• Get Up Kids ... or grown men?

“Erase all memory," announced Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor at the start of their show at the Grog Shop last night. "It is currently 1997.” If only.

The Grog Shop was full, teeming with fans in their late 20s and 30s recalling their teen-angsty days. The set's second song, 1999's “Action and Action,” officially kick-started the night, as the audience sang along and relived their youth.

The Get Up Kids didn’t stick to just one album last night. They mixed songs from all five of their records over the past 15 years, including There Are Rules, their less-catchy, electro-ridden comeback album released last month. But it was obvious from the start that fans were there to hear older songs.

It was a fairly quiet show. The band grooved onstage with brief spoken introductions and very few anecdotes between songs. They breezed through 19 cuts. “You guys ready to start this party?” asked Pryor during the encore — 19 songs late, but better late than never, right?

Classic songs from Something to Write Home About got the crowd moshing and moving, as did the grand finale of “10 Minutes.” It was a good show, but not a great one. They were better when they were kids. —Laurie Wanninger

Chip Tha Ripper has long been a Clevealnd fave, a sly, smart rapper with style to spare. But you already know that right?

Now the rest of the world can hear some of Chip's best rhymes, thanks to The Washington Post's glowing endorsement of Chip's terrific new mixtape, Gift Raps.

Says the paper:

If you listen to one new recording this week, make it: "Gift Raps," the new, free mixtape from Cleveland rapper Chip Tha Ripper.

We totally agree.

You can download Chip's mix here. —Michael Gallucci

We figure you're probably not doing much today, seeing it's a snow day for, like, 87 percent of Northeast Ohio.

So why not download the cool new Radiohead Remixed mix, compiled by local DJ misterbradleyp?

You can find the 20-song mix here. Best of all, it's totally free!

If you're still old-school, misterbradleyp will have CDs available at the B Side Liquor Lounge in a couple weeks. —Michael Gallucci

• "Look how big my invisible sandwich is"

There was a lot of love in the pit last night for Kataklysm's concert at Peabody’s. No broken bones, no bruises, just some nudity and lots of loud music from the Canadian death-metal band, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

Openers Conducting From the Grave and All Shall Perish, who did about four songs each, warmed up the audience before the headliners took the stage around 11 p.m.

Frontman Maurizio Iacono invited the crowd to gather around the stage, and it drove fans crazy as they rushed closer to the group.

Kataklysm performed some songs from 2002's fan favorite Shadows & Dust, including one they never played live before, “Muse of Enlightenment.” That was a highlight from the show last night, as were "In Shadows & Dust," “Edge of the World,” "As I Slither," and “Crippled and Broken,” which incited one particularly drunk fan out of her shirt.

They finished the show with “Push the Venom” from their latest album, Heaven's Venom. It was a great show propelled by Max Duhamel’s impossibly fast signature hyperblast drumming. You could feel the connection between Iacono and Duhamel as they played off one another all night. —Terry Jozwiak

• It's all downhill from here

Layzie Bone — a founding member of Cleveland's Bone Thugs-n-Harmony — will release a pair of new albums tomorrow, The Definition and The Meaning. The latter includes “The Game Ain’t Ready,” a tongue-twisting track featuring the other members of Bones; The Definition boasts cameos from Chamillionaire, Paul Wall, and up-and-coming Cleveland rapper Caine. Bone fills us in on the new albums. —Jeff Niesel

What inspired you to want to release two albums on the same day?
Initially, it was just The Definition. I kind of felt like I had to define what I meant about it, so it turned into two records. The inspiration came from just wanting to make more and more music. I cannot define the meaning.

Does writing come easy to you?
Everything don’t come easy to me. I am so group-oriented. A lot of my songs are a struggle for me. There are so many characteristics of myself that I’m trying to define and I want people to understand the meaning of what I’m doing. It’s all a push for Cleveland. That’s where I’m from. East 99 and 105 and St. Clair.

Explain their titles.
I’m just trying to define a place and time in my life where I’m making the solo push and I’m telling people that I can really rap good. I’m good with word play most of the time. I ain’t saying I’m perfect. With this new change with the Internet and all that, I feel like Bone Thugs can become an industry within ourselves.

You have a number of guests on these albums. Who was the hardest guy to nail down?
Nobody. There’s no process to the progress. Bow Wow called me. He needed me on a record, and I was like, “I need you on this record called ‘Every Night.’” We did a swap so quick. Bow Wow even co-directed the video for it. We got our Ohio thing swinging right now. Chamillionaire came to the table like a true champion. He rocked out. Too Short came to the table. He was probably the most hardest because he was on tour at the time.

He’s great. He’s been around as long as you.
As long? Try 10 years before me. That’s our OG. It was pretty much secure. My new management really digs me and they want to see my vision come through. That’s the difference between being a new artist and being 18 years in the game. Shout out to Knuckles Entertainment. I feel like we can’t do nothing but win.

• This place will be rockin' on March 14

We're guessing you're probably not springing for a trip to New York City on March 14 to watch the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induct the class of 2011 in person. So the Museum itself will be beaming the whole thing live.

For a mere $5, you can pick up a ticket to the event, which starts at 7 p.m. The Rock Hall is the only place showing the ceremony live as it happens this year. So this is your only chance to see all the, um, action as it unspools. (Fuse will show it on March 20 for the three of you who get the station.)

The induction ceremony doesn't actually start until 8:30, so that gives you 90 minutes to roam the Rock Hall, which is a pretty good deal, since it usually costs five times as much to look at Mick Jagger's pants.

The big show will be shown on a ginormous 12-foot screen on the Museum's main stage, with a bunch of smaller monitors beaming the inductions throughout the Hall.

You can also buy booze and snacks to make likely endless induction speeches by Paul Simon and Bette Midler go by a little bit faster.

Rock Hall members can buy tickets on Friday. Poor people can get them on Monday. Either way, it's way cheaper than going to the real thing. Plus, you won't have to smell David Crosby. —Michael Gallucci

• MGK, lacing up for Midwest domination

When I first met and interviewed Cleveland rapper Machine Gun Kelly in the summer of 2010, he seemed eager. He was working on Lace Up, his mixtape that would come in at No. 30 on XXL magazine's list of the 100 best mixtapes of 2010.

As we spoke about his past, his family, and his style, Kelly really seemed to light up when we spoke about his music and upcoming projects.

That was then, and this is now.

A little more than six months since I spoke to him, Kelly touched down at the University of Missouri to kick off the out-of-town portion of his Lace Up Tour, bringing with him DJ Xplosive, his personal DJ, and his hypeman.

Columbia is a small university town sandwiched between Kansas City and St. Louis, where hip-hop heads are used to the sounds of Tech n9ne and Nelly ringing out of their headphones. While the medium-sized venue wasn't close to being sold out on Friday night, a sizaeble crowd lingered by the bar in the back before meandering to the floor to watch Kelly rock.

And rock he did. While the crowd was dormant during the five underwhelming opening acts, they were awoken by MGK's energy from the minute he strolled onto the stage. Wearing a dark jacket over a black T-shirt, both of which would be removed by the show's end, Kells warmed up the crowd by bobbing to DMX and dancing to Kid 'n Play before getting into his set list.