Tracey Thomas invites friends and fans to join her in celebrating her first 40 years of music-making in and around Akron with a concert at Jilly's Music Room on Thursday, Aug. 11. The show will be chock full of music, memories and special guests from the early days of the "Akron Sound." Thomas is an Akron Sound pioneer and the former front-woman of Unit 5 who has spent … [Read more...]
Taylor Carano brings swagger, brand of ‘rusty barn rock blues’ to Empire Concert Club
Taylor Carano is a whiskey kind of guy. You can hear it in his music, which he describes as “alternative folk/funk rock,” but is probably better described as “brown liquor music” or “rusty barn rock blues.” Carano has been releasing music under his own name and with former bands The Bleeding Feathers and The Fleecers since his teens. He’s rocked many local venues, … [Read more...]
Wayne Beck’s ‘Akron Sound’ Museum will ‘pop-up’ at Summit Artspace in May
Wayne Beck is on a mission. It is 9 a.m. on a chilly March Saturday morning and I have been charged with transporting him and his collection of “Akron Sound” Museum artifacts from his Highland Square apartment to the Big Love Festival at Summit Artspace in Akron. We unload the contents of my minivan onto the loading dock, and Wayne protects his collection as though it were … [Read more...]
Time Cat celebrates new music release Oct. 9
Band hosts singles release party Oct. 9 at Rialto Theater -- Time Cat, fronted by guitarist and lead singer Jeri Sapronetti, is a self-described “adventure rock trio," and listening to Sapronetti's sonic and bluesy handiwork is nothing short of an adventure. Sapronetti, along with band mates Sam Caler on drums and Colten Huffman on bass, will celebrate the release of their … [Read more...]
