Oddbody’s Celebrates Two Years with Smile Empty Soul
Two years ago the building formally known for decades as McGuffy’s abruptly closed its doors leaving a large void in the Dayton music scene. Under its former name, the venue had been home to local bands bringing in national names and crowds from the early ‘80s to present day. The building that went from the House of Draft to the House of Rock held its last show on New Year’s Eve 2013. For several ...[Read More]
Cleveland Z.E.R.O.S. Take a Bite for Charity
Originating from the vast battered wastelands of northern Ohio, The Z.E.R.O.S. are a highly skilled, multi-faceted group of zombie eradicators. The Zombie Eradication & Rescue Operations Squad were forced together though vast catastrophic events, and bonded by a bloody and violent common cause, becoming post-apocalyptic hunters by trade as necessity forced them into daily survival. With growin...[Read More]
Oddbodys Hosts Aria Marie Foundation Show
Saturday July 9, four of Dayton’s finest graced the Oddbodys stage supporting the Aria Marie Foundation. The AMF is a foundation founded by the Spradling family which aids in the care and compensation of children during the holidays who have lost one or both parents. The foundation was started as a tribute in memory of their 20 year-old-daughter Aria Marie who went missing in September 2013 near D...[Read More]
Fight the Parasites Tour Kicks off at Thompson House
Friday July 8, six bands played the parlor stage at the Thompson House in Newport, KY. The intimate but cozy setting was the opening night kickoff for fighting the parasites. The tour included headliners In Dying Arms, Sea of Treachery and It Lies Within. The tour headliner In Dying Arms took a co-headliner spot giving Cincinnati’s Sea of Treachery the headliner spot for the opening night. S...[Read More]
Curse of Cassandra at Blind Bobs
Saturday June 25 Dayton’s electro-pop cult duo Curse of Cassandra played their last local show at Blind Bob’s heading out to tour the country and eventually go overseas. They will return to Ohio for a Cincinnati gig but otherwise will live the traveling regional, national vagabond lifestyle, converting one crowd to the Cult of Cats at a time. Proceeds of the show went to The Tenth Life cat adopti...[Read More]
Middletown Filmed Funhouse Massacre Released on DVD
Six of the world’s scariest psychopaths escape from a local asylum unleashing a bloodbath on unsuspecting scare seekers at a Halloween Funhouse with rooms and mazes inspired by their notorious killing sprees. That’s the plot of LA-based Petri Entertainment’s The Funhouse Massacre, a horror movie made at the Land of Illusion Haunted Scream Park in Middletown, OH from March-April last y...[Read More]
Ruckzuck Return to Yellow Springs
From Long Island, New York, Ruckzuck the psychedelic, three piece krautrock curators of time warp atmospheres returned to Yellow Springs and The Spirited Goat, a town they may someday call home. While producing sounds and musical landscapes emulating influences and inspirations from the ‘60s, ‘70s and a few movies their shows bring back the vintage California coast vibe, the sounds of the eternal ...[Read More]
A Darker Color Bright
A one man band from the Midwest, shrouded in mystery, prompted not on name recognition or image but on the sounds and talent of his work and imagination. Sometimes the greatest complex depth and detail comes from simplicity. A Darker Color Bright, whoever it is, is 100% responsible for what you hear on the six-song EP Adcbep1, from writing to playing to production it all comes from his mind. In th...[Read More]
Cybernetic Witch Cult- Spaceous Cretaceous
The three-man band Cybernetic Witch Cult bring doom, psychedelic, space rock from Cornwall England wrapped up in a perplexing but pleasant sounding mix of horror punk, prog and Rob Zombie, mixed in with audio samples from Star Wars and other sci-fi cult cinema. Whether they danced in front of fires for three-fold inspiration or just jammed on guitars after sci-fi binges isn’t known. They’ve taken ...[Read More]
America’s Escape Hero Michael Griffin performs at SRS Rehearsal Stage
Thursday June 2 the SRS Rehearsal Stage room showcased an intimate performance featuring the comedic stylings of Dayton’s Jack Wilson and California born, Columbus based escape artist Michael Griffin. The audience filled the ground floor and balcony for the Gretchen Reise Kelly hosted event. Both were funny bringing a different humor and style of entertainment and presentation. Wilson’s was more a...[Read More]
Mouth of the Architect Play Path of Eight at Blind Bobs
Saturday May 14, Cincinnati and Dayton came together at the Oregon District, gathered for three loud bands intricate and diverse in style with heavy deliverance accompanied by talent that were diverse in difference but were welcomed and appreciated by the “metal” crowd. Whether it was keyboards, synthesizers, guitars or a big screen projecting trippy visuals, the crowd gathered, filling Blind Bobs...[Read More]
Germantown Makes Out with Couto Comedy
Local director Henrique Couto, known for Calamity Jane’s Revenge, A Bulldog for Christmas and Depression: The Movie has released his newest feature Making Out. The young director who started his career with low budget horror flicks, directing 13 features, throws his audience a curve ball as loud as his pants (on any given day). Making Out premiered Friday Feb. 5 at the By-Jo Theatre in Germantown ...[Read More]