The Quiet One

Columbus music and culture

Dec 15, 202319 min read

The StarrCatt Holiday World Orchestra: Johnny Polansky's Creative Journey

Johnny Polansky had an idea percolating in his head for decades about spearheading a winter-holiday-themed music project. Amidst the...

Sep 20, 202215 min read

Megan Palmer - Forget Me Not

By the time Megan Palmer performed with club owner Dan Dougan’s band The Wahoos at Little Brother's one Wednesday night in 2002, she’d...

Nov 18, 20214 min read

The Uneasy Coexistence of Ohio State Football and Columbus’ Music Scene

Ohio State football plays such a prominent role in Columbus culture that it is inescapable and disruptive of everything from weddings to...

Oct 3, 20215 min read

The Singles Era

These days when everyone has GarageBand in their pocket and easy access to world-class audio editing software, it’s easy to forget that...

May 22, 20214 min read

An Old Fogey's Twenty One Pilots Take

My plan as I began a blog focused primarily around Columbus music was that I’d begin with the higher-profile stuff - label releases from...

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