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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A really great show has been thrown together just south of the Cincinnati area down in Louisville this weekend and we want you to go! The show headliner is Dead Oceans artists Evangelicals, who have released a couple of excellent albums and are also amazing live.
The …
9 November 2009
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“Is anyone trying to sell an amp?” Phil Elverum asks. He is sincere, and when a few people from the audience yell responses, he says, “No, really. It has to be loud…at least a hundred watts.” The man behind Mount Eerie had apparently blown his amp right before the show …
6 November 2009
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Sufjan! Sufjan! Sufjan! When Pitchfork announced that Sufjan Stevens himself would be introducing the screening event of his new film/music score The BQE, the attendance instantly became hipster-heavy and doubled. Sadly, Sufjan was not in attendance at the new Country Club Art Gallery in Oakley on Tuesday. …
6 November 2009
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What happens when a band rolls through town on a Monday night without having put a new album out in the last two years? You end up with a small crowd even in a place like The Mad Hatter… just ask The Whigs. While there was not a ton …
5 November 2009
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I really like going to concerts, but it’s actually very rare that I continue to reflect on a show months after it’s passed. Mount Eerie’s 2008 performance at the Art Damage Lodge in Northside was one of those shows. Phil Elvrum, the creative force behind Mount Eerie, performed along with …
3 November 2009
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