Courtney Phenicie's Profile

Messerly and Ewing are always evolving. Having been a band over 19 years, M&E put together a new band featuring a more eclectic guitar driven sound and rhythm section of Sean Rhiney and Bill Donabedian. Mark Messerly and Brian Ewing also spend time working with other local bands including...

Civil Twilight will steal your heart with their passionate vocals. After your heart is stolen you will fall in love again with the classical song arrangements, indie rock style.  Originally hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, Andrew McKellar, Richard Wouters, Steven McKellar and Kevin Dailey...

Two men, a rocking beat and a sweet background video. You, You're Awesome is a two-piece electronic band based in Cincinnati, OH. Winner of 3 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards for Best Electronic Act. Kevin Bayer and Yusef Quotah are You, You're Awesome. At a show Yusef rarely talks so most know the...

Saturday night proves to be the night you need to get to Mainstay Rock Club. Two amazing local bands are going to be blowing the doors off the club. Rather than me tell you why to go, I spoke with Ben James from Pluto Revolts and Joe Hedges from July for Kings…. Pluto Revolts CincyMusic.com: What...

What a fantastic week to be celebrating Cincinnati Pride! It's been a great week for equal rights and the city is celebrating with a plethora of events for Cincinnati Pride. Start your night out right Friday with the Skyy Vodka Pub Crawl. Full schedule HERE.  On Saturday the Pride Parade starts at...

When is the last time you visited Rabbit Hash, KY?! Rabbit Hash is one of my favorite places in all of the tri-state. Grab some friends and your dancing shoes and head on down Saturday! BrownGrass Festival donates all the proceeds to WNKU (89.7, 105.9 and 104.1 FM). WNKU is a non profit publicly...

The great outdoors sets the stage for local bands and musicians during Fresh Music and Fresh Air. This new opportunity offers a venue for performers to showcase themselves to the public. Fresh Music and Fresh Air are being held on Thursdays, through August 29, 2013, from 7–9 p.m.  Family and...

Ohio Knife is bombastic rock n’ roll. Jason Snell’s raspy, two-toned vocals and trashy guitar using off-the-beaten-path tunings may be the driving force for this sonic onslaught. But that’s truck’s pulling a full load of ass-dropping drums and enough booming fuzzed-out organ to make you...

WNKU has just announced they will be hosting the Heartless Bastards for a concert benefitting the public radio station on Sunday, August 4th at Greaves Concert Hall on the campus of Northern Kentucky University.  This will be the second WNKU-produced concert this year.  The station hosted Paul...

PUBLIC are three friends doing what they love to do. PUBLIC were discovered at a high school band challenge surrounded by all their friends on Valentines Day 2012. Since then, PUBLIC have blown up. Playing shows all over town as well as nationally. They have a huge surprise for us at Bunbury,...

Congrats to locals, Let It Happen! The band will make their label debut with a brand new EP, Unravel to be released on August 6th.  Let It Happen formed in 2009 and quickly got out there playing venues and writing. Their performances are high energy and lyrics accessible. Right away, the band were...

If you haven’t heard the Jackson Brewery is being redeveloped! Grayscale is headed by Scott Hand and Dominic Marino – two Cincinnati-area natives. Through Dominic’s music background and Scott’s architecture and acoustic background, we are moving into the Jackson Brewery building to start...