The Screaming Mimes' four members have families, full-time jobs and responsibilities that occupy time most bands set aside for practices, writing, recording and gigging. And they're of an age a  

The Turkeys' tunes pull on the ear like a slow, sucking magnet. With Every Night's the Same, released in late 2007, Chris Cusentino (bass, guitar, vocals) and Kyle Knapp (drums, guitar, vocals)  

Damn. So close. We've all had those loves gone wrong. Maybe the fantasy turned real, becoming ridiculously crazy. Stalkerville. Maybe it was merely longing and the reality never happened. Maybe  

One would think that Eric Bates has quite enough on his plate with a 12-year stint as a violinist for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and a wife and two kids at home. And yet with a career and   

Jazz isn't big in Cincinnati, and Downtown isn't heavily frequented. So why would three separate parties compete to buy a struggling downtown Jazz club that had been left in debt? Because it's the  

"The writing seems effortless ... it's more just riffs and rockin'," singer Lee Gallagher says. "I love Soul singers. It seems different than a lot of stuff that's going on. I play harmonic  

The new Jam band Eclipse didn't exactly steal a bunch of other bands' best players. It just looks like it. With a lineup of some of Cincinnati's most creative talent, the group boasts founder  

"Fuck you!" That's how it starts. Two words to separate those who are aligned with the "Wild Blast" and those who are against it. What exactly is the Wild Blast, you ask? Well, that's not a  

When I arrive, songster/guitarist Mark Utley is M.I.A. Actually, he's upstairs tucking one child in bed. As a rule, youngsters aren't drawn to me. Frequently, when I hold babies, they twitch, th  

"Didn't we just do this shit two years ago?" vocalist/guitarist Shane Johnson laughs incredulously when I jokingly start the interview with a question about the band's musical influences. Thre  

At the MidPoint festival this year, I wandered into New Stage Collective, pleasantly happening upon breathy, soul-driven tunes that poured out from the theater, spilling down the stairs like a lon  

Adam Hayden, also known as MC Till, figures out how to engage others in his music and his point of view. And in Cincinnati, where more MCs line the city's blocks than churches and liquor stores,   

As they assemble on the front porch of the Southgate House, the members of Poke do the Hokey Pokey, all putting their right feet in to show they have independently shown up for their Paul K. and t  

Eric Leyton works hard at his musical endeavors. The former WLW traffic reporter self-released Waiting for the Sun, his solo singer/songwriter CD, earlier this year and he wants to move toward a p  

Like Michael Corleone, Steve Gattermeyer tried to get out of the life but the life kept pulling him back in. But unlike that fictitious mobster, "the life" for Gattermeyer doesn't include havi