In what promises to be the best MidPoint Music Festival in it’s short history, this years lineup was rolled out in phases over the past couple of months. And now today, we get to take all of those names and match them with a venue and a set time …

The National are back. And it’s not like they really ever left. The band that grew up in Ohio but did most of their musical maturing in New York returned to the Buckeye state Monday night showcasing their latest and possibly greatest album to date, High Violet.
By now, every educated Cincinnati music fan knows the story of the Heartless Bastards. Everything from taking their name from a bar-room electronic game, to their Dayton/Cincinnati roots, to their subsequent breakup and Erika’s move to Austin, Texas, where she reformed the group with a new band of musicians. The …
30 November 2009
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King Khan’s raging garage funk and James Brown-esque theatrics are coming to Northside Tavern this week for a FREE show. The King Khan & BBQ Show hit Northside Tavern on Thursday for what I guarantee will be a ridiculous show.
King Khan, who has been playing with his band The Shrines …
30 November 2009
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It’s almost time to start thinking about Christmas shopping isn’t it? Well today here on ENS, not only do we have something that you might want to keep for your own stocking, but it could make an awesome gift for that classic music lover on your list. We …
30 November 2009
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When I see a hometown show like this on the calendar, it really makes me miss Cincinnati. Tonight at our beloved Southgate House in Newport, three great bands will be taking the stage to kick off the holiday weekend. Yeah, you know you don’t have to work tomorrow, …
25 November 2009
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(photo credit, from previous nights show in Austin)
Last week Elvis Perkins brought stopped through Louisville and brought along with him a merry band of players which was a really nice surprise as we walked into Zanzabar. Given that his first album, Ash Wednesday, was so quiet and set in solitude …
23 November 2009
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The 13th annual Cincinnati Entertainment Awards went down last night here in town. It was another great celebration of the city and our great music scene, and lots of great bands and artists were honored. Here is a list of the winners this year, congratulations to all of …
23 November 2009
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In 2002, the Americana Folk Rock sound was still pretty high on the radars of music fans. After the success of bands like Whiskeytown, Son Volt and several other punk kids that discovered their parents old country records, it was only natural that those twinges would make their way …
23 November 2009
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Have you been keeping up with Beck’s record club project? Well, if you have not, the uber talented musician has been covering songs recently, and usually with a talented cast around him. Here is the premise of the record club.
Record Club is an informal meeting of various musicians …
18 November 2009
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Cincinnati has always been known for tipping it’s cap to the sounds of great garage rock, but what happens when you take that sound and infuse pure unadulterated soul and funk into it? No, it’s not Bootsy Collins fronting Thee Shams (although we’d like to hear that too by …
16 November 2009
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It’s that time of year, the time when year end lists begin to take over our thoughts and blogs posts. We love year end list season and this year is a special one for lists as we close out the decade of the 2000′s. So, we here at …
11 November 2009
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