Even though San Holo came to Columbus on Wednesday for his debut album tour, it was no rookie performance. On tour for his first solo album titled very simplistically, “album 1,” the Dutch electronic musician continued to blur the lines between electronic music and live ...

In the middle of the first show of Dave Matthews Band’s 10-city fall tour, the band members left the stage, leaving Matthews in the spotlight, guitar in hand. “I sure love playing music with these people,” he said. And it showed Tuesday night at the ...

Fleetwood Mac performed at Nationwide Arena Wednesday night with the same energy I imagine they had back in their glory days in the 1980s. A lot of the show was reminiscent of the era when the band skyrocketed to fame: the cheesy and cliche visual ...

There’s something about a modest, dimly lit concert venue that makes an audience come to life in a way a stadium or arena never could. Maybe it’s the forced intimacy of being packed like sardines, or maybe it’s the near-delirium that comes with overheated bodies. ...

Few musicians are able to take the stage without any warning and immediately capture the audience’s attention. Elton John, even at 72-years-old, is one of those people. On Saturday night at the Schottenstein Center, John was the star of his own show as he sat ...

  There are three signs of a great musician: If they can sing just as well live as they do on their album, if the audience stays until the very end of a performance and if they get a standing ovation coupled with thunderous applause ...

Express Live became laden with hippies, lovers of rock ‘n’ roll and Grateful Dead fans alike Saturday night. At 7 p.m., the doors of the venue opened to eager fans awaiting Dark Star Orchestra to take the stage, with the line wrapped around the bar ...

As a fan of all things synth and indie, the packed crowd at Newport Music Hall was amazed by the talented performance St. Lucia brought to Columbus on Tuesday. South African-born and Brooklyn-based frontman Jean-Philip Grobler, along with vocalist and wife Patricia Beranek, drummer Dustin ...

Popular rapper J. Cole performed in Columbus, joined by EarthGang, Jaden Smith and Young Thug for the latest stop on his “KOD” tour at the Schottenstein Center Sunday night. I’ve always been a casual fan of J. Cole, but his latest album, “KOD,” has become ...

Indie garage band Beach Goons brought the angst of SoCal alt-rock to the stage of Big Room Bar in Columbus when  the three-piece band performed on Wednesday night. Pablo Cervantez’s dark and grungy vocals and self-loathing lyrics contrasted with an upbeat and beachy tempo from ...