I’m taking on a new job opportunity, so I’ll have to wait until the weekend until I can get to a show, which is none other than the return of Phish and a two-night stand at US Bank Arena. But there’s plenty of other great music events happening all week long, from The Sundresses at the Tavern, to Bishop Allen and The Academy Is… at the Southgate House, to Megadeth and Machinehead at the Madison Theater, to a benefit for WAIF 88.3 fm at Mayday hosted by Cincypunk.org, and even a reunion show from Bosley at Play by Play Cafe in Kenwood, there’s surely something for every type of music fan.
Monday
Northside Tavern
Back Room: Heavy Trash, The Sundresses
Front Room: Northside Jazz Ensemble
Mad Hatter
Big D and the Kids Table, Ill Scarlet, Atomic Potato, Jack! Bandit, Apathetic Epidemic
Southgate House
Lounge: Open Mic hosted by Mike Kuntz
Mad Frog
Tropicoso
Stanley’s Pub
Jazz Night hosted by Wade Baker
Tuesday
Southgate House
Ballroom: Bishop Allen, Darwin Deez, You, You’re Awesome
Parlour: Passafire, Super-Massive, The Pinstripes
Stanley’s Pub
Rumpke Mountain Boys
Wednesday
Northside Tavern
Back Room: Digital Leather, Foster Grants
Southgate House
Ballroom: Nekromantix, Rumble Club, De Los Muertos
Parlour: Dex Romweber Duo, J. Dorsey
Lounge: Michael & Travis from Frontier Folk Nebraska
Mad Hatter
The Flight Station, Copperview, Our Rising, Mr. Twelve Feet
Stanley’s Pub
Super-Massive
Thursday
Mad Hatter
Loco Bros Party
Mad Frog
Super-Massive
Southgate House
Lounge: The Fox Hunt
Stanley’s Pub
Bubble Life, The Skeetones
Friday
US Bank Arena
Phish
Madison Theater
Megadeth, Machinehead, Suicide Silence, Arcanium
Southgate House
Ballroom: The Academy Is…, Hot Chelle Rae, Watson Park
Parlour: AbsolutePunk.net Tour with Mercy Mercedes, The Dangerous Summer, Between the Trees, Single File
Mad Hatter
Scallywagon, Grandview, Kerberos, Eat the Rich, Hydroshock, Situation Red
Northside Tavern
Back Room: Ellison, Wake the Bear
Mad Frog
Ninefold, Raccoon City, Hollis Brown, In Space
Stanley’s Pub
Phish After Party with SOUSE
The Comet
Wist, Iolite
Baba Budan’s
Where They Landed, Moneytrees River
Saturday
US Bank Arena
Phish
Southgate House
Ballroom: Jucifer, Beneath Oblivion
Parlour: Mimicking Birds, Matthew Shelton, JD Carlson (of Moneytrees River)
Lounge: Scotty Karate
Mad Hatter
Pilot Around the Stars, All Out Best, Bazookas Go Bang, The Paramedic, Watch What You Say, Let It Happen, Life After Lift Off
Mayday
88.3 WAIF Benefit hosted by CincyPunk featuring Billy Wallace and the Virginia Blues, The Weakness and Loudmouth
Northside Tavern
Back Room: Pilgrim
Stanley’s Pub
Phish After Party with Grooveshire, Northbound Motion
Play by Play Cafe
Bosley Reunion, Lemon G
The Comet
Free Sophia
Baba Budan’s
Eclipse, Cincy Brass