Chris Butler, a staple of Akron's '70s and '80s new wave music scene with the band The Waitresses, shares a story about a pair of jeans, which saw battery acid, blood and other forms of rock and roll wear and tear. He spoke at a recent That One Time Downtown storytelling event at Jilly's Music Room. … [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...]
