Back Tracks is a weekly music column that studies the past, revisiting tunes that may be old but still resonate today. My most expensive purchase of 2017 so far has been a $300 record player I picked up a couple months back. I had my ...

    Pentatonix, the sensational a cappella group that took the world by storm after winning the third season of “The Sing-Off,” came to Columbus to perform at the Schottenstein Center on Sunday night. The crowd was in an enthusiastic and positive mood even before ...

Very few musicians can truly be called transcendent — artists whose work crosses racial, geographic and generational boundaries. In the end, death is the last barrier they transcend. Michael Jackson is one such artist. His music still, six years after his passing, is played worldwide. ...

It’s been said that from humble beginnings come great things. Columbus rapper Alexander Dreamer’s manager and musical affiliates say this seems to be the route he’s heading. “I don’t think a lot of artists are humble,” said Chris Hayes, a DJ and Ohio State alumnus ...

His life might be over, but MJ’s still singing. Kind of. Ostensibly, humans are the only species who contemplate their own inevitable march toward mortality, and it has become part of the human condition to rail against the temporal finiteness of our existence. As such, ...

Michael Jackson fever swept over Ohio State last October as the OSU Marching Band celebrated the 1987 release anniversary of the King of Pop’s album release “Bad” by performing some of his songs during a football game’s halftime show. Campus is about to be hit ...

The audience claps to the beat, a surge of Buckeye pride filling the Franklin County Veterans Memorial auditorium as “Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse,” composed by Robert Planquette, begins to play. In any normal symphonic concert setting, this type of behavior would be ludicrous. ...