April 2012
2 posts
CLIFFS EP
There are many of us (myself very much included) who miss the throat busting, guitar wailing sounds and styles of the White Stripes. As we turned into the year 2000, it was the Stripes who brought us into their act with the dashing colors of red and white, bluesy yelps and a vigorous energy for music. However, we live in a world without the White Stripes now. Hearing a Stripes hit like...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 4/6
BY JULIAN SMITH
@DANGERSMITH
It’s Easter weekend… a time of year where many (dare I say most?) lay low and observe with loved ones. You might even think that things will be quiet around town this weekend, but this is Columbus, people. We couldn’t be quiet if we tried. And luckily for you, the only Easter traditions I observe are fabulous fried fish dinners on Fridays and gorging on...
March 2012
9 posts
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 3/30
BY JULIAN SMITH
@DANGERSMITH
The weekend is here. This city is afraid of it. I’ve seen its exhaustion before firsthand. The streets are full of life and there are so many options for things to do and just when you think a decision has been made for the night, something else comes along and it’s back to the drawing board. The accumulated awesomeness of all the talent and fun populating...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 3/23
BY JULIAN SMITH
@DANGERSMITH
The heat is turned way up in Columbus, unprecedented for March, and the streets are alive! I feel like I’ve never seen the bars and restaurants as crowded as they’ve been this week, with appreciative Ohioans rushing out of their homes and jobs and straight into the sunlight! After all, what’s a measly tornado warning when we’ve hardly seen a flake of snow...
All You Have To Do Is Shine :: My Evening with...
BY JULIAN SMITH
@DANGERSMITH
When I was told that I’d have the opportunity to review Billy Elliot: The Musical on its opening night of an eight show stand at Columbus’ historic Palace Theatre, I immediately had recollections of the film off which it was based. It was these recollections — the dismal, dreary gray of the titular character’s hometown, the opening sequence where he...
DANE TERRY'S "7 SONGS" EP - THE SPOONFEED REVIEW
BY JEFF MEYERS JR.
@JeffMeyersJr
“…and if you’re thinking of leaving,
well, don’t go just yet.
I can do a great impersonation of,
a bee with no sting.
I could give you my love, courtesy of
My heart, that tired old thing.”
Pff. Dane. As if we were thinking of going anywhere.
Not after anyone sits down to even a short preview of your opening track,...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 3/16
BY JULIAN SMITH
@DANGERSMITH
Hello Columbus! We’re back for another edition of the Weekend Guide and as always are so grateful for anyone who’s stopping by to stock up on solid tips for succeeding this St. Patrick’s Day Weekend! It’s just as busy around HQ as it is in our fair city, so let’s not waste any time and get right down to business![[MORE]]
There was a...
NEW TOOTH "SAY AH" EP - THE SPOONFEED REVIEW
BY JEFF MEYERS JR.
@JeffMeyersJr
Spring time is teasing us.
Every now and again, the spring season seems to roll in long enough to wipe their shoes off and crack open a soda. Just when we begin to enjoy the good conversation, Spring gets a text from someone clearly more important, drops a quick apology and strolls out leaving their open soda on the table, mostly full. This leaves us to deal...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 3/9
BY JULIAN SMITH
@DANGERSMITH
If I judged solely on Facebook statuses alone, it would appear that this week was a disappointing one in the lives of many Columbus denizens. I read angry tirades rallying for poltical candidates who bombed on Super Tuesday and against those who prevailed. I observed many a bro, totally stoked on Wednesday’s gracious and beautiful weather, let down by the...
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SHARP WIT - A SPOONFEED INTERVIEW WITH KEVIN...
PHOTO BY KATE SWEENEY
by Julian Smith
@DANGERSMITH
One day, in my dreams, this site will have reached a level of importance where people will care to ask me how it began and I will tell them “with a restaurant”. In January 2011, I began training to be a server at the then unopened Bravo in the Lennox Town Center and met Larry and Kate. As the months flew by, we toiled and triumphed in...
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SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 3/2
BY JULIAN SMITH
@DANGERSMITH
The other day during a slow shift at work, I noticed a co-worker being bombarded by two elderly women preaching the gospel of Rick Santorum in between massive bites of pasta. Only around the primaries, am I right? As the airwaves become clogged with electioneering candidates, I’m full of nostalgia thinking back to the first time I cared enough about politics to...
February 2012
6 posts
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SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 2/24
BY JULIAN SMITH
@DANGERSMITH
An unfortunate truth about the world we live in is that it revolves around money. Even things that we hold dear, like music or art, come at a price, which is even more unfortunate considering that those who are out there creating within these realms are likely broke and doing so for love, not gain. These are facts that are starting to impact what we do here at...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 2/17
BY JULIAN SMITH
@DANGERSMITH
Another Valentine’s Day has come and gone. Countless chocolates have been unwrapped and once beautiful flowers have wilted. You had an amazing time with your significant other eating a meal that you waited an hour and a half for on top of another couple in a restaurant well over its capacity, but now they’re back to their normal selves, belching on the...
WALK THE MOON: "ANNA SUN EP" - THE SPOONFEED...
BY JEFF MEYERS JR.
@JeffMeyersJr
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Dance-worthy. Energetic. Exciting. Unique, but easily relatable. NOT GARBAGE.
These were the words that reeled through my mind through many cold spring afternoons in 2011. At the time I was acting as the Heidelberg University Music Chair, which meant I was responsible for bringing musical acts onto our campus that would make the student body creep slowly...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 2/10
BY JULIAN SMITH
@DANGERSMITH
I came across a lot of frowns from all varieties of people this week. It was as if a little bit of snow hit town and brought one hundred times its weight in negativity along. At this point, I could use a Super Mario RPG style pick me up. I’m thinking one of the Weekend Guide type… how about you?
I’m starting to get a few tweets and email’s...
THE BLUE MAN GROUP: THE SPOONFEED REVIEW
“When meeting people from a foreign culture, offer them gifts to reflect your interests as a gesture of friendship…
…Better yet, give things you’ve created yourself…
…The best way to forge a lasting friendship is to create something together. When you create something with others, you build a connection that lasts a lifetime.”
(Displayed on stage, before the performance)
BY JEFF MEYERS...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 2/3
BY JULIAN SMITH
@DANGERSMITH
Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get stoked Columbus, it’s Weekend Guide time! And while the weather outside is as strange for February as Jamaicans were to bobsledding, Columbus culture is maintaining its stable climate of awesome over the next three days, which means lots for you to get out and do! I’m going to get right into it this Guide, so no...
January 2012
7 posts
Sleep Deprived Works of Minimal Genius
BY JULIAN SMITH
@DANGERSMITH
“Washed Away in a Digital Sea (Part One)”
In the what feels like forever ago summer of two thousand and three, I helped start a band. We were only about to be high school sophomores, but we took it surprisingly serious given how little most of us cared about practically everything else. After writing a few “songs” and...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 1/27
BY JULIAN SMITH
(@DANGERSMITH)
Times are strange. I look outside my window as we inch towards February and see more rain than snow. Even the air feels and smells like Spring sometimes. And just when I think the cursed, coldest of seasons has skipped us and dare to walk outside in only a T-Shirt, Mother Earth gets over her menopausal hot flash, turns the rain to ice, and mocks me from above as...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 1/20
by Julian Smith
@DANGERSMITH
Hello Columbus dwellers! Thanks for dropping in on this weekend’s trusty guide. The theme this weekend is good times in warm places, which is fitting given that this weekend also concludes Columbus’ annual Restaurant Week. Restaurant Week is a promotion involving pretty much every notable restaurant in and around the city. It allows diners looking to...
Charitable Monsters
BY JULIAN SMITH
@DANGERSMITH
If you live in Columbus and follow its buzzing music scene or read any of its many fine local publications, chances are you heard about The Town Monster and tapped your toes to their single “Bela Lugosi” in 2011. Their blend of Electro, Dance, Pop, and Rock took our city by storm last year and it doesn’t seem to be losing steam in the new year,...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 1/13
by Julian Smith @DANGERSMITH I don’t know about you, but my favorite time of the week is Weekend Guide time. It practically makes my food taste better. I hope you all enjoyed our week with P. Blackk in The Little Box as much as I did. His latest mixtape Black Friday is available for download now at http://pblackk.com and if you’ve yet to hear it you should most likely click that link and do...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 1/6
by Julian Smith (@DANGERSMITH)
Congratulations, you’ve made it through the first week of 2012, which means you’re (apparently) only less than fifty away from doomsday! Thus, the goal of this weekend’s update is to get you all to go out into our fair city and celebrate your lives through live music, tasty eats, and general, youthful debauchery! As always, the 614 area is chalk...
SPOONFEED IN 2012
It’s 2012, and as we look to the future with wild eyes and colorful ambitions I would like to take some time to talk to you about Spoonfeed’s current past, present, and future. I speak for the whole team when I say the past few months have been an amazing treat. We can only hope you are enjoying the fruits of our labor as much as we’ve been enjoying the labor. Since the first talks and meetings...
December 2011
4 posts
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 12/30
Well well well, it’s the end of the year and you’re probably ready for 2012 equipped with resolutions and big ol’ plans. So are we! We have a TON of amazing things up our sleeves for 2012 and can’t wait to share them with all of your shining faces. BUT- 2011 isnt over yet, and it’s not leaving without a weekend of debauchery and a black out you’ll quickly forget...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND - 11/16
Alright everyone were starting this off early this week, letting you get the early scoop on what the plan is for Friday. That alright? Oh good, thanks so much. We were worried you would HATE THE IDEA. This Friday, the night starts young with two fun events to do at 7pm. If you’re a fan of The Clash and would love to listening to awesome local bands cover their songs, get on over to Victories...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND
BY LARRY DOYLE
Its about to be snowing. For that we are sorry. But don’t let the cold keep you inside all weekend. That would be silly! We have some fun things to keep you warm this weekend so listen up! This Friday at Kobo, Dolfish will be releasing a 7” vinyl and heading out for a tour. Show starts at 8 with SAINTSENECA and The Black Swans. After wishing Max well, head on over to Skully’s...
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND
BY LARRY DOYLE
Hey Spoonfeeders!! We have quite the slew of jolly events for you to attend this weekend so listen up!
Tonight, if you’re feeling feisty, you should swing by the Invisible Gallery with 6 artists displaying provocative art work. The show runs from 7 till 11 and the artist will be there to discuss the pieces on display. But if you’re feeling a little chill and have just that...
November 2011
3 posts
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND
BY JULIAN SMITH
It’s time for another Weekend Guide from your friends at Spoonfeed! Columbus is buzzing with activity this weekend, as usual. Here are a few things that we think you should spend your hard earned coin on!
Fitz and the Tantrums will be stopping by The Newport Music Hall for yet another sold out show in the Capitol City! We’re truly excited about the support, which...
A COMPREHENSIVE INTERVIEW WITH GOVAN JONES
BY JULIAN SMITH
PHOTOS BY KATE SWEENEY
I’d like to preface this piece by apologizing, both to Govan Jones and my Spoonfeed comrades, for the delay in getting this posted. I know we’ve been hyping it for awhile and I’m so pleased to finally be getting it to anyone who wants to take the time to read it because ultimately I feel it was a story worth telling, thus worth waiting for....
SPOONFEED'S GUIDE TO YOUR WEEKEND
BY JULIAN SMITH
Our weekend is jam packed as usual, but there are a few things going down in our fair city that we’re making time for…
Our friend Katie Pierce over at Jack in the Pocket (http://jackinthepocket.com/) recently turned us on to a 20 year old Pennsylvania native named Alex Koone, who performs under the name of Balam Acab. His album, WANDER / WONDER, dropped via...
October 2011
2 posts
MEETING ELMO, AND WHY THAT'S IMPORTANT
PHOTO, ARTICLE BY JEFF MEYERS JR.
As an avid fan of music and art, I become easily starstruck, even when attending a local show. I forget that those in performance are real people, and not the characters my mind wraps around them as they perform, trying to tell me a story or teach me a lesson. I become fascinated with the stage becoming a different world, that I’m just outside of looking in....
REVIEW :: THE WEIGHT OF WHALES "We Became a Major...
COVER ART BY ROBERT TRAUTMAN
by Julian Smith
I won’t lie, The Weight of Whales, solely based on name alone, immediately brought Moby Dick to my mind. After listening to their latest EP, awesomely titled We Became A Major Corporation, several times, it became clear to me that the association, albeit strange, was a fitting one. The duo is most definitely telling an epic story with their...
September 2011
1 post
THE KILLS @ Newport Music Hall
BY JEFF MEYERS JR.
PHOTO BY KATE SWEENEY
The thing I love about going to concerts is that I usually hit a state of euphoria that prevents me from caring too much about how I come off to others around me. I’ll go see bands and dance my poor nerdy little heart out on the floor, which usually consists of awkward robotic arms and bobbing my knees up and down. It’s a shame too, because I really should...
