European touring and apocalyptic anxiety influence the new LP, Things That Go Bump in the Dark, by Cincinnati music veteran Napoleon Maddox and his progressive Hip Hop/Jazz/Etc. group, IsWhat?!.
Napoleon, Dynamite
Napoleon Maddox and IsWhat?! meld 17 years of experience into an explosive new album
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Monthly Hip Hop Night Comes to The Comet
Plus, The Tempers and Shiny and the Spoon celebrate new releases, Northside Music Fest returns and Kelly Thomas takes on classic with Switchblade Syndicate
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 15, 2013
A new monthly, themed and curated Hip Hop night at Northside's The Comet, presented by local artist Abiyah, kicks off this week. Plus, The Tempers and Shiny and the Spoon celebrate new releases, the free Northside Music Fest returns this weekend and Kelly Thomas takes on an Everly Brothers classic with Switchblade Syndicate.
Streams Count, Metal College and Heathen Bowie
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The RIAA announces streaming numbers will now factor into Gold and Platinum certifications for digital songs. Plus, a U.K. college offers what is believed to be the world's first Heavy Metal degree and the Catholic League snarkily attacks David Bowie over new video, alleged bisexuality and oldness.
The Killers
May 16 • Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati
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After close to six solid years of touring and a quintet of
best selling albums (including a B-sides/rarities collection and a live
CD/DVD set), The Killers began 2010 with the announcement that they
would be taking a well-deserved break. But the need to create doesn't
take convenient vacations.
Todd Rundgren
May 18 • Bogart's
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Rundgren’s own latest album is called State and it
brings the long-time innovator into the modern scene full bore, with
energetic stabs at Electronica, Dub Step and Techno, with his unique
vocals and multi-layered/multi-instrumental arsenal thrown up against
the electronics to see what sticks.
Wild Moccasins with of Montreal
May 18 • Madison Theater
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Ordinarily, Indie Rock, Halo and skating share a
whole heap of nothing in common. But for Wild Moccasins
vocalist/guitarist Cody Swann, each of those things has functioned as an
all-enveloping obsession at some point in his life.
Danny Schmidt
May 19 • Southgate House Revival
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Schmidt's poetic and melodic gifts have earned him glowing
comparisons to Dylan and Leonard Cohen, his keen sense of humor has
been measured against Prine and Steve Goodman and his haunting
songcraft, as well as his roots, have aligned him with Townes Van Zandt.
Violent Affair
May 21 • Thompson House
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Violent Affair reportedly came together to fill a local Street
Punk niche no one else was filling — “We felt like if you wanted to
hear a certain type of music, go and play it,” lead vocalist Dave
Williams wisely said in a 2012 interview.
Saxophone Colossus
Colin Stetson’s New History Warfare Vol. 3 features bleakness, hope, Justin Vernon and Metal
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The music Colin Stetson is playing on his current solo tour largely features songs from New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light,
the just-released final entry in a trilogy of loosely connected albums
for Constellation Records.
First Acts Announced for 2013’s MidPoint Music Festival
Plus news on Electric Citizen, Kenny Peck & the Smoky Jack Band, The Lockland Brakes and School of Rock Mason
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The first of around 150 acts has been announced for this year's MidPoint Music Festival and MPMF.13 tickets go on sale.
Communication Breakdown
Led Zep says no to a president, Mountain Dew fire rappers and David Gilmour imposter arrested
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Organizers of the 12.12.12 Sandy relief concert got Bill Clinton to plead with Led Zeppelin to perform (they, again, said no); Mountain Dew and Hip Hop aren't mixing so well lately, as the soda company axes endorsement deals with Lil Wayne and Tyler, the Creator, for controversial lyrics and a goat commercial (respectively); and a Minnesota man pretended to be David Gilmour while getting checked out at a local hospital and was promptly arrested when staffers looked up a photo of the real Gilmour on the web.
Lyle Lovett and His Acoustic Group
May 9 • Taft Theatre
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While his music is uniquely stylized, Lyle Lovett
was Americana before Americana music was cool. When he appears at the Taft Theater this
week, he will be with his all-star Acoustic Group, playing cuts off his
new album, Release Me, and more.
Justin Furstenfeld
May 13 • 20th Century Theatre
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Justin Furstenfeld may not have invented the concept of
“living out loud,” but he certainly embodies it with an enviable zeal.
The Blue October frontman has never hesitated to identify his long
struggle with a bipolar condition as the main grist for his songwriting
mill.
The Lonely Wild
0 Comments · Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The image on the front of The Lonely Wild's first
full-length is a sepia photo collage of skulls, rocks and mountainous scenery.
Before you even catch a note from the Los Angeles five-piece, that
cover's color scheme suggests that pensiveness and nostalgia will
probably be on the menu.
Foals
May 14 • Bogart's
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The six-piece band’s music, though recently taking on a slightly
darker tone, is raucous and rousing. Their concerts aren’t meant for the
people that stand and stare, but for the sneaker-wearing, arm flailing,
synth-loving people of the world.
