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: The Shins with Ra Ra Riot
Music: Martin Bisi
Elvis Impersonators Gone Bad?
Plus, new 'Twitter #music' app is unveiled after celebrities get first dibs
Watch/Listen: CEA New Music Showcase Preview
First live voting event for the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards celebrates new, emerging local music at Bogart's
{CommentsCant} · Thursday, January 17, 2013
The polls have closed on voting for the 16th annual Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, the ceremony/party for which returns to Covington's Madison Theater on Jan. 27. Indie Pop greats Culture Queer were added to the CEA performance lineup today, joining Bad Veins, Ricky Nye, Gold Shoes, The Dopamines, Jess Lamb and a ...
A Knife to Remember
Local music veterans focus and sharpen sound with new project, Ohio Knife
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Jason Snell
approaches music and art with an open, collaborative spirit. Sometimes,
it’s to his own creative detriment.
Cincinnati Entertainment Awards' Lineup Announced
Plus news on The Cliftones, School of Rock Mason and two new local bands
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The lineup for this year's Cincinnati Entertainment Awards (Jan. 27 at Covington's Madison Theater) will feature a broad genre mix of nominees.
Nickelback: More Popular Than Gonorrhea?
Plus, Motorheadphones debut and "Love Me Do" enters Europe's public domain
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Motorheadphones storm the headphone market with a focus on mid-range audio and a Motorhead logo; The Beatles' "Love Me Do" is now in the public domain in Europe, meaning less money for Yoko; and Americans think the current Congress is worse than cockroaches, Brussels sprouts, lice and Nickelback, but better than gonorrhea (so they've got that going for them).
That New Band Smell
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 16, 2013
A music scene is only as good as its new artists. This Friday at Bogart’s in Corryville,
the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards’ first New Music Showcase takes
place, featuring CEA nominees Heavy Hinges, Public, The Natives, Ohio
Knife, DAAP Girls and Jeremy Pinnell and the 55s.
Music: Plume Giant
0 Comments · Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Combining some of the idiosyncrasies of modern Indie
Folk with uplifting Pop melodies, Chamber music arrangements and an
Americana grab-bag of various other influences, the trio Plume Giant
make
New Videos From CEA 'New Artist' Nominees
Natives, DAAP Girls debut new music videos; CEA voting ends tomorrow
{CommentsCant} · Monday, January 14, 2013
This Friday at Bogart's, the nominees in the "New Artist of the Year" category in this year's Cincinnati Entertainment Awards will perform at Bogart's for CityBeat's first New Music Showcase. Showtime is 8 p.m. and you can get tickets for...
MPMF Teams Up With New Music Industry Trade Show
MidPoint Music Fest to be one of several vendors at debut Locally Insourced trade show on Feb. 7
{CommentsCant} · Monday, January 14, 2013
On Thursday, Feb. 7, local promotional company The Counter Rhythm Group will debut a new "trade show" event that will offer local musicians a chance to check out a wide range of "good and services" available to them in the Greater Cincinnati area.
The first "Locally Insourced: Cincinnati Music Industry Trade Show" will tak...
The first "Locally Insourced: Cincinnati Music Industry Trade Show" will tak...
Music Tonight: Fever Fever and More
{CommentsCant} · Thursday, January 10, 2013
Tonight at MOTR Pub in Over-the-Rhine, it's an evening of ethereal Indie Pop atmospherics as Columbus quartet Fever Fever joins Oklahoma-bred sibling duo Clemency for a free, 9 p.m. show. Both groups have sounds that are big-sky spacious and slathered with chiming, The Edge-like guitar echoes and passionate vocals. And both groups...
Music Tonight: Jamaican Queens, Elia Goat and More
{CommentsCant} · Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Detroit producers/Electro musicians Ryan Spencer and Adam Pressley formed its new project Jamaican Queens last year, following the demise of their previous band, Prussia. The pair bonded over a mutual love for Hip Hop production, something that would find itself central to Jamaican Queens winding sound. Together less than a year, the twosome's single "Kids Get Away" introduced the newcomers...
