Dear MidPoint Performer: Welcome to Cincinnati, the city I've enjoyed living, working and making music in for the past 20 years. I hope your experience is a great one. And I hope you don't leave. Really. Take a good hard look around while you're here. The rent is cheap, the architecture and geography are stimulating and the people are generally sweethearts. But Cincinnati is also building something, and we need more builders with your kind of tools.
Welcome to Music Town, USA
A message from the MPMF.09 head honcho
1 Comment · Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Grammer's Embraces Historical Significance
Persevering with innovative events and free popcorn
0 Comments · Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Where in Greater Cincinnati can you find a beer festival one week, indoor bike races the next, weekly wiffleball games and flamboyant, sweaty dance parties in honor of Queen's Freddie Mercury all in one place? Why, Grammer’s bar of course.
White Girls (Profile)
Rock quartet accepting all requests for 'Permission to Land'
0 Comments · Wednesday, August 26, 2009
On their new CD, 'Permission to Land,' you can really hear the many different layers of the White Girls' sound. Bringing to mind Joy Division and The Stooges, with Captain Beefhart-type structuring and the upfront, impersonal delivery of bands like The Hot Snakes, the album is pure sonic danger.
Fiery Furnaces Expect the Unexpected
Brother/sister duo find consistency in staying unpredictable
0 Comments · Tuesday, August 4, 2009
For Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, better known as The Fiery Furnaces (a New York-based, Illinois-bred, hyper-experimental Indie band) family-based music wasn't a career move but rather a lifestyle. The Friedbergers boasted not only a guitar-wielding, piano-playing mother, but their grandmother was also a choir director. For them, music ostensibly doesn't exist outside a filial context.
The Fruits of Their Labor
Pomegranates make it two stunners in a row with new album
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 11, 2009
When Pomegranates released their 2008 debut album, it was the culmination of a number of significant advances in a relatively short time. Within months of forming, the quartet had notched accomplishments that evade some bands for years. Their new album, 'Everybody, Come Outside!,' bristles with an engaging Indie Rock energy that simultaneously references and transcends their avowed influences: Talking Heads and Brian Eno.
MidPoint Submissions Now Open
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 4, 2009
It seems like only yesterday that we were running all over Downtown trying to see a bazillion bands perform for the 2008 MidPoint Music Festival. Now it's time to start preparing for a bigger, badder, better MidPoint in 2009. Artists can now electronically submit their music for consideration to perform at MidPoint (Sept. 24-26) at www.mpmf.com.
MidPoint Central
It's all over but the memories and the clean-up. Relive MPMF right here!
0 Comments · Tuesday, September 30, 2008
It's come and gone: the 2008 MidPoint Music Festival. Remember the bands, the clubs, the performances, the Scions and the crowds at this headquarters site for CityBeat's coverage of MPMF.
That's a Wrap
MidPoint Music Festival turns Cincinnati into a music Mecca
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Friday night, after spending the evening riding car shuttles up and down Main Street for four hours, I returned home and searched around online for some MidPoint Music Festival feedback. I'd just been blown away by the turnout and quality of music I'd seen and wanted to make sure I wasn't being biased because I happen to work for CityBeat.
MidPoint: Friday Sept. 26
Previews of all the acts, plus CityBeat critics pick the highlights
0 Comments · Wednesday, September 10, 2008
All the bands and venues for MidPoint on Friday night Sept. 26 ... plus critics' picks.
