Monday Muse: Kipp Stone "Live from the Tap" music video

Fresh off the weekend, heading back into the office, I thought we could all use a steady beat to ease into the week. This Monday Muse features Cleveland hip hop artist Kipp Stone, whom I discovered on Saturday as I researched another local artist, psychedelic blues rocker Thaddeus Anna Greene. The two collaborated on the three-volume, 27-song mixtape series King Basi & The Brougham Music, which is an hour and 28 minutes of lyrical rhapsody and badinage laid over raw, rhythmic and melodic instrumental cuts. (I'm quite pleased with this find.) Nod your head to "Live from the Tap," track five on Volume 3: Dolce Victoria.



This music video was released last October just days before A Right To Create Music Group launched Stone's debut album, Video Game Kids. If you like what you've heard, also watch the artist's newest music video for "Pine Marten" off of King Basi & The Brougham Music Volume 1: Hollywood North. 

Monday Muse: Humble Home "Too Young" and Thaddeus Greene "Let Me Be" Live From Bad Racket

The Rhythm Report is once again celebrating the reverent songwriting of Humble Home in this week's Monday Muse. Last month, the blog featured a video of Humble Home's vocalists Nick Wise and Matt Hectorne in a back-alley performance of "Babel," originally released in 2010.


Bad Racket Recording Studio introduced a new audio-visual production featuring the full band on December 2. The independent folk rock quartet from the Solon-Aurora area was invited into the Ohio City-based studio to record a Live From Bad Racket session directed by Aaron Freeder. 

Live From Bad Racket - Humble Home from Bad Racket on Vimeo

Filmed at and audio engineered by Bad Racket Recording Studio
Directed by Aaron Freeder

Humble Home announced through social media that the band is in writing sessions and updated fans with a Facebook post that read, "New material is coming together like cream and coffee. Stay tuned."

The group has been generous to eager ears, playing raw renditions of their latest creations during a few live performances in the past months. Fans can catch up with the band before the year's end at The Grog Shop on Sunday, December 18, when Humble Home takes the stage with Above the Atlantic, CARE and Morgan Mecasky.

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Throwback artist Thaddeus Greene was also a featured subject for a Live From Bad Racket video that hit the internet in November. Greene was courteous to allow a sneak preview of the "Let Me Be" audio recording for The Rhythm Report's interview with Bad Racket in October. Now, the full craft recording production is available to satiate the auditory and visual senses. Watch the video here and stay tuned to The Rhythm Report for more on this exceptionally vintage musician.

Live From Bad Racket - Thaddeus Greene from Bad Racket on Vimeo

Filmed at and audio engineered by Bad Racket Recording Studio

Directed by Aaron Freeder

Live, Local Music is at Heart of Bad Racket Anniversary Show

Written by Priscilla Tasker

Camaraderie and music pulsed through the multi-colored paneled walls of Bad Racket Recording Studio in Ohio City as friends and artists gathered to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the business that is growing into a mainstay of the Cleveland music scene. An intimate crowd upwards of 60 people assembled to swill a few brews and listen to area bands play on the small stage centered in the studio chamber.

Ladybird and The Folk led off the night to entertain early arrivers with live incantations of spritely verse and acoustic-driven progressions.

 Bad Racket Anniversary Show! – October 21, 2011
©Bad Racket

An assorted mix of folk mingled in the dimly lit room around miscellaneous seating arrangements, a makeshift coffee table propped up by tires, and a piano bar, behind which was a keg of Buckeye Brewing’s Cleveland Beer Week “special brew” – a gift bestowed to the studio owners by its crafter. 

Humble Home emerged to the performance platform. Nebulous harmonies and ghostly minstrelsies soon filled and hung in the space with listeners yielding to the beauty of sound suspended in air. Many of the band’s songs are doleful and pensive in nature, but the four men delivered a lively set. To appease the congregation’s calls for one more song, the band closed with an upbeat work in progress, “Welcome Home,” giving witnesses a first listen to the song which had never before been played outside of the Humble Home practice space.

Humble Home at Bad Racket – October 21, 2011
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Although Ladybird and Humble Home were the only artists promoted as part of the bill, Bad Racket invited several other musicians with whom the studio’s worked to take the stage. 

After a brief intermission, Thaddeus Greene and The So & So’s roused the company of music lovers with swelling vintage rock grooves, harkening to acid rock days. The band played as a duo, Greene and drummer Anthony Foti (also of Humble Home). With a few words, they paid tribute to ailing bassist, Matthew Augusta, who was unable to join them for the evening.

Thaddeus Greene at Bad Racket – October 21, 2011
©Bad Racket

The extended lineup drove the event well beyond its scheduled end time of 11 p.m. Tom Evanchuck and The Old Money strolled in close to midnight, after the band’s show at Wilbert’s, to set the party off with its blues-bound rock ‘n’ roll. The performance was marked by G. Patrick Jenkins III’s exhibition of his new lead guitar role. The energy of the full band behind familiar tunes sent a few individuals into a dizzying dance.

Cool Jason and Pat Mulloy wound down the night with a few good ol’ boy bar tunes before the crowd dwindled. There were only a hand full of people left talking and diddling around on the instruments strewn about the stage as Bad Racket’s Thomas Fox picked up the acoustic guitar to croon a couple of tunes in the quiet company of those who remained.

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Listen to The Rhythm Report's pre-show interview with two of three Bad Racket co-owners, Adam Wagner and Thomas Fox.

Read about one of many wins for Bad Racket in 2011 in this article: Last-minute music fest takes Rock Hall, Science Center


Bad Racket, LLC is owned and operated by Thomas Fox, Adam Wagner and James Kananen.