Karen Novak
TagHappy 30th! Here’s every Grog Shop photo from my files
Were you at any of these classic shows during the Grog’s first decade? Congratulations to Kathy & all Grog people on the major milestone!
RIP Pat: Here’s every Pat’s in the Flats photo from the U.S. Rocker archive
This is my tribute to Pat Hanych, proprietor of my favorite Cleveland dive bar, who passed last month. Tons of unpublished photos inside!
An oral history of U.S. Rocker—Ohio’s greatest rock magazine, Pt. I: The early years 1989-93
The story behind the #1 free metal, punk & underground music magazine, told by the folks who started it.
U.S. Rocker’s Brenda Mullen in her own words
Who was this maven of metal, this seer with a skinny cigarette? Brenda’s U.S. Rocker encouraged creativity in 1990s underground music culture…
U.S. Rocker’s Brenda Mullen has died
Brenda boosted the careers of countless underground bands, artists, writers & photographers with her influential and long-lived underground magazine…
Recollections of Stephen Kasner, Artist
I’m sharing Kasner memories from Cleveland and Los Angeles, plus images and a U.S. Rocker that have never been online before…
First time online! Bauhaus 1998 reunion photos by Karen Novak
See Goth / Post-Punk icons Bauhaus at one of their initial gigs after a 15-year breakup, at beloved Nautica Stage in Cleveland, Ohio…
New Bomb Turks, The Conservatives & more destroy WRUW-FM’s Studio-A-Rama 1998
Never-published photos by Karen Novak of Keelhaul, Speaker / Cranker, Nucleon, Step Sister, Red Giant, Quazi Modo plus an HD New Bomb Turks recording.
Classic scene photos! U.S. Rocker’s Rock Explosion ’96 at Peabody’s DownUnder
See classic Karen Novak snaps of Buzz Boron & Duvalby Bros., Craw, Primitive, Red Giant, Biblical Proof of UFOs, Downside special & more…
’96 party pix: Duvalby Bros. Sleepytime Medicine Band release with Philo Beddow, Downside Special & Biblical Proof Of UFOs
Aaron “Buzz” Boron & Duvalby Bros. were on fire at the Euclid Tavern—see Karen Novak photos from 1996…