Even by the standards of his long and successful career, Josh Ritter is having quite the year. He’s toured the globe off of last fall’s eclectic Sermon on the Rocks, his 8th studio album, including a current run of dates with alt-country messiah Jason Isbell, played a high-profile Red...

There are bona fide rock and roll legends and then there are artists at the peak of their live prowess. The sets of that Venn diagram usually don’t overlap too much, but nearly 40 years after he formed seminal St. Paul hardcore outfit Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould is very much in both camps....

We last saw The Easthills at Bunbury Music Festival and they are back for MPMF! Coming off a huge summer of touring, they are ready to bring their big sound back to Cincinnati.  The Easthills released their highly anticipated 12 song full-length new album Fear and Temptation earlier...

Diners is a band hailing from Phoenix, Arizona. They play clean, youthful, fun, pop-rock music. Their summertime vibes are perfect to play Midpoint Music Festival as summer winds down here in the Queen City.  While lead singer, Tyler Broderick has been a favorite in the Phoenix scene for over...

THE MOBROS are Kelly & Patrick Morris. The name, “THE MOBROS” simply stands for “Morris Brothers.” But while the chosen name for this electric songwriting duo may be simple, their songs are not so simplistic. Growing up in rural South Carolina the brothers’...

It has been a year noted by comebacks in the music world with acts such as LCD Soundsystem and Frank Ocean to name a few, but there is one very important band that should be noted also. That band would be Wolf Parade. Since 2010 the band has been on hiatus, but after they announced their comeback...

Though they call western Massachusetts home, Parsonsfield draws their name from the rural Maine town. It was there that they cut their debut, Poor Old Shine, which established them as a roots force to be reckoned with. The New York Times hailed the band as, "boisterously youthful yet deftly...

Lucy Dacus is just the right mix of southern soul and witty pop. Dacus is a singer/songwriter whose solo tunes have evolved into twangy indie rock slow-burners with help from the rest of her talented quintet. She began writing mostly for herself, but met up with like-minded players in Richmond,...

Englishman James Hunter burst onto the scene with his U.S. debut People Gonna Talk in 2006, topping the Billboard Blues chart, earning a Grammy-nomination, and attracting universal acclaim from critics and his fans.  Over the last decade, he’s toured extensively around the world on the...

Progressive transcendental folk quintet Elephant Revival will be performing at the Midpoint Music Festival on Sunday, September 25! The band's album Petals (Thirty Tigers) has been featured in The Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, UTNE Reader and more. Formed in 2006, Elephant Revival is known...