5 Hours at The Nelsonville Music Festival
by Ken Eppstein | Jun 13, 2013 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 1 comment
5 Hours at The Nelsonville Music Festival Sometimes it sucks being an adult. You try to line up four days to go off to southern Ohio for a big music festival and adult responsibilities and financial constraints collude to whittle your four days of fun in the sun down...Wanda Jackson: Unfinished Business
by Ken Eppstein | Jan 3, 2013 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
Wanda Jackson: Unfinished Business My first real experience with Wanda Jackson’s music was a live show at Columbus, Ohio’s late-great punk rock night club, Crazy Mama’s in the early 1990s. Tiny, dark and dirty, Mama’s, was more of a dance club than a...Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby: A Working Museum
by Ken Eppstein | Dec 5, 2012 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby: A Working Museum “A Working Museum” is Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby’s third full-length album as a collaborative couple and as the name implies, the Kickstarter-sponsored album is a curated exhibition of pieces reflective of growth...Comic Guys Who Rock!
by Ken Eppstein | Sep 23, 2012 | All Stories, Book Reviews, Reads | 0 comments
Comic Guys Who Rock! The idea of “the evil twin” has become a pervasive cliche in our society. You’re confronted by a co-worker about an off-color comment made earlier in the day, and you blame your evil twin. Yuk-yuk-yuk. Everybody laughs and you get away with...The Avengers’ Penelope Houston
by Ken Eppstein | Mar 18, 2012 | All Stories, Artist Interviews, Music | 0 comments
The Avengers’ Penelope Houston I was first introduced to the Avengers when I picked up the “Pink Album” at Used Kids Records in Columbus circa 1990. I didn’t know it was commonly called The Pink Album. The LP is actually eponymously titled, but the striking...The Cynics: Spinning Wheel Motel
by Ken Eppstein | Aug 1, 2011 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
While it would be tempting for me to start by saying “The Cynics are the best band you’ve never heard of,” a quick use of a the Music Enthusiasts Secret Decoder Ring would reveal that I was actually saying “The Cynics are a band that never hit stride in a...
