November 26, 2024 // Holding a variety of roles and side hustles brings joy to Rachel Hunt's life. [ClevelandMagazine.com]

November 21, 2024 // The celebration includes a benefit and concert on Saturday evening at Happy Dog. [ClevelandMagazine.com]

Brit Fox, a rising music star, has joined the cast of Sean Baker's new film 'Anora,' featuring her hit songs 'Frosty,' 'Short Notice,' and 'Mazuma.' The film will premiere at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in Nice, France, before coming to a theatre near you.

September 9, 2024 [Ideastream.org]

Sept 3, 2024 // For as long as Cleveland's had a music scene there have been attempts—some longer running than others—to promote it. [CleveScene.com]

August 19, 2024 // The team responsible for the 2023 Greater Cleveland Music Census is ready to share their results and they want you to be a part of it. [Cleveland.com]

July 10, 2024 // The organization continues to find opportunities for local bands. [Clevescene.com]

April 4, 2024 // Kid Tigrrr is the gauzy, solo dream-pop project of Jenna Fournier, who fronted the Cleveland shoegaze band NIIGHTS. When the band went on hiatus due to COVID-19, Fournier began writing and recording her own songs. She experienced overwhelming losses during the pandemic, from death in the family to relationships falling apart and her career being upended. [Ideastream.org]

January 22, 2024 // Northeast Ohio musicians use streaming to find new audiences, but rarely see significant earnings from online music streams. [ClevelandMagazine.com]

December 28, 2023 // Bold Journey recently connected with Jenna Fournier and shared their conversation. [BoldJourney.com]

December 22, 2023 // The lead singer of Apostle Jones has always had music in his life. [ClevelandMagazine.com]

December 11, 2023 // It’s easy to look at Pollstar’s Worldwide Top 200 Clubs grosses chart and see that for the top performers, the post-pandemic concert firehose was most definitely “on” in 2023. But it wasn’t that way for all of them – particularly those that struggled most to survive during the 2020-21 COVID shutdown and have yet to fully recover. [Pollstar.com]

December 12, 2023 // The team responsible for the Greater Cleveland Music Census that launched last month is making one final push for participation. Creatives, presenters, industry (and tangential) professionals have been encouraged to participate by visiting clevelandrocksppf.org/census. The results are expected in March 2024. [Cleveland.com]

November 6, 2023 // Fox 8’s Kenny Crumpton visits the Waterloo Arts District to learn about the efforts underway to preserve Cleveland’s music history, launch new artists and create a strong economic foundation for the future. [Fox8.com]

Cleveland native David Spero is humble and unassuming, despite recently being inducted into the Personal Managers Hall of Fame after a successful career as a music-oriented personal manager. [FreshWaterCleveland.com]

October 11, 2023 // For the third time, Baldwin Wallace has been touted as a music business leader by Billboard magazine — a prestigious nod to the innovative courses, industry connections and successful alumni that put BW at the forefront of a dynamic and ever-changing music industry. [bw.edu]

September 27, 2023 // Local groups that helped support independent entertainment venues throughout the ups and downs of COVID-19 — including netting $135 million in federal Shuttered Venue Operators Grants for Northeast Ohio — are launching a new effort aimed at quantifying the economic impact of the live music and entertainment industries in the region. [CrainsCleveland.com]

September 27, 2023 // A census of the Cleveland music scene is in the works to gauge how the industry is doing. Organized by the Cleveland Independent Venue Association, the survey will try to measure the social and economic impacts of live entertainment. [Ideastream.org]

August 10, 2023 // Some cities carry nicknames that nod to their impressive musical roots, like Nashville’s Music City or New York City’s the Big Apple (a nod to jazz musicians). But, famed musicians can hail from all around the country, and many smaller towns have massively impressive roots in music that may not be widely known. From iconic recording studios to birth and resting places for musical innovators, check out these eight eight cities with underrated music scenes. [Redbookmag.com]

August 16, 2023 // Austin has one. Nashville has one. Cleveland's music scene, venue owners say, should be next. [CleveScene.com]

August 9, 2023 // A mental health awareness nonprofit organization is using hip-hop to bridge the gap between mental health struggles in Black and Brown communities and music as a healing tool. [GoodMorningAmerica.com]

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and EarthQuaker Devices have teamed up again in collaboration of a second set of limited-edition guitar pedals. The pedals feature new and exclusive artwork from the legendary Cleveland artist, Derek Hess and come in a variety of colorways.

June 28, 2023 // From securing nonprofit status to bands buying the actual clubs, anything and everything seems to be on the table for indie live-music operators. [RollingStone.com]

June 20, 2023 // Downtown Cleveland Inc., is bringing back the Downtown Busker Program for its second year.The official street-performance program features 20 pre-selected “pitch” (the area buskers perform) locations and guides for potential buskers to help them find their perfect “pitch.”Each pitch location was selected by Downtown Cleveland Inc. to maximize pedestrian visibility near hot spots and offer room for creative freedom in performing. [Cleveland.com]

June 15, 2023 // When Music Saves, the record store next to the Beachland Ballroom and Tavern, closed its doors in 2017, Cindy Barber had a plan to revive the space. Barber’s nonprofit bought the storefront in 2018, and after launching a fundraising campaign, is now turning it into a retail space for local music called Cleveland Rocks Shop. [Ideastream.org]

April 28, 2023 // Young creatives ages 15 to 25 are working on Hollywood-style recording projects as members of Northeast Ohio's Kaboom Collective. Students work with a variety of industry professionals in the arts, from musical composition to script writing to digital animation. But at the collective's center is its studio orchestra led by Kaboom Collective Co-Founder and Cleveland Arts Prize winner Liza Grossman. [Ideastream.org]

April 13, 2023 // Analysis from the 2022 Arts Vibrancy Index reveals Cleveland, Ohio with a score in the top 1% of communities on measurements of Arts Dollars. The city shows particular strengths in the amount of earned revenue generated from artistic programs and the total compensation paid to arts and cultural employees per capita – higher than all other large midwestern communities on these two sub-measures. [CulturalData.org]

April 14, 2023 // Dig through crates and find your next great listen at Northeast Ohio's vast variety of independent record shops. [ClevelandMagazine.com]

The Boddie Recording Company was the city’s first Black-owned studio, operating from the 1950s through the 1990s. The Landmarks Commission voted Thursday to approve landmark status for the company's former headquarters, a house at 12202 Union Avenue in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood.