Eccentric Philly band doesn’t know the rules, so it just keeps breaking them
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Known for its irreverent songs and
unpredictable, gloriously ramshackle live shows, Man Man defies
convention at nearly every turn.
by Mike Breen
02.19.2013
94 days ago
The 16th annual Cincinnati music celebration begins airing locally this Saturday
The 2013 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards ceremony/party late last month at Covington’s Madison Theater was filmed on high-quality video and this Saturday, for the first time in the 16-year history of the CEAs, fans who want to relive the performances and presentations (or those who missed it altogether) will have a chance to watch the show on television. The show includes the short but very sweet live sets from Bad Veins’ Ben Davis, The Dopamines, Gold Shoes, Ricky Nye, Jess Lamb and Culture Queer, as well as an all-star presentation of songs from the Come Play the Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams at Herzog EP put together by the Cincinnati USA Music Heritage Foundation. Saturday at 9 p.m., thanks to the Intercommunity Cable Regulatory Commission, the full show will be aired on ICRC TV, available in select communities in the Cincinnati area via Time Warner Cable channel 4. The show will be rebroadcast on the same channel Monday at 8:30 p.m., March 1 at 10 p.m. and March 2 at noon. (Check here — in the column on the left — to see if the broadcast is available in your area.)For those in Cincinnati proper, you can watch the CEAs on Time Warner channel 24 on Feb. 27 and on March 6 at 9 a.m. A Northern Kentucky broadcast is also in the works, as is the ability to watch the program online. Stay tuned to this here music blog for the latest updates. If those air times don’t work for you, you can also purchase a copy on DVD. Simply email melissa@icrctv.com to inquire about delivery and prices. (Program reference number is 16534.) To relive the ceremony in photos and words, click here.
Feb. 20 • Thompson House
0 Comments · Monday, February 18, 2013
Aesop’s Indie style is reminiscent of early Beck while his
rumbling vocal rasp and brilliant sense of wordplay leans in the
direction of Mike Doughty, not to mention the MC’s numerous Hip Hop
heroes.
Feb. 20 • Brick Street Bar (Oxford)
0 Comments · Monday, February 18, 2013
Florida Georgia Line’s first single, “Cruise,” might be a
love song, but if you have any imagination at all, chances are you’re
picturing “every little farm town” that runs along the states’ border.
That song made the boys of Florida Georgia Line blow up practically overnight.
Feb. 21 • Bogart's
0 Comments · Monday, February 18, 2013
For a Metal band more taken with exploring the heavenward than wreaking destruction on Earth, Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones)
makes an especially sound title for an Intronaut album.
Feb. 20 • Bogart's
0 Comments · Monday, February 18, 2013
Even though Testament may have not been considered a part
of “The Big Four” at the height of Thrash, with guitarists Alex Skolnick
and Eric Peterson becoming, once again, the formidable tag-team they
were in the ’80s, they are indisputably one of the
elite Thrash bands of yesterday and today.
Cincinnati crew Those Guys makes good on “Good Hip Hop Music” promise
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 13, 2013
What Those Guys’ tagline doesn’t tell you
is that this “Good Hip Hop Music” mentality was established long before
the group had any concrete footing.
Feb. 15 • Southgate House Revival
0 Comments · Monday, February 11, 2013
The photos included within the liner notes for 1997’s Too Far to Care, the Old 97’s’ third album, make the band members look like fresh-faced geeks, but the opening guitar riff to “Timebomb,” a jolt of
jagged, countrified Rockabilly, obliterates whatever image the photos
might conjure almost immediately.
Feb. 19 • 20th Century Theatre
0 Comments · Monday, February 11, 2013
Mod Sun works a feel-good genre angle he’s dubbed Hippy
Hop that runs on sunshine, positive vibrations and righteous herb. His
infectious positivity and zest for living makes him Hip Hop’s Andrew WK.
Feb. 15 • 20th Century Theatre
0 Comments · Monday, February 11, 2013
If you've been hunting for a young band that plays music
associated with decades before the members’ births and have a fine go at
it, step up and retrieve your prize with Tumbleweed Wanderers.