MidPoint’s Indie Summer kicks off in just about an hour, and tonight’s lineup will feature a handful of the best indie bands in the area. Things kick off at 7 pm, with Come On Caboose, who formed in 2007 as a solo project for singer/songwriter Coran Stetter. They have since opened for the likes of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Pomegranates’
MidPoint Indie Summer Preview
Posted: 2nd July 2010 by nate in Indie Summer, Local MusicTags: Come On Caboose, Enlou, MidPoint Indie Summer, No No Knots, Pomegranates
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South by Southwest: The Ultimate Festival
Posted: 21st February 2010 by nate in music festivalsTags: Bad Veins, Daniel Martin Moore and Ben Sollee, Julie Neumark, Pomegranates, SXSW, The Seedy Seeds
While Austin, Texas may be just another city on the map, I can’t help but think that maybe they’re putting something in the air or water that makes you believe you are in another world. At least this thought holds true for festivals like South by Southwest and Austin City Limits. I like to think that [...]
Popopolis 2009: Travelin’ Thru Time
Posted: 1st October 2009 by nate in Concerts, Local Music, music festivalsTags: Bad Veins, Bri Love, Chocolate Horse, Clabbergirl, Dan Mecher, Jason Snell, Messerly & Ewing, Mike Landis, Pomegranates, Popopolis, Rockets to Mars, Saving Ray, Seedy Seeds, State Song, Throneberry, Turnbull AC's, Wussy
Step Into the Time Machine That Is Popopolis
After a seven-year abscence, Popopolis is returning to Cincinnati. The music festival was created in 1998 by Jay Hopper and Mike Breen of Rockets to Mars, who got the idea from San Francisco’s International Pop Overthrow Festival. Breen states that “If you present something as more than just a concert [...]
Music Happenings Tonight
Posted: 28th September 2009 by nate in Local MusicTags: 500 Miles to Memphis, Andy Friedman and the Other Failures, Junebaby, Jupiter One, Margaret Darling, Northside Tavern, Pokey LaFarge, Pomegranates, Ryan Malott, Southgate House, The Quartet, The Seedy Seeds, The Sheds
I’ll get the Weekly Concert Calender back up and running tomorrow, but for now here are a couple of things going on tonight:
In Kentucky…
Southgate House
Parlour
Pokey LaFarge (Kentucky-born)
Blues/Country/Roots
Andy Friedman & the Other Failures (Brooklyn)
Country/Folk/Rockabilly
Margaret Darling (of The Seedy Seeds. Look for her in Junebaby as well, a band that features members of Pomegranates and The Sheds)
9 pm doors, 9:30 show
$5 for [...]
30 Bands I Want to See at MidPoint 2009
Posted: 20th September 2009 by nate in MidPoint Music FestivalTags: Bowery Boy Blue, Buffalo Killers, Chairlift, Eat Sugar, Ellery, Extra Golden, Flaregun, Frontier Folk Nebraska, God Made Me Funky, Heartless Bastards, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, mallory, Matthew Shelton's Picnic, Micachu and the Shapes, MidPoint Music Festival, Pomegranates, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, State Song, Stick Figure Drawings, The Baltic Sea, The Bloodsugars, The Do, The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, The Harlequins, The Lighthouse and The Whaler, The Lions Rampant, The Minor Leagues, The Seedy Seeds, The Sundresses, The Wildbirds, The Young Republic
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 beginning [...]
This Week in Music
Posted: 6th July 2009 by nate in Indie Summer, Local Music, music festivalsTags: Black Crowes, Black Keys, Bogart's, CD Releases, Counting Crows, Flaregun, Forecastle Festival, Fountain Square, Jason Isbell, Local Music, Lovell Sisters, Mad Hatter, Northside Tavern, PNC Pavilion, Pomegranates, Son Volt, Southgate House, State Song, Stone Temple Pilots, Umphrey's McGee, Widespread Panic
Monday, July 6
Critic’s Pick:
PNC Pavilion – Counting Crows, Augustana
Paper Route, Audrey Sessions and Mia Carruthers & the Retros – Southgate House – Ballroom
Northside Tavern – The Quartet
Tuesday, July 7
Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy) – Southgate House – Ballroom
Underbelly – An evening featuring ten of the area’s best stand-up comedians doing everything except stand-up comedy – Southgate [...]