(Spruce Campbell Brewing will have its Vowl Kolsch IPA on tap Friday at Rumba.) It’s also why mastermind Jason Matthew Kusowski has complemented his sonic endeavors with a microbrewing hobby-turned-business that’s picking up momentum perhaps even more quickly than his music. That’s why they completed their “Bipolar Coordinates” project, a series of six EPs collected into a sprawling whole and released last month. The Spruce Campbells are a band that thinks big and actually follows through with grand gestures. Get ready to raise your glass and ramp up your pulse when they take the stage.įew bands match an expansive psychedelic vision with songs so tightly constructed and singable. His band keeps growing in nuance with each release, but always in the context of basement-show bombast and hearty lung-bursts that hit like bricks. Sowash continues to cast witty, self-deprecating insights into coarse but compulsively memorable melodies, all backed by gravelly guitar blasts and slugged-out rhythms. Thus, recent LP “Somebody” picks up where “Nobody” left off. While some bands try on different looks as freely and carelessly as teenage girls set loose in a department store, The Kyle Sowashes keep doing the same thing and getting better and better at it. No other band in Columbus seems quite so primed for stardom see them in a tiny venue like Rumba while you still can. Although the ace pop-rock combo has existed since 1999, the members just recently began touring far and wide and capturing the imagination of Columbus listeners.Īll that buildup is paying off, both in terms of quality (last year’s “Amy’s House” and recent single “Feel It” are pure distilled radio bliss) and quantity (they’ve been playing in front of huge crowds lately). Like most “overnight” success stories, Bonneville has been perfecting their craft for much longer than most people realize. The generous distillers from Middle West Spirits will be back on hand with specialized cocktails that benefit the Columbus Music Co-op. We’ve assembled energetic and engaging performers from various corners of the indie-rock tradition - warbling whispers, throat-shredding shouts and numerous points in between, each deployed with style, smarts and an innate sense of what makes music fun. Join us Friday at Rumba Cafe for a set of musicians at the intersection of catchy and quirky. As July prepares to round the corner into August, the Alive Summer Music Tour surges forward with our third Columbus music showcase of the season.
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