Since concert clubs shut their doors because of the pandemic, Northeast Ohio owners have been fighting to get enough funding to keep their businesses open, while their employees look for ways to make ends meet.

Shuffle is your backstage pass to Northeast Ohio’s music scene. On the podcast, hosts Amanda Rabinowitz and Brittany Nader discuss their favorite local music and virtual events in 2021.

Recognized in the Northeast Ohio music scene as the animated alto-sax player in soul groups Wesley Bright and The Honeytones and Nathan-Paul and The Admirables, the jazz musician is releasing his own lo-fi songs as a solo artist.

It’s been nearly one year since the coronavirus pandemic shut down the live music scene. We listen back to a compilation album that an Akron record company produced during Ohio’s lockdown last spring.

How the artist is using this time during the pandemic to continue to share music from Northeast Ohio throughout the world.

Her new book “Peter and the Wolves” focuses on her time with the late Peter Laughner of the band Pere Ubu.

A Cleveland artist described as a one-woman choir is out with a new album that combines experimental music, guided meditation and breathing exercises. Christa Ebert, who performs as Uno Lady, says she hopes “GROUNDED” will help listeners find peace amid the stresses and anxieties of the pandemic.

While the coronavirus pandemic put live concerts on hold, many Northeast Ohio artists stayed busy creating and releasing music. WKSU's Shuffle podcast team shares some of their favorite local music of 2020.

Three Northeast Ohio musicians talk about about how the pandemic has transformed their ambitions and what it will take to make it when things return to normal.

A group of Northeast Ohio independent music venues has spent the past five months planning how to reopen safely amid the coronavirus pandemic. Now the venues have shifted to just trying to survive these winter months so they can reopen at all.