There’s always something new to listen to when it comes to Northeast Ohio’s music, and we feature a snippet of the scene in our Cleveland Current playlist, updated every month with a new mix of tunes.
In July, we’ve got nearly two hours of local artists to check out.
Tune in. You’ll hear:
- Cellophane Jane’s gritty take on glam in the band's new album A Party of Cranes
- D’Asia Simone’s upbeat, danceable love song “Fantasy”
- My_Kayla’s boisterous new single “We Bad”
- Patrick Sweany, Massillon native, on his bluesy track “Ain’t It Hell”
- Reggie Fields’ hypnotic techno beats on “The Bridge”
- TRUSS’s heavy rocking album Fluorescence
- Westside Lo’s positive vibes on his new album Alignment
… and more.
In particular, the playlist includes Brent Kirby’s newest album On + On + On, a 10-track Americana album recorded in haunted Oberlin farmhouse Riverdog with acclaimed producer Don Dixon.
“I felt if there were ghosts present, they understood what the songs were about,” Kirby states in a news release. “We were told the people who stayed right after us had some experiences, so I guess they waited until we were done to make their noise.”
Themes of both grief and gratitude swirl in the powerful project by one of Cleveland’s most beloved singer-songwriters, who also performs in The Jack Fords, holiday band Ohio City Singers, Doug McKean & the Stuntmen and in Gram Parsons cover band The New Soft Shoe.
“I was working on tunes for a different album, and then realized I had this kind of connective string of songs that I had written at times when I lost somebody close, or was longing, and the appreciation of those life experiences and how they changed me,” Kirby says. “It wasn’t the album I was seeking to make at the time, but it was the one I needed to make.”
Listen to the playlist below:
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