Columbus Underground: Kopaz Releases Final Album, Rocks Rumba Tonight (2010)

After a hiatus, Kopaz returned in 2010 to release the long-gestating Teeth Like Cities, which included a release show at Rumba Cafe. Here is an interview the Columbus Underground did with the band back in 2010:

Luckily for us, Kopaz had been writing new songs following Future Radiant Shine prior to their break in ’06. They decided to start recording them at home on their own and on their own terms. Although their interest in the music never faded, time and obligations and other projects intervened, and the emerging record remained unfinished. However, in late 2008, the band hired Jon Chinn to mix one of the recordings, and the project once again picked up steam. Fast forward to the summer of 2010. Teeth Like Cities is complete, and the band is ready to share their songs with the world. The album is a departure from the “pop urgency” of their previous efforts. Instead, Teeth is a beautiful album that “revels in the darkness and mystery of a band on the verge of collapse.”

Columbus Underground: 30 Years and Still Kicking - The Ongoing Plight of Used Kids Records

Back in 2014, Greg Hall took over legendary Used Kids Records, and 2016 Columbus Underground covered the 30th anniversary of the store, which had just relocated:

“I’d like to think even though we’re thirty years old, we’re not over the hill. Fifty is the new over the hill, right?” asks Greg Hall, who has been the owner of local vinyl shop Used Kids Records since he took it over in 2014. 

Hall’s involvement with the store actually started in 1979 at School Kids Records. Used Kids Records was introduced in 1986 as the used records supplement to School Kids. 

Over the next 30 years, there would be plenty of changes for the store, willingly and forcibly. Various trials have threatened to close the store multiple times, but those changes are precisely what Hall attributed its success to. 

“The big thing about the music business is, things change, and you’ve got to be ready and willing to change,” Hall said. “That’s the only way that you’ll survive. Any business person will tell you that.”