Matt Ellis

The Columbus Crew are the 2021 Campeones Cup winners after a Wednesday night 2-0 victory over Mexican Liga MX side Cruz Azul at Lower.com Field. Lucas Zelarayan stunned the large contingent of Cruz Azul fans inside the stadium in the fourth minute when his curling free kick was inadvertently nodded into his own goal by […]

If I were to chose a genre to begin my 2022 concert coverage I’m not sure how high on the list circus death-metal would be. However, this is how 2022 has begun and wow, what a spectacle it was as Swedish hair-rotators Avatar pumped up a freezing January evening with a thundering performance on the […]

Canadian two-piece blues rockers The Blue Stones stopped by Columbus on Friday night for a sold-out gig inside the A&R Music Bar. Originally scheduled for downstairs in the Basement, the show was bumped up due to demand coming off of local radio support that’s been spinning recent release “Shakin’ Off the Rust” on fairly high […]

Local folk-pop band CAAMP closed out a highly successful year for the Upper Arlington High School graduates and friends with three sold-out nights at the Newport Music Hall. With their second album, By and By, hitting record shelves this year, a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, heavy radio play for current single “Peach Fuzz” and […]

The Wonderbus Music & Arts Festival made a triumphant return this past weekend as the lawn at CAS hosted three stages of music and thousands of happy people that came to drink, dance and bake under a scorching hot late summer sun. There was a little something for everyone’s musical tastes as both local and […]

Norwegian singer-songwriter Girl in Red, the indie-pop project from Marie Ulven Ringheim, stopped by a rainy Columbus on Wednesday evening for a massive show at KEMBA Live! With 2021’s debut album If I Could Make It Go Quiet charting well across the globe and with the most played song on CD92.9 last year, it came […]

The undead returned to the streets of Columbus for the annual Zombiewalk today. The annual event brings out hundreds of zombie fans eager for a festive reason to dress up, get together, and shamble in unison down High Street. In addition to the fun, the event also raises money, this year donating proceeds to the […]

Arizona’s masters of the perfect radio hit, Jimmy Eat World returned to Columbus on Friday night to the KEMBA Live! indoor stage as emo-rock loving Gen X’ers and aging millennials rocked out to a greatest hits set packed full of gems that even a casual rock fan would be familiar with. Looking eerily similar from […]

New Jersey’s favorite folk-punk twosome The Front Bottoms returned to Columbus on Friday night as a packed house of Gen Z’ers crammed into KEMBA Live! to sing along with frontman Brian Sella’s detailed tales of life, love and everything in-between. Formed during college, The Front Bottoms, completed by drummer Mat Uychich, have long since shrugged […]

The Columbus Crew will face LAFC in the Leagues Cup Final Match on Sunday August 25 in Lower.com Field - get a ticket and cheer them on!