July 21st the club and floor of Legends Bar in Cincinnati was rattled, shook and nearly decimated by the blunt force trauma of the five bands that blessed the stage that evening. The Reborn Dead Tour slammed into Southern Ohio smashing bones together and rattling retinas with a near continuous evening pit whether classic or […]
Saturday June 25th two bands played the inner sanctuary of the Southgate House Revival. One a home town favorite, across the river and the other a veteran act, cultured in the occult with history stretching back to days of early Sabbath and the remains of the ‘60s, hippie dream. Perhaps their music and image were […]
Thursday, June 23, two of the glam scenes greatest showman and veteran performers Steve Summers of Pretty Boy Floyd and Chip Z’Nuff of psychedelic pounders Enuff Z’Nuff took over the Blue Note stage in Harrison, Ohio to a house of dedicated fans ready to rock out like the MTV generation. The Glam Slam Metal Jam […]
Saturday June 11th marked day two of the Columbus Arts Festival rocking the Riverfront with a weekend of art, music with dozens of food vendors handing out sweets, spirits, beverages and festive franks. With nearly 200 vendors showcasing their art and talent for public consumption and purchase, anything and everything the human mind could conjure […]
Saturday May 7, the rescheduled Bay Area Strikes Back tour came to Northern, Kentucky. Classic thrash made a very loud return this year and the crowd followed suit with normal thrash behavior. The Madison Theater marked a sold-out show of the 34 show trek. The tour was finally rescheduled to spring 2022 after the world […]
Friday, May 6, The Hell Hath No Fury tour featuring The Iron Maidens and Burning Witches stopped at the Blue Note in Harrison, Ohio. The crowd was hot and rabid for the all-female touring package along with support from 13:30. While the California Maidens headlined the evening the witches made their second stop in America, […]
April Fools Day ended with a loud bang with horror-punk icon Doyle and band ripping and shredding the Harrison, Ohio Blue Note stage with screaming horror-filled noise. Doyle Woflgang von Frankenstein’s signature six-string Annihilator seared through speakers, with notes roaring, growling and grinding, cranked, bended and released like tortured angry souls escaping the fret board. […]
On Friday, March 4th, the bastard child of NYC and shock rock savant Kore Rozzik came to the Epic Live Event Center in Cincinnati to charm loyal followers with over the top theatrics, props, personality and animated antics. Part Alice Cooper, part Nikki Sixx and all rock n’ roll showman. He brought the smoke, steam […]
Saturday February, 26th Dayton’s premiere Iron Maiden tribute Aces High stormed the J.D. Legends stage taking over shoving a two hour setlist straight down the throat and up the irons of a packed house. The evening’s special attraction came as soon as the show began with the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album played […]
Saturday, January 15th droves of fans flocked to Versailles, Ohio and the BMI Speedway to witness two of glam metal’s biggest names. The icy chill didn’t stop anyone from showing up, selling the venue out, filling the inner sanctum to shoulder to shoulder space. Two band’s that filled arena’s in their combined era’s showed they just […]
It was the first day of the new year and 2022 started with a loud colorful bang bringing four bands to the Epic Live Event Center’s Cincinnati stage. Though rain spilled outside, fans of all ages came to witness Cincinnati’s best homegrown talent and glam era veterans Enuff Z’Nuff say goodbye to ’21 and greet […]
Friday, December 10, the Blue Note in Harrison, OH hosted an evening of instrumental mastery, women paying homage to a priest and a Black Satellite shining bright from New York. The night’s headliner was instrumental guitar savant Nita Strauss playing almost all solo material barring one song from the Godfather of shock rock, who she’s […]
On Friday, November 19, rock n’ roll veteran and ‘80s Vixen Janet Gardner came to the young, burgeoning Epic Live Event Center for an evening of loud, energetic hard rock. Support came from singer Amy Sailor and southern Ohio’s thunderous Counting Stars, a group that could meld straight into the sunset scene as much as […]
Friday, August 20 Bret Michaels returned to Franklin to a house ready for the Poison front man and a damn good time. Covid postponed the original date but live music’s doing its best to stay active, though it’s still getting racked and gut punched by the evil C word. An all-ages crowd watched the ‘80s […]
Sunday August 15, the extreme metal caravan known as The Convalescence brought their traveling horror show to Northern Kentucky for a night of loud, screaming metal. The haunted halls and walls of The Thompson House shook with decibel-laden vibration, causing spirits to come screaming out of hiding. If only they could talk as loud as […]