Robert Plant’s ‘Band Of Joy’ By Alan Sculley Any Robert Plant interview these days almost has to include an inquiry about his interest in a Led Zeppelin reunion. But one really doesn’t need his words to know Plant’s thinking about the issue. His musical projects over the past three years – the period since Led [...]
An emerging band with a refreshing sound By Kathleen Cahill In an age when self-taught musicians fill the current indie-rock scene, New Vega is fresh air. The troupe’s well polished sound is testament to the professional training each member has received. New Vega has a diverse style that falls under a common ground, with every [...]
Taking Stock Of Current Releases By Eric W. Saeger Above & Beyond Anjunabeats 8 (Ultra Records) It’s funny, I was hoping to avoid jumping the couch over this one and giggling girlishly about how this UK DJ trio make the music of heaven, but being that they recently soundtracked the official unveiling of Virgin Galactic’s [...]
All about the story By Linda Turk There are many things to love about the city of Dayton. We boast wonderful parks, tasty restaurants, and a music scene that can rival those of much larger metropolitan areas. Dayton is a great place for musical talent to bloom and has been doing just that for singer/songwriter [...]
Side show! The connoisseur head into final of Dayton band playoffs. By J.T. Ryder When I was asked to preview the finals competition of Canal Street Tavern’s Dayton Band Playoffs, my mind immediately conjured hordes of musicians, sweat slicked and screaming, belting out song after song for a throng of adoring fans. I imagined a [...]
Taking Stock Of Current Releases By Eric W. Saeger Elizabeth Ayoub Oceanos Y Lunas (Four Quarters Ent) Born of Lebanese parents who fled with her and her six siblings to Venezuela, Ayoub comes from a strange multilingual planet, where one minute Barbra Streisand would be belting on the radio and the next the family would [...]
Fagen, McDonald And Scaggs, Join Forces At Riverbend By Alan Sculley Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs all have no problem finding demand for doing their own tours, and they certainly enjoy performing songs from their catalogs. But as rewarding as it might be for Fagen, for instance, to tour in [...]
Hawthorne Heights By Kyle Melton After rising to prominence in 2004 with their debut The Silence In Black and White, Dayton-based outfit Hawthorne Heights witnessed a string of incidents to hamper the band’s progress. Following the untimely passing of guitarist Casey Calvert in 2007 and a departure from Victory Records after 2008’s Fragile Future, Hawthorne [...]
Bill Cunliffe Trio By J.T. Ryder Bill Cunliffe is a triple threat: a superb musician, an accomplished composer/arranger and a first-rate music educator. He won a Grammy for his arrangement of West Side Story Medley from the CD Resonance Big Bands Tribute To Oscar Peterson, and is currently the associate professor of music at California [...]
Buddha Den Celebrates Third Anniversary By Linda Turk As you prepare your “To Do” lists for the cookout you’re planning on Labor Day, perhaps you should remind yourself that it is also okay to be somewhat labor-free the weekend before the holiday. How should you do that, you wonder? Get yourself to South Park Tavern [...]
High Fructose Corn Syrup By Megan Garrison The FDA recently rejected a bid to officially change the name of high [...]
Walker was Victorious in Wisconsin Because His Reforms Worked By David H. Landon The folks at MSNBC had a bad [...]
It Takes More than a Tweet By Rana Odeh The victory of Republican Governor Scott Walker over Milwaukee Democrat Mayor [...]
What are the Consequences of Recall Election in Wisconsin? Last Tuesday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) prevailed in an unusual [...]
Obama’s Support of Same Sex Marriage Will Cost Him Swing States By David H. Landon By Election Day, the President’s [...]
President Obama Announces Support of Same-Sex Marriage Most pundits believe that this Presidential election will be decided on the issue [...]
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