Jared Bowers's Profile

This past Thursday felt like a long time in the making - for me, personally, anyway.

If you’re a fan of music at any level - underground, indie, mainstream - you get to a certain point where everything either disappears, or somehow, sometimes inexplicably, comes back around again. 

There are buds on the trees. Daffodils are blooming. And music nerds and record collectors are preparing for one of the biggest days of the year. Record Store Day is an annual celebration of all things vinyl, all things local, and all things music.

On Wednesday, April 10, Mercy Union bring their East Coast brand of nostalgic punk and rock to the Thompson House opening for Laura Jane Grace and The Devouring Mothers.

If you’re going to the SOLD OUT Less Than Jake show on April 11, get there early! Kali Masi opens the whole thing up.

Silent Planet, now 10 years into their career and remarkably humble for a band that just sold out a 200 cap room, were playing an off date from their current tour opening for The Amity Affliction and Senses Fail.

On Saturday, January 19, they take the stage at Bogarts with Liberty Deep Down, Bare Fuzz, and The Vatics in celebration of the release of their Old Soul EP.

I’m excited to have seen An Horse live this weekend, and am genuinely looking forward to what comes next for them. If they come back through Cincinnati, I’ll be there singing along

The set itself played to new and old fans. I think the shows are just as much for Matt & Kim as they are for the people who listen to the music. And I sincerely appreciated that. 

I had a chance to talk with Dave Davison, vocalist and guitarist of Maps & Atlases, a Chicago trio (formerly 4-piece) who had been missing from a scene that they helped usher in for over half a decade.

Today, we’re excited to share the first single and video from Tooth Lures a Fang’s new full-length, Sharon is Karen, releasing on Lo Fi City this June. 

I spent some time before the Squirrel Nut Zippers’almost hour and forty-minute set thinking about how I might write about the trappings of nostalgia, or the idea of theatrics and persona and the possibility of deception - that it was all a schtick. And this would have been a valid angle considering the bands’ very specific aesthetic, both sonic and visual.