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Review & Photos: Big Wild, Josh Fudge

  EFFERUSPHERE TOUR SEPTEMBER 28, 2022 KEMBA LIVE! COLUMBUS, OHIO By Neil Shumate, OOTB Publications

Review & Photos: Meshuggah, Converge, Torche

IMMUTABLE TOUR SEPTEMBER 25, 2022 KEMBA LIVE! COLUMBUS, OHIO By Neil Shumate, OOTB Publications

Review & Photos: Great Van Fleet, Houndmouth, Robert Finley

  DREAMS IN GOLD TOUR SEPTEMBER 20, 2022 ALLEN COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL COLISEUM FORT WAYNE, INDIANA By Neil Shumate, OOTB Publications

Review & Photos: Boy George & Culture Club, The English Beat

    SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 ROSE MUSIC CENTER AT THE HEIGHTS HUBER HEIGHTS, OHIO By Neil Shumate, OOTB Publications

Photos: Tom Keifer, Winger, L.A. Guns, Faster Pussycat, BulletBoys, Stephen Pearcy, Pettibone, Arch Madness

  PICKTOWN PALOOZA JULY 13, 14, 15, 2022 HUBER PARK REYNOLDSBURG, OHIO    Contributed By Missie Tong , OOTB Publications  

Photos: Morris Day, Plain White T's, North To Nashville

THE TOMATO FEST AUG. 4, 5, 6, 2022 HUBER PARK REYNOLDSBURG, OHIO    Contributed By Missie Tong , OOTB Publications

Review & Photos: Ice Nine Kills, Black Veil Brides, Motionless In White, We Came As Romans

THE TRINITY OF TERROR TOUR: PART II SEPTEMBER 7, 2022 JACOBS PAVILION AT NAUTICA CLEVELAND, OHIO By Neil Shumate, OOTB Publications

Review & Photos: 311, Tropidelic

  FALL TOUR SEPTEMBER 2, 2022 KEMBA LIVE! COLUMBUS, OHIO By Neil Shumate, OOTB Publications

Review & Photos: Wiz Khalifa, Logic, 24kGoldn

  VINYL VERSE TOUR AUGUST 27, 2022 RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER CINCINNATI, OHIO By Neil Shumate, OOTB Publications

Review & Photos: Pitbull

CAN'T STOP US NOW TOUR AUGUST 24, 2022 BLOSSOM MUSIC CENTER CLEVELAND, OHIO By Neil Shumate, OOTB Publications

About Us

     Out Of The Blue (OOTB) is a small, independent, self-funded publication that was founded in 2001 by two friends (Tiffany Cook and Neil Shumate) at a concert in Columbus, Ohio. Having a high school background in journalism—via the Harding Herald at Marion Harding High School in Marion, Ohio—the duo took a survey at the concert asking fans which of the bands (Orgy, Spineshank, Cold) they came t o see. After sitting on the edge of the downstairs pit at Newport Music Hall and compiling the information, current publisher and Editor-in-Chief Neil Shumate was asked what they would do with the survey results, and he stated: “We’ll probably think of something out of the blue.” Thus, OOTB was born March, 8 2001 with the first print issue released April, 2001.      Shumate has always had a passion for press, media and the arts—he released a newsletter ( 7B ) in seventh grade at Baker Middle School in Marion, Ohio, he also created a family newsletter during his y...