Archives from 2021

Here are 10 local music releases that made us forget our troubles in 2021, in no particular order.

Tags: Music Feature, Video

There’s a good chance listeners will think Homemade is one of the best local albums of the year, and Gabbard’s avowed influences like The Beatles and Beach Boys are in clear evidence.

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With a soulful Vampire-Weekend-meets-Radiohead sound, Sylmar's new "Glass Ladders" is their best album to date.

Tags: Local Music

Hammond is ready for his close-up.

Tags: Comedy

Bruns' "Trailsongs: Volume 1" will debut later this month.

Tags: Music Feature

Electric Citizen likely will debut new songs alongside the Pentagram-meets-Black-Sabbath faves from the band’s first three releases.

Tags: Live Music

The pandemic and a bad break-up point to the new Walk the Moon album being a bummer. Not even close.

Tags: Music Feature, Video

The Heartless Bastards’ sixth studio album, "A Beautiful Life," is slated to drop in September with a tour stop at Covington’s Madison Theater on Sept. 25.

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With a laugh, Billy Alletzhauser fields the compliment that his band The Hiders’ new album, Forever at the End, will cement his reputation as a master of mid-tempo, sad-bastard Americana.

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Cincinnati Atmospheric Rock band Sungaze embraces a cinematic scope for sophomore album "This Dream."

Tags: Music Feature, Video

The Farmer & Adele has cultivated a semi-ubiquitous presence in the Cincinnati area over the past few years, to the extent that they could have been mistaken for a local Bluegrass band.

Tags: Live Music

Musical acts from across the country submit videos and the winner (picked this year by Phoebe Bridgers, last year's Tiny Desk winner Linda Diaz and NPR's Bob Boilen, among others) gets their own Tiny Desk Concert and massive exposure.

Tags: Local Music, Video

"The way I make music and the way I see the world is the push and pull of everything we want and everything we fear”

Tags: Music Feature

CityBeat Music writer Brian Baker pays tribute to his late father with memories and songs  — "a fitting tribute to my wild old man."

Tags: Local Music

Some musicians have used their quarantines to write, record and release new music, while others have poured their creative energies into music-adjacent (or completely unrelated) activities.

Tags: Music News

Rob Fetters has rightly achieved iconic status within the Cincinnati music scene, as befits a master Pop/Rock craftsman whose resume boasts bands the Raisins, the Bears, psychodots and an impressive solo career.

Tags: Music News