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Jazz Heritage Festival will soothe your soul in August

Learning Through Art, Inc. brings back its popular Crown Jewels of Jazz® Gala in an exciting new format from August 21 – 24 with a four-day Crown Jewels of Jazz® Heritage Festival.  Jazz, America’s classical music, takes center stage for four nights in the Festival’s seven-block Global...

Get to know Download Artist of the week: Animal Circles!

Download "Life on the Banzai Pipeline" by Animal Circles HERE for free! Give us the backstory on Animal Circles...Formed in 2009, we (Zach Fox, our original bass player, and myself [Jeff Gowdy]) originally played a weird mix of Explosions in the Sky and Sonic Youth with 2 different lineups. The...

Bunbury Preview: The Mitchells

The Mitchells have taken Cincinnati by storm since their creation not so long ago. They tour the Midwest consistently and play out all over town. It seems every music aficionado I have met in the past year want to know if I have heard of The Mitchells. Sheez…of course I have heard of The...

Don’t miss RoeblingFest Saturday!

This day-long celebration honors the John A. Roebling Bridge, a National Historic Landmark. Historic tours, museum exhibits, arts and craft sales, raffles, silent auctions, great food and drinks, local music and much more! Join with others at 2 pm and be part of the "Hands Across the Roebling...

MidPoint Indie Summer presents Loudmouth and The Dopamines!

Fountain Square is the place to be on Friday night. Local punk icons Loudmouth and The Dopamines are going to shake up downtown. We caught up with both bands to get some one on one time before they fill up the square on Friday.    THE DOPAMINES: How did you get involved in the Cincinnati Music...

Fantasy pop duo Savoir Adore playing Bunbury!

Paul Hammer and Deidre Muro are Savoir Adore. Hailing from Brooklyn, NYC, the pop-rock duo have recently re-released previously self-released, Our Nature with The Nettwerk Music Group, a Vancouver-headquartered company that launched Sarah McLachlan, Skinny Puppy and Coldplay. Among the stops on...

Night Beds is performing Friday @ MOTR Pub w/ Jenny O. opening!

Night Beds are the indie buzz band lately. Night Beds' lead singer Winston Yellen is quite simply a knock out talent, one you don't want to miss. His voice has a huge range, and an astonishing effect that stuns even the grumpiest of crowds. When performing live, Winston will take off into the...

Bunbury Preview: The Ready Stance

In rock ’n’ roll some tales are just too perfect to make up. And the back story of The Ready Stance is definitely one of them. A truly perfect storm that unfolded within one square block of the historic district in Newport, Kentucky, just across the Ohio from Cincinnati. In these days of...

SHAKEY GRAVES BRINGS "FRIGHTENINGLY GOOD" to tSGHR Wednesday!

Shakey Graves hits the spot for the original music fix you’ve been searching for. Recently championed by NPR Music as "unclassifiably original" and "frighteningly good," Austin's Shakey Graves is popping in at The Southgate House Revival on Wednesday.  Described by the New York Times as making...

Free Download: Joe Dunlap

Get to know weekly download artist Joe Dunlap! You can download "Love to be learned" for free HERE!  What inspired the song, "Love to be Learned"?The inspiration for the song "Love To Be Learned" came primarily from the time that I've spent at an incredible food pantry / coffee shop / music...

Bunbury Preview: Get to know Channing & Quinn!

In a live setting the two do the work of several musicians by playing guitar, ukulele, accordion, drums, glockenspiel, banjo and more. Quirky 2 piece duo Channing & Quinn often tour the country in a rather unorthodox way. Past tours have consisted of Amtrak Train Tours and most recently a tour...

Billy Wallace playing Bunbury Music Festival!

Billy Wallace is on his way to being an americana, folk, indie legend in these parts. Billy Wallace spent six years playing in indie / folk band The Wading Girl, in Virginia. After the breakup in 2009, Wallace decided to head back home to Cincinnati. Boy, are we lucky he did. Wallace will be...