Music: Moon Taxi
There can be an inherent danger in self-identifying or being identified as a Jam band. The term is sometimes a derogatory description of gropus that play the skeleton of a song and then haphazardly noodle their way around the melody for interminable stretches of time. Sadly, a lot of compositionally gifted outfits get lumped in…
Sound Advice: Moon Taxi with Firekid
There can be an inherent danger in self-identifying or being identified as a Jam band. The term is sometimes a derogatory description of gropus that play the skeleton of a song and then haphazardly noodle their way around the melody for interminable stretches of time. Sadly, a lot of compositionally gifted outfits get lumped in…
Music: Mary Fahl
Mary Fahl’s powerful, dramatic and dynamic voice first came to the public’s attention when she was the founding lead singer of October Project in the mid-’90s. The band’s unique sound earned it a diehard fan base, which continued to grow with the release of its second album for Epic Records, Falling Farther In. But October…
Sound Advice: Mary Fahl
Mary Fahl’s powerful, dramatic and dynamic voice first came to the public’s attention when she was the founding lead singer of October Project in the mid-’90s. The band’s unique sound earned it a diehard fan base, which continued to grow with the release of its second album for Epic Records, Falling Farther In. But October…
Music: Waxeater
Waxeater is full-bore Post Punk/Hardcore with brains, brawn and balls. The band launched its 2010 Sleeper album with a track called “Are Those Fucking Beers Ice Cold Yet?” and devoted its latest, 2013’s Baltimore Record, to songs themed entirely around the HBO series The Wire. It’s not hard to connect Waxeater to the likes of…
Sound Advice: Waxeater with Wolverton Brothers and Knife the Symphony
Waxeater is full-bore Post Punk/Hardcore with brains, brawn and balls. The band launched its 2010 Sleeper album with a track called “Are Those Fucking Beers Ice Cold Yet?” and devoted its latest, 2013’s Baltimore Record, to songs themed entirely around the HBO series The Wire. It’s not hard to connect Waxeater to the likes of…
Music: Ne-Hi
Ne-Hi is the latest group to come out of the Chicago area’s rich lineage of Modern Rock, which has historically produced some of music’s most influential acts and continues to pump out strong new bands on a regular basis. The members of Ne-Hi — Mikey Wells and Jason Balla (who both play guitar and sing lead),…
Sound Advice: Ne-Hi with Cross Country and Smut
Ne-Hi is the latest group to come out of the Chicago area’s rich lineage of Modern Rock, which has historically produced some of music’s most influential acts and continues to pump out strong new bands on a regular basis. The members of Ne-Hi — Mikey Wells and Jason Balla (who both play guitar and sing lead),…
Jess Lamb Expands Her Sound with ‘Free’
This Friday, Cincinnati-based singer/songwriter Jess Lamb will be putting out a new EP, her first major release since her post-American Idol single, “Memories.” In honor of the release, Lamb is performing a free show Friday at MOTR Pub (1345 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, motrpub.com). Joining Lamb and her band for the 9 p.m. event are Dayton,…
There’s Still a Riot Going On
I t seems slightly inaccurate to describe the past decade without the ebullient adrenaline rush of Sleater-Kinney as a hiatus. It implies that the trio’s members — guitarists/vocalists Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker and drummer Janet Weiss — have been preoccupied with the scent of long-neglected roses and gazing into heretofore unexplored navels between 2005’s…
Morning News and Stuff
Good morning Cincy. Here’s a quick rundown of some big news stories today. Ah, high school athletics. A place where we can lay aside our differences and come together in mutual appreciation of sport in all its unifying glory. Or not. Last Friday, Moeller High School in Montgomery cancelled its season-opener basketball game at Taft…
Morning News and Stuff
Good morning all. Hope you had a great holiday weekend. Here’s the news today. Cincinnati’s last remaining women’s clinic that provides abortions will remain open until at least May following a last-minute decision by the Ohio Department of Health to grant it a license. Back in September, the ODH denied Planned Parenthood’s Elizabeth Campbell Medical…
Morning News and Stuff
Good morning Cincy! With Thanksgiving nearly upon us, people are ducking out of office early today (if they even show up at all), including journalists. Here are some headlines to hold you over this holiday weekend. • University of Cincinnati President Santa Ono requested that the Facebook page of the supposed UC White Student Union…
