-
Gratefulfest at Nelson Ledges – Festival Preview: Paradise Waits
Gratefulfest at Nelson Ledges – Festival Preview: Paradise Waits by Bill Kurzenberger This coming weekend Gratefulfest, Ohio’s iconic and longest-running festival dedicated to the memory of the Grateful Dead, returns to the idyllic Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in Garrettsville. This year, some of the foremost Dead-family and Dead-adjacent musicians of this era from coast…
-
fIREHORSE by Tim Easton – Album Review
fIREHORSE by Tim Easton – Album Review by Bill Kurzenberger Renowned Ohio-grown guitarist/singer/songwriter Tim Easton recently released his fourteenth studio album, the noteworthy fIREHORSE. Born and raised in Akron, Easton has been widely recognized as a quintessential North American troubadour from the Buckeye state to his home base in Nashville, and far beyond. Before…
-
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 4th of July…
-
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 in Ohio. Billed as…
-
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 songs from the Summit…
-
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 7th at Natalie’s Music…
-
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 Radderall and Muzzy Fossa…