Quote: "Good energy, music and fun is what we should all live for." My name is Brandi Genzen. My passions are local music, concerts, family and friends. I am a mother of a 30-year-old song and two daughters, 24 and 8. I spent my young life raising children and working. I lived for everyone else expect myself. I had my last child late in life and we had a close call. Having spent eight days at OSU hospital, mostly alone, I had a lot of time to reflect. I realized I had never lived for me or known true happiness. That’s when I decided to live a full and happy life. I asked myself what I had always wanted and never had time for and my answer was music. The one thing that really made me feel. The thing that made me smile, dance, cry, feel understood. Today I have several friends in the music industry. I took a leap and tossed myself in. It’s important for me to support the local and new artists today. I have much respect and empathy for the industry right n...

  Joe Banker is a career photographer from Cleveland, Ohio. In high school, Joe was an avid concert goer. When he picked up a camera his senior year, it was only natural to bring it to shows. In 2012, this quickly grew into a serious hobby and an eventual career. Since then, Joe has toured and photographed hundreds of concerts from small clubs to major music festivals. To this day, it's only natural for Joe to be at a show with a camera, otherwise, he's probably not going! Since 2018 Joe has operated a wedding photography business with his wife. The experience and knowledge gained from fast paced music photography has enhanced his ability in critical moments, ensuring he always gets the shot.

I have been doing photography more than 15 years. I’m a highly energetic and motivated individual with a passion, love and drive for the photography industry in such a unique way. The energy and the passion that I bring to the crowd when shooting any type of live event is absolutely unmatched. I also have other experience in lifestyle photography and portrait photography. I also shoot weddings when needed. But my true passion is concert & portraits photography. I shoot Canon. 

  My name is Josh Estep, I’m from Dayton, Ohio. I’m a nerd, a husband, a father and a lover of music!    I grew up skateboarding and in high school I met a group of friends that were all in bands but I quickly found out that I had zero musical abilities.  When my friends and I were out skateboarding, I always had a camera and was filming and editing the videos. I quickly fell more in love with the camera than I did with the skateboard.  In 2011, I bought my first professional DSLR camera, a Nikon d7000, and I started taking photos of everything.  In 2012, my friend asked me to take photos of his band. I figured why not, I love music, and I love concerts! I shot the show and the photos weren’t the greatest, but I was HOOKED!  Being up front with my camera and capturing my friends in their element! And that’s what I love so much about being a music photographer. 

  A lifelong enthusiast of storytelling, Justin Bauer writes fiction that explores elements central to the human condition and our shared experiences.  Initially from Columbus, Ohio, Justin’s first passion was writing. In adolescence, he discovered drumming. His performance resume spans from heavy metal to musical theatre. He’s earned an Associate in Music Business from Hocking College, and a BA in English literature from The Ohio State University. He lives in the Chillicothe area with his wife, two children, and two agents of chaos disguised as house cats. When not writing or tending to family life, Justin enjoys reading, painting, spinning records, drinking coffee, and most of what comes with being alive. 

 

  James Magill, a 40-something slacker just trying to survive. Recently left his small city hometown for big city Columbus; he’s an avid media junky currently working a graveyard shift job that gives him a lot of free time on his hands. Loves all things horror, can sit through any movie in a theatre, and calls his musical tastes eclectic. For a laugh, ask him how Rob Zombie completely changed his taste in music.  An elder emo and complete with Hawthorne Heights lyrics tattooed on his arm, James loves live music, is in love with The Bluestone as a venue, and completely up in arms about the price of concert tickets.

  Whenever asked to write a short autobiography, my mind immediately wanders to the one that John Lennon wrote for the back cover of his first book, “In His Own Write.” Stealing Lennon’s language-mangling style, I usually scribe: “I was bored the 23rd of Octover, 1964, when I believe we were booming the V-8 Cong, led by Hoochie Coochie Man (who was neither very Hoochie nor Coochie). Anyway, I was much too young to fight. I attended varicose schools around Cowtown, Ohio, and actually passed, much to my mummy’s supplies.” Amid the wordplay, there is an element of truth.  I was born on October 23, 1964 in Columbus, Ohio.  In the opinion of today’s sociologists, that either makes me one of the youngest Baby Boomers or an elder statesman of Generation X. I have come to realize that I am a bit of both, which probably explains my passion for rock music and various other aspects of our popular culture. As a child of the ‘seventies, I loved listening to my older brother’s record c...

  Band  The Black Dahlia Murder Album   Servitude (Metal Blade Records) Release Date   September 27, 2024  Review Written By Steve Jones, OOTB Publications It was Ozzfest 2005 in Columbus, Ohio at the once great Polaris Amphitheater, it was 105 degrees and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. The concert program featured this band who I’d never heard nor seen. Waters were like $20 and we were all roasting in the summer heat. The band came out in their tighty shorts and proceeded to throw down; the most brutal set of the day! I love acoustic guitar with my death metal! The Black Dahlia Murder continues to create some of the most face-melting death metal that’s ever existed. Ten albums later, they are set to destroy your senses with a brutal assault of acrobatic guitar work and chaotic drumming! Get this album immediately when it’s released! Servitude is full of bangers! Let’s gooooo! I’ve already listened to it three times! Rating 5/5 Favorite Tracks “Aftermath,” “...

  Christian Cole joined the Out Of The Blue Publications ’ roster in the late summer of 2024 as a Contributing Writer. On and off, Cole has spent the last decade or more inside the local music circuit performing with jam bands Day Old Dozen and The Blues Sea Jam Experience. Cole currently writes, sings and plays guitar for Midwest Emo band Downbad. where he resides in Marion, Ohio. Cole graduated from Upper Sandusky High School in May of 2015, continuing from there into the local music scene. While in high school, Cole took computer and video classes and took a liking to journaling and writing poetry, even creating his own website to showcase his work while a sophomore in high school. He also wrote and recorded albums of original music on his battery powered MP3 player, he then transferred the music to discs and handed them out anywhere and everywhere he went, often times distributing them under a pseudonym. It was things such as this that instilled in him an interest in journalism...

  We are Seldom Fade! We are a four-piece modern rock band form Stow, Ohio.  We recently released our latest single "All The Memories” and it currently sits at more than 95k views; we are so shocked and excited about this! We love and appreciate every single person who has listened to it.  Our new EP Rekindle // Revive comes out Aug. 30! This is our first release in two years. We have spent the last two years completely rebranding the entire band with new imagery, production, songs and even a new logo. Our single that came out in 2022, titled "DTNA,” was the first small step into this new direction before going full bore with it.  We also will be playing our first shows back in almost three years this Fall. We will be playing Horns For Hearts in Mechanicsburg, Pa. on Sept. 29 at Lovedrafts Brewing Company. This show is hosted by 717 entertainment as well as Emelle from the band Eternal Frequency. All the proceeds for this show will directly go to the American Founda...

  Written By Christian Cole, OOTB Publications This week’s LP comes to us all the way from Los Angeles, California; home of melodic-punk rockers Stoke Signals who are prepping for the release of their debut album Make Dying Fun , releasing September 20th. Stoke Signals MAY be readying for their first full length record, but they’re no stranger to the scene. The band rose from the smoldering ashes of TWO bands: Holy Fangs, whose name you can find boasted on the tracklist as the first single on the album, and Promise Me This.  What we get here with Make Dying Fun is a record that DELIVERS—one that showcases a band in their infancy as a UNIT, clearly not just as individuals or musicians.  The nostalgia emanating from the LP is hard to ignore, while it doesn’t force itself upon you or seem to be the objective goal of the record. It scratches that itch of 1990s-2000s skate punk records while never intentionally baiting you in and touching the soft spots of your youth JUST to ...

  Written By Neil Shumate, OOTB Publications   Leading Ohio-based Metallica tribute band The Four Horsemen—fittingly named after the classic 1983 Metallica song, formed in 2004 and solidified in 2010 and has since shared lineups and stages with artists including: Theory of a Deadman, Nickelback, Bush, Vanilla Ice—recently took time away from their current extensive tour to discuss the band’s success, the pressures to live up to their name (performing precise, album quality, crowd-pleasing songs from Metallica's first four classic albums: Kill 'Em All , Ride the Lightning , Master of Puppets , …And Justice For All , along with popular anthems from the Black Album), today’s rock music, interests and much more in this interview with vocalist, guitarist Sean Perry.  Watch The Four Horsemen Promo   When you close your eyes at a live show, you can’t tell the difference between The Four Horsemen and Metallica. Is there a lot of pressure on you to carry out such a perform...