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
The Long, Complex Ride to Superfood Stardom
MidPoint Indie Summer Concerts Announced
Plus, Tracy Walker releases decade-in-the-making new LP and the latest on MidPoint Music Festival 2013
Know Your 'Heights'
Eclectic local event The Heights Music Festival presents only one fest this year and it's this weekend
Droning Your Sorrows
Drones to deliver beer at music fest, Jay-Z gets a presidential diss and Ghost B.C. release cheeky box-set
Music: Cincy Psych Fest Freak-Out Series with Goat and Holy Wave
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
Music: Martin Bisi
Elvis Impersonators Gone Bad?
Plus, new 'Twitter #music' app is unveiled after celebrities get first dibs
Music: The Shins with Ra Ra Riot
Bad Veins Regroups … Quickly!
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 13, 2013
One of Cincinnati’s finest Indie acts
ever, the brilliant Bad Veins, has split in two. Thankfully for BV fans, this is not the
end of the group.
The Grammys Really Can't Please Everyone
Plus, Seton Hall DJ suppression and Sting's biggest fan
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 13, 2013
There are a lot of winners every year at the Grammys, but
organizers proved again this year that they just can’t win in the eyes
of music fans
Music: Shivering Timbers with Darlene
0 Comments · Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Performing songs written for your baby daughter at a
grown-up’s birthday party might not be the most typical way to kick off a
career in music in earnest. But when the birthday party is for one
Ohio Against the World at The Grammys
Akron's Dan Auerbach cleans up at ceremony, including winning for an album featuring one of Cincy's best
{CommentsCant} · Monday, February 11, 2013
Despite Frank Ocean's deft leg-syncing and Taylor Swift's torture-porn-disguised-as-wholesome-circus, Akron, Ohio's Dan Auerbach and The Black Keys were The Grammys' big story last night, winning five trophies, the most of any artist.
While the Keys won the Grammys for Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance, Auerbach scored two solo Grammys for his production work, winni...
While the Keys won the Grammys for Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance, Auerbach scored two solo Grammys for his production work, winni...
Battle of the Bohemian Rhapsodies
Two AltRock greats tackle Queen's operatic anthem … but can they top The Muppets?
{CommentsCant} · Friday, February 8, 2013
"Bohemian Rhapsody," one of the trademark songs by legendary rockers Queen, was fittingly released on Halloween in 1975 and its strange, epic Rock operatics were an instant success across the globe (it only reached No. 9 on the U.S. singles charts initially, but a re-released version on the heels of its appearance in Wayne's World made it to No. 2 in 1992). Though a bit silly, history has t...
Cincinnati Music Industry Trade Show TONIGHT
Trade show host also unveils Kickstarter campaign for 'Musicians' Desk Reference' e-book
{CommentsCant} · Thursday, February 7, 2013
Tonight at Rohs Street Café in Clifton Heights, local musicians get an industry trade show of their very own. The “Locally Insourced: Cincinnati Music Industry Trade Show” is being presented at the venue at 6 p.m., organized by the Counter Rhythm Group and presented in conjunction with the MidPoint Music Festival.
Along with...
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Yogurt Goes Greek
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Here’s the big secret, for those who
haven’t tasted “Greek yogurt” — while some claim it’s creamier (maybe,
barely), less sweet and more sour, it really tastes practically exactly the same as regular supermarket yogurt.
Winter Blues Fest Gets New, One-Stop Home
Plus, new releases due from Annette Shepherd, Green Light Morning and Saturn Batteries, and Locally Insourced debuts
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The Cincy Blues Society's Winter Blues Fest finds a new, one-stop home for this weekend's event
My Bloody Server Crash
Plus, Motorhead's Boxed Vino and NKOTB Sells Out? WTF?!
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 6, 2013
My Bloody Valentine's servers make long-suffering fans wait one more day for new album, Motorhead unveils new boxed wine and Cincinnati music fans sell out arena boy band show in hours.
Music: Jeff Coffin and the Mu'tet
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Though Jazz is the music with which saxophonist Jeff
Coffin is most closely identified, his experience and passion extends
well beyond the genre. Coffin and his Mu’tet make dynamic, progressive
