Dayton
Courtyard Brings in the Loud New Year
Twas the second night of 2016 and all through The Courtyard every creature was stirring, welcoming the new year with loud intensions and two day hangovers. Split the Abyss, Saint Christopher, Eyes on Orion, Vital Stomp, Tyler Henry, John Hendry and the El Nino influenced winter Forces of Nature started the new metal year off strong. Making their Courtyard return the Cincinnati foursome Split the A...[Read More]
Repurposing Nature with Them Bones
Art is a very subjective, creative medium. Some use paint and pencils, while some use other kinds of materials to create works of art. Though you’ll never see her art in a graveyard, you might see her in the “pet semetary.” After all, they do come back, with her, but only in skeleton form. She could be called the Ed Gein of the post mortem animal planet and the Frankenstein of the animal kingdom s...[Read More]
Engraved Darkness Release the Diabolical Scriptures
Dayton’s deliverers of dark damnation Engraved Darkness have mixed a smoldering pot of death, black, thrash and technical metal rolled out and used like sacrificial knives with violent intent. A four man played prophecy spewing out ominous omens with two members of Forces of Nature bringing a darker, more sinister mix of prearranged, apocalyptic chaos. Like a fallen priest reciting passages from a...[Read More]
Lottie Cassese Signing for the Future continued
This is a continuation of an interview with Sinclair Deaf Mentor Lottie Cassese. Part 1 can be viewed here. “We want to present a new level of skills to our students because American Sign Language is not the only form of sign language. Some signing styles are more similar to English structure and some Deaf people prefer to communicate orally, so there’s a huge variety to each style for stud...[Read More]
First Heavy Metal Church of Christ Paints The Letter Black
On Friday December 4th, The First Heavy Metal Church of Christ brought their first major metal show to the stage at Grafton Kennedy Elementary School. The first of many to come they hope. The uprising group that hold services in the gymnasium are making a name for themselves by welcoming sinners, outcasts and those looking for a fresh, new spiritual alternative. Those who feel tainted, judged and...[Read More]
Lottie Cassese Signing for the Future
American Sign Language mentor Lottie Cassese has been a member of the Sinclair ASL lab since 2011. Born deaf, from a Deaf family, she worked at the Indiana School for the Deaf, in Indianapolis before moving to Dayton. She has mentored ASL students to communicate with deaf family members, friends and students seeking interpreting degrees. She is on the board of the Deaf Community Resource Ce...[Read More]
Night of the Creeps Returns to Vex
Twas the night before All Hallows’ Eve, carrying the season’s chill as grizzly goons walked under the moon, flocking to Vex for Night of the Creeps 2. The good news, they’re here, the bad news, you couldn’t tell the dead from the living. Whether you were dressed up or you’re daily, weekend attire didn’t need anything extra to be scary. The dearly beloved showed their support for local artists, tou...[Read More]
Jake E Lee Brings the Red Dragon Cartel Back to Dayton
Saturday June 13th the guitar legend brought his new cartel back to Dayton for another career go around. With songs spanning his time barking at the moon and committing the ultimate sin with Ozzy. He also journeyed to the badlands and played a few choice cuts from his recent release with Red Dragon Cartel. He’s played and toured with Ozzy and lived to tell about it. Lee had a stint in Ratt’s early...[Read More]
Family Vibez Entertainment Bring Spring Vibrations to Oddbody’s
When the venue formally known as McGuffy’s reopened, the Dayton area was promised a more diverse and revolving number of acts and talent spanning all genres. Promise kept so far as on Saturday April 11th from the horn sections on stage to the people playing poi and the female painters by the bar, Oddbody’s couldn’t have had a more colorful array of visual/musical artistry. Rachel Shultz of Energy ...[Read More]
Ye Olde Yellow Cabaret IV Pillages the Yellow Cab Building
Saturday March 28th, there were pirates at the Old Yellow Cab building downtown on 4th Street. Some drunken sailors, some sober pirates with no less the swashbuckling. It was a cold night but the performers of the Blue Moon Circus, Jimi Black, Sunova Starshine and Gabriel Ford gave new meaning to ‘flame licked’ as they danced, twirled, kissed, combated and commanded the balls of fire on rings, dag...[Read More]
Valentine’s Day Massacre at The Courtyard
It’s said that love can be a real icy cold-hearted bitch. Whether it’s an ice pick to the back, heart or below sub-zero temperatures that feel like a cold sickle to the spine. Saturday February 14th’s music brought out the heat and warmed the coldest metal heart from dusk and her cold embrace after the sun went down. Though the outside was an icy tundra, inside the Courtyard was a loud metal waste...[Read More]
Blackhearts Ball Slices Through Friday the 13th at Therapy Café
Def Leppard said “Love Bites,” The Vinnie Vincent Invasion warned “Love Kills,” and on this 13th day, the water logged guy with the machete regularly slaughtered those making love. So it was fitting on Friday, February 13th, everyone’s favorite pre-bloody Valentine’s Day, the Therapy Cafe held the Blackhearts Ball. Hearts, candy and flower’s done darkwave, experimental, shoegaze and industrial sty...[Read More]