In 2006, it seemed like independent music in Cincinnati woke up. Nothing against the couple of years before that, but 06′ was a banner year for new acts. Lots of great acts were just getting started or had released their debut album, including Bad Veins, Pomegranates, Seabird, Turnbull …
7 January 2010
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It’s the end of a decade, a decade of music that we are pretty happy to have been a part of. Since 2003, Each Note Secure has attempted to cover the local music scene for you, while also tracking the national and international acts that we loved. We …
30 December 2009
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Do you remember the band Denial? Sure you do, Denial was a Cincy act that started as a cover band and grew to a post punk act who had some labels chasing them around earlier this decade. (And who apparently recently re-formed) Dan Mecher was the frontman for …
10 December 2009
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What do you get when you combine two obsessive creative songwriter types and ask them to share the stage? Well, surprisingly, you don’t get loads of conflict, but instead, every now and then, you get the perfect storm. Thats what happened when Cincinnati area musicians Cameron Cochran (aka …
1 December 2009
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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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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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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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