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Follow The Afghan Whigs on their road to Sub Pop Records in this graphic novel.

Tags: Music Feature, The Afghan Whigs, SubPop

In honor of efforts of The Who Concert Victims Memorial Committee, CityBeat contributors Tom Bolton (artist) and Rich Shivener (writer) collaborated on a special “comic strip” about that fateful night on the riverfront, a watershed moment for concert cro

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Sept. 12 • Southgate House Parlour

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Gary Phillips and Brian Hiatt, Vertigo Crime

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Call Kaki King a guitar god. It's OK — Rolling Stone did. To her, it's a compliment, though she's not entirely sure what to make of such a lofty tag. "What does that even mean?" she asks. "When someone says you're a 'Guitar This' or a 'Guitar Warrior Pri

A virtuoso embraces the weirdness of of stringed instruments

March 15 • 20th Century Theatre

Hailing from the shadows of Belgium, the Lords of Acid is a sexually charged collective led by Industrial/Techno freak Praga Kahn. The Acid maestro and his beloveds have been seducing nightclubs since 1988, when the Lords released "I Sit on Acid," a hyp

The Seedy Seeds have a "Verb Noun" on their hands. That's the new record, a darker-yet-still-danceable side of their Cincinnati-cultured, Indie/Electronic/Folk/Pop worth a thousand hearts. Or as the trio says...

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The Seedy Seeds have a "Verb Noun" on their hands. That's the new record, a darker-yet-still-danceable side of their Cincinnati-cultured, Indie/Electronic/Folk/Pop worth a thousand hearts.The crew host a CD release party at Southgate house Saturday.Check

From my home, on the tip of Ludlow, I can roll down the hill to places such as the PBR, Bud-guzzling Rita’s Place, or perhaps Willie’s Sports Bar, a HDTV gallery serving decent hot wings. But my true Covington haunts are further — about a mile and then s

Josh Ritter's latest record flirts with Folk and Rock and leaves AltCountry in the dust, capturing the Idaho singer/songwriter whispering melodies over pianos and acoustics or getting a little dirty with organs and guitars. 'So Runs the World Away' is on

Feb. 16 • 20th Century Theatre

A random chat with Tokyo Police Club guitarist Josh Hook

Tags: Music Feature, Cincinnati Music

Tokyo Police Club will probably deliver another EP of Electro-laced Indie Rock in late 2011, but most of this year brings month-long tours and time for jamming. So says guitarist Josh Hook, who checked in by phone from Austin, Tex., more than 1,500 miles

"I think a lot of people associate skill with show-off-y-ness," The Thermals' drummer, Westin Glass, says by phone from Portland, Ore. "They thought that (bandmates) Hutch and Kathy had told me not to play more complicated parts, but that's exactly what

Spilling it on recording, 'deadpan' delivery and rowdy crowds

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Irony is something The Hold Steady has worn for years — and really, the fact that multi-instrumentalist Franz Nicolay left the band in January seems like a stitch in that overcoat. The designer of such irony is Craig Finn, guitarist and storyteller of th

Oct. 2 • Southgate House

Tags: Music News, Craig Finn, The Hold Steady

Local illustrators talk about this weekend's Cincinnati Comic Expo

Tags: Visual Arts, Cincinnati Comic Expo