Newport Music Hall
KMFDM Played 40 Years of Dance Floor Bliss in Columbus
On Saturday, October 19, industrial veteran juggernauts KMFDM brought the electronic podium and light show to Newport Music Hall in Columbus, OH. After the night ended, 20 tunes had blasted from the speakers from their ’80s beginning to current/modern messiah material. Fans of all ages and decades packed the place to help celebrate four decades of club decadence as singer/founder Sascha Koni...[Read More]
L7- 30 Years of Bricks Are Heavy Celebrated in Columbus
Due to unforeseen extended traffic issues coverage of opening band Radkey did not occur. Thursday, October 13 marked the appearance of multi-decade female group L7 at Newport Music Hall in Columbus. Newport was a stop on the Brick Are Heavy Anniversary tour. A celebration trek, playing their widely regarded third record start to finish.1992’s Bricks Are Heavy is widely seen as the L.A. based ban...[Read More]
Decibel Magazine Tour Decimates Columbus
To a packed Newport Music Hall on Sunday April 6th, the Decibel Magazine Tour slammed into Columbus bringing its youngest screamers Noisem, the growling sands of Tibet from Gorguts, the dark horror themed, violent intentions of the Black Dahlia Murder and the graphic godfathers of gore, grindcore and Surgical Steel, Carcass. New kids, Noisem delivered an opening set of non-stop, psychopathi...[Read More]
Nightwish Enchants Columbus with Imaginaerum tour
Friday Sept. 21 the Finnish symphonic power house known as Nightwish visited Newport Music Hall and from the mile long lines it looked like the whole city knew about it. To ever question their drawing power on these Yankee shores would be a grave underestimation of their style and reputation. Maybe it’s the mystery and mystique of singer Anette Olzen that brought out curiosity seekers. Long time d...[Read More]
Geoff Tate Brings Mindcrime to Columbus
Wednesday June 19 the original voice of Queensryche, Geoff Tate brought the 25th Anniversary of the epic 1988 concept record Operation Mindcrime tour to Newport Music Hall for a night of Queensryche classics and the Operation Mindcrime experience start to finish. For his version of the Ryche, Tate enlisted former Ozzy, Quiet Riot, Whitesnake and Dio bassist Rudy Sarzo, AC/DC, Something Unto Nothin...[Read More]