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A sea of screaming fans filled U.S. Bank Arena on Friday night to see one of the biggest rock-n-roll bands of this era play in Cincinnati after not playing in the Queen City for 20 years.

Colors in Mind released their brand-new EP The Observer today! Check out “Yugen Peaks” from the new EP.

The Young Heirlooms are releasing a new album tonight called The Hammer. I agreed to do this review three weeks ago, so the day before it comes out should be the ideal time to get started on it, right? Uh… sorry, Young Heirlooms. I’ll get on this right away. In the interest of time, I will play the album for the first time on my lunch break and write out my reactions as I listen.

This Pine Box are on a roll! The band just signed to Old Flame Records, playing MOTR Pub tomorrow, and are premiering a brand new song!

There is a lot of good music of all kinds in this area. There are so many good musicians and songwriters around, along with venues that regularly host such talents, that I will often discover a new favorite by accident. That’s how I first heard Jeremy Pinnell.

The Flamin’ Groovies have returned with the album, Fantastic Plastic. This high-energy, pop-inflected album also brings back together the original members Cyril Jordan and Chris Wilson for the first time in 38 years!

I have to admit something. I’ve never been to a show at the Northside Yacht Club prior to the Michale Graves show. Upon walking in, I immediately noticed how small of a venue it was. I was actually excited by this as smaller concert venues usually means the show will be in an imitate setting.

The Yawpers are in town at MOTR Pub on Saturday, October 21st with Low Cut Connie! The Yawpers’ recently released third album Boy in a Well is a sensational tragedy set in World War I France about a mother abandoning her unwanted newborn child. But, like the band itself, there’s so much more roiling beneath the surface.

When the leaves start to fall from the trees, my music playlists switch from upbeat to more mellow. While jam bands, EDM, hip-hop, and faster feminist rock rule my summer months, folk, alt-country, and singer-songwriter music creeps its way back into the prominent position on my playlists.

TALK is a self-described soul-filled psychedelic rock band. This local band may be new to the scene, but can take you back to a happier time. They just released their debut self-titled album in April. You can catch them at BLINK on Saturday on the Findlay Market Stage at 8p.

A jazz big band is quite a thing, something unto itself. It’s an organic unit — a molecular structure, so to speak — that happened to form over time and makes sense, as does a piano trio or a string quartet. At a certain point in the evolution of jazz, four trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones, piano, bass and drums just made musical sense and came into being.

Kristen Ford is a songwriter calling Nashville home these days, but for a while there you could have said it was the road. Kristen has 5 albums under her belt with the latest being eleven tracks comprising questioning and a life on tour aptly titled “Travel Songs.” Kristen, one could say, was built for the road.