Courtney Phenicie's Profile

It starts with the creation myth: St. Vincent, naked and alone in the wilderness, startled as the ominous rattle of a snake breaks the silence of her Eden. She realizes she's not alone in the world and breaks into a run, headed towards the uncertainty of the future. It's a lovely and appropriate...

American Authors seem to really be having the best days of their lives. I last saw the band at the Bunbury VIP session in Cincinnati, OH for Bunbury Music Festival. It was a great set of hand clapping, dance your ass off greatness. Since then, the band has been touring consistently across the U.S....

Immediately following their return from performing in Austin during SXSW, Acarya will release their new EP, Is Fio Glacies, on Saturday April 5 at Northside Tavern. The show will feature multiple guests, including Michael Ivins of the Flaming Lips (who plays the bass track on Sand Scribe)....

Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati based band, Arlo McKinley and The Lonesome Sound will be releasing their much anticipated debut album on April 19, 2014 at The Southgate House Revival. The celebration will take place in the same room where the recording was tracked live, on a Sunday, in late February....

Johnette's solo show is a blend of her endeavor to gather from her body of art, songs, for an acoustic record, and in the process, revisiting 30 years of them from CDs, films, unreleased songs and new songs. Weave that together with the navigation through her most personal thoughts regarding this...

Cincinnati based singer/songwriter Serenity Fisher and her band The Cardboard Hearts are ready to get you in the mood for love. The folksy Indie Pop singer and her band have put together a playlist of love songs, both original and cover to celebrate the day. Fisher, fresh off a tour of Europe to...

New Bums is the grudging match-up of Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire, 200 Years, Rangda and who's hiring?). They didn't like each other at first, but now make sweet and sour music together over the light of the magical Sterno - and now, a...

Friday, at The Southgate House Revival, The Pinstripes have a party of epic proportions planned. Not only will this be the 10th anniversary of the band but also a goodbye for now.  Per a statement from the band: Friends, it is with a cornucopia of emotions that we'd like to announce The Pinstripes...

Taking their appreciation of music and culture from two-dimensional rock posters to a fully-dimensional experience, Greater Cincinnati-based print shop and brand-building agency Powerhouse Factories released their first Powerhouse Factories Live session of the year on Thursday. The session features...

Following the startling success of LumenoCity last summer, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is expanding this groundbreaking free concert experience for the community in Cincinnati’s Washington Park on August 1, 2 and 3, 2014, by adding a third performance, and presenting an all-new visual and...

I first discovered The Blind Boys of Alabama on the 2004 Ben Harper album, "There Will Be a Light". I am not a church goer but there is no resisting the way the music of The Blind Boys's makes you feel. Inspired, moved...their music makes you want to do good things.  The Blind Boys of Alabama...

As one of the highest selling independent artists on the music scene today, Pope has sold over 1.5 million singles, achieving nationwide and international success. His singles have been featured on NBC’s “The Voice,” CW’s “Vampire Diaries” and “90210” and multiple seasons...