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Bunbury Day 2 in Review
Rich Shivener & Nat Tracey-Miller are on the ground for us this weekend at Bunbury Festival. Here is a set-by-set recap of Bunbury Day 2! Playing to Vapors 2:30 Sawyer Point StageOne of the advantages to Promowest’s acquisition of the festival is the huge influx of artists from...
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Bunbury Day 1 in Review
Rich Shivener & Nat Tracey-Miller are on the ground for us this weekend at Bunbury Festival. Here is a set-by-set recap of Bunbury Day 1! Wussy, 2 PM, Yeatman's Cove StageBefore they worried about shade, food and craft brew, hundreds followed the mesmerizing sounds of indie-rock local...
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Bunbury Preview: Tame Impala
When Australian psych rockers Tame Impala burst onto the scene in 2010, it would’ve been a forgivable offense to think they were part of a bandwagon trend. MGMT were riding a wave of success with their own psych-rock success Oracular Spectacular, and pulling a host of soundalikes along with...
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Bunbury Preview: Kacey Musgraves
Same Trailer, Different Park didn’t have any of the predictable elements of a mainstream country success. Kacey Musgraves’s 2013 major label debut was subtly produced, its biggest single endorsed pot smoking and lesbian sex (“if that’s something you’re into”),...
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Bunbury Preview: Father John Misty
Despite only being two albums deep into his life as Father John Misty, Josh Tillman is hardly new to the rock world. He joined Seattle folk rock juggernaut Fleet Foxes on drums after the release of their eponymous 2008 debut, remaining a key creative member until the end of the Helplessness Blues...
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The Black Keys Come Home
The Black Keys are the biggest band that's ever come out of Ohio. "Wait, but what about...?" Nope. Any other artist you can throw at this argument formed elsewhere or left before they got huge. The Black Keys are a product of Akron, which they called home until moving to Nashville in 2010, but by...
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Wilco Dazzles With Marathon Taft Set
To be honest, we’re lucky to still have Wilco at all. Since their formation in 1994, there have been eight distinct lineups of Wilco, but seven of those came in the first turbulent nine years. Jeff Tweedy and bassist John Stirratt have been the only constants. But the current sextet has been...
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Bunbury Preview: The Decemberists Move Forward, Look Inward
The Decemberists are miles removed from the club-dwelling road warriors that turned out four stellar LPs in as many years between 2002 and 2006--the same period of time it took them to make What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World, their seventh album and fourth on Capitol Records. Ever...
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Garage rock legends The Sonics boom back to life
"But have you seen my records?" asked LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy towards the end of 2002’s tongue-in-cheek zeitgeist-capturing indie rock manifesto "Losing My Edge." He rattles off a whole litany of bands before coming to his feverish conclusion: "The Sonics! The Sonics! The Sonics!...
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The Mountain Goats Enter the Ring at Bogart’s
Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle has never had trouble finding source material for his songs. Over the years, his albums have chronicled a group of young meth heads, the catastrophic implosion of a marriage, a secular reading of the Bible, and even his own childhood with a violent stepfather....
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Nineties Legends Sebadoh Return to Main Street
The last time Sebadoh played Cincinnati was a February, 2014 free show at MOTR Pub, which easily hit its capacity and left a line of fans snaking around the corner in the cold. This time, there will be a little more room to move around as the Massachusetts trio brings their ongoing tour for...
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MusicNOW Night Five: The Lone Bellow, Perfume Genius & Mina Tindle
The final evening of MusicNOW 2015 brought things back to the festival’s ancestral home at Memorial Hall. The windows in the balcony were open on a perfect spring night, and a large crowd (including Symphony conductor Louis Langrée) gathered outside before the doors opened. If the show...