#live shows

14 Live Performances By Cincinnati Musicians You Can Stream This Week

COVID-19 social distancing efforts have put a lasting hold on local music events, adding a financial strain on the musicians that depend on live shows as a main source of income. Although we can't huddle in local venues for live shows right now, we can still experience the sense of community that...

Victoria Moorwood

AF 2017 IN REVIEWThe Best Live Shows of 2017

Austra @Warsaw This was my first show of 2017, unless you count sets by Janelle Monae, Alicia Keys, and Indigo Girls that dotted the Women’s March on Washington days prior. I may have been late to the game regarding Austra, a beloved Toronto band already two albums into their career, and it wasn’t...

Madison Bloom

ONLY NOISEFalling in Love With Punk Rock Through Secondhand Smoke

Mine wasn’t a lesson in grunge, but punk rock, and it began on Valentine’s Day in sixth grade.

Madison Bloom

CMJ 2015Bands to Hear

CMJ Music Marathon 2015 is here. With an overwhelming abundance of artist to sort through, we made your life easier by providing you with a list of a few can't-miss bands to hear. Read on. Cosmo Sheldrake Rare is the mere mortal who can play more instruments than years they’ve lived. Cosmo...

Madison Bloom

VIDEO REVIEWCass McCombs "Unearthed"

The contents of Cass McCombs' long and winding double album Big Wheel and Others fall into one of two categories. About half are capital-s Songs, with verses and choruses, beginnings, middles, and ends. The rest of the collection expands, with mesmerizing slowness, to fill less rigidly constructed...

Carena Liptak