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: The Shins with Ra Ra Riot
Music: Martin Bisi
Elvis Impersonators Gone Bad?
Plus, new 'Twitter #music' app is unveiled after celebrities get first dibs
LISTEN: "Pyro Hippies" by Vacation
Spiky Cincinnati Noise Pop band has track from forthcoming album world premiered by Spin
{CommentsCant} · Thursday, April 18, 2013
Cincinnati Noise Pop trio Vacation had the first sampling of its forthcoming sophomore LP debuted by Spin.com today. The messy but blissfully melodic track "Pyro Hippies" is set for the band's Candy Waves album, scheduled for release on June 18 through New Jersey-based label, Don Giova...
Divine Fists
Fists of Love releases debut full-length and Cincinnati gets in on the Record Store Day action
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Psychedelic Indie rockers Fists of Love prep their debut album, I Sang My Heart Out to a Snake Once, for digital and vinyl release. Plus, Cincinnati area record stores get ready for this Saturday's huge international Record Store Day.
Hope for Preemies, No New Stones & New Kid OK
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Researchers find that live music, played or sung, can help with the development of premature babies, Mick Jagger says no new Stones album, but Keith says, "Uh, yeah," and some in the media actually took time to report on boy band members/runners' non-injuries just hours after the Boston Marathon explosions.
Music: Buffalo Killers
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
With Record Store Day falling on Saturday this year — 4/20, y’all! — it should be no surprise that critically acclaimed Cincy-area rockers Buffalo Killers would get in on the action; pot referen
Music: Fists of Love
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
At long last, Cincinnati Rock foursome Fists of Love will see the release of its debut album, I Sang My Heart Out to a Snake Once. The album has been “virtually street-ready” since
Event: Record Store Day
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
This Saturday is Record Store Day (RSD), which began in 2007 as a way to celebrate (and draw business to) independent, brick-and-mortar record shops all over the globe. In the Cincinnati area, four lo
Music Tonight: Bernie Worrell and Cancer Family Care Benefit
{CommentsCant} · Tuesday, April 16, 2013
• Gifted young violinist/vocalist Rosie Carson and her father, former Customs bassist and longtime show promoter Steve Carson, are presenting a benefit concert tonight at the Molly Malone's in Covington ...
Watch: The National Tour Doc Trailer
Mistaken For Strangers, by Cincinnati's Tom Berninger, set to premiere Wednesday at Tribeca Film Festival
{CommentsCant} · Monday, April 15, 2013
The road documentary about successful Indie Rock band The National (Cincy-bred, Brooklyn-based) is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday, where the band will also perform. The film, Mistaken For Strangers, was made by Cincinnatian Tom Berninger (younger brother of National singer Matt). From looks of the just-released ...
MusicNOW 2013: A Primer
An overview and sampling of the adventurous sounds you'll hear at this weekend's MusicNOW festival
{CommentsCant} · Friday, April 12, 2013
Tonight marks the kick-off of MusicNOW, an adventurous weekend of music that was started in 2006 by Cincinnati native and guitarist for successful Indie Rock band The National, Bryce Dessner. The festival's mission is "to present the best in contemporary music; to offer artists' an opportunity to take risks; to commission new work." That's a fair but lacking description of the festival, but ...
LISTEN: The National's First Two New Album Tracks (UPDATED)
Band releases "Demons," "Don't Swallow the Cap" from forthcoming 'Trouble Will Find Me'
{CommentsCant} · Thursday, April 11, 2013
The Cincinnati-born, Brooklyn-based members of Indie Rock sensations The National recently announced details about their first new album since 2010's High Violet, Trouble WIll Find Me. The album is due in the U.S. on May 21 on the 4AD label. (Click here for the album cover, track listing and mor...
