Swilley On Rowdy Shows, Punk's Influence and Playing Antarctica

Atlanta's The Black Lips formed as teenagers, right before the turn of the millennium. Just a year or two later, while still in high school, the punk-influenced, retro-obsessed four-piece started touring. And they've never really looked back. Seemingly more comfortable on the road than at home, the ... More >>

Asador's Dean James Max: What a Lucky Man

Asador's Dean James Max​Some people just end up doing the things they are meant to do, and the lucky ones end up being successful at it. Dean James Max, concept chef at the new Asador Restaurant in the Renaissance Dallas Hotel, is one of the lucky ones. What he's dreamed up for Asador is what ... More >>

Local Music 'Mericans: Talent Buyer Brian Lowe Has Been A Behind-The-Scenes Employee At House of Blues His Entire Professional Career

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move.Brian Lowe​As a talent buyer at the House of Blues, Brian Lowe's kind of the definition of a behind ... More >>

Celebrated South Florida Chef to Open Mexican Restaurant at the Renaissance Hotel

Dean James Max, a James Beard nominee who was crowned "King of American Seafood" at this year's Great American Seafood Cook-off and earned our sister paper's endorsement as the "Best Chef in South Florida", is developing his first Dallas restaurant. ​The not-yet-named restaurant is scheduled ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Ryan Bingham at House of Blues, The Soft Pack and Those Darlins at Sons of Hermann, Mayer Hawthorne at The Loft, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights at Trees, Big K.R.I.T. and Curren$y at Club Life, and Two Cow Garage at Double Wide

Tonight is insanely busy. It's obnoxious, really. Thanks, ACL!

Ride For Dime Proves "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott Is Not Forgotten.

Dallas Chefs Choose Sides in the Fray Over Children's Menus and Kids in Restaurants

White couches in The Second Floor's Lounge, the natural prey of juice-box-slurping knee-biters.​Chicken fingers to the left. Chicken fingers to the right. For years, the issue of kids in restaurants and children's menus has divided chefs and patrons alike. From New York--where one Brooklyn piz ... More >>

Midlake's Gear Gets Stolen In Columbus, Ohio

Midlake​After their performance last night at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, Midlake pulled their two vans into a Fairfield Inn parking lot. There, a hotel security guard assured the band that he would keep an eye on the vans overnight. But when the band woke up this morning, th ... More >>

Ocean Prime -- So Fancy, They Should Put Goldfish on the Menu

Two Cow Garage Outgrows Alt-Country

Over the Weekend: Yo La Tengo, Times New Viking at the Granada Theater

Yo La Tengo, Times New VikingGranada TheaterJanuary 30, 2010Much better than: staying home watching the Mavericks lose to the Blazers.Will Von BoltonClick here for a slideshow from Saturday night's show.​A sold-out crowd got out of the cold weather and into the warm confines of The Granada Theater ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets To Saturday's Granada Theater Show With Yo La Tengo and Times New Viking

For a whopping quarter of a century now, Hoboken's Yo La Tengo has existed comfortably at or near the top of the indie rock heap, showcasing an ever-changing aesthetic that, at various times in the band's career, has seen the band touching on various psych-, garage-rock and shoegaze styles. In this ... More >>

The Dallas Desperados Are Back!

​We just got the invite: Tomorrow at 4 p.m., there will be a press conference "to announce the return of the Dallas Depserados," which, as you may (or may not) recall, canceled its 2009 season exactly one year ago along with the rest of Arena Football League. Probably the most intriguing item cont ... More >>

Five Years Ago Today, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott Was Shot and Killed Onstage in Columbus, Ohio

​Kind of crazy to think that five years have passed since Nathan Gale charged the stage, gunned down four people and killed Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott during a Columbus, Ohio, performance of Dime's new band, Damageplan.To commemorate the anniversary, Revolver will release a special ... More >>

Wavves Is Out Of Control--In A Good Way

Blockbuster, You Do That Voodoo That You Do So Well. Unless It Winds Up in a Boycott.

Friend of Unfair Park Peterk directs our attention today to this called-for boycott of Dallas-based Blockbuster, which is distributing voodoo dolls in Mexico City in advance of Wednesday's World Cup showdown pitting the U.S. Men's National Team against Mexico in Columbus, Ohio. Originally, Fort Wort ... More >>

Atmosphere, Abstract Rude, Blueprint, DJ Rare Groove

Sunday, November 9, at House of Blues

A Lawsuit for the Dogs

Swing State Rock: Ohio’s Two Cow Garage Release CD, Set Tour Stop in Denton

Aural Ambush: Times New Viking

Times New Viking

Rip It Off (Matador)

Old Dog Bow Wow Learns New Tricks

A rap veteran at age 20, Bow Wow dispenses advice to the next generation

Brain Freeze

Vinnie Paul's Got a New Band, Hellyeah. No, Wait. That's What It's Called: Hellyeah.

Offbeat

You won't find any Justin Timberlake on this list, as we check the top albums for those who like it weird, noisy and experimental

Brio Blande

Corporate Tuscan fails to impress at Brio

Odds & Ends

On Pantera's Behind the Music special, Phil Anselmo offers fans two equally pleasing options

Looking at America

Flogging Molly's Dave King left Ireland for a career in rock, but he couldn't escape his roots

Odds & Ends

Necrogazm, Six Past Hell and others sacrifice eardrums to remember the Dimebag anniversary

Two Cow Garage

Tuesday, August 16, at Rubber Gloves, and Wednesday, August 17, at Barley House

"Our Hero"

Friends mourn the loss of Dallas' Mayhem

Slaughtered

"Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, 1966-2004

Deep Brazil

New Cafe Brazil owner has plans to expand--but not dramatically

Entry Level

O.A.R. went from school at OSU to touring the U.S.A.

RJD2

October 11

Dancer in the Dark

The Faint's Todd Baechle wants you to get on the floor and dance, dance!

Pele and Tristeza

The Nudes (Polyvinyl Records) | Dream Signals in Full Circles (Tigerstyle Records)

Off the mark

Sometimes The Landmark misses

Letters

Too cool for us

According to Spin, Columbus, Ohio, is more of a music town than Dallas-Fort Worth