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Stacks of red tires are due to start popping-up around the city of Akron Thursday in celebration of the new wave band DEVO, as part of an effort to boost the hometown heroes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse is the new home for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, starting this fall. After more than a year of virtual events across the country, the Rock Hall is looking to break out of a COVID-19-induced prison and return to a live induction event in Cleveland on October 30. Rock Hall president Greg Harris said it will be the sixth time for a hometown induction. “It was here back in ‘97 in a hotel,” he said. “Then, in 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018, it was held at Cleveland's Public Auditorium.”

Cleveland’s musical museum on the lake is looking to take some lessons from the past year into its planning for 2021. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame re-opened its doors over the weekend after a two-month COVID-inspired closure.

Music fans in Columbus rejoiced over the weekend when the radio station formerly known as CD102.5 announced it was coming back to the airwaves.The…

A group of Northeast Ohio independent music venues has spent the past five months planning how to reopen safely amid the coronavirus pandemic. Now the venues have shifted to just trying to survive these winter months so they can reopen at all.

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the cultural economy, the businesses and the people that make their living creating music, food and art.But…

A new bill in the Ohio House would offer $20 million in federal coronavirus stimulus funding to independent music venues.The bill’s co-author, state Rep.…

The Department of Homeland Security announced the changes last week, which will take effect in early October.

Independent music venues continue to be among the businesses hardest hit by the global pandemic. The corporate behemoths of concert promotion, however, can weather the storm.

The state has released a reopening plan for the performing arts which takes into account the many variables that come with live theater and music, such...