The Beachland Ballroom and Tavern

As the Cleveland winds blow their chill inside the marrow of our bones, a simple soup is often our only bulwark of autumn resistance. One of the easiest and most timeless of these, chicken soup, is a ...

Remember delightfully crappy 70s kids show Land of the Lost? We’re not talking the remake featuring the lumbering buffoonery ofWill Farrell; we’re talking the one with a feather-haired family ...

This Thursday, one of America’s living legends rolls jauntily into the Beachland, riding high atop a 25 year-old wave of touring and recording that’s still crashing parties and blowing people ...

Not unlike the democracy in which many of us participated this past Tuesday, today’s Beachland Blog entry is a jumbled hodgepodge. As in many elections, we’ve got controversy, old favorites, ...

Traveling across four continents for over three years with cameras and a mobile recording studio, award-winning producers Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls embarked on a search for musical inspiration. What they discovered on their journey was the power music has to connect the world together. ...

Tomorrow night, the beleaguered sports fans are asked to “witness”, as the Cavaliers make their way toward capturing greatness for themselves, and the city of Cleveland. Well, that’s what we’re hoping for. You know how it goes in this town sometimes…

Coffinberry’s been shown ample love on this blog, other blogs, and in print media throughout the country. So we’ll spare the odes to their coolly hot handling of melodic rock full of world-weary yells, clamoring guitars, and tough drumming. ...

As the Rock Hall and the Beachland commemorate the legacy of Janis Joplin with a performance by her former backing band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, we present to you a few versions of tunes this iconic rocker made famous.Tonight’s gigalso featuresMary Bridget Davies, on vocals. ...

Tonight’s highly-anticipated Ballroom show with singer/songwriter/musical auteur St. Vincent also features Cleveland-based Buried Wires, made up of guitaristBrian Straw, bassist Matthew Gengler ...

If you haven’t gotten tickets to Thursday’s sold-out They Might Be Giants show, Jack (or Jill), you are clean out of luck. Yet to accompany you, Dear Reader, click on this link for a great ...

Released in 2004, Califone’s Heron King Blues was the musical response to a recurring dream experienced by bandleader Tim Rutili, that of a large bird-man.This albummeanders, seemingly lost in ...

Yes, readers, it’s another big Waterloo weekend! Why, we’ll have everything but a viewing of the recent moon blow-up (though that could probably be easily remedied with a wi-fi connection, ...

Yes, readers, it’s another big Waterloo weekend! Why, we’ll have everything but a viewing of the recent moon blow-up (though that could probably be easily remedied with a wi-fi connection, ...

To ably prep you for tonight’s concert with this highly influential trio, here are some tunes for your listening and watching pleasure. We’re talking almost twenty years of pop that’s exceeded and redefined indie rock expectations. So enjoy the variety.