Golomb

Golomb plays Hyde Park Book Club on 19 August 2026 at 6:30 pm. Molded in the rock crescent of Columbus, Ohio, three-piece Golomb (rhymes with column) channel Midwest friction into an album that seeks connection. The band has two bonded dynamics, something of an aberration among most trios. Siblings Xenia (bass) and Hawken (drums) anchor the rhythm section, and songwriter/guitarist Mickey Shuman and Xenia are spouses after years of dating. The close bonds between the members have fed into the band’s process — family and friends first and band second — leveraging years of trust to turn The Beat Goes On into an album that emphasizes sincerity. They bound through bluster like Loop one minute and hunker down like Pixies pummeling pop’s soft spots at Fort Apache the next. The underlying buzz on "Real Power" dips a few miles south of Columbus to channel Dayton, stitching together clamor from the Guided by Voices playbook. The band lays it bare on "Dog" with a slow slink that builds toward the scorched elegance of Spiritualized and a lyrical labyrinth cut and pasted into a Burroughs-esque blur of rock motifs. The song peaks in maelstrom with a surge of feedback. The familiar specter of the Velvets appears in the shambolic beat of the title track, and "Other Side of the Earth" leans into dub but keeps the band’s ability to feed the fray. Then they wind guitar around their rhythms with the grace of early Built to Spill on "Be Here Now," letting Henry Ross’s sax twirls lift the song.

Golomb was formed in 2019 by Mickey and Xenia. The couple briefly moved out of Ohio before returning in 2020 and settling into Xenia’s family home. Hawken joined, and the trio began working with engineer Keith Hanlon, capping a series of self-released recordings with the three-song Love EP in 2024. Hanlon is behind the board for The Beat Goes On, recorded at Musicol and Secret Studio in Columbus, capturing the band’s live energy to tape. The album was mixed by Drew Vandenberg at Chase Park Transduction in Athens, Georgia.