Ohio-based blues/rock band The Black Keys teams up with a slew of hiphop artists to bring us Blakroc. Bit late to the game on this one, but I love the sound. Something in the realm of the Gorillaz. Enjoy. Blakroc, ‘What You Do To Me (feat. Billy Danze, Jim Jones & Nicole Wray)’, (2009)

It took a good friend from Chicago to get me into KiD CuDi, possibly the state of Ohio’s fastest rising Star. I’m sure anyone who has been to a mildly ‘active’ bar in the last few months has heard the single ‘Day N Nite’ (and it’s many remixes). CuDi joins DC’s Wale as a member [...]

RJD2 has never gotten the entire credit he probably deserves…my theory for this? Some curse against every ounce of culture that originates in Columbus, Ohio? RJD2 may have been Oregon born, but he got his musical start in Columbus, and it wasn’t until he left the midwest for NYC that he got big. Anyways, chip-on-my-shoulder [...]

Some places are easier to romanticize than others. Mark Kozelek thrives on this artistic paradox. I don’t have much to say about him or his many incarnations (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon and others) but the guy is a pretty amazing singer songwriter…admittedly boring at times, but with my biased-sentimental-Ohioan hat on, this song [...]