"It's therapy, it's relaxing, it's fun, and it surrounds us." This is what music means to guitarist Mike Welch and his band Grand Oversoul. Music has indeed surrounded them of late. After a r  

The ever-elusive genre tag is something all bands face. Someone always wants to know whom a group sounds like rather than what. The members of local band patientZero aren't strangers to this phen  

When we think of piano-centered trios in Cincinnati, we probably think either of the goings-on at the Blue Wisp or, for those of us who haven't had that pleasure, we probably remember Ben Folds F  

Despite the popularity of the Jam-band genre, there are relatively few Jam acts in the Cincinnati music scene. True, the regional up-and-comers are regularly making stops in town, but locals in th  

Commercial radio: Let's face it; it sucks. It seems like it isn't for the listeners anymore, but instead for the advertisers and record companies that want to flood the airwaves with whatever ki  

Anytime one hears about a great band within our music scene here in the 'Nati, it is usually assumed its another Rock band, or somebody who is going the distance to do something that breaks the s  

The tragic flaw of many of the bands that set out to create something new is their lack of originality, their goals notwithstanding. Often the bands that meet with success in such an endeavor do s  

In any city's music scene, there's usually an overabundance of angst-driven Hard Rock acts with obnoxiously distorted guitars, simple root-note bass lines, the typical drumbeats for banging your  

In a city as rich in original (and not so original) music as Cincinnati is, it isn't easy to escape the typical when you give local music a chance. After giving the person who checks (or fails to  

Many of Cincinnati's local bands are in the frame of mind that in order to get recognition they must play as often as possible in the area, as well as abroad. This is not the case with Northern K