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
Elvis Impersonators Gone Bad?
Plus, new 'Twitter #music' app is unveiled after celebrities get first dibs
Music: Martin Bisi
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 Tonight: Bernie Worrell and Cancer Family Care Benefit
{CommentsCant} · Tuesday, April 16, 2013
• Gifted young violinist/vocalist Rosie Carson and her father, former Customs bassist and longtime show promoter Steve Carson, are presenting a benefit concert tonight at the Molly Malone's in Covington ...
Watch: The National Tour Doc Trailer
Mistaken For Strangers, by Cincinnati's Tom Berninger, set to premiere Wednesday at Tribeca Film Festival
{CommentsCant} · Monday, April 15, 2013
The road documentary about successful Indie Rock band The National (Cincy-bred, Brooklyn-based) is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday, where the band will also perform. The film, Mistaken For Strangers, was made by Cincinnatian Tom Berninger (younger brother of National singer Matt). From looks of the just-released ...
MusicNOW 2013: A Primer
An overview and sampling of the adventurous sounds you'll hear at this weekend's MusicNOW festival
{CommentsCant} · Friday, April 12, 2013
Tonight marks the kick-off of MusicNOW, an adventurous weekend of music that was started in 2006 by Cincinnati native and guitarist for successful Indie Rock band The National, Bryce Dessner. The festival's mission is "to present the best in contemporary music; to offer artists' an opportunity to take risks; to commission new work." That's a fair but lacking description of the festival, but ...
LISTEN: The National's First Two New Album Tracks (UPDATED)
Band releases "Demons," "Don't Swallow the Cap" from forthcoming 'Trouble Will Find Me'
{CommentsCant} · Thursday, April 11, 2013
The Cincinnati-born, Brooklyn-based members of Indie Rock sensations The National recently announced details about their first new album since 2010's High Violet, Trouble WIll Find Me. The album is due in the U.S. on May 21 on the 4AD label. (Click here for the album cover, track listing and mor...
Cincy's Mixtapes Debut New Song on The A.V. Club
Rock crew slates new LP, Ordinary Silence, for June 25 release
{CommentsCant} · Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Local Pop Rock crew Mixtapes' first track from their forthcoming full-length Ordinary Silence premiered today on The A.V. Club, The Onion's non-parody (yet still often funny) arts and entertainment website.
The little hyper-catchy slice of melodic heaven "Elevator Days" will be featured on Mixtapes new album, Ordin...
The little hyper-catchy slice of melodic heaven "Elevator Days" will be featured on Mixtapes new album, Ordin...
Avoiding the “Shake” Like the Plague
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 10, 2013
A couple of months ago, I started seeing
the words “Harlem Shake” out of the side of my eye at an increasing
rate. Natural, mindless curiosity — which creates the “viralness” of a
cyber phenom — would usually have me clicking to see what this thing — … song? … dance? … video? — was all about.
500 Miles to Memphis Turns 10
Plus, benefit concerts, tunes (and blooms) at the Zoo and more
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Local rockers 500 Miles to Memphis celebrate their 10th birthday with a blow-out concert in Newport. Plus, area Folk/Americana artists unite to help Covington venue stay afloat, Rosie Carson, The Graveblankets and others perform for Cancer Family Care of Cincinnati at Molly Malone's in Covington and the Cincinnati Zoo's "Tunes & Blooms" concert series finally gets some spring-like weather.
See with Your Eyes, Not with Your iPhone
Plus, not everyone's sad about Maggie Thatcher's death and Macklemore gets a dude choked on his birthday
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs put the (polite-ish) smack-down on smart device obsessives, a lot of musicians and others in the U.K. aren't too broken up about the death of former PM Margaret Thatcher and Macklemore gets some dude choked on his birthday.
Belle Histoire Singer Featured on 'The Voice'
Vocalist kills it on NBC show but fails to advance to a 'team'
{CommentsCant} · Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Last night, Jane Smith, singer for the Cincinnati area band Belle Histoire, appeared as a contestant on the NBC singing competition, The Voice. None of the judges "turned around" (the show's sign of approval, but, really, isn't it rude not to look at someone singing for you?), but Smith earned some fans with the appearance.
Lyndsey Parker, who covers the show for Yahoo's music blog, ...
Lyndsey Parker, who covers the show for Yahoo's music blog, ...
Musicians Unite for Pete's Sake
Area Folk/Roots musicians team up to try and save Covington club/hangout Geez'l Pete's
{CommentsCant} · Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Musician Matt Baumann, who performs as the Folk act WolfCryer, and several area Folk/Americana musicians are teaming up this Wednesday to help a local music venue that has given them a home over the years.
The club Geez’l Pete’s (508 Madison Ave., Covington) is having financial d...
The club Geez’l Pete’s (508 Madison Ave., Covington) is having financial d...
