First Acts Announced for 2013’s MidPoint Music Festival
Plus news on Electric Citizen, Kenny Peck & the Smoky Jack Band, The Lockland Brakes and School of Rock Mason
The Long, Complex Ride to Superfood Stardom
MidPoint Indie Summer Concerts Announced
Plus, Tracy Walker releases decade-in-the-making new LP and the latest on MidPoint Music Festival 2013
Know Your 'Heights'
Eclectic local event The Heights Music Festival presents only one fest this year and it's this weekend
Droning Your Sorrows
Drones to deliver beer at music fest, Jay-Z gets a presidential diss and Ghost B.C. release cheeky box-set
Music: Cincy Psych Fest Freak-Out Series with Goat and Holy Wave
Monthly Hip Hop Night Comes to The Comet
Plus, The Tempers and Shiny and the Spoon celebrate new releases, Northside Music Fest returns and Kelly Thomas takes on classic with Switchblade Syndicate
Music: Martin Bisi
Elvis Impersonators Gone Bad?
Plus, new 'Twitter #music' app is unveiled after celebrities get first dibs
Music: The Shins with Ra Ra Riot
Mr. Dibbs Salutes Skandal Da Ruckus Man
Plus, Buffalo Killers come home, Yugos rock OTR Skate and Dallas Moore preps new single
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Cincy Hip Hop icon Mr. Dibbs pays tribute to late local Hip Hop artist Skandal Da Ruckus Man with new EP to benefit Skandal's daughter.
Costly Stones, Down With Brown and INXS Resigns
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 14, 2012
The Rolling Stones makes excuses for high ticket prices by saying they've already spent millions on production and rehearsals, Chris Brown isn't being forgiven quite so easily in Europe for his domestic abuse past and INXS reminds everyone they're still a band … by announcing their breakup.
Music: Jorma Kaukonen and Steve Kimock
0 Comments · Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Two of the most important and distinctive guitarists to emerge from the seminal ’60s and ’70s Bay Area Rock & Roll scene join forces this Sunday for a killer double bill at the 20th Century Th
Benefit Tonight for Cincinnati Music Heritage Group
Cincy Groove presents multi-act concert in Newport to help the Cincinnati USA Music Heritage Foundation
{CommentsCant} · Friday, November 9, 2012
Scott Preston and his excellent local music web mag Cincy Groove are presenting a benefit concert at Southgate House Revival tonight to help keep a spotlight on the Cincinnati area’s outrageously rich musical history and influence. The 9 p.m. show will raise funds for the Cincin...
Music Tonight: Dean & Britta, Aimee Mann and Much More
{CommentsCant} · Friday, November 9, 2012
• Dean & Britta (formerly of critically-acclaimed Indie dreamscapers Luna) bring their unique multimedia show, "13 Most Beautiful … Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests," to Over-the-Rhine's revitalized Emery Theatre. The project originated four years again after Dean Wareham received a phone call from a curator (and big Luna fa...
Explore Heights of Local Music This Weekend
Heights Music Festival fall event brings another eclectic Cincy music sampler to Clifton Heights
{CommentsCant} · Friday, November 9, 2012
The Heights Music Festival returns this weekend for its fall event and another wide-ranging sampling of Cincinnati’s original music scene. Music will run Friday and Saturday night from 7 p.m. until about closing time at four venues in Clifton Heights near the University of Cincinnati campus — Baba Budan’s,
'513 Rocks!' Music TV Show Premieres Tonight
Local music (and local charities) get some TV love from new Fox Sports Ohio program
{CommentsCant} · Thursday, November 8, 2012
Tonight at 7 p.m. on Fox Sports Ohio, the new television program 513 Rocks! makes its broadcast debut. The 30-minute program aims to showcase local music — artists and venues — as well as local charitable organizations. The show was developed by Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions, which is showcasing its charitable text-to-give technology (viewers tonight, for example, with be encoura...
The Tillers’ Fond ‘Farewell’ Is a Brilliant Re-Introduction
Plus notes on The Heights Music Festival, a Cincinnati Music Heritage Foundation benefit and a Culture Queer release party
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Folk faves The Tillers celebrate the release of a new live album recorded at the former Southgate House with a release party at the new Southgate House Revival.
No Doubt's Sorry, Mustaine's Regret and Epic Loses Grips
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 7, 2012
No Doubt removes music video after outcry over its use of Native American stereotypes, Dave Mustaine says he learned a lot this year, including how easily his foot fits in his mouth and Death Grips' antics (giving away their new album early, putting an erect penis on the cover, etc.) finally get them dropped from Epic.
