Jonathan Goolsby's Profile

Ryan Smith, lead guitarist and primary songwriter of the Melismatics, has fond memories of Cincinnati. "We're good friends with 500 Miles to Memphis," he said. "I love the old Southgate House. I love the new one, too. It's really fun playing in this really old building that used to be something...

Somewhere, somehow, everyone has an inner goth. I'm serious: there is inevitably a time in everyone's life when dark, gloomy, post-punk synth is appealing. It's more often for some of us than others. Me? I haven't been comfortable in my own skin since 1988. Pass me some Dead Fame. Having caught...

CINCINNATI — Pull up a chair. I might gush. My first experience with Damien Jurado's music came by accident. Some years ago, I was digging crates at a St. Francis DePaul thrift store (I won't tell you  which one -- this particular outlet is my cheap vinyl honey hole). Amongst the usual vinyl bin...

About a year ago, I happened, between sets at vinyl night, to catch a curious act upstairs in the Revival Room. The Please Please Me, a trio out of Austin, Tay-haas, is a hard-working, hard-touring outfit featuring guitar, drums, cello and the occasional percussive log. That’s right. You heard...

It's been a busy year for the hardest working surf-psych trio in the Queen City. Hot off the dusty trail in 2013, which featured an official showcase at South by Southwest, a tour through the Gulf States, an appearance at Bunbury and an upcoming date with MidPoint, The Harlequins somehow, someway...

Keith Jeffery and Atlas Genius have just wrapped another radio festival — this one in Missouri — at the tail end of their first US headline tour. Jeffery is packed, prepped and ready to fly out. He needs downtime. "We're flying to Los Angeles in a couple hours. We've got five or six days off,...

They all just about gave up on Chris Flemmons and Baptist Generals. Everyone, that is, but the Generals' label — somehow, someway, Sub Pop stuck with them, even as sales and budgets took a dive industry-wide. Flemmons hasn't forgotten the solid. "It's a fool's errand, music. We're really lucky...

Fresh off recording their second album for Frenchkiss Records (and fourth album overall), Crocodiles will barnstorm through the Ohio Valley in June. I would tell you what kind of music they play, but front and former San Diegan Brandon Welchez doesn't like labels. "I've never felt like we've been...

Friends, Music Lovers, Brewmasters . . . Come Drink Some Beers for Sunday Funday! (Psst…it’s for a CAUSE!) The kind folks over at Mad Tree Brewing will be teaming up with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center today, to raise money for CCHMC’s charitable care fund, benefiting...

Newport, Ky. – Greater Cincinnati, you committed a crime Wednesday night. It was not the first time, and it certainly won’t be the last. But you need to be aware. I don’t judge you poorly for it. I was almost a co-perpetrator. There was no malice in your crime; it was simply a crime of...

Burlington, Ky. —Daniel Martin Moore is in a light touring year, and he planned it that way. In the run up to his appearance at Cincinnati's Bunbury Music Festival in July, he's been engineering and producing records for his nascent Ol' Kentuck label. “There’s a new record out on the label by...

Alex Brown Church knows about yearning to return to where you started. His latest Sea Wolf record, Old World Romance, is not only about going home, it is a product of recovery: data recovery. "I began writing the record in earnest in January, 2011," Church said. "By October of that year, all the...