Album review: Tyler, the Creator’s ‘CHROMAKOPIA’ is a soaring success

Tyler Gregory Okonma, best known as Tyler, the Creator, is undoubtedly one of the most influential alternative hip-hop artists to emerge in the las…

Local Natives gets Columbus locals jamming

Newport Music Hall has always been one of the go-to venues for Columbus locals, being “America’s Longest Continually Running Rock Club.” This was p…

Back Tracks: Moving back in space and time with bassist Thundercat

  Back Tracks is a weekly music column that studies the past, revisiting tunes that may be old but still resonate today. Earlier this we…

Review: Childish Gambino’s newest experiment has some hits, but misses overall

Whether you know him as the hip-hop artist, the actor, the comedian or the movie and television producer, Donald Glover’s history in the entertainm…

Listen Up: Fresh approaches, memorializations to end the year

The end of the year is usually a bad time for new music. That seems to be changing though, as artists are becoming less dependent on record labels …

Album review: Ariana Grande’s sophomore effort bogged down by outside voices

It’s not always a smooth transition from Nickelodeon star to pop princess, but Ariana Grande mastered it with her first album, 2013’s “Yours Truly.” …

Review: Big Free Concert big, free and rowdy

Spring has sprung, and so were the students at the Ohio Union Activities Board’s Big Free Concert. Campus was a carnival Thursday night as Ohio Stat…

Big Free Concert to feature Childish Gambino, Juicy J

While Ohio State banned smoking on campus this semester, the South Oval will be lighting up for The Chainsmokers, among others. The Big Free Con…