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By Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor “The game you’re expected to play to be in this world — I just knew I’d like to have as little as possible to do with it,” Sarah McLachlan told the Los Angeles Times in a fairly recent interview surrounding the anniversary of her landmark LP, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. “I think […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor When the Byrds burst upon the music world in the summer of 1965, it was a sound of freshness, of a new direction, a new future that would last far longer than any trend of the day known as “folk rock.” With folk music as their roots, the […]
Read MoreBy Chad Miller - Summit FM Music Director Our latest Summit Sounding Board gathering at the Varsity Club in Youngstown delivered another fantastic evening of musical discovery, and now the results are officially tallied! Summit members came together to rate and rank a diverse collection of tracks, and every single vote counted in determining our […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor When it comes to electronic music, there are often two camps. One is wholeheartedly invested in the technological aspect and creating sounds and, sometimes, other worlds. The other, first and foremost, are songwriters, with electronic music as their chosen path to executing those songs. Ideally, those two worlds […]
Read MoreBy Matt Anthony - Summit FM Digital Media Specialist A worn brick alley in Annapolis. Paint weathered and removed over time on the railing of a stairwell in St. Louis. Or the scuffed and grooved surface of a check-out counter in an old convenience store here in Akron. These timeless tales, and the stories they […]
Read MoreBy Chad Miller - Summit FM Music Director Since way back in 2005, the Nelsonville Music Festival, founded by Stuart's Opera House, has been a recognized leader, albeit on a smaller scale, as one of the country's most successful and musically diverse annual music festivals. Three years ago, over Labor Day weekend, it first appeared […]
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