• Grassfire at Nelson Ledges – Festival Preview: Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

    Grassfire at Nelson Ledges – Festival Preview: Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

    Grassfire at Nelson Ledges – Festival Preview: Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue by Bill Kurzenberger On the semiquincentennial anniversary weekend marking the United States’ 250 years of independence from a tyrannical government (the past year or so notwithstanding) there are over a hundred festivals around the Buckeye state celebrating…

  • The Community Festival’s Concealed Connections to Wexner’s Power and Influence

    The Community Festival’s Concealed Connections to Wexner’s Power and Influence

    The Community Festival’s Concealed Connections To Wexner’s Power And Influence Comfest, Central Ohio’s All-Volunteer-Run Fest Since 1972, Persists Through Untenable Ties To Billionaire Les Wexner by Bill Kurzenberger On June 26-27-28th, the Columbus Community Festival – also known as Comfest – returns to its longtime home at Goodale Park in…

  • Stargazer Cannabis Festival Leans Into Its Homegrown Nature – Festival Preview

    Stargazer Cannabis Festival Leans Into Its Homegrown Nature – Festival Preview

    Stargazer Cannabis Festival Leans Into Its Homegrown Nature – Festival Preview Event Celebrates Recreational Marijuana In Ohio With Workshops and Uplifting Jams by Bill Kurzenberger This weekend June 12-13-14th, the Stargazer Cannabis Festival will liven the banks of the Scioto River to celebrate adult recreational and medicinal usage of marijuana…

  • Bob Dylan at the Palace Theatre in Columbus – Live Concert Review

    Bob Dylan at the Palace Theatre in Columbus – Live Concert Review

    Bob Dylan at the Palace Theatre in Columbus  Live Concert Review – April 9th, 2026 by Bill Kurzenberger Thirty years after first witnessing Bob Dylan performing live at the Palace Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, the ebullient bard returned to the same venue this spring on his extended Rough and Rowdy…

  • OhioJams’ YouTube channel is live

    OhioJams’ YouTube channel is live

    OhioJams’ YouTube channel is live OhioJams Network & Music Magazine’s YouTube channel is alive! Visit and subscribe to watch live performances by some of Ohio’s foremost jam-bands. Newly uploaded on OhioJams’ channel are recently recorded videos from Midwest Psych Fest at Troubadour Farm, and super-jams of Grateful Dead & Phish…

  • Gathering Stars’ A Day In The Life – Album Review

    Gathering Stars’ A Day In The Life – Album Review

    GATHERING STARS’ A DAY IN THE LIFE – ALBUM REVIEW by Julie Rearick Kurzenberger A Day in the Life is the effervescent new release by Columbus’ own Gathering Stars. The 7-piece indie-soul band’s album dropped digitally on May 1st, 2026; followed by a CD release party this coming Thursday May…

  • Midwest Psych Fest Returns To Central Ohio – Preview

    Midwest Psych Fest Returns To Central Ohio – Preview

    MIDWEST PSYCH FEST RETURNS TO TROUBADOUR FARMS in Galena, Ohio on May 8th & 9th, 2026 Read about central Ohio’s Aquarian do-it-yourself festival in this October 2025 preview of last fall’s Midwest Psych Fest, celebrating its return to Troubadour the second weekend of May. Visit midwestpsychfest.com for more information about the…

  • Radderall & Muzzy Fossa’s The Club Is Open – Album Review

    Radderall & Muzzy Fossa’s The Club Is Open – Album Review

    RADDERALL & MUZZY FOSSA – THE CLUB IS OPEN Album Review by Bill Kurzenberger Cleveland-based Radderall and Muzzy Fossa freshly joined forces with a little help from their friends on the new concept album The Club Is Open This article originally appeared in Psychedelic Scene Magazine, December 2025 Cleveland, Ohio-based…

Ohio-Based Articles By The Editor

These articles were originally published in Psychedelic Scene Magazine by its former Assistant Editor, Editor-in-Chief, Editor-at-Large; Founder of OhioJams


King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard in Cleveland – Concert Review

November 2024 •

Bill K

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard rocked Cleveland during their cross-country summer tour preceding their return to the stage in November


Concert Review: Phish at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls

December 2022 •

Bill K

Phish phanatic Bill Kurzenberger describes this show from August 2nd, 2022


Concert Review: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard at KEMBA Live, Columbus, Ohio

June 2022 •

Bill K

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard demonstrate why they’re one of the hottest acts in rock


Interview: Jorma Kaukonen

January 2022 •

Bill K

The Jefferson Airplane guitar legend Jorma Kaukonen talks about legal LSD, his 60 year friendship with longtime bandmate Jack Casady, and playing at Woodstock, Altamont, and the Monterey Pop Festival


Concert Review–Dead & Company at Riverbend Music Center

October 2021 •

Bill K

A Dead & Company fanatic, Bill Kurzenberger offers up one of the most thorough, comprehensive concert reviews you’ll ever read