Things

Here's what I've been up to lately over at The Other Paper:

Review of Paper Airplane's new CD, White Elephants (local)

Low Anthem/Langhorne Slim live review

Reviews of Monolithic Cloud Parade's debut, Children with Wolf Heads, and Wing & Tusk's debut, The Secret of Toadflax Tea (both local)

Live reviews of Bicentennial Bear, Miranda Sound, Jon Chinn + 1803 (locals)

Brian Harnetty: Paste's "Artist of the Week"

I've written about Brian Harnetty before, so I won't go into a long preamble about him. But he's a talented dude from Columbus, and I was happy Paste let me write about him for its website's "Artist of the Week" feature. You can read it here.

Silent City, Harnetty's new album featuring Bonnie "Prince Billy, is out tomorrow on Atavistic Records.

CBUS Sound Project Symposium tomorrow

So tomorrow I'll be on a panel from 3:40-4:30 with Donewaiting.com's Wes Flexner and some other folks to talk about Columbus music, Columbus media and such. There's lots of other stuff going on, too, from 1-7 pm: performances, DJ Detox, booking discussions, etc. Here's the summary from the website and promo poster:

“The CBUS Sound Project Symposium is a celebration of Columbus Music. In conjunction with our Idea Lab program, this day of learning and performance includes panels on booking, promoting, and community organizing. Complimentary hand-roasted coffee is generously provided by local purveyor, Cafe Brioso. Free and open to all.”

Larry Jon Wilson, Columbus bands in Spin

I reviewed the new Larry Jon Wilson album for the August edition Spin. You can check it out on pg. 93 in print or the digital edition.

Also in that issue: Spin's list of the "100 greatest bands you've (probably) never heard of," which is a good read, especially because it includes four legendary Columbus bands: Gaunt, Great Plains, Royal Crescent Mob and Scrawl.

Antlers' "Hospice" gets Best New Music tag from Pfork

And it's well-deserved. Maybe next time they come through town there'll be more than three people in the bar?

Tonight: Bicentennial Bear, Jon Chinn + 1803, Ghost Shirt

The Summit is where I'll be tonight. But mainly I'm just posting this because the poster is awesome.

More Larry Jon

Really nice interview with LJW by Stephen Deusner here.