Nelsonville 2014: Day 1 + 2 Recap
By Zack Baker & Megan Fair Day One As usual, ACRN arrived fashionably late to the opening night of Nelsonville Music Festival this year. Things at the festival grounds kicked off at 6 p.m. with local surf-rockers The D-Rays, but we didn't show up to the party until about 8 o'clock. After almost accidentally checking in as volunteers, we finally got into the festival and just kind of walked around looking for where the fun was. After passing through a gauntlet of very tempting
Live Review: #FEST
Athens, OH / Saturday, April 12, 2014 By Kyle Rutherford, Staff Writer Growing in size each year, the annual #FEST presented by Prime Social Group was yet another fun and muddy time in the middle of a field in its 12th installment this year. The showers the day before the festival, as well as the swamp created by the rainy Hoopla in the Hills two weeks prior, created mud pits around the stage, in front of the gates and around the areas where fest-goers set up their tents. Asi
Live Review: Arcade Fire
KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky March 6, 2014 By Abbie Doyle, Copy Editor When Arcade Fire announced it would be touring North America for its latest album, Reflektor, I knew I was going to go. There was no question about it; I’d been in love with the band for three years; Neon Bible is part of the fabric of my soul. Their lyrics and music have meant more to me than almost any other artist I listen to, but I’d never seen them live! Sure, you can sit in your room or dr
Live Review: Greatest Generation Tour
Cleveland, Ohio March 8, 2014 By Megan Fair, Copy Editor I’ve been to a lot of incredible shows in my day, and I’m not one to change my mind easily. So when I say that The Greatest Generation Tour’s stop at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland was the best show I’ve ever seen in my life is quite a statement. To provide some groundwork, this tour featured some of the most hype bands in the pop punk and punk community right now: Property of Zack darling’s Modern Baseball, Suppy Nati
The World Is A Great Big Pile Of Leaves and I'm Into It
By Megan Fair, Copy Editor What’s better than four great bands with delightfully different sounds packed into an intimate venue in Columbus? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Columbus locals SRVVLST kicked off the show for A Great Big Pile of Leaves, The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die and Into It. Over It. at The Basement on Thursday night. The bangers were endless and the crowd was hopping, quite literally. I think Evan Weiss, vocalist of Into It. Ove
Deafheaven / Taft Theatre Ballroom / Cincinnati, Ohio / February 19, 2014
By Zack Baker, Editorial Director If there's one thing Deafheavenhas certainly managed to live up to in the wake of the massive hype-train following it's sophomore album, it's the band's name. Sitting here a full 24 hours after the show, my ears are still ringing. But it's a beautiful ring. I went into the show hopeful that the band would be able to capture even half of the emotion or energy found on Sunbather, and I was not disappointed. After a full hour of the band's crush
Arctic Monkeys / LC Pavilion / Columbus, Ohio / February 11, 2014
By Christian Power, Contributor A sold-out crowd welcomed Britain's premier rock band,Arctic Monkeys, to the LC Pavilion in Columbus on Tuesday night. It was a very appropriate day for the polar primates to visit, as temperatures outside dipped well below 20 degrees. That frigid air didn't deter hundreds of fans from lining up outside for hours to ensure a good viewing position at the intimate venue. And if you ask most of those who braved the conditions, they'd agree it was
Oneohtrix Point Never / Wexner Center, Columbus / January 17, 2014
By Bailey Kretz, Staff Writer Apparently every hipster within a two-hour radius of Columbus braved the freezing cold to seeOneohtrix Point Never play at the Wexner Center on Friday night. Seriously, what more could a gloomy semi-goth kid want? Mind-fucking electronic music? Check. Concert in a dark room at a museum? Check. Live film accompaniments simulating an LSD trip? Huge check. All joking aside, Daniel Lopatin, the genius behind Oneohtrix Point Never, put on an outstandi
Motion City Soundtrack / Newport Music Hall / Columbus, Ohio / October 18, 2013
By Courtney Mihocik, Contributor Outside of last night's Motion City Soundtrack concert, one could see people from every walk of life. It was a perfect harmony outside of Newport Music Hall, and filing into the venue, the crowd was initially calm. Enter: State Champs. The punk rock band livened up the crowd to a massively awesome level with songs off of its debut album, The Finer Things. Singer and band frontman, Derek Discanio, hit the stage with a whirlwind of energy, hypin
#Halftime Fest / The Venue / Athens, Ohio / October 5, 2013
By Kyle Rutherford , Staff Writer A legendary event full of festivities, the fall #Fest turned out to be exactly what it is known for: a music festival in the middle of a field full of drunken college students listening to hip-hop and dance music. Though labeled as #Halftime Fest and lasting four hours shorter than the full #Fests, it was still a fairly memorable day. This time around, Columbus concert promotion company Prime Social Group was helped by the I’m Shmacked crew t
