Once the smoke clears, he claims the band's name heralds from the days of the Cincinnati Reds sweeping the Oakland A's in the 1990 World Series. Brian Moeller, The Sweep's resident beat maker,  

News flash! Local band view-finder is not reuniting. Possibly because they never broke up. Despite two years of complete dormancy in terms of shows and releases, the Indie Rock quartet have conti  

Jason Arbenz, frontman for soulful, highly-melodic original Rock foursome Goose, has a tradition that has turned into something fun and challenging to his friends and bandmates. While looking thro  

Eat Sugar plays above the good stuff. Their wrought iron shambles and blood-red carpet sanctify the sounds: upbeat and dancey, no real method abounds. Bassist Jim Reynolds can't really explain i  

The Flock has been entertaining in small Cincinnati venues for 20 years, playing regularly at Arnold's Bar & Grill since 1987. Then they were known as Ma Crow & The Flock. Nowadays, Ma Crow has   

It's easy to digress. Unavoidable when interviewing five creative musicians. Instantly, everyone becomes a Professional Interrupter. Reminds me of that "this is your brain on drugs" egg commerc  

Too often bands are quick to filter their music through a series of predictable clichés, thus disallowing any fresh oddity or peculiarity from squirming its way into the trite formula that is  

· THE HOST -- RECEIVE This Cincinnati four-piece became one of the "you gotta hear these guys" new bands of 2006, thanks to impressive live shows and song leaks on their MySpace page. The H  

"The lion costumes ... hmm," says Stuart Mackenzie with a wry chuckle. "It wasn't something we planned, you know, we weren't looking for any shtick. But it ended up being fun ... plus, it's   

Suffocate Faster frontman Chris Alsip (aka Chris Awesome) knows all too well the pitfalls of genre classification. Although the Cincinnati quartet considers their sound to be their unique take on   

The phone rings. It's Miguel Ricardos, the guitar player for local Punk band Eatafetus Trio. He says the band is running late, but they can be recognized when they walk into the bar because he is  

In 2001, in the shadowy, skinny Clifton bar called Arlin's, The Stapletons unloaded their van and busted into Rebecca Vie's old open mic night for their first gig. Back then, four "brothers" -  

In semi-olden times, not far, far away, in the land of Bethel, three musical sons were born to town. The first guitarist, Bill Bundy, rocked out of the womb wearing an Electric Six T-shirt, playin  

"A lot of people, the first thing they think when they see a banjo is Bluegrass," says Taylor Farley, veteran banjo picker and frontman/vocalist for the band Blue Rock. Farley, who has been pla  

Brothers, some by birth and some by association stick together in this fair city. In the Pernicious Knifs' case, these guys have known each other their entire lives. They've reached a state of n