It’s another typical February weekend here in the Cincinnati area, with bone-chilling temps and numerous clubs and bars hosting the best in local and regional music. If you’re a music fan that’ll be out and about tonight but aren’t set on where you’re going, you’re in luck because you’ll find great bands in every corner of the city. In Northside …
Tag Archive: Frontier Folk Nebraska
Dec
30
2010
BrokenMic Presents Initial Lineup for CincyPunk 10
It is with great pleasure that I am both proud and pleased to announce that future of the CincyPunk Festival rests in my hands. CincyPunk was a message forum located at CincyPunk.org, and created by my brother, Adam Rosing, in 2002. It was a way for music fans to connect worldwide and share their musical interests with each …
Dec
26
2010
Mark Utley Announces Music For The Mountains
(photo courtesy of Magnolia Mountain and Scott Preston of CincyGroove) “If coal was found in the Rockies or the Sierras, full scale mountaintop removal coal mining would never be tolerated, so it’s a mystery to me why it’s tolerated here in Appalachia” – Daniel Martin Moore Mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining has long been a problem in …
Nov
16
2010
Cut Your Gills With Alone At 3AM
I say this every year and now’s just a good enough time as any to say it again: it’s been an incredible year in the Cincinnati music scene, not just for bands and shows in general, but more specifically for album releases. Just look at the “Album of the Year” nominees for next week’s Cincinnati Entertainment Awards (CEA) show: The …
Sep
26
2009
MidPoint Day Two Review
Running Behind Schedule Day Two of the MidPoint Music Festival started much later for me than I had planned, and the entire night involved a lot of running back and forth between downtown Cincinnati and Newport, Kentucky to the Southgate House. Because I was running behind schedule, I had missed some bands on my must-see list, …
Sep
20
2009
30 Bands I Want to See at MidPoint 2009
Out-of-Town Picks Like a lot of people, my first taste of Chairlift came about because of their hit song “Bruises” that was featured in an iPod commercial. But when they opened for Peter, Bjorn and John this past April at the Southgate House, I saw a band that was about more than writing catchy songs that could become radio-friendly hits. In the …
Jul
10
2009
Whispering Beard Folk Festival
Clear your calenders for the last weekend of August. The Whispering Beard Folk Festival returns from August 28-30, in its new home at the Thorn Hill Farm in Morning View, Kentucky. Located just about thirty minutes outside of the Cincinnati Metro area, the privately-owned 90-acre farm sits alongside the Licking River and features a 15-acre …