Cincinnati
Tiffany Casts Seductive Shadow Over Cincinnati
On Thursday July 8, ‘80s pop icon Tiffany brought her Shadows tour to Cincinnati performing a loud, rocking but intimate show at the Ludlow Garage in Cincinnati for an all-ages group of energetic fans. It was an underground show, literally, and an evening of nostalgia and new music with Tiffany singing the classics along with new tunes from this year’s Pieces of Me and the upcoming Shadows album. ...[Read More]
A Transplant back to the Live Wasteland
On Friday, May 14, The Southgate House Revival hosted an evening of deafening death metal brutality as four bands pummeled the stage and attending ears. The night marked the beginning resurgence of live music and return of metal to the Northern Kentucky, Cincinnati area promoted by The Transplant Group. As the planet slowly seems to be crawling out of the pandemic, normalcy is starting to return ...[Read More]
HorrorHound: A Decade of Fandom Celebrated in Sharonville
The weekend of March 15th-17th, The Queen City hosted three days, 10 years in the making. The Sharonville Convention Center filled to the rafters as ghouls, killers and otherworldly specters roamed the halls as bats swarmed and swooped in the belfry. Fans, hardcore devotees and other beings jammed the halls to pick up swag, meet guests or just see scary stuff as the Jimmy Psycho Experiment played ...[Read More]
Geoff Tate Spreads Mindcrime in Cincinnati
Sunday, June 24 the mind and voice that helped create one of the greatest rock concept records of the ‘80s and beyond came to The Venue. The man who gave voice to the iconic characters and songs of Operation: Mindcrime delivered the story start to finish with a few extras sending the crowd home happy. It was a night of modern day Livecrime, celebrating 30 years of fandom. After taking the mission ...[Read More]
Adoration Destroyed Haunts The Mockbee
Thursday June 7, DF Productions and Events took over the inner sanctum of The Mockbee building in Cincinnati hosting a visually underground evening of dark industrial bliss. Synthesizers bounced off the cavernous stone walls in rapture as Xentrifuge, Fires and Adoration Destroyed filled the room with luminous, linear sounds and musical echoes. On entrance, to the right in a room that spoke As Abov...[Read More]
The Dreads Invade Cincinnati
Sunday August 7, In This Moment, Korn, and Rob Zombie played a packed Riverbend Music Center bringing the Return of the Dreads Tour to Cincinnati. The summer trek stretched through over 20 dates with Maria Brink and Co. opening with co-headliners Korn and Zombie switching spots nightly. With scorching heat, the blond locked lady entertained the crowd with a multitude of costumes and role play char...[Read More]
Halestorm Bring Women of Rock to Cincinnati
Friday, April 29 the Taft Theatre was packed and treated to a night of powerful women behind the mic. The show featured three female fronted bands showcased by two vocalists blazing the strings with adrenaline and attitude and the opener delivering an alluring aura through her voice and presence. LA’s Dorothy, stage veteran Lita Ford who broke barriers and stereotypes, paving the way for countless...[Read More]
Elvira Headlines HorrorHound 2016
March 18th-20th marked the 2016 return of HorrorHound weekend to the Sharonville Convention Center. HH has become a proven horror phenomenon drawing fans from basically everywhere for almost a decade. Lines were long as always as fans came with merchandise, money and their best white-rotting smiles for a few moments with their favorite screen stars. Whether it was a shirt, poster, figure or tattoo...[Read More]
Queensryche Brings Epic History to Bogarts
Queensryche came to Cincinnati on Wednesday Jan. 27th to a packed crowd of Ryche worshippers. The group’s 2016 lineup after a prolonged legal battle left the name to the band recruiting new singer Todd La Torre. Fans feared not as La Torre tore through the set and catalogue, belting out classics and representing new material from Condition Human and the self-titled disk. At times if you closed you...[Read More]
Kenny Ozzfest 8 Sells Out MVP’s
Cincinnati promoter Kenny Ozz threw his 2015 birthday party at MVP’s inviting half the city, nearby regions and parts unknown to attend. Bands, music fans, metal heads and a band from the Sunset Strip that lived to tell the tales were in the house. Doors opened at 4pm for the near all day show starting with The New machine at 4:30 going nonstop till 2am with Lazy Ass Destroyer finishing the 14 ban...[Read More]
Dark Roots of Thrash II Ends in Cincinnati
Many have argued that since the inaugural Big Thrash Four show in Sofia Bulgaria that ‘certain’ bands that started in the early 80’s cementing the classic sound alongside Metallica and Slayer should have been included or at the very least be included in the ‘big 8.’ Overkill and the nights thrash legends Exodus and Testament have been debated by many as definite contenders for the Big Four stage. ...[Read More]
HorrorHound 2015 Bring the Dead and Anarchy to Cincinnati
HorrorHound started the year at the Sharonville Convention Center and as usual, everyone showed up. The bi-annual movie convention that brings all manner of creature, beast, freak, rebel and misfit for a weekend of very crowded fun, signing, pics, music and film talk once again sold out Friday March 20 and Saturday the 22nd, with Sunday generally used as a day to finish up, rest and recover for th...[Read More]