Ryan Schatzman's Profile

If you’re a fan of Outkast or Phantogram, listen up: Big Grams brings you a little bit of both, in an experimental new sound.  Big Boi – half of the Outkast duo, sans Andre 3000 – discovered Phantogram – the duo of Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter – in 2010, when he...

“Dead Mau Five? Have you heard of that guy?” “Is that the dude in the trippy looking Mickey Mouse head?” It sure is, friend. But the things he does in that Mau5 head go far beyond anything a Disney icon has to offer, and straight to the glitchy undercurrent that is your...

It’s the Wednesday before New Year’s Eve. It’s a short workweek, you really have no desire to continue working until 2016 at this point, so you set your sights on the final hurrah of 2015. Who will you party with? What will you wear? The biggest question is, where will you go? Are...

If you’re hanging out in Cincinnati right now, hurricane All-Star Game is about to hit the city with gale-force happenings, backed by heavy traffic and swells of Bud Light with a possible chance of tourist flooding. You’re urged to immediately affix your favorite giant black moustache...

Wanna party in rockin’ bath of emotional circumstances? Then bring your loofa and rubber ducky to The Woodward this Wednesday night and soak in the bubbles with of Montreal till your fingers prune.  Fresh into the tour for the release of their latest album, Aureate Gloom, of...

Enter scene: It’s 1982. The air whips at your face and dotted lights speed by in a blur as you rocket through a narrow tunnel on a Night Rider mission, riding shotgun to an overly serious David Hasselhoff wearing matching leather jackets. The California sun breaks the darkness as the tunnel...

Call it a concert or call it a cleansing, this merry band of melodramatic banshees have something to say. Rubblebucket, a Brooklyn-based collective featuring lead-vocalist Kalmia Traver, Alex Toth on trumpet, Adam Dotson on trombone, David Cole on drums and Ian Hershey on guitar, is coming off of...

Take a walk through the woods with the sun barely peeking through the trees, or along a sandy beach with the waves gently lapping at the shore. Wherever it is that you go when traveling to your happy place, make sure you take Tycho with you: his ambient jams are a versatile soundtrack for life....

Take a second to pause in your planar reality, and step with me into the prism that is Panda Bear. If we could go back to 1967 and bottle the moments the magic paper stoked Lennon’s madness to utterances such as “I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together,” those moments...

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself, “what’s the funkiest thing happening in my life right now?” If you don’t have an answer to the question, and even if you do, it should be Chromeo in Washington Park on Thursday night at Midpoint. Chromeo is the perfect convergence of the disco wave...

How do you feel about emotional rollercoasters in your headphones? Music that helps you feel, but only enough to have no idea exactly what is is that you’re feeling? In a way, Milagres (which means “wonderful events attributed to supernatural powers) fits that profile: they’re perfect for...

Sitting at MOTR, gnoshing a tasty burger and sipping a fine barleywine after work one night this summer, I found myself chatting local music scene with Dave Cupp. Some of you may know Dave as the chill bar friend with the great pour; the more fortunate know him as the drummer for Old City. But, if...