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Broken Bonenew
As a member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Bizzy Bone sold 15 million albums and won a Grammy, but his next goal is proving he's not crazy.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
11-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gotta Love Itnew
Merging heavy metal's satanic symbol with love's shorthand icon, H.I.M.'s heartagram ranks among modern music's most popular designs -- perhaps better known than the Finnish quintet itself.
Cleveland Scene |
Andrew Miller |
11-17-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rockin' the Boatzznew
Boatzz's urbane art-pop has alternately been described as "trippy elevator music," "the Zombies meet Blur," and "Joe Jackson rolling in an Escalade listening to Supergrass and doing some serious party favors."
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
11-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sweet Revengenew
Ringworm is one of the bands that helped smelt heavy metal and hardcore into one lethal weapon. But the band is as well known for its long periods of downtime as its albums.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
11-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sin Citynew
Avenged Sevenfold helps punks and metalheads unite over groupies and drugs.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
11-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Survivornew
Once hair-metal royalty, Billy Morris should be a has-been. Instead, he's Cleveland's busiest musician.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
11-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Smart Assesnew
Despite published reports to the contrary, Bloodhound Gang frontman Jimmy Pop is a gifted writer, performer, and producer.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
10-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Lesson in Violencenew
Obituary has humanized death metal, eschewing satanic posturing for a much less dogmatic take on a genre that is often hated by parents.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
09-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dead Poets Societynew
After rapper ThankGod was killed, some have wondered if his position at the center of Cleveland's hip-hop scene was his undoing.
Cleveland Scene |
Joe P. Tone |
08-30-2005 |
Music
Ohio Musicians Celebrate the Weirdness of Devonew
Northeast Ohio has spawned its shared of iconic rock groups, but the world has still never seen or heard anything quite like Devo -- an art-rock group in a bar-band area that used primitive synthesizers and electronic drums of its own design to perform irradiated new wave and mutated rock covers.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
08-23-2005 |
Music
Making Tracksnew
Interfuse's full-length debut makes art rock menacing again.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
08-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Strange Brewnew
It took four Jackasses, a former gun-wielding clown, a serial prank caller, and the bassist from a disco cover band to complete the Ohio band's latest disc, a surprisingly traditional rock album.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
07-19-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Fookin' Anew
Word of the British dance-rock quintet's cockiness has preceded its American tours.
Cleveland Scene |
Michael Alan Goldberg |
07-19-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
More Swing Than Swaggernew
Another promising rock troupe rises from the ashes of the Signoffs.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
07-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Black Godfathernew
Nobody in the last 50 years has worn more hats -- pimped-out Stetsons all -- than Andre Williams, aka the Black Godfather, Mr. Rhythm, and the Father of Rap.
Cleveland Scene |
John Nova Lomax |
06-29-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
