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Creative endeavors continue to complement Cincinnati's staple gay bars

Why are so many young gay professionals leaving Cincinnati?

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Gay African Americans face discrimination from all sides

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Nudist resorts and club sprout up everywhere, including rural Ohio

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Atheist community thrives in Cincinnati’s backyard

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New York quintet infuses Classic Rock with vitality

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A 'holistic' approach to Bluegrass and Country music via Cape Cod

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Innovative Mica Levi and mates make Pop 'crunchy,' 'plastic-y'

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Titus Andronicus is a catalyst trying to destroy music. While the band is definitely not for the faint of eardrum, there is a surprising amount of depth and devotion to their sound. The Airing of Grievances isn’t a crying-into-my-PBR kind of album, but r

Nels Cline, Wilco's current axeman and former prolific recording artist, was chosen by Rolling Stone as one of the “Top 20 New Guitar Gods” of 2007. See him play with Jeff Tweedy and the whole band at the Aronoff. The Heartless Bastards are opening.

A cross-cultural and cross-philosophical view of gay pride

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Harold “Happy” Chichester, former frontman of Howlin’ Maggie, bassist for Royal Crescent Mob and auxiliary member of The Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers, is like a homegrown Ryan Adams with little more soul and a harmonica a la mode. His songs are rich

Little do Kings of Leon know, but they are the quintessential manifestation of what American dreams of are made of. With a little grit and even more moxie, a rag-tag troupe of country boys with a nothing more than a song to sing — and a little pomp and s

Manchester Orchestra, the foursome from Atlanta, started their career young with an unabashed, ball-outs zeal and cranked out as much product as fast as possible. They've developed some of the most folksy, prosaic and delightful records of the new millen

Junior Boys are preternaturally adept at infusing Techno and Soul that isn’t awful, but rather suspiciously wonderful. This band almost makes it acceptable to rummage through old Boys 2 Men albums at the thrift store without fear of reprisal (but only if

From Stockholm, Sweden, Peter, Bjorn, and John, are the Euro version of Peter, Paul, and Mary, with two great distinctions -- they have good songs and are savagely non-irritating. They’re not alarming or crass. They’re not unnatural or abrasive sounding.

Of Montreal, the non-Canadian, pro-vaudevillian, Ziggy Stardust-esque troupe from Athens, Ga. present vibrant, synth-driven, flamboyant energy that feeds off the glittery residue of Queen, Bowie and Prince. Their sound -- gleeful, spastic and psychologic

Already formed and broken up once by 1982, The Queers began to grab headlines with the reemergence of perennial frontman Joe Queer in 1990. Queer would be the consistent nucleus of a band whose roster was a haphazard game of musical chairs; roughly 30 me

Jesse Hughes is a self professed “bride of Rock & Roll,” a job I assume is similar to being Satan’s housekeeper: filthy, sweaty and invariably punctuated by the occasion stab of a rogue syringe. Hughes, the lead singer of the Arena Rock breakout sensatio

Matisyahu, the 29-year old Hassidic jew MC is an artist that thrives on innovation. He sprang into American consciousness in 2004 with his debut album Shake off the Dust… Arise, an intriguing blend of spirituality and raw power. His Torah-inspired lyrics