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Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s top aide, announced early this week that she was separating from her husband Anthony Weiner, the ousted congressman known for accidentally tweeting publicly when he meant to slide into those DMs. It’s been three years since the “Carlos Danger” sexting scandal, so we were actually overdue for another Weiner fail. This one comes courtesy the New York Post, which published photos and screenshots of conversations with a new mistress, including an especially heave-inducing crotch shot of Weiner in revealing boxers... wait for it... in bed with his young son sleeping nearby. The Administration for Children’s Services was even grossed out enough to open an investigation. Meanwhile, Hillary is thanking God that Snapchat wasn’t around 20 years ago. This is why Bill isn’t allowed to upgrade from his Nokia 5110 — but you know his dirty-minded ass probably thinks the game Snake is sexting.

THURSDAY SEPT. 01

Donald Trump was in town Thursday to speak at the American Legion National Convention downtown, and at this stage of his campaign, it’s not enough for Trump alone to make empty promises, sweeping generalizations and terribly misguided statements. No, his supporters need to stay on message, too. Enter Latinos for Trump (WHY) founder Marco Gutierrez and the terrors of tacos. Appearing on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, Gutierrez warned viewers, “My culture is a very dominant culture. And it’s imposing, and it’s causing problems. If you don’t do something about it, you’re gonna have taco trucks on every corner.” As if that isn’t every fatass American’s dream come true! Unsurprisingly, #TacoTrucksOnEveryCorner was soon trending, and Clinton’s millennial outreach committee worked to broker a timely deal with Taco Bell to capitalize on the gaffe. If all goes well, Clinton will pen the messages on all the sauce packets. Look out for catchphrases like “This is my woman card,” “Hot sauce in my bag #swag” and “I’m your abuela!”

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Move over, cucumbers and bananas, there’s a new phallic vegetable in town! Thanks to emojis, eggplants have gone from being the vegetarian alternative for chicken

parmesan to the universal symbol for penis. American agriculture has never been so proud. And if you can’t get enough of the ’plant, you can now get off to it thanks to the Emojibator! For $32, an emoji eggplant-inspired silicon sex toy boasts 10 vibration settings “that always hit the spot,” free shipping and discreet packaging and, shit you not, a “healthy serving of vitamin D.” Droplet emojis sold separately. But wait, there’s more sextable (sex + vegetable?) news! Durex announced a new eggplant-flavored condom on Twitter this week. This one is less of a product you can actually buy and more of a stunt to promote Durex’s call for “safe sex emojis,” since research shows young people today feel more comfortable talking about sex with emojis rather than actual words. So let’s just go ahead and add sex to the list of things millennials are ruining.

SUNDAY SEPT. 04

Mother Teresa became a saint; Beyoncé celebrated her birthday with Bill Clinton, Chance The Rapper and Carmelo Anthony (that’s one hell of a blunt rotation); and you spent the day holding a spot on the Serpentine Wall, not drinking, while your friends searched for a porta potty that wasn’t overflowing. Happy EBN Day!

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When I first heard that the streetcar was becoming a reality, I almost cousin’s all the

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in my

. I thought about

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When America’s first unions created a vision for the future U.S. worker, I’m sure they were hoping we’d be able to take time from work to watch an actor be ridiculed by his colleagues, and that’s just what happened today during Comedy Central’s Roast of Rob Lowe. Guests as varied as host David Spade, ’90s poet Jewel, Peyton Manning and Ann freaking Coulter assembled to mock the actor (lol remember that time he made a sex tape with a teenager lol) and one another — namely, Ann freaking Coulter. What was the female version of the Night’s King doing at a comedy event like this? She’s currently promoting her new book In Trump We Trust, which sounds like a joke, so maybe Comedy Central got confused.

At this point, whenever you see a headline about Lena Dunham, you can expect a headline about Lena Dunham apologizing shortly after. For being the poster child of political correctness inclusivity and the “safe space” generation, she sure manages to offend a lot of people a lot of the time. People called bullshit on Dunham’s conversation with Amy Schumer in this week’s Lenny newsletter, in which the two talk about the fashion elite’s prom known as the Met Gala. (Alert all meninist trolls: Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer in the same story! All systems go!) In it Dunham goes into great detail about being seated at the gala by the New York Giants’ Odell Beckham Jr., who ignored her presumably because she’s a weirdly shaped lady who was wearing a suit. Folks took issue with Dunham’s sexualizing of black men and overarching narcissistic perspective on a moment she clearly blew out of proportion/imagined entirely, so she apologized for it. Meanwhile, Beckham has yet to comment on the gala non-incident or subsequent apology, as his people are still trying to explain to him who Lena Dunham is.

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Green Party candidate Jill Stein had to delay a rally today in Bexley, Ohio, because instead of flying into the state’s capital, her plane accidentally went to Cincinnati.

Stein can’t seem to get Cincy off the brain. The mistake comes days after she tweeted, “The killing of Harambe 3 months ago today reminds us to be a voice for the voiceless.” The statement garnered more media attention than any real policies she’s discussed, which she claims is the point behind the whole thing — to expose the fact that media focuses on the wrong issues. It looks more like Stein is campaigning to become the queen of dank memes. Or maybe she thinks siding with Harambe is the only way to beat write-in darling Deez Nuts in the polls.

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You know what we don’t talk openly about in this town? The connection between race and poverty.

You know what else we don’t talk about? How our 52 neighborhoods and their structure of governance contributes to segregation.

You know why we don’t talk about these things? Because they make people uncomfortable. But being uncomfortable is a good thing. Only when we are uncomfortable do we tend to learn anything new.

Let’s start at the root of the issue — education and state politics —and then let’s make our way down into the weeds of Cincinnati neighborhood politics.

Ohio funds public schools through property tax in Ohio. This is a terrible idea and helps keep Cincinnati segregated. This funding mechanism has also been deemed unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court in a series of decisions between 1997 and 2002 — decisions some say still haven’t solved the problems.

Cincinnati Magazine ranked public schools in Greater Cincinnati districts from “best” to “worst” not too long ago.

The schools were ranked on many factors — performance index score, state performance index grade, four-year graduation rate, teachers with a master’s degree, etc.

A cursory review of the list shows stark contrast in the racial and economic makeup of the schools.

For example, the “top” three schools are Mariemont, Madeira and Indian Hill.

At the very “bottom” are Taft, Oyler and Woodward.

I take issue with this ranking, as some of the best teachers I have ever met work at Oyler (where I mentor on Monday mornings).

But, at the end of the day, stats are stats and Oyler “underperforms” its peer schools in districts like Madeira and Mariemont. This, however, has nothing to do with the intelligence of the students or the quality of the teachers — it has to do with an unconstitutional public school funding mechanism and institutionalized segregation.

It does not take a rocket scientist to determine that funding public school districts through property tax will keep the poor where they are and the rich getting richer — not to mention keeping Greater Cincinnati in what seems to be its perpetual segregated state. Every child deserves a fair shot at the life they want, and right now they don’t have it.

Enrollment in Cincinnati Public Schools comprises 63 percent of all students in the city, and 70 percent of those students are “economically disadvantaged,” according to PLAN Cincinnati, the city’s 2012 document guiding planning and development.

If our city’s “renaissance” is to be worth anything in the long run, then this issue must be addressed and these students must be empowered to move up the economic ladder.

Supporting forward-thinking initiatives that attempt to fix the broken system like the Cincinnati Preschool Promise & CPS levy is a good place to start.

Voting in statewide elections is also an important way to start making change.

Why? Because who represents our interests in Columbus matters, and having representatives who prioritize education and public schools, who are accountable to the tax payer, is important. Simply voting every four years will not help. Remember: Every year is an election year.

But the issue is deeper than the state, and also rests in the weeds of Cincinnati’s segregated neighborhoods and their resulting neighborhood politics.

Neighborhoods carry a lot of power in this town as City Hall often takes its cues from neighborhood leaders.

If a neighborhood is well-organized, that neighborhood will likely thrive. If they struggle, then they most often continue to struggle. Furthermore, not every neighborhood community council is created equal.

Some are quite robust and well-organized while others struggle to get folks to serve on their respective executive committees.

Now, like at Oyler — where some of the best teachers I know work — there are hard-working neighborhood activists pushing hard for change in neighborhoods no one talks about: Lower Price Hill comes to mind again; so do the Fairmounts, Sedamsville and Avondale.

There is no escaping the fact that Cincinnati is segregated. We put people in pockets called “neighborhoods” and they are asked to stay there (perhaps tacitly, but asked nonetheless). We talk about how great our system of neighborhoods is, but we also need to admit that’s part of the reason we stay stuck in a self-perpetuating cycle of segregation and poverty.

For example, seven of the 10 neighborhoods with the highest median income in Cincinnati are over 90 percent white (with the exception of 86 percent in Oakley, 33 percent in North Avondale and 60 percent in Pleasant Ridge), Census data tells us. Conversely, seven of the 10 neighborhoods with the lowest median income in Cincinnati are over 90 percent black (with the exception of

77 percent in Pendleton, 73 percent in OTR and 22 percent in Lower Price Hill).

I personally love Cincinnati’s 52 unique neighborhoods, but I also spend enough time in all of them to know that this structure keeps certain communities at a standstill (unless a massive community development corporation comes in with millions of dollars to “redevelop”).

We cannot, as a city, simultaneously claim that our neighborhoods are great while not providing an infrastructure that helps them build out their internal governance. Until that day comes, and until we fix public school funding in Columbus, poor neighborhoods will likely stay poor.

“Neighborhoods carry a lot of power in this town as City Hall often takes its cues from neighborhood leaders.”

And poor kids will continue to receive less access to opportunity than their wealthier peers. These children are real people and deserve real access to opportunity.

We need to vote for pro-education people to serve in the statehouse, and we need to embrace all of our neighborhood councils and recognize how public school funding and lack of community council support are serving the same master of segregation.

And, finally, we need to recognize how segregation is helping to keep people poor.

We need to admit that race and poverty are connected. I hear people say that they don’t “see color.” I hate to break it to you, but color does exist, and a person’s color often determines how they are treated. So does their economic status. So does their neighborhood of residence.

It is not a coincidence that large concentrations of poverty simultaneously exist where there are large concentrations of minorities. Unless one is willing to say they think that being poor is a de facto state of being a minority, then one needs to accept that race and poverty are linked.

MIKE MOROSKI is the executive director of UpSpring, a nonprofit working to keep children experiencing homelessness connected to their education. Contact Mike: letters@ citybeat.com.

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Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters is technically a part-time employee, though he makes more than $80,000 a year.

Ethics Commission, filed in March. The form does not require him to disclose his compensation. Deters, through a spokeswoman, declined to be interviewed by CityBeat.

But Deters’ penchant for moonlighting leads to some curious, if not ethically dubious, situations.

In a widely publicized 2015 case, Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman blocked the attempted collection of a $42 million civil judgment against Chesley from Kentucky. The plaintiffs appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court, where Ruehlman was represented by Deters in one of his roles as prosecuting attorney. As a result, Deters defended a judge who protected a former employer whose firm had paid Deters $200,000 a year and had put him up rent-free in a Fourth Street condo, according to Deters’ divorce file.

Deters’ efforts were for naught. The Supreme Court overturned Ruehlman in June. It said he had no grounds for running interference for Deters’ former benefactor.

Did Deters have a conflict of interest that should have kept him from representing Ruehlman? Geoffrey Hazard Jr., a law professor at the University of California-Hastings and author of several books on law profession ethics, said it comes down to “imputation,” or the attributing of actions to a source.

“The point is, what’s the degree of involvement of (Deters) with the Chesley firm?”

Hazard says. “If it’s relatively small in handling cases, then you say, ‘no imputation,’ and it’s therefore professionally permitted. … But $200,000 is a useful number because that’s not incidental.”

Another law professor, Arthur Greenbaum at Ohio State University, says Deters was merely carrying out his statutory duties of defending Ruehlman from a legal challenge.

“Further, judges often know the lawyers before them and may have friendships with some,” Greenbaum says, “but we don’t assume that the judge will be unfair or biased in the matter.”

Ruehlman stars in another blockbuster court case featuring Deters as a private practitioner — the Durrani litigation. This is a sprawling affair, with hundreds of suits pending in Hamilton County. Originally, cases were assigned to judges randomly. But in January 2015, Ruehlman commandeered all present and future cases before himself.

Lawyers for Durrani and other medical provider defendants objected and have taken their beef to the Ohio Supreme Court. In one of their appeal pleadings, Durrani’s attorneys wrote that “Ruehlman indicated the idea of consolidation was prompted by a conversation between him and Mr. Deters.”

Once Ruehlman gained control of the Durrani litigation, he made another controversial call. Three hospital defendants argued that

claims against them by Durrani patients were invalid because they were more than four years old. The state Supreme Court had upheld that statute of limitations in the past.

But Ruehlman dismissed their claims.

That decision led to his second reversal by a higher court in the last two months.

Last week, the Ohio First District Court of Appeals unwound Ruehlman’s ruling against the hospitals. The majority wrote that he had “no authority to effectively overrule the Ohio Supreme Court.”

If anyone wants to know how Deters splits his time between his prosecutor’s job and his private practice, it isn’t publicly disclosed. If anyone wants to insist that he be barred from moonlighting, it would take a legislative act.

Hazard, the law professor, was surprised to learn that the elected prosecutor in a county of more than 800,000 people is a part-timer.

“It’s certainly anomalous,” he says. “If you go back to a rural county, where a district attorney is a part-time job that only takes one or two days a week, it’s out of sheer necessity. The guy works at his other practice in order to live.

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ith elections two months away, Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters is again asking voters to renew his hold on a job that he has treated as a part-time gig for almost eight years running.

Deters has been the county’s top law enforcement officer on and off since 1992, continuously since 2005. The fact that he’s only a part-timer isn’t common knowledge, nor is the fact that he surrenders a tidy $37,000 a year in salary to engage in private practice.

But doing so has been a juicy tradeoff for Deters. Starting in 2009, he made $200,000 a year during a five-year run at the now-defunct law firm of Stan Chesley, according to papers in Deters’ 2013 divorce case. His $990,000 slice of a big civil lawsuit settlement from the Chesley days made his $87,502 prosecutor’s salary look like chump change.

State law allows elected prosecutors to go part-time. Most who exercise that option, though, are in smaller counties where the pay — and workloads — are lower. Among prosecutors in Ohio’s 10 most-populated counties, only one — Deters — is a part-timer.

Dennis Will, the prosecuting attorney in Lorain County — Ohio’s ninth-biggest county — says he couldn’t conceive of having a law practice on the side.

“Being a prosecutor is such a full-time job by nature of the work you’ve got that you don’t have time to pull it off,” Will says. “It’s a full time of your attention. It’s a tough job.”

Even the prosecutor in Ohio’s least-populous county — Trecia Kimes-Brown in Vinton County — shuns the urge to supplement her salary. She closed her private practice after being elected in 2012.

Although Chesley’s disbarments and the collapse of his law firm ended Deters’ gravy train in March 2014, Deters retains a loose “of counsel” role at the Cincinnati firm formed by former Chesley attorneys Markovits, Stock & DeMarco. He plays a more active role as a trial lawyer for The Deters Law Firm — that of suspended Kentucky lawyer Eric Deters, no relation — in at least nine civil lawsuits pending against Abubakar Atiq Durrani, a Mason doctor criminally charged with performing unnecessary surgeries and billing federal insurance programs.

Upon joining those suits as co-counsel, he has given the court his email address at Eric Deters’ law firm, as well as the firm’s addresses in Cincinnati and Fort Mitchell, Ky. Neither association, however, is listed on Deters’ official bio page or in his latest financial disclosure statement with the Ohio

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Bradley Cooper, who in 2014 won a People’s Liberty grant to help fund the project, last week unveiled the final designs and price points for the homes, which will be built by Cooper’s Start Small LLC in northern Over-the-Rhine for $194,000 each. That price tag is much more than the cost of $70,000 apiece Cooper originally proposed.

Cooper says he ran into problems in terms of making the houses viable under the income restrictions he set out to meet.

“With a fuller understanding of real estate forces, site conditions and regulations, the original solution evolved significantly,” Cooper wrote on Start Small’s website last week.

“Affordability to a low-income household was sacrificed in the process. These factors influenced the design’s evolution or were challenges in maintaining affordability to a low-income earner.”

Cooper was one of the first to receive a $100,000 grant from the Haile Foundationfunded philanthropic organization, which set up shop across from Findlay Market in OTR two years ago to give grants to individuals with civic-minded “disruptive” ideas.

Affordable housing has been a sore spot in OTR. A housing study completed last year by the Community Building Institute found that while middle-and upper-class housing had increased in the neighborhood, 73 percent of the lowest-income units that once filled the area were no longer available.

Cooper originally said his houses would be affodable to residents making as little as $25,000 a year. In addition to receiving the $100,000, he was able to purchase two 1,300-square-foot plots of land, 142 and 144 Peete St. in northern Over-the-Rhine, for $100 from affordable housing organization Over-the-Rhine Community Housing. Those properties are valued at more than $6,800 each, according to the Hamilton County auditor’s site.

“Given that an affordable home was not created in this project, our modified hope is that through this project (Cooper) and others who follow Start Small will recognize that the provision of affordable housing presents a significant math problem,” says OTRCH Executive Director Mary Burke-Rivers, who noted Cooper was careful and transparent about the project. “While it is a simple math problem, it is not easy to solve; those with resources and influence could join affordable housing advocates to seek solutions. That would be a good outcome.”

Cooper first adjusted his plan last year, announcing that one house would be sold at market rate while the other would cost an eligible moderate income family $80,000.

Instead, Start Small will build two larger houses. The originals were to be about 200-square-feet, one-story structures, while the new plan calls for houses that are three stories tall and about 700 square feet.

Start Small still emphasizes the ecological aspects of the buildings. Both houses have solar panels and other environmentally friendly features that will mean nearly net-zero energy usage for their owners.

People’s Liberty CEO Eric Avner stood

by Cooper in posts on social media.

“Not as affordable as they were intended, granted, but these two homes will be more affordable than $650k townhouses or $2000/mo. apartments found elsewhere in the neighborhood,” Avner wrote on Facebook in response to questions about the new pricing. (Nick Swartsell)

Parent Sues Mason Schools, ‘Enquirer’ over Depiction of Daughter in Immigrant Story A University Medical Center surgeon and Mason resident whose 5-year-old daughter was portrayed in a newspaper article about the strains brought on the Mason school district by Arabic-speaking immigrant children has filed suit against the district and The Cincinnati Enquirer.

The lawsuit, filed by Ayman Mahdy in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati last month, alleges that his daughter’s privacy was invaded and that the family was exposed to potential racial violence. Mahdy says he was so concerned about his daughter’s emotional distress that he transferred her to a private school “at considerable expense.”

The story initially ran online Dec. 1, 2015 and appeared on the cover of The Enquirer the next day with the headline, “Arabicspeaking kids overwhelm Mason.” A photo of Mahdy’s daughter — wearing a name tag — accompanied the story in print, online and later in national publication USA Today and other online sources. Her name doesn’t currently appear in the text of the article.

The article describes how a Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center program called Destination Excellence has drawn a large number of foreign families seeking care for seriously ill children. Mason has 483 students for whom English is their second language, the article said, and of the 39 who speak Arabic, “most” are there through Destination Excellence. Mason City Schools Superintendent Gail Kist-Kline was quoted as saying that the program would cost the system $522,000 last school year.

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and that’s a wholly obsolete rule,” he says.

“In most states, you can’t do that. It’s a fulltime job.”

That’s how Alan Triggs looks at it. Triggs is the Democratic challenger for Deters’ office. He says Hamilton County is too large for a part-time prosecutor.

“If the person is not willing to be fully dedicated to the job and people he serves, then he should relinquish the position to someone who is,” Triggs says. “The question becomes, who is actually running the office when he is not there? That is not the person Hamilton County residents elected to represent them. Criminals work full-time and so

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“falsely associated” Mahdy’s 5-year-old daughter, a kindergartner, with the problems caused by Destination Excellence, the suit claims. Mahdy says she’s not in the program, was born in the United States, speaks English as her primary language and is “being raised as an ordinary American girl.”

He says the family owns a home in Mason and pays property taxes there.

“The actions of these four Mason City School District officials in bringing the media into their classroom, and in presenting ‘J.M’ to the media as a generic Arab-type

should the prosecutor.”

Deters’ termination from the Chesley firm and his loss of $200,000 in annual income had a silver lining. Melissa Deters filed for divorce in 2013, citing incompatibility. Going

by Joe Deters’ compensation at the time, Judge Linton Lewis set monthly alimony at $8,000, child support at $1,677.

But in his September 2015 final decree based on Joe Deters’ lower income, Lewis set Deters’ total obligation at $2,097 a month.

Court papers show no sign of any compensation from Eric Deters’ firm. What was left of the $990,000 lawsuit settlement check, after taxes, credit card payoffs and other expenses, was split evenly. ©

girls to illustrate their complaints, were motivated by an intent to discriminate and to enlist community support of their efforts to rid the Mason City School District of the 51 Arabic-speaking students who had recently enrolled in its ESL program,” the suit states.

Enquirer attorney Jack Greiner says the publication believes it acted appropriately by following directions provided by the school and reporting on an issue of public importance. A Mason schools spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment. (Danny Cross)

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COMEDY: The IMPROV FESTIVAL OF CINCINNATI continues through Sunday with live shows and workshops.

See feature on page 19.

ONSTAGE: THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE When his Elvis impersonation gets dumped at a small-town Florida bar and his wife tells him she’s expecting a baby, Casey has to evolve to stay employed. The bar’s new entertainment is a drag show: Can he reinvent himself? That’s what Ensemble Theatre’s season opener, a feel-good comedy, is all about. Staged by ETC’s D. Lynn Meyers, the show features several of the region’s best actors, including Michael G. Bath, Darnell Pierre Benjamin and Bruce Cromer as an aging drag queen, a role local theatergoers who know him as the Playhouse’s Ebenezer Scrooge might never have imagined seeing him play. Through Sept. 25. $25-$44.

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, 1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-421-3555, ensemblecincinnati.org. — RICK PENDER ATTRACTION: FALL BACK IN TIME AT KROHN CONSERVATORY The Krohn Conservatory has been plucked from the present for its annual fall floral show, which depicts the formal gardens and inspired designs of Victorian England. Fall Back in Time is a tranquil ode to a simpler time — one in which flowers were often used to convey secret messages (think presmartphone-era emojis). Follow crisp chrysanthemums, trailing fuchsias and soothing lavender into the past and immerse yourself in the pacifying sound of trickling waterfalls.

Keep an eye out for steampunk-inspired gears and amenities throughout the show.

Through Oct. 23. $4 adults; $2 kids; free children 4 and under. Krohn Conservatory, 1501 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park, cincinnatiparks.com. — EMILY BEGLEY

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EVENT: HARVEST HOME FAIR With a history dating back to the 1860s, the annual Harvest Home Fair — the “biggest little fair in Ohio” — returns to Cheviot, kicking off on Thursday with a legendary parade.

What makes this end-of-summer celebration different than the others? Well, it’s a fair, not a festival, which means there will be everything from live music and a petting zoo to livestock “best in show” competitions, a flower show and even a horse show that runs throughout the weekend. Proceeds from the fair will benefit youth and community

EVENT: CINCY COMICON Bam! Boom! Ka-pow! Cincy ComiCon lands in town this weekend to celebrate the art of comics and the lives of those who create them. Vendors, panels, a costume contest and more than 50 artists pack three supersized days at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center. Sign up for a workshop on topics like comic-related tattoos and get to know artists during moderated panels. Attending artists include Nick Bradshaw, who works for Marvel Comics on a variety of titles like Wolverine and the X-Men and Guardians of the Galaxy; Annie Wu, who recently worked on Hawkeye and Adult Swim’s Venture Bros.; Ryan Browne, creator of God Hates Astronauts; and Mike Norton, creator of the Eisner Award-winning webcomic BattlePug. 3-7 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. $25-$75. 1 W. Rivercenter Blvd., Covington, Ky., cincycomicon.com. — EMILY BEGLEY

programs, as well as Cancer Family Care. 6 p.m. Thursday; 5-11 p.m. Friday; noon-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-10 p.m. Sunday. $5 adults; free 12 and under. Harvest Home Park, 3961 North Bend Road, Cheviot, harvesthomefair.com. — KYLER DAVIS COMEDY: AL JACKSON Cleveland native Al Jackson has been all over television in two countries. In the U.S., he has appeared on Comedy Central in his own half-hour special, as well as that network’s @ Midnight program and Live at Gotham. He was also on Last Comic Standing, FXX’s Legit and Playboy TV, just to name a few. In England, he was a TV presenter, as they like to say, on a show called Truly Amazing, on which he showed people attempting to break world records. But before comedy, he was a middle school teacher. “My favorite time to teach was Black History Month,” he says. “A young black dude teaching middle school science. Had my kids do a report on a famous

black scientist and I get a bunch of hands going up: ‘Can we do Dr. Dre?’ ” ThursdaySunday. $8-$14. Go Bananas, 8410 Market Place Lane, Montgomery, gobananascomedy.com. — P.F. WILSON MUSIC: HOWLIN’ MAGGIE If they ever build an Ohio Music Hall of Fame, they best reserve plaque space for Harold “Happy” Chichester. An incredibly gifted singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, the Columbus, Ohio-based Chichester — who writes soulful, catchy Pop Rock songs that stand the test of time — is especially beloved in Cincinnati, where his bands like Royal Crescent Mob and Howlin’ Maggie have amassed big followings, and where he continues to draw crowds with solo shows.

Longtime fans are in for a huge, rare treat this week, as Howlin’ Maggie reunites for a local show. Celebrating the 15th anniversary of Chichester’s PopFly Music label, various members from the band’s lifespan will

reteam to play the excellent 2001 PopFly album Hyde in its entirety, as well as songs from the major-label release, 1996’s Honeysuckle Strange. Along with an advance listen to Chichester’s new single, “Knocking at the Door,” fans will also be treated to a few Royal Crescent Mob songs. 9 p.m. Thursday. $10; $15 day of show. Southgate House Revival, 111 E. Sixth St., Newport, Ky., southgatehouse.com. — MIKE BREEN

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ART: Artist Alan Rath’s NEW SCULPTURE exhibit at Carl Solway Gallery offers a provocative view on humans and machines. See interview on page 16.

EVENT: MAINSTRASSE OKTOBERFEST Prost! Celebrate Cincinnati’s German heritage — and our beer — at the 38th-annual CONTINUES ON PAGE 14

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ART: STUDIO OPEN AND WILLIAM KNIPSCHER: WHERE THE LIGHT GOES AT THE CARNEGIE The Carnegie hosts openings for two different shows this weekend: Studio Open, an exhibition organized around the very best of recent graduates and MFA recipients in the region, and a body of work done on light-sensitive paper by assistant professor and head of the photography major at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, William Knipscher. Selected this past spring based on their thesis and senior exhibitions, Studio Open includes 22 artists chosen by The Carnegie’s exhibitions director, Matt Distel, who also commissioned Knipscher for a permanent installation of his photographic images in the building’s common lobby area. Knipscher’s Where the Light Goes is sponsored by FotoFocus.

Opening reception 5:30-9 p.m. Friday. Through Nov. 26. Free. The Carnegie, 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington, Ky., thecarnegie.com. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER

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MainStrasse Oktoberfest. With more than 100 arts and crafts vendors, an amusement park, live music on multiple stages and tons of traditional German food — from brats to cream puffs — this will be a weekend of gemütlichkeit. Not only does the event kick off with a keg tapping: Braxton Brewing Company, a sponsor of this year’s event, recently released their seasonal märzen, Oktober Fuel, which is sure to prep you for some polka dancing. 5-11:30 p.m. Friday; noon-11:30 p.m. Saturday; noon-9 p.m.

Sunday. Free admission. MainStrasse Village, 529 Main St., Covington, Ky., facebook. com/mainstrassevillage. — KYLER DAVIS EVENT: CINCY BEERFEST It’s hops heaven: The eighth-annual end of summer Cincy Beerfest takes over Fountain Square this weekend with more than 300 craft beers from more than 100 breweries, plus live music and food vendors. Both local and national craft breweries — from San Francisco’s 21st Amendment and New York’s Brooklyn Brewery to Cincinnati’s Urban Artifact and MadTree (and Rhinegeist and Taft’s

Ale House and Mt. Carmel…) — will be offering a handful of different styles by the sample and pint, from saisons and ciders to IPAs, pilsners and more. Ticket pricing starts at $15 and includes a souvenir mug and five five-ounce samples. 6-11 p.m. Friday; 3-11 p.m. Saturday. $15-$50. Fountain Square, Fifth and Vine streets, Downtown, cincybeerfest.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO EVENT: LIBRARY STREETCAR CELEBRATION The streetcar might still feel like a myth, but it’s time to prepare for the ride. The newly named Cincinnati Bell Connector will begin operation at noon on Friday, and the main branch of the public library is hosting a grand opening celebration all weekend. The library’s exhibit, Cincinnati Transportation: Past, Present and Future, opens Friday, and the library will also host a series of other programs focused on the history of transportation in Cincinnati through Sunday. Learn everything there is to know about the streetcar before you decide to ditch your car and hop on board.

Friday-Sunday. Free. Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, 800

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FESTIVAL: OLD WEST FEST The sound of Bluegrass along with a side of gunshots — the Old West Festival is back for its ninth-annual celebration, transforming acreage in Ohio’s countryside into an authentic Wild West experience. Gunfights, medicine shows, covered wagons, can-can dancers and an old time saloon (that definitely has alcohol and sarsaparilla) await you in good ol’ Williamsburg. Grab your boots with the spurs and get down there. Upgrade to Sheriff admission and get free soft drinks and $1 off draft beer. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays. Through Oct. 16. Tickets start at $12.99. 1449 Greenbush Cobb Road, Williamsburg, Ohio, oldwestfestival.com. — MADISON ASHLEY

Vine St., Downtown, cincinnatilibrary. org. — MAGGIE FULMER

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MUSIC: MARK BROUSSARD brings an infectious blend of Soul, Pop and Southern Rock to Saint Xavier High School. See Sound Advice on page 28.

MUSIC: DAVID SHAW’S BIG RIVER GET DOWN celebrates the city of Hamilton, Ohio with a slew of Rock and Blues bands. See Sound Advice on page 28.

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MUSIC: Gabrielle Smith’s EKIMEAUX brings Synth Pop to Southgate House Revival. See Sound Advice on page 29

ONGOING VISUAL ART Do Ho Suh: Passage Contemporary Arts Center, Downtown (through Sept. 11)

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EVENT: CINCINNATI HISPANIC FESTIVAL The Cincinnati Hispanic Festival offers a weekend of music, dance, art and food to celebrate Hispanic heritage throughout the community. Stop by the performance stage for live entertainment after you sample a little (or a lot) of the available authentic ethnic foods. This family-friendly event has something for everyone and helps the Hispanic Cultural Society of Cincinnati achieve its goal of empowering Hispanic Cincinnatians to become leaders in their everyday lives.

Noon-11 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m. mass Sunday; fair noon-11 p.m. Sunday. $8 per car; $1 walk-in. Hamilton County Fairgrounds, 7820 Vine St., Carthage, cincinnatihispanicfest.org. — MAGGIE FULMER

FESTIVAL: THE CHEESE FEST New research suggests cheese is as addictive as cocaine — and, yes, we all knew that. The folks at The Cheese Fest have your hook up and are ready to celebrate. Whether you drink wine or beer, you can pair your favorite alcohol with any available artisan cheese, many from cheesemakers around the world.

Experience something new, like cheese honey, or eat cheese paired with a carb at the Meltdown grilled cheese competition and Macdown mac-and-cheese competition; you help decide who makes the city’s best gooey cheese creations. 1-7 p.m. Saturday. $35; $75 VIP. Smale Riverfront Park, 100 W. Mehring Way, Downtown, thecheesefest. com. — MADISON ASHLEY

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The Eyes Have It

Alan Rath’s groundbreaking art mixes electronics with traditional sculpture

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lan Rath, acclaimed for his art combining sculpture with computeranimated still photographs of body parts, has a provocative view on the barrier between humans and machines.

It’s permeable.

“Machinery is evolving and becoming more lifelike as it becomes more complex,” he says by phone from his Oakland, Calif. studio. The Cincinnati-born artist, whose work is in the collections of many art museums, will have a show of New Sculpture at West End’s Carl Solway Gallery from Friday through Dec. 23.

“As it does, it exhibits all these behaviors that are sort of lifelike. I feel, in a way, things like telephones are extensions of the body — they’re not isolated objects out there. They’re just like the way we grow hair. Our hair is dead, but we grow it and it helps us. Telephones are extensions of us.

In my view they are part of us.”

(According to Wikipedia, the only ‘living’ portion of hair is in the follicle. The visible shaft is considered ‘dead.’)

Rath, as he describes it, is interested in “the machine that has awareness.” And early in his career, he found a brilliant way to symbolize that.

He built sculptural armature that held small liquid-crystal display (LCD) screens on which an eye, especially, or other such sense- or perception-related parts as a mouth or hands, “communicated” with the viewer through subtle movements.

He designed and built every aspect of each piece. It was new media, but it was also old — you were supposed to admire the formal characteristics of the entire piece, just like a more traditional Alexander Calder or David Smith sculpture.

“The eye is such a symbol of consciousness,” Rath says. “So putting an eye in sculpture is creating this entity that has awareness. I was interested in how motion can be encapsulated in a (computer) program. Over the years they’ve become more complicated, but the only noticeable difference is that early on they didn’t blink and now they do.”

Less than 10 years after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in electrical engineering, he was in the Whitney Biennial and had a traveling solo show organized by Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center.

His work caused a sensation.

With time, widening interests and technological change, his purview has broadened, and now he has such different work as robotic “feather” sculptures without screens. The Solway show’s 11

Alan Roth works on one of his sculptural pieces in his Oakland, Calif. studio. pieces include one of his “Running Man” sculptures, which have been programmed to change their on-screen movements at different times over the course of years.

Growing up in Anderson Township, Rath took quickly to making things — he credits his mother, who could weave, sew and paint, with encouraging him.

“I was doing electronics when I was 14-15,” he says. “But the things I wanted to do physically took me a lot longer to figure out. To become a machinist and use the lathe just took me longer.

“Electronics are so much more conceptual,” he continues. “It’s mathematical, where mechanical construction is very physical. I love the difference between them and both are very enjoyable, but electronics somehow I took to a lot earlier.

“My parents early on got me a subscription to Popular Electronics, and my father on Saturday would drive me across town to the only electronics-parts distributor in Cincinnati in the day. It was really hard to buy a transistor in 1974.”

Rath now realizes that what he wanted to build as a teenager was “basically art,” but he never thought about it that way then.

His first Solway show was in 1990, but his relationship with the Solway family

goes back much further. Rath’s family lived close to Carl Solway’s home in Anderson Township, and he and Michael Solway — now the gallery’s director — were childhood friends. As teens, they also took a keen interest in Rock music.

In 1972, Solway took Rath to his first Rock concert — Jethro Tull performing the conceptual Thick as a Brick album at Cincinnati Gardens. That revelatory concert experience is the basis for the centerpiece of the New Sculpture show, 2012’s “Bostock.”

It consists of five screens, each displaying a hand. Through sign language, the hands spell out the lyrics to the album’s single song, “Thick as a Brick.” The band’s composer, Ian Anderson, had originally claimed that an 8-year-old boy, Gerald Bostock, wrote the poem upon which the lyrics were based.

But there’s more to “Bostock” than nostalgia for a favorite old album.

“The Rock concerts I went to as an early teenager were the first time I saw what you could do with power of electronics,” Rath says. “That concert was a traveling show completely enabled by massive amounts of

electronics — both for the sound and the lighting. I was really intrigued by that. It was my early opportunity to see that kind of machinery.”

Of course, you’re not going to get all that background from just looking at the piece.

But that’s OK with Rath; he’s fascinated by “layers of information” that can increase meaning yet are hard for any one person to know right away.

“The piece is kind of deliberately obscure,” he says. “You know it’s signing, so you think there is a message there. But what is the message? I’m interested in the fact there is so much information out there, it’s hard to begin to understand.”

Just as he believes the human and the mechanical intermingle in the contemporary world, he also thinks art and science are closer than many believe.

“The whole fields of art and science are very similar, and it’s strange there’s such a huge gulch between them,” he says.

Alan Rath’s NEW SCULPTURE show, as well as photographer Duane Michals’ Sequences, Tintypes and Talking Pictures, opens Friday with a 5-8 p.m. reception. More info: solwaygallery.com.

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Three days of music celebration and discovery return to Over-the-Rhine Sept. 23-25, 2016 MidPoint Music Festival has developed a reputation as the place to discover contemporary music, find the next big thing and meet your new favorite band.

Since 2001, the festival’s endeavor has been to embrace today’s emerging artists, all with the same spirit employed by Cincinnati’s celebrated musical pioneers, who always reached for something new.

Dirty Projectors, Speedy Ortiz, Lost in the Trees, Deaf Heaven, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Best Coast, The Walkmen, Dinosaur Jr., Tom Tom Club, Ralph Stanley, Andrew Bird, Cut Copy, The Joy Formidable, Okkervil River, Booker T. Jones, Phantogram, Surfer Blood, Caribou, TEEN, Lord Huron, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Cults, Lydia Loveless and Heartless Bastards.

For three days each fall, the beautiful and resurgent Over-the-Rhine neighborhood becomes a music-lover’s paradise. This year, for the first time, all stages are within two blocks, newly centralized to the Main Street entertainment district.

This collection of young creative talent amongst an architecturally rich urban setting makes MidPoint a one-of-a-kind experience.

This year’s collection of artists will no doubt join this illustrious list in due time.

Dig into this guide and research this year’s collection of performers — more than 80 in total, each previewed by CityBeat music writers starting on page 9.

Showcased performers year after year are those buzzed about in critics’ year-end lists for “Best Album” or “Best New Artist” in publications like Spin, Fader, Pitchfork, NME, Filter and Rolling Stone.

Past performers include: Chromeo, The Afghan Whigs, OK Go, The Head and The Heart, The Breeders, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Real Estate, Tycho, The Raveonettes, Panda Bear, Rubblebucket, Kurt Vile, Kishi Bashi, Grizzly Bear,

On page 5, you can find ticketing information and a venue map of stages and nearby areas. Check out the Streetcar and Red Bike overview on page 7 for alternative forms of transportation. The full three-day schedule is available on page 8.

And don’t forget to visit MPMF.com for full details on nearby food trucks, a Powerhouse Poster expo, VIP options and more.

We love Cincinnati and the music scene here. We hope you enjoy experiencing all of the showcased talent, both local and otherwise.

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Experience MPMF.16 Tickets and Other Information

MPMF has been relocated to the lots east of Sycamore between Grear Alley and Elliott Street. The no-wristband-required Elis’ BBQ Stage will be located at Sycamore and 14th Street. For the first time, the entire festival microcosm

TICKET OPTIONS: Single-day passes are $50 each day (plus applicable fees and taxes). Tickets will be redeemed for wristbands at the Box Office onsite, located near Sycamore and 13th streets. Tickets can be purchased online at mpmf.com/tickets or at Ticketmaster retailers including some Kroger locations and the Taft and Riverbend Music Center Box Offices. Be advised: The best way to purchase tickets through Ticketmaster is by downloading their app and creating an account.

Tickets purchased in person will avoid the extra fees. Tickets are non-transferrable; all ticket sales are final. Refunds and exchanges are not allowed after a ticket is purchased.

BOX OFFICE: The MPMF Box Office will be located onsite near Sycamore and 12th streets. There, staff will take care of all ticketing concerns.

STAGES: Tickets are needed to view acts on the Skyline Stage, Elliot Stage and WNKU Stage, located at 12th and Sycamore. Tickets are not needed for the Eli’s BBQ Stage, located at Sycamore and 14th, thanks to the generosity of Eli’s BBQ. Re-entry to the ticketed area is allowed. No tickets are necessary to enjoy the Midway located on Sycamore between 12th and 14th.

VIP: If you want to feel like a superstar, we’ve got you covered! VIP ticket holders will have access to an exclusive VIP area with side-stage viewing access,

ATMs: ATMs will be available on site, but plan ahead! Bringing cash with you will cut down on the amount of time spent in line. Most vendors are cash-only.

CHILDREN: The festival is all-ages; please bring the next gen of music lovers with you! Ages 2 and up require tickets.

PROHIBITED ITEMS: One sealed 20 oz. bottle of water and empty plastic bottles and camel backs are allowed.

Please visit MPMF.com for a full list of prohibited items.

HOTELS: Some hotels that we like include 21c Museum Hotel, the Downtown Cincinnati Residence Inn and the Holiday Inn in Covington, Ky. We also think airbnb is pretty cool!

INFO CENTER: At all entrances, event staff will be standing by to answer your questions and offer high-fives and moral support if necessary.

PARKING: Parking may be difficult.

We suggest sharing a ride with a friend or utilizing services like Red Bike or the Cincinnati streetcar. There are a ton of parking garages along the route of the newly operating streetcar. The JACK Casino’s lot is also a viable option and a short walk away.

SECURITY: Safety is our absolute No. 1 priority. We have public safety and medical staff on hand. We want everyone to have as much fun as possible within the civic code: don’t be a jerk to festivalgoers, don’t be a jerk to our staff and don’t attempt to inflict harm on yourself or anyone else. It will get shut down swiftly and justly.

SERVICE ANIMALS: Individuals with disabilities shall be permitted to be accompanied by their service dogs in all accessible areas. The work or tasks performed by a service animal must be directly related to the individual’s disability. Only service animals of the dog variety are allowed. Emotional support animals, comfort animals and therapy dogs are not service animals under Title II and Title III of the ADA. Other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not considered service animals.

STREET CLOSURES: Sycamore will be closed from the north side of 12th to the north side of 14th. Twelfth Street will be closed from the east side of Sycamore to the west side of Broadway.

WEATHER: We have no control over the weather. It might rain. It might be hot. Although less likely, it could blizzard, monsoon or quake. We apologize in advance for any and all of these conditions. Tune into your favorite local weatherman for the latest updates and be prepared! PLEASE NOTE that umbrellas are not allowed within the ticketed area. We recommend suiting up in a super-chic poncho in case of rain.

Free Music and Fun at MPMF Eli’s BBQ Stage to host free shows, food and fun at the Midway The Midpoint Music Festival this year will host a number of free shows at the Eli’s BBQ Stage located at Sycamore and 14th streets. Thanks to a generous sponsorship by local BBQ restaurant Eli’s BBQ, national acts like Russian Circles, local acts like Leggy and several other excellent outfits will perform for free throughout the weekend.

Noise Pop group Smut will kick off MPMF 2016 with a free show at the Eli’s BBQ stage on Friday. Entry to this stage can be accessed from 14th.

Adjacent to the Eli’s BBQ stage is the MidPoint Midway, where vendors like local favorites Dojo Gelato and Mazunte Taqueria will be serving. The Midway will be located on Sycamore between 12th and 14th streets and is also free to access.

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GATES: Gates open at 3 p.m. Friday and 12:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The festival closes at 11 p.m. each night.

nightly receptions with food provided by local restaurants and caterers during specified times, complimentary snacks and beverages while supplies last and private restrooms. Vegetarian options and gluten-free beer will also be available to VIP pass holders.

is within two blocks — this change addresses a ton of logistical concerns, but, more importantly, guarantees a safer, more accessible festival experience overall. Change is scary, but you’re so brave and flexible! We dig that.

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Getting Around MPMF.16 Is Easier Than Ever The Cincinnati streetcar is set to start shuttling passengers around downtown and Over-the-Rhine Sept. 9 — the same week the guide you’re reading hits the streets. Cincinnati’s first rail project in more than half a century will add a safe and convenient means for concertgoers to get to and from the MPMF main stages in the Main Street entertainment district.

There’s a streetcar stop just one block from the stages located at Sycamore and 12th streets. From there, you can head north toward Washington Park and as far as Rhinegeist Brewery before the route loops back around, heading south on Race, then cutting over to Walnut via Central Parkway.

From here, it travels past Fountain Square all the way to The Banks before heading back up Main to MPMF. Most downtown hotels are within walking distance of a streetcar stop. The cost to ride is just $1 for two hours or $2 all day, and the streetcar runs until 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights and 11 p.m. on Sundays. Metro, which operates the streetcar, recently launched an app called Cincy EZRide, which lets you purchase tickets and passes for Metro busses and the streetcar using your smart phone or tablet.

In addition to the streetcar, Cincinnati’s bike sharing program has been a massive hit in just two years of existence. The program counted almost 15,000 rides and 568 annual members by the end of its first year and has added many new stations since that time.

There are more than 50 Red Bike stations in total, most of which are downtown. Two are within one block of the MPMF stages: the Pendleton station at 1249 Broadway St. and Casino station at 362 Reading Road. You can check your Red Bike in at stations near most OTR and downtown amenities — visit cincyredbike.org for a map and list of rental station locations, plus fee details. (There are also Red Bike apps available in the Apple and Google app stores that help you find the nearest station.)

Red Bikes are rented in 24-hour intervals, but they must be checked in to a kiosk every 60 minutes — this helps bikes get used by more riders rather than chained to a fence for hours, helping no one. Remember to follow all traffic laws and do not ride on sidewalks — bikes have the same right to the roadway as cars, but you should be aware of traffic, and Red Bike encourages users to wear helmets.

You can also get to the festival using Cincinnati’s Metro bus service (though be aware that late-night hours are limited). Find out if Metro will serve your MPMF needs by checking the schedules and routes at go-metro.com.

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Our 24-Hour Pass gives you a full day of unlimited 60-minute rides, allowing you to explore both Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Grab lunch with a friend in MainStrasse, take an energizing ride along the riverfront, grocery shop at Findlay Market, catch a Reds game — the possibilities are endless.

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9:30 p.m.: Future Islands

9:30 p.m.: JJ Grey & Mofro

9:30 p.m.: Band Of Horses

7:45 p.m.: Antibalas

7:45 p.m.: Reggie Watts

7:45 p.m.: Houndmouth

6:15 p.m.: The James Hunter Six

6:15 p.m.: Kamasi Washington

6:15 p.m.: Nada Surf

5 p.m.: Molly Sullivan

5 p.m.: The Budos Band

5 p.m.: Aubrie Sellers

4 p.m.: Injecting Strangers

4 p.m. Mike Floss

4 p.m.: Amber Arcades

3 p.m.: Darla

3 p.m.: Lucky Chops

3 p.m.: The Mobros

2 p.m.: Animal Mother

2 p.m.: Blank Range

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8:30 p.m.: Tokyo Police Club

8:30 p.m.: Wolf Parade

8:30 p.m.: Lucero

7 p.m.: Cereus Bright

7 p.m.: Frightened Rabbit

5:30 p.m.: PUBLIC

5:30 p.m.: Bob Mould

7 p.m.: Frank Turner & THE SLEEPING SOULS

4:30 p.m.: Julia Jacklin

4:30 p.m.: Multimagic

5:30 p.m.: Josh Ritter

3:30 p.m.: Joesph

3:30 p.m.: The Harlequins

4:30 p.m.: AJJ

2:30 p.m.: WildPrxfits

3:30 p.m.: Diners

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1:30 p.m.: Orchards

2:30 p.m.: Kepi Ghoulie

8:15 p.m.: Langhorne Slim & the Law

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6:45 p.m.: Lau 5:15 p.m.: Ona 4:15 p.m.: Dead Horses 3:15 p.m.: Hoops

ELI’S BBQ STAGE 8:45 p.m.: Into It. Over It. 7:45 p.m.: Pluto Revolts 6:45 p.m.: Leggy 5:45 p.m.: The Slippery Lips 4:45 p.m.: Royal Holland

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3:45 p.m.: Smut

1:30 p.m.: Alone At 3am

8:15 p.m.: The Mountain Goats

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6:45 p.m.: Carseat Headrest

8:15 p.m.: The Wood Brothers

5:15 p.m.: Oh Pep!

6:45 p.m.: Elephant Revival

4:15 p.m.: Lucy Dacus

5:15 p.m.: Vandaveer

3:15 p.m.: By Light We Loom

4:15 p.m.: Parsonsfield

2:15 p.m.: Nights

3:15 p.m.: YounG Heirlooms

1:15 p.m.: Ryan Fine

2:15 p.m.: Modern Aquatic 1:15 p.m.: The Fervor

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8 p.m.: Helms Alee

8:45 p.m.: Aloha

7 p.m.: Honeyspiders

7:30 p.m.: Joan Of Arc

6 p.m.: Sound&Shape

6:15 p.m.: Potty Mouth

5 p.m.: Mala In Se

5:15 p.m.: Keeps

4 p.m.: Knife The Symphony

4:15 p.m.: The Easthills

3 p.m.: Smoke Signals...

3:15 p.m.: Coconut Milk

2 p.m.: Baby Money & THE DOWN PAYMENTS

2:15 p.m.: Darlene

1 p.m.: Honduras

1:15 p.m.: Us, Today

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Future Islands (Baltimore) SynthPop/Indie Pop Baltimore trio Future Islands is what you need, when you need it, lyrically and musically. Vocalist Samuel T. Herring’s introspective lyrics are the group’s signature, intoned in a searing voice aching with romantic nostalgia and ageless optimism. The deftly woven accompaniment of guitar, grounding bass and drums and emotive synths from Gerrit Welmers and William Cashion propel you to soaring emotional heights or mournful solitary examination, depending on your mood. The band’s fourth studio album, Singles, made a splash in 2014, earning raves (Pitchfork named lead single “Seasons” the year’s best song) and culminating in a wildly exuberant Letterman appearance.

Keep an ear out for two singles released in 2015 — they signal a more mature, even tighter sonic landscape from the group.

You’ll Dig It If You Dig: Beach House grilling a steak with The War on Drugs while Twin Shadow catches fireflies in New Order’s backyard. (Leyla Shokoohe)

CRITIC’S PICK 7:45 p.m.

Antibalas (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Afrobeat/Funk/Soul

YDIIYD: Daptone in Africa, starring Richard Roundtree as Fela Kuti. (Brian Baker)

CRITIC’S PICK 6:15 p.m.

The James Hunter Six (London, England) R&B/Soul/Blues James Hunter is the real damn deal, an honest-to-God Soul singer, smoking hot guitarist and frontman for one of the most authentic and inspired R&B bands on the planet. Hunter’s résumé goes back to England’s club circuit in the mid-’80s and into the mid-’90s, when he sang live and studio backup for Van Morrison, who then accompanied Hunter on his 1996 album, Believe What I Say. But his fortunes fell in the new millennium and he split his time between a 9-to-5 laborer’s job and street busking, until he and the Six exploded into the global consciousness with their breakthrough, 2006’s People Gonna Talk. The band’s latest album, Hold On!, is his second collaboration with producer Gabriel Roth and first for Roth’s renowned Daptone label, and it further cements The James Hunter Six as one of the world’s premiere swinging, stomping Soul/R&B outfits.

YDIIYD: The ghost of Sam Cooke partyhaunts Brian Setzer and Smokey Robinson.

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Molly Sullivan (Cincinnati) Indie/Pop/Lo-Fi

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Darla (Philadelphia, Pa.) Progressive Funk

Cincinnati native Molly Sullivan is one of the city’s most prolific artists. She’s performed with a number of local outfits, but her rise as a solo, experimental Indie/Folk Pop artist eclipses all else. Her multifaceted voice is the best complement to her potent lyrics, infusing them with an evocative, lush range of feeling and more than a bit of lo-fi melancholy matched with clean guitar playing.

Sullivan sometimes performs solo or with a backing outfit of local musicians, providing sonic heft that further amplifies her aptitude for exploratory songwriting and candid performance. Listen to “So It Goes” — this song has been in her repertoire for a while and continues to evolve along with her.

Even though Darla is comprised of a relatively large contingent of eight members, the Philadelphia unit puts out enough sound and energy that you’d swear a shambling orchestra was responsible for it all. Rock power, Jam exploration, Jazz delicacy, Funk groove and Prog bombast are vital components of Darla’s presentation, as evidenced by its Traffic-meets-If-meets-The-Mummies instrumental stroll-and-roll through The Allman Brothers’ “Whipping Post” from the band’s most recent EP, Darla Comes Alive Vol. 2. The ambitious band has put out five EPs since its 2014 formation and is planning another one before year’s end, but don’t wait for that shoe to drop. The stage is where Darla does its best damage — dress appropriately for sweat absorption and extreme dancing comfort.

YDIIYD: Indie lady queens St. Vincent, Cat Power and Sharon Van Etten being jointelected as president of the United States. (LS)

YDIIYD: They say it’s “basement blender Funk”; we say Steely Dan, Blood Sweat & Tears, Phish, Funkadelic and Here Come the Mummies making a great margarita. Don’t forget the psychedelic salt. (BB)

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Injecting Strangers (Cincinnati) Indie Rock/Glam Pop It’s been four years since bassist Dylan Oseas and guitarist Peter Foley took their leave of Automagik and connected with drummer Chase Leonard and vocalist Richard Ringer to create the Glam-fisted goodness of Injecting Strangers. As theatrical as a Meatloaf/Alice Cooper Rock opera and as unhinged as a midnight showing of Rocky Horror, Injecting Strangers has been wowing fans with a tight but freewheeling live set filled with frenetic songs from the group’s EPs and 2014 full-length triumph, Patience, Child. Come, my little shooter-uppers, it’s time for your Glam Pop inoculation from the not-even-close-to-medical-professionals in Injecting Strangers.

YDIIYD: Modest Mouse working with Danny Elfman on a tribute to Oingo Boingo. (BB)

8:30 p.m.

Tokyo Police Club (Toronto, Canada) Indie Rock It’s been more than a decade since four Canadian friends rose from ashes of a band called Suburbia and reassembled as Tokyo Police Club. In that time, the atmospheric Indie Rock quartet has become a favorite on the festival circuit, opened for Weezer and Foster the People, made three appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and released four well-received albums and a trio of EPs, including the recently released (and fantastically titled) Melon Collie and

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Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of the formation of Antibalas, Martín Perna’s 12-piece brainchild that is largely credited with shining a worldwide spotlight on the Afrobeat sound. Perna began the ensemble in order to tribute legendary Jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri and Nigerian Afropop superstar Fela Kuti, but the band quickly grew beyond that ambition to become one of the leading proponents of a hybridized version of Afropop that included Funk, Soul and Jazz elements. Anitbalas’ love for Fela Kuti

resulted in the 2008 off-Broadway production Fela!, which upgraded to Broadway the following year and earned a pair of Tony awards out of 11 nominations. Gabriel Roth, the band’s former guitarist and founder of Daptone Records, produced four of the band’s five studio albums, including its selftitled album from 2012. And if you’re looking for Pop cred, the Antibalas horns were featured on Mark Ronson’s global hit “Uptown Funk” and album Uptown Special. Antibalas will bring the Funk, you bring the noise.

MPMF.16 the Infinite Radness: Part One, which has an immediacy and frenetic energy that hearkens back to the band’s early days of dusting the rafters of seedy Toronto Rock clubs.

Hey, one good Club deserves another.

YDIIYD: The Strokes and Weezer tour the Great White North. (BB)

a Cincinnati Entertainment Award nomination for Best New Artist. Since then, the trio has worked and toured hard, opening for Walk the Moon, Neon Trees and Twenty One Pilots and hitting the studio for further proof of their Pop chops with a sophomore EP, Let’s Remake It, and a danceable new single, “Heartbeating.” Go PUBLIC… Everybody’s doing it.

YDIIYD: Walk the Moon and Modest Mouse run for president and VP on the We’ll-KickYour-Candy-Ass-with-Sweet-Rock ticket.

And win. (BB)

Lord, consistently tricks you into thinking you’re heading to one sonic destination when instead you find yourself, pretty happily, taken to another. Multi-instrumentalist of Pomegranates fame Joey Cook is the brainchild behind this blissed-out, delicately powerful album, piling on layers of synth, emphatic piano and dreamily reverbed vocals that point to ’60s Pop but take on a thoughtful, contemporary Shoegaze sheen, especially when coupled with guttural guitar licks and propulsive percussion. Cook brought on local music pals Pierce Geary and Devyn Glista to perform live.

YDIIYD: Nick Drake and The Velvet Underground performing at a tent revival organized by Brian Wilson. (LS)

WNKU STAGE

7 p.m.

Cereus Bright (Knoxville, Tenn.)

Americana/Indie Folk Cereus Bright began when Tyler Anthony and Evan Ford bonded over their mutual love of writing and playing heartfelt songs.

As a duo, Anthony and Ford crafted a pair of EPs — 2012’s Goldmine and 2013’s Happier Than Me — and toured around the South, playing any venue that would have them.

They were soon joined by electric guitarist Jake Smith, bassist Matt Nelson and drummer Luke Bowers, whose Jazz backgrounds provided a fascinating structure for the viscerally intense frontmen. The past year has been particularly fruitful, with opening slots for Sturgill Simpson and The Lone Bellow and the release of the band’s debut full-length, Excuses. The future’s not just shades bright, it’s Cereus Bright.

YDIIYD: Poi Dog Pondering meets The White Stripes at a Brit Folk hootenanny hosted by Mumford and Sons. (BB)

CRITIC’S PICK 4:30 p.m.

Julia Jacklin (Sydney, Australia) Indie Folk Australian singer/songwriter Julia Jacklin asked her mother for singing lessons when she was 10 because she felt her accomplishments paled in comparison to Britney Spears. Since then, Jacklin has gone from learning her craft in a band to absorbing the work of women she admired to allowing her own voice to emerge from her wide-ranging influences. Jacklin’s been releasing songs in fits and starts over the past couple of years, but her incendiary appearance at this year’s SXSW got her noticed in a big way, as evidenced by the imminent release of her debut full-length album, Don’t Let the Kids Win. YDIIYD: Angel Olsen and Fiona Apple channel ’60s/’70s Folk singers then learn the Dave Dobbyn songbook. (BB)

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5:30 p.m.

PUBLIC (Cincinnati) Indie Pop/Rock In six short years, PUBLIC has grown beyond the confines of their Cincinnati beginnings to become the object of teenage girl adulation without pandering to that demographic. In 2012, the trio — guitarist/ vocalist John Vaughn, bassist/vocalist Matthew Alvarado and drummer/vocalist Ben Lapps — established PUBLIC as a formidable force with its debut EP, Red, and

CRITIC’S PICK 3:30 p.m.

Joesph (Cincinnati) Indie/Pop/Rock/Shoegaze No, you didn’t read it wrong — Joesph is spelled “Joesph.” That one letter out of place is a good thematic device for this Cincinnati trio, whose latest release, There Comes the

8:15 p.m.

Langhorne Slim & The Law (Nashville, Tenn.)

Americana/Folk/Soul After years of touring with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Langhorne Slim generated a huge buzz with a set at Bonnaroo and a subsequent slew of high-profile opening gigs that exposed him to audiences that fell hard for his brand of contemporary troubadour wisdom and wiseassery. The title track from Slim’s 2004 debut EP, The Electric Love Letter, found its way into Rolling Stone’s Top 10 Songs of the Year list and onto the Waitress soundtrack, while his debut full-length, 2005’s When the Sun’s Gone Down, made a good many year-end best-of lists. Since then, Slim and his band, the Law, have earned a pile of great reviews, made diehard fans of David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, scored music placement in films, television and commercials and toured relentlessly. Slim and the Law’s last album, last year’s The Spirit Moves, was his first recording to be conceived and executed while he was sober, and his journey on that path continues.

YDIIYD: Bob Dylan if he’d been born in the Punk generation. (BB)

CRITIC’S PICK 6:45 p.m.

Lau (Edinburgh, Scotland) Ambient Folk In an era of constant cross-pollination and hybridization, it seems odd that it’s taken so long for a band to effectively bridge the realms of Celtic Folk and Electronic music.

Over the past dozen years and five releases, Lau has brilliantly blended the well-traveled guitar/accordion/fiddle tradition with an atmospheric Electronic texture that elevates the trio from simple Folk into a sonic environment that retains its ancient roots while absorbing and reflecting a uniquely contemporary buzz.

Lau’s most recent album, The Bell That Never Rang, is an astonishing accomplishment, a confluence of two distinct genres that results in a strangely unique third musical style.

Their fans call this area Lau-land, but we call it the home of the future.

YDIIYD: Celtic Folk as envisioned by Radiohead, Wilco and Brian Eno. (BB)

5:15 p.m.

Ona (Huntington, W.Va.) Indie Roots Rock It’s no wonder that even a cursory listen to Ona’s latest album, last year’s amazing American Fiction, will more than occasionally lean toward the squalling wonder of Crazy Horse and the contemplative intensity of its welltraveled frontman; the quintet’s self-avowed motto when working through a songwriting issue is “What would Neil Young do?” Initial proof of Ona’s boundless gifts were hinted at in their pair of two-song EPs, 2013’s Virginia Storm and 2014’s The Other Side of June, but American Fiction (featuring re-recorded versions of the EP’s tracks) brought Ona’s brilliance into sharp and satisfying relief.

YDIIYD: Dawes moves to Appalachia and takes its cues from Wilco and Crazy Horse.

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FRIDAY SEPT. 23 ELI’S BBQ STAGE

4:15 p.m.

Dead Horses (Milwaukee) Americana/Folk Dead Horses is one of those bands that shows how magic can be created with just three superb musicians and a few simple acoustic instruments. Led by the gripping songwriting and voice of guitarist Sarah Vos, the trio has become one of Wisconsin’s favorite bands in its six years of existence. The group’s push to become more widely known will get a big jolt with the Sept. 30 release of Cartoon Moon, Dead Horses’ third album, which was produced by fan Ken Coomer (Wilco) and, if the first three sneak-peek tracks are any indication, shows the threesome at the height of their powers with a slightly expanded sound.

YDIIYD: More modern Folk acts like Indigo Girls or Shawn Colvin going back to the Americana basics. (Mike Breen)

8:45 p.m.

Into It. Over It. (Chicago) Indie Rock New Jersey Native Evan Weiss formed Into It. Over It. as a solo project after the young bandmates in his other groups didn’t show quite the same commitment to music as he did.

Weiss’ first solo recording project showed his dedication — he wrote a song every week for a year, releasing them as the compilation 52 Weeks when it was all over. When the first Into It. Over It. albums started coming out in 2011, the project quickly found a loyal audience — enamored with Weiss’ emotive and melodic songwriting — and toured the world (with Weiss joined by a full band). Earlier this year, the best Into It. Over It. album yet, Standards, was released and praised for its depth and dynamic spin on Pop/Rock songwriting, as well as the insistent drumming of collaborator Joshua David Sparks.

YDIIYD: Manchester Orchestra, Death Cab for Cutie, Modern Baseball. (MB)

CRITIC’S PICK 6:45 p.m.

Leggy (Cincinnati) Indie Rock/Garage Pop Véronique Allaer’s brush with death three years ago rekindled her long-buried desire to be a musician, and she’s been pursuing that goal with a vengeance ever since. After dusting off her closeted guitar, Allaer formed Leggy with best friend Kerstin Bladh on bass and thunder-and-lightning beatkeeper Chris Campbell on drums, which quickly resulted in buzzy local shows amd their 2014 debut, Cavity Castle. In the interim, Leggy has toured incessantly and dropped a trio of releases: another pair of EPs, Nice Try and Dang, and a self-titled full-length that compiles the best of all the EPs with a fresh track, “Kick the Habit.”

Leggy is Punk-tinged girl-group Pop, played in a stained garage with a curled lip and a casual fury, and its razor-sharp Cupid’s arrow will pierce your musical heart.

Singer and ringleader Benjamin James’ side project Pluto Revolts stepped directly into the musical spotlight with its inception in 2008, combining straightforward Alternative Rock attitude with Electronic experimentation for a familiar-but-fresh sound. James’ yearning vocals are powerful, at times stadium-Rock strong and other times Pop-ballad sweet, and the lyrics are simple, which play well with the energetic guitar, crashing drums and playful keys. Having cut his teeth in the do-or-die major label industry, James has earned the right to a creative rebirth with this passion endeavor.

YDIIYD: Silverchair, Mutemath and Linkin Park playing a private birthday party. (LS)

YDIIYD: Thom Yorke tributes Elliott Smith at Leonard Cohen’s weenie roast. (BB)

CRITIC’S PICK 5:45 p.m.

The Slippery Lips (Cincinnati) Rock/Punk

CRITIC’S PICK 3:45 p.m.

Smut (Cincinnati) Post Punk

One of Greater Cincinnati’s most thrilling live acts, a Slippery Lips show is a bombastic display of theatrical nihilism loaded with equal parts over-the-top fun and on-the-edge danger. Frontwoman Jesse Fox (a noted local photographer and former CityBeat staffer) flails and flings herself across the stage with little regard to personal safety, while the rest of the band matches her explosive energy with sparks-inducing Punk volatility. Even though they’ll be performing in broad daylight, this will be one MPMF show you won’t want to miss because anything could happen.

With unbridled Post Punk energy impressively layered in various shades of harmonious guitar noise, Smut has emerged in the Cincinnati underground music scene in the just past couple of years. The band’s fivesong debut release, 2014’s Purse, lived up to the quintet’s description of its sound as Noise Pop, with snarling, fuzzed-out brashness and a lo-fi buzz driving the proceedings. But with this year’s four-song sam-soon release (both are available on the group’s Bandcamp page), Smut showcased a sharper, more in-focus approach, lifting the chaotic fog slightly and allowing those scruffy guitarscapes and singer Tay Roebuck’s engaging vocal swagger to be all the more impactful.

YDIIYD: The Stooges, X-Ray Spex, Twin Peaks. (MB)

YDIIYD: Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and Savages in a blender. (MB)

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YDIIYD: Chillwave minus the electronics and plus more guitar glitter. (MB)

7:45 p.m.

Pluto Revolts (Cincinnati) Alternative Rock/Electronic/Pop

For 14 years, guitarist/vocalist Matt Mooney fronted area bands until he came to the conclusion that his muse would be better served in a solo context. He adopted the nom du folke Royal Holland and embarked on his new lonewolf journey (although gradually assembling a small band for some gigs) with stunning local shows and his first EP, The Maze, which won the 2014 Ohio Music Award for Best Folk Album. It was the first installment of Holland’s “Unfolding” trilogy, which included 2015’s Flamingo and this year’s Program (all recorded

by Brian Olive), a song cycle that examines the big questions surrounding love, loss and death, and the inevitable realization that big questions only generate bigger questions.

YDIIYD: Lana Del Rey starts a contemporary Garage Punk tribute to The Ronettes. (BB)

CRITIC’S PICK 3:15 p.m.

Hoops (Bloomington, Ind.) Indie Pop The shimmering, atmospheric Indie Pop of Hoops has its roots in founder Drew Auscherman’s ambient solo recordings. He then spent the summer of 2014 finding the right musicians to bring the songs to life. With Hoops solidified as a quartet, the band began playing locally, then added regional tour dates, which, along with three self-released tapes, helped draw glowing attention from an increasing number of music press outlets (from My Old Kentucky Blog to NME). The group ultimately hooked up with Fat Possum Records, which released a dazzling self-titled EP in late August. Like a Shoegaze band forced to turn off their distortion pedals, Hoops makes blissfully trippy songs that are warm, breezy and often transcendent.

4:45 p.m.

Royal Holland (Newport, Ky.) Indie Folk/Rock

MPMF.16 SKYLINE STAGE

9:30 p.m.

JJ Grey & Mofro (Jacksonville, Fla.) Rock/Funk/Soul/Blues The roots of JJ Grey & Mofro extend back two decades when Grey and friend Daryl Hance signed with a U.K. label and played European shows as Mofro Magic. The deal went south and the pair returned to Florida, shortening the name to simply Mofro, a nickname given to Grey by a co-worker.

The band recorded two albums as Mofro, both steeped in Grey’s memories of his Florida upbringing, a constant theme in his songs. In 2007, he added his name to the marquee, and the newly christened group signed with Alligator Records and released Country Ghetto, featuring more slow Soul and amped-up Southern Rock. That was the start of a six-album stretch that exposed Grey and Mofro to a wider and appreciative audience. Last year’s Ol’ Glory was the band’s debut for Provogue Records, but it shines with the same singular hybridized take on Rock, Blues, Folk, Funk and Gospel.

Mofro is the ultimate Grey area.

You’ll Dig It If You Dig: Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers jam at a memorial for Otis Redding and Jim Reeves. (Brian Baker)

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CRITIC’S PICK 7:45 p.m.

Reggie Watts (Brooklyn, N.Y., Los Angeles) Experimental/Electronic/Comedy Reggie Watts is a Renaissance man of oddness who has turned his unusual, innate sense of spontaneity and surrealism into quite an impressive career. After performing in bands in a wide range of genres (from Hip Hop to Jazz and beyond), Watts began experimenting with a loop pedal, which allowed him to layer vocal sounds over top of

each other to disorienting effect. The playfulness of his music was indicative of his sharp comedic mind, and Watts began incorporating comedy into his work and collaborating with comedians. His music-meets-standup shows and album releases made him a hit in the alt comedy world. Many came to know Watts through his vital role on Comedy Bang! Bang! (the podcast and then the IFC TV show). Last year, Watts brought his twisted sense of art and music to his role as the bandleader on CBS’s The Late Late Show with James Corden.

YDIIYD: Salvador Dali orchestrating a musical collaboration between Negativland, Tim and Eric and Michael Winslow. (Mike Breen)

CRITIC’S PICK 6:15 p.m.

Kamasi Washington (Inglewood, Calif.)

Jazz Kamasi Washington’s rise in music over the past two years has been unlike anything seen in the past few decades. In 2016, Washington has been a big draw at festivals like Coachella and Electric Forest, and his latest album charted well and was one of the best reviewed of last year, making the “Best of 2015” lists of both The Guardian and Pitchfork (among others). But Washington isn’t an EDM button-pusher or Indie Pop sensation — his success came on the heels of his mesmerizing nearly three-hour Jazz album, The Epic. The saxophonist’s brilliantly constructed, composed and arranged concept album is a dynamic and expansive masterpiece that incorporates varying shades of contemporary and vintage genres, but is still quintessentially a Jazz album. With The Epic, Washington — who has worked with modern greats like Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar — was unexpectedly able to enrapture a whole generation of fans (many of whom likely paid little attention to Jazz previously) by constructing an undeniably compelling piece of art that captured the same jaw-dropping thrill of hearing albums like John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme or Charles Mingus’ Mingus Ah Um for the very first time.

YDIIYD: John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and other Jazz artists throughout history who dared to defy convention and expectations, reshaping the entire genre in the process. (MB)

With praise from Hip Hop blogs and appearances at the Bonnarooo and Made In America fests, Floss seems well on his way.

YDIIYD: A tasty Hip Hop swirl of Southern bounce and Chicago soul, infused with boundless energy and a distinctive personality. (MB)

5 p.m.

The Budos Band (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Soul/Deep Funk/Psych Since its formation a decade and a half ago, Daptone Records has become one of the premiere boutique labels for 21st-century Soul and Funk, and one the jewels in the Daptone crown is the Budos Band. The nine-piece instrumental outfit formed in 2005 around a mutual love of Soul-tinged Ethiopian music, which they accented with ’60 Pop Soul to create a signature sonic identity they called AfroSoul. The Budos Band’s first three albums, expeditiously titled I, II and III, combined its core sound with layers of Jazz, deep Funk and even hints of Metal, but the band’s latest album, 2014’s Burnt Offering, found it shifting to a swirling contemporary spin on ’70s Psychedelia. With the Budos Band, lyrics are unnecessary; its music does all the talking.

YDIIYD: The essence of The Bar-Kays and Funkadelic rolled up into the world’s biggest medically legal joint. (BB)

3 p.m.

Lucky Chops (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Soul/Jazz Thanks to our own Cincy Brass, we know a great horn combo can storm like an F5 tornado, and New York’s Lucky Chops is in on the secret as well. The sextet’s swingy yet nudge/wink marching band take on the Lipps Inc/James Brown mash-up of “Funkytown/I Feel Good” even throws in a measure or two of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” while its readings of Adele’s “Hello” and Ariana Grande’s “Problem” are played straight with their respective drama and swagger intact.

Pinwheeling from second line New Orleans Jazz to New York uptown Funk to an Indie approach to Brass Rock (witness its medley of “I’ll Fly Away,” “Heart of Glass” and “Turn the Beat Around”), Lucky Chops hasn’t met the genre or song it can’t blow away.

YDIIYD: Mark Ronson ditches his all-star address book and gets back to street-level energy. (BB)

CRITIC’S PICK 4 p.m.

Mike Floss (Nashville, Tenn.)

Hip Hop As artist exoduses to New York City and L.A. have long showed, living near the hubs of whatever art you trade in can be frustrating from a career standpoint. But being a little removed and isolated can do wonders for creativity. You can hear that in the gratifyingly imaginative sound of Nashville’s Mike Floss, a guiding light in the Country music capital’s strong but unheralded Hip Hop scene who has the style, skills and freshness to bring deserved attention to his city. If Floss’ elastic, dizzyingly musical sound on singles like “Kerosene” and the Don’t Blame the Youth mixtape continue to get the right exposure, there’s little doubt Floss and his inimitable work will make the jump to the next level with ease, much like, most recently, Bryson Tiller did with Louisville.

CRITIC’S PICK 2 p.m.

Animal Mother (Cincinnati) Garage Jazz Self-described “Garage Jazz” trio Animal Mother is a welcome snap of exciting energy on the Cincinnati jazz scene (and for MPMF as well). Tenor saxophonist Josh Kline’s rich tone is the perfect complement to the adventurous lines he explores, utilizing drummer Matt McAllister’s keen precision and robust sound and bassist Jon Massey’s rhythmic foundation to navigate the group into

SATURDAY SEPT. 24 uncharted territory. Listen closely and you’ll hear notes of Punk and Rock influence, along with homages to legendary Jazz greats. Last year’s The Youth Will Rule is worth multiple listens and its songs are even better live — “Paraklete” is particularly a gem.

YDIIYD: The Bad Plus and Neil Cowley Trio riding the same subway car Joshua Redman is busking in. (Leyla Shokoohe)

Elliot STAGE

songs and performing them under the name Frightened Rabbit, his mother’s childhood name for him due to his crippling shyness.

His first album, 2006’s Sing the Greys, was essentially a solo album with brother Grant on drums, but they expanded to a trio with guitarist Billy Kennedy for 2008’s The Midnight Organ Fight. Frightened Rabbit’s third album, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, scored them an Atlantic Records contract, which spawned the commercial/critical success of 2013’s Pedestrian Verse. Burnt out from the road, Hutchison, Andy Monaghan and Simon Liddell recorded a side project called Owl John before commencing work on their amazing fifth album, the recently released Painting of a Panic Attack, with production

by The National’s Aaron Dessner.

YDIIYD: Snow Patrol and Travis shooting dice in the Gallagher brothers’ alley. (BB)

8:30 p.m.

Wolf Parade (Montreal, Canada) Indie Rock/Post Punk Wolf Parade, the early-2000s critically acclaimed Indie Rock quartet from Montreal, Quebec, finally shrugged off a self-imposed 2011 hiatus to re-emerge with its beloved Post Punk offerings to the delight of hungry ears everywhere. Frontmen Dan Boeckner and Spencer Krug trade off songs, with Boeckner leading more of the straightforward Rock numbers and Krug commanding attention with his intricate, more experimental musings. Both are combined with taut drums and heaving guitars for a big ol’ serving of contemplative, at-times Shoegaze-y and always-eloquent songs that linger long after they end. Wolf Parade - EP 4, its latest recording, displays the group’s musical talents and reminds listeners what’s been missing for the past five years.

YDIIYD: Tapes ’n Tapes climbing a mountain with Spoon to meet Clap Your Hands Say Yeah on the other side. (LS)

Scottish guitarist/vocalist Scott Hutchison found the perfect vehicle for working out his internal struggles when he began writing

Cincinnati-based quintet Multimagic, featuring local music scene regulars Coran Stetter, Brian Davis, Sebastien Schultz, Mia Carruthers and Ben Hines, crafts Dream Pop anthems and ballads that soar and simmer in equal measure. The band has been honing its hypnotic sound over the last two years, performing locally to much acclaim and taking a dip down to SXSW in 2015, but the group hasn’t released an album yet. Sneak a peek at the band’s tantalizing live WKNU sessions (with great songs like “Little White” and “Move On”) and you’ll see what the buzz is about.

YDIIYD: Arcade Fire, The Killers and Death Cab undertaking a group journal exercise. (LS)

YDIIYD: Brilliantly loud, loudly brilliant music. (BB)

Raised in Queens and Brooklyn, lifelong Hip Hop fanatics and deft MCs Louie Tha Profit and Wxlfman have deep love for the music from New York that inspired them over the past 30 years. To show that love, the pair formed Wild Prxfits, which they use to try to connect with the community with fun and positivity. On social media, Wild Prxfits talks of “ushering in the future of Hip Hop by combining elements from every era,” something the rappers have a head start on given their obvious lyrical abilities and deep-Funk-laden tracks. The duo is off to a good start; Wild Prxfits played its first show this past April, released some solid singles and an EP on Soundcloud and is prepping its next release, PrXphecies.

YDIIYD: EPMD, Redman, A Tribe Called Quest. (MB)

CRITIC’S PICK 5:30 p.m.

Bob Mould (San Francisco) Indie Rock For the better part of the last three and a half decades, Bob Mould has been one of the most viscerally influential figures in music. With Hüsker Dü and then with Sugar, Mould created a guitar sound and an anthemic attitude that rippled through ’90s Alternative Rock like the sheets of sound emanating from his amps. As a solo artist, Mould has refused to be bound by his reputation or anyone’s personal or professional expectations of what he should be writing or performing. Mould’s first solo album, 1989’s Workbook, was an exuberant and atmospheric album that rejoiced in his newly minted sobriety, while his most recent album, this year’s Patch the Sky, finds him darkly musing about the ends of things, particularly relationships and life. In between, Mould has created a malleable but consistent catalog of high-energy songs that make morose and heartbreaking observations about the human condition; it might even be singalong therapy, especially his last two, 2012’s Silver Age and 2014’s Beauty & Ruin. His best-known song is probably Workbook’s “See a Little Light,” but for as long as we can remember, Bob Mould has thrown off much more light than he’s seen.

2:30 p.m.

Wild Prxfits (New York) Hip Hop

CRITIC’S PICK 3:30 p.m.

The Harlequins (Cincinnati) Garage Rock/Psych Gleaning the best from the heady, colorswirled era of ’60s Psych Pop influences and modern Garage Rock vibes, The Harlequins deliver their unique “Midwest is best” sound in a giddily palatable and always exciting package. Lead singer Michael Oliva is a consummate musician — no frills, all passion.

His guttural yelps and esoteric lyricism lead the careening ship, swaying with alternately driving and spacey guitar, fuzzy, guiding bass lines from Alex Stenard and ever-intense drumming by Rob Stamler. The group just released One With You this June — a sharper, more precise sound that doubles down on the energy the group is known for. Close your eyes and trust The Harlequins will take you somewhere inventive and wonderfully trippy.

YDIIYD: The Cramps and Tame Impala playing glow-in-the-dark laser tag with Ty Segall. (LS)

1:30 p.m.

Orchards (Cincinnati) Indie Pop It’s been three years since schoolmates Austin Tracy and Evan Wagner crossed paths at a Tame Impala show and turned their chance re-meeting into a guitar/drums duo. Dubbed Orchards, the pair booked gigs and played sessions for close to a year before inviting bassist Kyle Stone into the mix, and that’s how it stood until Stone opted out of the band earlier this summer.

His place has been capably filled by Chris Cavanaugh, who points/counterpoints Wagner’s psychedelic tribal beat-keeping and Tracy’s six-string fuzz-stomp rain dance. The trio reently signed with Old Flame Records, presumably meaning there will be an Old Flame record. Soon, perhaps?

YDIIYD: Blue Cheer and Hawkwind debate the merits of Sgt. Pepper vs. Pet Sounds. (BB)

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CRITIC’S PICK 7 p.m.

Frightened Rabbit (Glasgow, Scotland) Indie Rock

CRITIC’S PICK 4:30 p.m.

Multimagic (Cincinnati) Indie Pop/DreamPop

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8:15 p.m.

The Mountain Goats (Durham, N.C.) Indie/Folk/Rock John Darnielle intended to be a writer for a living. And though his words have been presented in different forms, he’s become a very successful one by any measure. He put his words to music beginning in the ’90s and, once his Mountain Goats began to release studio albums built around Darnielle’s concepts and stories in the early 2000s, it became a critical darling with an ever-growing and loyal fanbase, inking deals with respected label 4AD and then beloved indie imprint Merge. The Mountain Goats have continued to top themselves with each new release — last year’s Beat the Champ, a concept album about pro wrestling — was another career highlight. When Darnielle finally used his writing gifts to craft his first novel, 2014’s Wolf in White Van, it was nominated for a National Book Award (a second book is reportedly due early next year).

YDIIYD: Pavement, Yo La Tengo and Diet Cig hiding out in a basement during a winter solstice party. (LS)

3:15 p.m.

By Light We Loom (Cleveland, Ohio) Indie Pop 5:15 p.m.

Oh Pep! (Melbourne, Australia) Indie Folk/Pop Olivia Hally and Pepita Emmerichs are most assuredly not wasting their youth. The Down Under duo, operating under the banner of Oh Pep! and not quite in their mid 20s, has been accumulating accolades with the release of a trio of EPs, leading up to the summer release of their debut full-length, Stadium Cake. Two years ago, the pair was crowned Young Folk Performer of the Year

by The Age Music Victoria Awards and has been nominated in successive years for Best Folk Roots act. Stadium Cake could very well force Oh Pep! to clear some mantle space for more industry hardware.

After the dissolution of Indie Rock sensations Bethesda (which appeared at several MidPoint and Bunbury festivals), husbandand-wife frontduo Eric Ling and Shanna Delaney decided to shift gears away from their Mumford-and-Sons-go-Pop direction.

Eschewing the band format, Ling and Delaney found everything they needed in loop technology and each other, creating head-bobbing grooves and dreamy melodies as By Light We Loom. The duo’s two EPs — last year’s The Ignition and this year’s Caught in the Tide — are beautiful advances on a sound that Ling and Delaney had already mastered.

YDIIYD: Kate Bush as a dreamy Midwestern Synth Pop chanteuse. (BB)

1:15 p.m.

Ryan Fine & The Media (Cincinnati) Pop/Jazz/Soul Ryan Fine & The Media is a Cincinnatibased 10-piece Pop/Jazz ensemble featuring students and graduates of the acclaimed University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. With diverse instrumentation including trumpets, saxophones, bass, percussion, drums and guitar, the group has the freedom to explore many different genres, laying in pure Rock guitar riffs and bombastic horns with smooth Jazz sax and percussive elements to create a specialty blend of exciting musicality, oftentimes led by Fine’s capable Pop-leaning crooning.

YDIIYD: Michael Bublé and Chicago covering Justin Timberlake on New Year’s Eve. (LS)

ELI’S BBQ STAGE

YDIIYD: Arcade Fire fronted by Jane Siberry and Suzanne Vega. (BB)

YDIIYD: When a band’s lyric sheet is as important any musical note played. (MB)

2:15 p.m.

NIGHTS (Ohio City, Ohio) AltRock/Dream Pop CRITIC’S PICK 4:15 p.m.

Lucy Dacus (Richmond, Va.) Indie Rock

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6:45 p.m.

Car Seat Headrest (Seattle) Indie Rock Will Toledo’s Indie Rock project Car Seat Headrest is so named because he recorded the vocals in the backseat of a car for privacy. There’s not much of that privacy present lyrically — luckily for us. His 2016 release Teens of Denial uncovers petulant emotions and wry observations, laying it all bare on a silver platter of precision guitar and heavy drums. Based in Seattle by way of Virginia, Car Seat Headrest has a prolific back catalog; Teens of Denial is the first recording for a label (Matador) and the first made in a professional recording studio.

There is an almost breezy Jazz quality to Lucy Dacus’ tremulous voice and elongated phrasing, but the truly startling aspect of her presentation is her incisive, insightful and brutally honest lyrics, made more impressive in light of the fact that Dacus has just recently reached the age where she can drink in the clubs she plays. Her debut album, the recently released No Burden, explores the full spectrum of emotional experience with a breathtaking maturity and the kind of wisdom that typically comes after too many traumas and a lot of hard fought healing.

YDIIYD: Erika Wennerstrom and The Heartless Bastards singing and playing with forceful restraint. (BB)

The hypnotic lull of Northern Ohio’s NIGHTS’ ambient Pop representative of the band’s take-your-time/get-it-right origins. Guitarist Frankie Maraldo formed the band in 2009 with a male singer, but the project started falling apart. Enter singer/artist Jenna Fournier, whose own band had just split. The two songwriters clicked and, with inspiration from The Smashing Pumpkins’ early swirling dynamics, NIGHTS recorded its debut album, Whisper.

Then they scrapped it. The band tried again and was still unhappy with the album’s sound, but NIGHTS managed to catch the attention of Tragic Hero Records, which signed the group and arranged for Whisper to be tweaked by accomplished producer Jim Wirt.

Four years in the making, the label released the album nationally last fall.

YDIIYD: Lush, Silversun Pickups, Slowdive, The Cranberries. (MB)

9 p.m.

Russian Circles (Chicago) Post Rock/Prog/Metal If you’re wondering how a Chicago band wound up with a name like Russian Circles, the instrumental Prog/Metal trio christened itself after an ice hockey practice maneuver. The Blackhawks would approve, we think. Since its 2004 formation, Russian Circles has released six full-length albums, including the just-issued Guidance, and an EP, touring incessantly. The threesome — guitarist Mike Sullivan, bassist Brian Cook and drummer Dave Turncrantz — create a fascinating loud/soft dynamic by combining Prog deliberation and nuance with Post Rock/Metal ferocity and intensity. Even more amazingly, Russian Circles deftly employs pedals, loops and samples to expand and enhance its live presentation.

Shout it from the clock tower — the Russian Circles are coming.

YDIIYD: Orchestral Post Rock from a loud whisper to a conducted scream. (BB)

SATURDAY SEPT. 24 YDIIYD: Slint and The Afghan Whigs collaborate on the soundtrack to a film about clouds that rain blood. (BB)

CRITIC’S PICK 8 p.m.

Helms Alee (Seattle) Experimental/Progressive/Metal Before “Grunge” became a marketing term to describe every band from Seattle, the underground bands in the city actually did have some commonality, but less in sound and more in approach, with musicians meshing Punk, Garage, Metal and whatever else they felt like into unusual variations of snarling, sludgy Rock. It’s a tradition carried on faithfully by powerful and creative trio Helms Alee, which, in the course of four albums (including the brand new Stillicide), has confounded pigeonholers at every turn, craftily infusing its heavy, pummeling Doom/ Sludge/Metal base with Math rhythms, Prog arrangements, engulfing and engaging melodies and harmonies, Post Rock atmospherics and Post Punk idiosyncrasy.

YDIIYD: Deafheaven, The Melvins, Torche, Earth. (MB)

CRITIC’S PICK 7 p.m.

Honeyspiders (Cincinnati) Rock/Psych

6 p.m.

Sound&Shape (Nashville, Tenn.)

Rock/Progressive Sound&Shape, a prolifically touring fourpiece Progressive Rock band based in Nashville, is evidence of the Music City’s nurturing support system. The group has undertaken a musical evolution that has yielded a great balance between thoughtful lyricism and intricate musicality, with its latest release, 2014’s Bad Actors, produced by fellow Nashville talents, Grammy Award-winning engineer/ producer Casey Wood and lauded producer Matthew McCauley. Vocalist Ryan Caudle’s contemplative delivery melds seamlessly with frenetic guitar riffs, wandering bass lines and raucous drums, each musical voice speaking in turn for a fully realized soundscape that never loses pace or energy.

YDIIYD: Coheed and Cambria solving a Rubik’s cube with TesseracT in a coffee shop while Muse plays overhead. (LS)

5 p.m.

Mala in Se (Cincinnati) Post Hardcore/Progressive/Metal

YDIIYD: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club going shot for shot with early Sonic Youth in The Toadies’ basement. (LS)

YDIIYD: High on Fire plays Wizard’s Chess with Lightning Bolt and The Boredoms take on the winner. (BB)

Deeply steered by the SST/Touch & Go/Dischord Hardcore scenes of the ’80s and ’90s, Knife the Symphony assembled a decade ago with the sole intent of moving forward and making a momentously visceral noise along the way. Mission accomplished. KTS has been sporadically consistent over its 10-year history, gigging often and compiling an impressive catalog of scathing sheets of cacophonous splendor. KTS’s last full-length, 2009’s heart-stopping yet nuanced Dead Tongues, has been followed by an album’s worth of splits with the likes of Mala in Se, Lauren K. Newman and others, and Knife the Symphony continues to rage against the dying of the light, playing with a ferocity that could tear kneesized holes in the universe’s well-worn jeans.

YDIIYD: Jawbox and Unwound get their master’s degrees in diversity and divinity. (BB)

3 p.m.

Smoke Signals... (Newport, Ky.) Post Rock/Math/Prog Smoke Signals... roared out of northern Kentucky a half-dozen years ago and has been making waves on both sides of the Ohio River ever since. Guitarist/vocalist Rev. Chauncey Grizzly blends musical styles the way a bartender mixes a $20 drink, shifting from Math precision to Prog expanse to Post Rock blister, sometimes in the same solo. Meanwhile, bassist/vocalist Seth Langland and drummer/vocalist Jims provide the only possible rhythm section for Grizzly’s schizophonic guitar environments. The trio has posted the results on Bandcamp and released physical copies through And Recordings and Phratry, but clearly the best way to experience to brutal wonder of Smoke Signals... is to let the sound wash over you in the front row. It might be better than a chemical peel.

2 p.m.

Baby Money & The Down Payments (Chicago) Rock Chicago-based Baby Money & The Down Payments is a Bluesy outfit that distills the essence of ’60s Motown and a jangly Johnny Cash aesthetic into a contemporary tincture of earnest Rock. Fronted by soulfully voiced leader Pamela Maurer, this trio of rocking women combines coy harmonies and wistful lyrics with precision drums and vibrant guitar and bass lines for a kiss-with-a-punch experience. The four-track Shy-City Vol. 1: Pyramid was released in February, with promises of two more volumes before the end of the year.

YDIIYD: Tennis playing an acoustic show with Best Coast and The Shangri-Las. (LS)

1 p.m.

Honduras (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Haze Punk Brooklyn four-piece Honduras is equal parts earnest and thrashing, resulting in a quicksilver “Haze Punk” combination that is undeniably infectious. Lead singer Patrick Phillips, along with childhood pal and lead guitarist Tyson Moore, formed Honduras in 2012, swiftly emerging on the DIY scene as ones to watch. Its brand of well-articulated Garage Rock is intensified with high-energy guitars and vocals, steady bass lines and chaotically controlled drums. The group was chosen as the subject of a new video documentary by music-streaming service TIDAL in August 2016 and is touring in support of its 2016 release, Gathering Rust.

YDIIYD: Parquet Courts challenging Deerhunter and The Sex Pistols to a game of high-stakes, three-way ping-pong. (LS)

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Members of Honeyspiders can finally shrug off comparisons to their old bands and stand on their own black-booted feet. They’ve spent the last few years spinning a dense web of Post/Psychedelic Rock, studded with heavy, droning guitar, crashing drums and thick bass lines that enchant and entrap. Lead singer Jeremy Harrison’s seductive drawl coats the group’s exploratory lyrics in a smoky haze that accelerates in intensity, culminating in a noholds-barred, face-melting sound. The band’s self-titled debut won the 2016 Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Album of the Year.

Jazz/Metal may not be a definable musical genre, but that could be simply because Mala in Se is the only band doing it. Dissonance that (almost) gives way to melody, odd time signatures that migrate into rocksteady pulses, howling volume that dissipates into vaporous quietude, blinding speed that downshifts into a funereal plod; these are Mala in Se’s tools of the trade, and they wield them alternately like a surgeon’s scalpel and a laborer’s sledgehammer. The trio’s 2010 self-titled debut full-length is a brutal musical Hadron Collider where genres are crashed into each other at light-speed to see what results after the molecules settle.

CRITIC’S PICKS 4 p.m.

Knife the Symphony (Cincinnati) Post Rock/Post Punk

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Toupin (whose vocal harmonies gave the band an Emmylou Harris/Gram Parsons dynamic) had left the band, but Houndmouth has soldiered on as a trio, sometimes adding a horn section to punch up its live shows.

YDIIYD: The Band, Drive-By Truckers, Alabama Shakes. (Mike Breen)

9:30 p.m.

Band of Horses (Charleston, S.C.) Indie Rock Band of Horses began in Seattle more than a decade ago as an Indie Rock reaction to frontman Ben Bridwell’s long Chamber Pop stint with Carissa’s Wierd. After a brief period of personnel fluidity and a relocation to his native South Carolina, BOH began operating within a sonic framework that successfully intersected Americana, Psych Folk and Indie Rock. BOH’s lineup solidified nine years ago, but the band’s catalog on the whole has remained amazingly consistent, a testament to Bridwell’s steady creative vision. The third Band of Horses album, 2010’s Infinite Arms, was Grammy-nominated for Best Alternative Album and was its most commercially successful release, but the follow-ups, 2012’s Mirage Rock and the just released Why Are You OK, both did well on a global scale. Because Band of Horses is perfect stargazing music and the stars look the same around the world.

You’ll Dig It If You Dig: A dreamy, spacey, desert campfire with The Shins, My Morning Jacket and Spiritualized. (Brian Baker)

CRITIC’S PICK 6:15 p.m.

Nada Surf (New York City) Indie Pop/Rock The fact that Nada Surf is still standing after its massive and ironically titled mid-’90s hit “Popular” and subsequent label meddling and malfeasance is a testament to the creative glue and perseverance of founders Matthew Caws and Daniel Lorca, along with their synergy over the past 21 years with drummer Ira Elliot. When Elektra dropped them, they took day jobs and self-released The Proximity Effect, then signed with Barsuk for the acclaimed Let Go, featuring the hit “Inside of Love,” which was used in commercials, television and film. Similar accolades were accorded to 2005’s The Weight is a Gift, 2008’s Lucky and 2010’s covers-only If I Had a Hi-Fi. The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy found the band expanding to a quartet with the 2012 arrival of Guided By Voices guitarist Doug Gillard.

This year’s You Know Who You Are continues the Nada Surf trend of consistent Indie Rock excellence.

YDIIYD: James Mercer and Coldplay do America’s Got Talent in disguise, give Simon Cowell the finger. (BB)

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Houndmouth (New Albany, Ind.) Indie Roots Rock Formed as a quartet in 2011 in a town across the river from Louisville, Ky., Houndmouth has built a reputation around the country for a great, rollicking live show and its infectious, roots-rockin’ boogie. A 2012 South By Southwest appearance led to a contract with Rough Trade Records, which has released the band’s first two critically acclaimed albums — 2013’s From the Hills Below the City and last year’s lively, soulful Little Neon Limelight. Earlier this year, the band announced that keyboardist Katie

Jay Hawkins, CCR and Neil Young could self-identify as a Country artist, but Aubrie Sellers exists, with a vengeance, in the Venn diagram intersection of her amped-up Rock influences and her Country heritage as the daughter of superstar Lee Ann Womack.

Sellers understands the power of music regardless of label — she draws a line between Ralph Stanley’s raw banjo style and Punk energy — and no matter which mode of interpretation she inhabits for a particular song, she pegs the sonic and emotional needles to equal shades of red with a crack band and a crystalline voice.

Her debut album, New City Blues, is a perfect synthesis of everything Aubrie Sellers is and loves, and her live shows are better still.

YDIIYD: Buddy and Julie Miller in a Nashville tribute to Led Zeppelin. (BB)

4 p.m.

Amber Arcades (Utrecht, Netherlands) Alternative Folk/Pop After releasing an EP of pretty Folk songs in 2012, Annelotte de Graaf poked around for info on her favorite records and found Punk producer Ben Greenberg, then shot her life savings on a trip to New York to have him produce her full-length debut, the just-released and aggressively atmospheric Fading Lines. The resulting album is an exhilarating pastiche of Folk/Pop set to a soundtrack of ’60s/’70s AM Pop as translated by a contemporary Indie Rock band with a deep knowledge of New Wave and melodic Punk. Fading Lines features stretches of excruciating beauty punctuated with hints of darkness and dissonance, but Amber Arcades aims higher than superficial sonic techniques and momentary gratification. This is an album and artist to love.

YDIIYD: Suzanne Vega on a Dutch holiday with The Soft Boys, busking for coffee money. (BB)

CRITIC’S PICK 5 p.m.

Aubrie Sellers (Nashville, Tenn.)

Alternative Country It’s startling that anyone who cites influences like Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, Screamin’

CRITIC’S PICK 3 p.m.

The Mobros (Charleston, S.C.) Rock/Soul/Roots Kelly and Patrick Morris are brothers (“Mobros” is short for Morris Brothers) from South Carolina who’ve been exploring their musical chemistry since childhood, singing harmonies together and sharing a love for the music of greats like Sam Cooke, The Everly Brothers and The Band. That chemistry translates to the bros’ instrumental compatibility as well — Kelly plays intricate, soulful guitar lines with Patrick’s drums effortlessly flowing along. The telepathic bond between the two gives their rootsy Soul/Rock sound an organic feel that seems to be as much based on emotion and instinct as it is on musical precision (though both are stellar instrumentalists). The duo (joined by a bassist live) was hand-picked by B.B. King to open a series of dates in 2013 and in 2014, The Mobros released their debut album, Walking With A Different Stride. The band has been showcasing newer material in its sets, so another release appears to be imminent.

YDIIYD: The Black Keys bred on equal parts American Soul and brotherly vocal phenoms like the Bee Gees and Everlys. (MB)

2 p.m.

Blank Range (Nashville, Tenn.)

Indie Roots Rock Just ask Einstein; time is relative. After all, look what the members of Blank Range have done in just three years. Four Illinois college grads hotfooted it down to Nashville and formed Blank Range with an acquaintance from St. Louis. Later in 2013, the quintet released an EP and a 7-inch, and the following year was highlighted by the band’s win in a Nashville talent contest called The Road to Bonnaroo, first prize being a prime slot at the iconic musical gathering. At some point, their St. Louis bassist opted out, but

SUNDAY SEPT. 25 Blank Range replaced him and continued to craft new material for its (hopefully, very) imminent full-length release.

YDIIYD: Blitzen Trapper and Pavement challenge Spoon and Drive-By Truckers to a three-legged softball game. (BB)

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8:30 p.m.

Lucero (Memphis, Tenn.)

Country/Punk/Southern Rock Not since Alex Chilton’s Big Star has a band so thoroughly understood the correlation between Rock, Soul and Country as Ben Nichols and Lucero. By the time the band signed its short-lived major label deal with Universal for 2009’s stellar 1372 Overton Park, the group had been around for a decade and released or self-released a half-dozen amazing albums. Since signing with ATO Records four years ago, Lucero has notched a trio of excellent releases — Women & Work, Texas & Tennessee and All a Man Should Do — and cemented its reputation as one of the hardest-driving bands in America.

YDIIYD: Steve Earle and John Doe conjure the spirit of Alex Chilton with Mike Ness’ Ouija board. (BB)

CRITIC’S PICK 7 p.m.

Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls (Hampshire, U.K.) Punk/Folk

YDIIYD: Billy Bragg on steroids and a 24-hour caffeine drip. (BB)

5:30 p.m.

Josh Ritter (Woodstock, N.Y.) Indie Folk Josh Ritter has been a critic’s darling from his first major exposure, his excellent sophomore album, 2000’s The Golden Age of Radio. Driven to buy his first guitar after hearing Bob Dylan’s duet with Johnny Cash on “The Girl from the North Country,” the Idaho native studied neuroscience at Oberlin College, recording his eponymous debut at a campus studio. Discovered at an open mic by The Frames’ Glen Hansard, Ritter opened for the band in Ireland; his third album, Hello Starling, was a huge Irish hit, debuting at No. 2. From the start, Ritter’s albums have veered from quietly contemplative Folk to louder, more forceful Roots Rock, culminating with his last and best album, last year’s Sermon on the Rocks featuring the shamblingly brilliant “Getting Ready to Get Down.” Josh Ritter is all your favorite artists in one amazing singer/songwriter.

YDIIYD: Bob Dylan and Todd Snider singing each other’s songs at Johnny Cash’s gravesite. (BB)

CRITIC’S PICK 4:30 p.m.

AJJ (Phoenix) Pop/Rock “Folk Punk” band Andrew Jackson Jihad was one of Arizona’s more popular underground musical exports. And it still is, though a few things have changed since cult classic albums like 2007’s People That Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World. Early this year the band announced a name-change to AJJ (citing members’ discomfort with both the word “jihad” and Andrew Jackson). The new moniker may also be a reflection of the band’s evolving sound, which has largely moved away from raw Anti Folk/Punk, into something more expansive and adventurous. But as shown on this summer’s engrossing full-length, The Bible 2, the group hasn’t changed everything — it’s still quirky, clever, smart, monstrously catchy and blissfully weird.

2:30 p.m.

Kepi Ghoulie (Sacramento, Calif.)

Punk/Pop After a nearly 25-year run that included nine albums, five EPs, a dozen singles, six splits (one with The Donnas), two tribute albums and 20 former members, The Groovie Ghoulies finally called it a day in 2007. Since then, frontman Jeff Alexander, aka Kepi Ghoulie, has remained active with a string of full-lengths (two in 2008, American Gothic and Hanging Out) and singles (including semi-annual Valentine’s Day tracks) and even a kids album (Kepi For Kids). Kepi’s last full album, 2011’s I Bleed Rock ‘N’ Roll, featured a title track with a melodic line lifted from the Stones’ “Street Fighting Man” and an exuberant Punk pogo bounce.

YDIIYD: The Dictators summon the spirits of The Ramones to haunt the John Varvatos store at CBGB’s. (BB)

YDIIYD: Andrew Jackson Jihad, Titus Andronicus and Dead Milkmen all grown up. (MB)

CRITIC’S PICK 3:30 p.m.

Diners (Phoenix) Indie Pop Tyler Broderick writes the kind of timeless Pop hooks that can only come from a life immersed in the study of legendary Pop Rock composers. With dashes of Psychedelia, splashes of warm textures and loads of upbeat charisma, the music of Broderick’s band Diners is instantly likeable and memorable.

This month, Broderick and his rotating cast of co-conspirators release Three, their first on the Asian Man label. This ain’t your everyday lo-fi bedroom Indie Pop — Diners’ songs are lush and deceptively intricate, while still letting the power of a great melody shine through like a beam of sunshine on every song.

YDIIYD: SMiLE-era Beach Boys, Harry Nilsson, The Zombies. (MB)

1:30 p.m.

Alone at 3AM (Cincinnati) Rock/Roots For nearly a decade, Max Fender wrote darkly cool songs and translated them in a sporadic fashion with his rotating collective, Alone at 3AM. But as the band gelled with the additions of bassist Joey Beck, keyboardist Sarah Davis and drummer Chris Mueller, Alone at 3AM’s quality, fortunes and consistency all rose at a steady pace. Just in the past six years, the quintet (now including guitarist Andy Hittle) has produced three acclaimed albums — including last year’s astonishing Show Your Blood — established solid fan bases outside the area and proved to be one of the scene’s most reliable showstoppers. Good bands endure lean times, great bands thrive in spite of them. Alone at 3AM is a great band.

YDIIYD: The Gin Blossoms, The Wallflowers and Gomez wax melancholic about their respective homes. (BB)

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After the breakup of his Post Hardcore group Million Dead, Frank Turner decided to maintain his touring regimen as a oneman acoustic outfit about the same time he discovered Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska (subsequently and thereafter he’s worked with his full band, The Sleeping Souls).

Turner’s debut full-length, 2007’s Sleep Is for the Week, told the story of a year in his

life which was largely marked by drug use at that point. In 2008, Turner released his wildly popular Love, Ire and Song album and began his odds-and-sods documentation with his The First Three Years collection. His next two releases, Poetry of the Deed and England Keep My Bones, further focused his role as political poet laureate for the U.K., but his first American-recorded album, 2013’s Tape Deck Heart (featuring its brilliant rehab anthem “Recovery”), and last year’s Positive Songs for Negative People have broken him wide. Turner’s “classical liberal” stance nets him 100 death threats a day and you can bet he’s got some opinions on the presidential race. Go ahead, ask him — he’ll sing you all about it.

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etc.), what they do with those instruments is refreshingly unexpected and often exhilarating thanks to the exploratory songwriting and arranging. The group’s breathtaking new album, Petals, was released in April through Thirty Tigers.

YDIIYD: The Head and the Heart, Trampled

By Turtles, The Happy Maladies. (MB)

new drummer. After learning its name held an unpleasant racial connotation, the group rechristened itself after the geographic location of its rebirth. Parsonsfield’s musical expansion continues at a big-bang pace on its just released Blooming Through the Black, featuring the potent response to Donald Trump’s immigration policies, “Barbed Wire.”

YDIIYD: The Avett Brothers and My Morning Jacket beer-pissing on Daniel Lanois’ electric fence. (BB)

8:15 p.m.

The Wood Brothers (Nashville, Tenn.)

Folk/Americana

Monster, their accurately titled first EP, is an outing of six dreamy songs that utilizes the band’s full strength of solid Rock guitar lines, plucky bass, lullaby-esque vocals and hazy drums to create the perfect beach-day soundtrack. Single “Blondie” is especially engaging, with thoughtful vocals and impressive musicality. Formed in 2015, the group has already supported a strong roster of local bands, notably fellow MPMFers Multimagic and Cincinnati Entertainment Award winners Dawg Yawp. Catch the band this year so you can say you saw Modern Aquatic before it was big.

YDIIYD: Local Natives covering The Strokes at Vampire Weekend’s Labor Day backyard barbecue. (LS)

Brothers Chris and Oliver Wood bonded over a love for music growing up, but their musical studies took them in different directions.

Oliver fronted a band called King Johnson for several years, playing a blend of Blues, R&B and other styles, while Chris formed the popular progressive Jazz group Medeski Martin & Wood. But the brothers decided to give collaborating a shot in the mid-’00s and came up with an Americana-based sound that landed them a deal with Blue Note Records. The Wood Brothers (joined by multi-instrumentalist Jano Rix) would go on to build a loyal fanbase and release several well-received albums, including last year’s dynamic Paradise. Though steeped in Folk traditions, The Wood Brothers’ brand of Americana is loaded with unexpected twists and turns that help set them apart from other contemporary acts.

After the dissolution of Lexington, Ky.’s Apparitions, Mark Charles Heidinger created a new Folk identity for himself as Vandaveer.

Quickly adding the complimentary talents of vocalist Rose Guerin, Vandaveer turned out 2007’s Grace & Speed and 2009’s Divide & Conquer, channeling the atmospheric brilliance of kindred souls like Sparklehorse, Richard Thompson and The Band. After a 10-year run that has included four full-lengths and a handful of great EPs, Vandaveer dropped its masterpiece this year, the dusty and beautifully vibrant The Wild Mercury.

YDIIYD: A backwoods writing retreat with Lyle Lovett, The Jayhawks and Ray LaMontagne. (MB)

YDIIYD: Eef Barzelay and Stevie Nicks play Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris in an off-Broadway musical. (BB)

5:15 p.m.

Vandaveer (Washington, D.C.) Indie Folk CRITIC’S PICK 3:15 p.m.

Young Heirlooms (Cincinnati) Indie Folk/Pop Young Heirlooms possess the improbable ability to look back into bygone musical traditions and translate those antiquated ideas and modes of expression into a sound that is as contemporary as an IKEA living room. Kelly Fine and Chris Robinson sing, play mandolin and guitar and provide the timeless songs that anachronistically span the ages, while a murderer’s row of musical friends make a gorgeous racket around them. Young Heirlooms’ 2013 eponymous full-length debut was a master class in everything the band does exquisitely well, and one can only hope that much more songwriting has filled the intervening threeyear gap.

The Fervor began more than a decade ago with husband-and-wife Ben and Natalie Felker presenting her melancholic songs in a duo format, until the band’s ranks swelled and the arrangements took on a fuller dimension.

From the start, The Fervor’s dynamic has been a soft-to-loud transition, whether the context has been the Midwestern Indie Roots Rock of its early work or the grittier, harder direction of its later material, particularly the latest EP, Nightfall in the Kali Yuga.

YDIIYD: Nickel Creek and The Civil Wars go into couples counseling with Dr. Ralph Stanley and Dr. Neil Young. (BB)

YDIIYD: Timbuk 3 and Crazy Horse take over for post-retirement Black Sabbath and tweak the catalog just a bit. (BB)

1:15 p.m.

The Fervor (Louisville, Ky.) Indie Rock

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Elephant Revival (Nederland, Col.) Progressive Indie Folk/Rock

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Parsonsfield (Northampton, Mass.)

Folk/Americana

With elements of Chamber Folk, Classical music and numerous other genres in the mix and an experimental spirit that allows it to extend beyond any sort of genre barriers, Colorado ensemble Elephant Revival creates an ambient, often cinematic brand of modern Americana that is unlike much else in the genre. While the decade-old quintet uses the traditional tools of the trade (including banjo, fiddle, washboard, upright bass,

Parsonsfield is the gentility of atmospheric Folk filtered through the visceral power of Rock, but it wasn’t always so. The quintet began as a contemporarily tinted string band with typical Bluegrass/Folk influences under the name Poor Old Shine, but the group recorded a pair of albums with producer Sam Kassirer at his Parsonsfield, Maine studio and wound up retooling its sound with Kassirer’s assistant engineer as the band’s

CRITIC’S PICK 2:15 p.m.

Modern Aquatic (Cincinnati) Indie Rock Combining sunny, beachy vibes with a generous helping of reverb and Indie sensibility, five-piece Cincinnati-based band Modern Aquatic is poised for big things. Beach

8:45 p.m.

Aloha (Kansas/Ohio/ Washington, D.C.) Indie Rock The fact that Aloha has released just seven albums in its 19-year history shouldn’t reflect on the band’s work ethic. Cale Parks

SUNDAY SEPT. 25 has done a number of solo recordings and has sessioned and toured with several bands, including Joan of Arc and Passion Pit, while T.J. Lipple is an in-demand producer. But when they get together with band founders Matthew Gengler and Tony Cavallario, Aloha possesses the magic of their Hawaiian name, translating the joy of hello and the sweet sadness of goodbye into a hauntingly melodic Synth/guitar Pop singularity. Aloha’s just-released seventh full-length, Little Windows Cut Right Through, its first in six years, is a pastiche of its best Post Rock/Jazz/Pop moves, a lyrical triumph and a career high point.

YDIIYD: Tortoise and Broken Bells with more sadness sprinkles and a thick layer of self-aware hot fudge. (BB)

7:30 p.m.

Joan of Arc (Chicago) Indie Rock Joan of Arc’s roots go back over a quarter century to the breakup of the Kinsella brothers’ somewhat overly lauded Cap’n Jazz project, which morphed into Tim Kinsella’s long-running and wildly diverse Joan of Arc in 1995. With Tim Kinsella as its only constant member, Joan of Arc has created a monumental catalog of 23 studio, live and EP releases and a handful of singles that run the gamut of Indie Rock experimentalism and eclecticism, touching on minimalism, sonic collage, guitar Rock, Electronic atmospherics and sampling in a broad variety of applications and executions.

Recent song-based albums like 2011’s Life Like spurred a return to touring, but the band continue to pump out esoteric projects like an original score to the silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc and Testimonium Songs, a soundtrack for experimental theater company Every House Has a Door. JOA’s new album, He’s Got the Whole This Land is Your Land, will be released at the end of the month.

CRITIC’S PICK 2:15 p.m.

Darlene (Cincinnati) Alternative/Indie/Rock

6:15 p.m.

Potty Mouth (Northampton, Mass.)

Punk Potty Mouth began with the veteran rhythm section of bassist Ally Einbinder and drummer Victoria Mandanas, plus two guitarists, Abby Weems and Phoebe Harris, who had barely touched a guitar. That Punk learning curve resulted in their raw and naive 2012 debut, Sun Damage, a blistering six-track evocation of passion and fury, and the 2013 full length follow-up, the slightly more accomplished yet still bare-bones fist-pump Punk of Hell Bent. Harris left in early 2014 to concentrate on her design career, and the remaining trio soldiered on, producing its selftitled five-track EP last year, a melodic yet still elementally visceral slice of Punk anthemics.

YDIIYD: Sleater-Kinney plays Veruca Salt in the Lifetime film, I Don’t Have Balls and I Have More Balls Than You. (BB)

4:15 p.m.

The Easthills (Rushville, Ind.) Rock If you’re known by the company you keep, The Easthills are pretty bloody well known.

The Indiana quintet’s résumé is stacked with opening gigs for Cheap Trick, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blues Traveler, Tesla and Candlebox, and this summer found them sharing stages with The Doors’ Robby Krieger, Grand Funk Railroad and Cracker. And their recently released full-length, Fear and Temptation, boasts guests like REO Speedwagon’s Neal Doughty, Georgia Satellites’ Rick Richards and Nada Surf/Guided By Voice’s Doug Gillard. Needless to say, The Easthills earned their place in this good company by establishing themselves as granite-solid proponents of blister-inducing heartland Rock with healthy dashes of Pop melodicism.

Local music scene stalwarts Dana Hamblen, Rob Deslongchamps and Jane Jordan combine their powers in Darlene, a relentlessly energetic Indie Pop/Rock group formed in 2009. The trio’s fast-paced offerings are guided by upbeat vocals, underpinned by frequent guitar shredding, whirlwind drums and one heck of a solid bass delivery. Darlene’s live performance is viscerally thrilling, with Deslongchamps and Hamblen trading off vocals and Jordan working herself into the best kind of infectious frenzy.

YDIIYD: Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo in a drag race competition; winner plays Guided

By Voices. (LS)

YDIIYD: Kings of Leon fever dreams itself into a Classic Rock reunion concert. (BB)

CRITIC’S PICK 1:15 p.m.

Us, Today (Cincinnati) Experimental Post Rock

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Keeps (Nashville, Tenn.)

Indie Rock Nashville duo Gusti Escalante and Robbie Jackson’s band Keeps necessitates many adjectives, but first and foremost should be “talented.” The pair effortlessly genre-cross, dipping into dreamy Pop melodies while maintaining Indie Rock chord structure and dropping whiffs of ardent Garage Rock and spacey Psychedelic inspiration. Consistently interesting guitar and bass lines and strong vocals are a signature that transcends whichever influences they happen to be mining. Keeps has been a Nashville scene mainstay, popping up on the national radar as a supporting act for bands like Tennis, Craft Spells and Horse Thief. The band’s 2016 release, Brief Spirit, belies the title and hangs around long after the last note fades.

3:15 p.m.

Coconut Milk (Cincinnati) Indie Pop Over the past couple of years, Coconut Milk has emerged on Cincinnati’s club scene with a refreshingly radiant, wistful Indie Pop sound with a warm-breeze vibe that lives up to the group’s self-description as “Beach Rock.” With gloriously endearing melodies and harmonies, introspective lyrics and a spacious soundscape filled out by sparkling keys, clean guitars and creative rhythms, the band’s live shows and 2015 EP, I’m Sorry, helped it earn a Best New Artist nomination at the 2016 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards.

YDIIYD: Belle and Sebastian relocate to Brian Wilson’s beach house. (MB)

Over the past six years, the evolution of Us, Today as a force in the Cincinnati music scene has been breathtaking. Its first two self-recorded albums, 2011’s RH Sessions and 2012’s Beneath the Floorboards, hinted at the band’s potential, but with 2015’s TENENEMIES, the trio — vibraphonist Kristin Agee, guitarist Joel Griggs and drummer Jeff Mellott — eschewed its improv roots and carefully composed and arranged the songs, allowing the members’ Jazz and Classical training to meld their wide-ranging musical influences into a cohesive and thrilling unit. If you’re wondering how that went, the press has been loving TENENEMIES and the band won this year’s Indie/Alternative award at the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards. So, pretty good.

YDIIYD: Brian Eno conducts an orchestra comprised of Can, Don Caballero and Tortoise. (BB)

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YDIIYD: Electronica, esoterica, eclectica, erotica, elastica. (BB)

YDIIYD: Wild Nothing, The Cure and Kurt Vile watching Brazil at a midnight screening.

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In terms of urban design and aesthetics, replacement, Cincinnati Bell Connector? what does it mean for a city to have a “conMight there be an unintended consequence? nector” rather than a streetcar system?

A “connector” has specific transportation It hasn’t been a question asked that much, meanings that are limiting. The Norwood in part because there hasn’t been much time Lateral, for instance, connects I-75 with I-71. to ask it. To some extent, our Cincinnati But the hopes for this are higher than being Streetcar became the Cincinnati Bell Conthe Norwood Lateral of streetcars. (True, it nector almost out of the blue. has a telecommunications meaning, too.)

On Aug. 18, as plans for this Friday’s “Connector” may actually be an accurate grand opening of the 3.6-mile looping route term for what the streetcar is right now. Its through downtown and Over-the-Rhine were route is meant to get you to places within or being finalized, Cincinnati Bell announced near to its relatively narrow perimeter. it was paying $340,000 per year for 10 years to rename the streetcar the Cincinnati Bell Connector. It would also alter the look of the five individual cars and the stations to reflect its blue-and-green corporate colors.

In gratitude for this much-needed underwriting, the city — which owns the streetcar — is fully committed to not calling it a streetcar ever again. On its website is an entry headlined, “Goodbye Cincinnati Streetcar, Hello Cincinnati Bell Connector.”

A streetcar named Cincinnati Bell Connector There might have been a PHOTO : provided time when some opposed a corporate name attached to a But it isn’t meant to be going in circles public utility. But this is different.

The streetcar really needs this $3.4-milfor eternity — or even in the near future. It lion vote of confidence. Also, the significance could grow out and replace things — comof a major Cincinnati corporation paying to muting, polluting cars, especially, and somebe so publicly identified with the streetcar — day even some of the excess roadway links after the corporate community stayed out of that scar the cityscape. Maybe it will even the long war over building it — is not to be render the Norwood Lateral unnecessary. underplayed.

In other words, it will be a viable form of There are still people out there hoping mass transit, a wide system with growth for its failure, and they do presumably buy potential. (There already were plans, now the phone and other services the company on hold, to get the Cincinnati Streetcar up offers. It took some corporate courage and to the University of Cincinnati.) Referring belief in urban progressivism to do this. It’s to it generically as a “streetcar,” even while also possible Cincinnati Bell is ahead of all acknowledging its new proper name, clearly the negativists who believe the streetcar will implies belief in that possibility. fail. It may well have taken a look at all the Actually, Cincinnati Bell may already redevelopment already occurring along the know this. On the individual streetcars, the route since plans for the streetcar first were “C” and “O” in the word “Connector” overlap announced and said, with confidence, “This and form an infinity logo. I asked a publicist thing’s already a hit! Let’s get onboard.” for the streetcar launch what that means, From an aesthetic point of view, it’s good and she sent this reply from Metro. to know corporations have colors and “(It) represents unlimited growth potenCincinnati Bell has such nice ones. Its blue tial and opportunities for the streetcar and and green, while not technically complethe community we are helping connect. It’s mentary, are visually appealing in a sootha graphic statement that also illustrates ing, eye-catching way. They even match the how Cincinnati Bell has been connecting color scheme of Metro’s buses. (Metro, like the Greater Cincinnati area for over 140 the streetcar, is operated by the Southwest years and will continue to do so well into Ohio Regional Transit Authority.) Now if the future.” only Cincinnati Bell had a corporate song “Unlimited growth potential.” I like the that the streetcars could play? sound of that.

Still, should we really be saying goodbye CONTACT STEVEN ROSEN: srosen@citybeat.com to the Cincinnati Streetcar in favor of a

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John Irving is a significant American faith journey and the friendship between novelist. He first found recognition with John and Owen,” Robison continues. “His The World According to Garp (1978) play streamlines our attention in helpful and continued with a string of comic but ways. It’s about John’s doubt, Owen’s faith philosophical novels featuring quirky and the trajectory of their relationship. characters, coincidences and twists of fate Simon Bent makes sure we never forget that have charmed readers. His reputation that. Anything that doesn’t feed that has culminated with 1989’s A Prayer for Owen been left by the wayside. That said, this is Meany. Cincinnati Playhouse Artistic Direcan epic production — our cast of 16 actors tor Blake Robison says Garp was his first plays nearly 30 characters.” experience with Irving, both the novel and But Robison adds that audiences don’t the film starring Robin Williams. He heard need to know the novel.

Irving read from The Cider House Rules in a college chapel. “But it was Owen Meany that turned me — and millions of others — into a true Irving fan,” he says.

A decade ago, Robison’s admiration for the novel led him to direct a stage adaptation of Owen Meany by Simon Bent at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Md., where he was artistic director before coming to Cincinnati five years ago. “Growing up in Vermont, I felt a special kinship with Irving’s world Jeremy Webb (left) and Sean Mellott and the oddball characters PHOTO : mikki schaffner that populate his New England townships, Robison “That’s one of the requirements of any says. But Owen Meany transcends all of that. It taps into our collective doubt, our stage adaptation,” he says. “We have to search for purpose and faith, our estrangemake sure it resonates with the novel’s ment from the society around us and the fans but, more than that, the story has to profound value of friendship.” stand on its own.”

His production was a hit in Maryland, Nevertheless, the play goes beyond and Robison decided to use it to launch the simple entertainment, according to Robison.

Playhouse’s 57th year of production.

“It’s important for the Playhouse to ask, In the mid-1980s, the novel’s narrator ‘What does this play say about what’s going John Wheelwright traces his friendship on in the world right now?’ It’s no secret with Owen from 1953, when they’re 9 years that we’re living in a society that feels polarold, to the mid-1960s. “The main thrust of ized in its civic discussion about politics, their relationship,” Robison says, “is that race and faith — all of those big issues.

John is riddled with doubt — doubt about “Owen has a kind of true faith that’s outreligion, doubt about friendship, about the side the confines of any particular religion. purpose of life. Owen on the other hand is It’s a great time to look back at this wonderconvinced, because of a series of visions ful, iconic character in American literature he’s had, that he is personally an instrument and figure out what he says to us right now.” of God. John is looking back on his life and Irving’s captivating narrative does his relationship with Owen and how that require some amazing theater magic. “He has profoundly changed him and made him has these dreams where he’s flying, and it a believer, when he wasn’t one before.” has something to do with his destiny and In print, Owen Meany fills more than purpose,” Robison says. The Playhouse has 600 pages. So how has Irving’s picaresque hired a Louisville-based flying company, tale become a play that can be staged in ZFX, to provide this technology for theaters. one evening? The challenge of adaptation, “It’s going to blow people’s minds to see Robison says, is “to boil down the thick narOwen and some other characters float rative and the huge cast of characters to its above the Marx Theatre stage.” essence — a good adaptation is not simply a A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY, presented by transcription of the dialogue of the novel.” the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, opens It must honor the original material, but a Thursday and continues through Oct. 1. More playwright helps add focus. info: cincyplay.com. “(Bent’s adaptation) is all about Owen’s

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Cincinnati has had a successful Fringe Bearded Men (Minneapolis), Damaged Festival for experimental theater and perGoods (Louisville, Ky.), Devil’s Daughter formance art since 2003, and now another (Chicago), Human Amusements (Detroit), indie stage festival is finding an audience in Improvised Sondheim Project (Chicago), Cincinnati: the lesser-known Improv Festival The League of Pointless Improvisers (Ann of Cincinnati. Organized by OTRimprov and Arbor. Mich.) and Shade (Chicago). held at Over-the-Rhine’s Know Theatre, it is Wednesday and Thursday are devoted to in its third year and growing. local troupes, including the Middle Child, This year’s IF Cincy event began on Xavier University’s Don’t Tell Anna, BaseTuesday and features performances through ment Dwellers, Coincidence Improv, Highly Saturday, plus workshops on Saturday and Improvable, Killer B’s, OTRnext, Portals to Sunday. About half of the featured improvisPossiblity and What It Ain’t. ers are female, a result of efforts by OTRimprov.

Friday night’s headliner is Atlanta female troupe Fun Bags, which includes Amber Nash, known for her role as the voice of Pam Poovey on the hit FX show Archer.

Saturday night’s headline show features Los Angeles duo Orange Tuxedo, whose Craig Cackowski is an accomplished actor as well as improviser. Cackowski’s TV resume includes appearances on HBO’s Emmywinning political satire Veep, Dave Powell and Kat Smith on stage at last year’s Improv Fest Comedy Central’s Drunk P H O T O : m att s t e f f e n photo g r a ph y History and NBC’s Community. (His wife, Carla, is the “There’s been an explosion in local other half of Orange Tuxedo.)

“I was very shy and introverted when I troupes that are consistently performstarted improvising 25 years ago,” Cacking, and we wanted to make sure we had owski says. “But it was the first thing I really enough time for our local compatriots,” says found that meshed with my sense of humor.

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It was the kind of stuff me and my friends Smith says that being able to provide a had done in my basement for years, but platform for these organizations to come without knowing there was a name to it.” together in a setting with national improv From there, he had a foothold on the “art troupes is what makes IF Cincy so special. form that was truest to me,” he says, citing “It’s nice to pull everybody together and This Is Spinal Tap and comedic actor and show them all the different styles that exist improviser Christopher Guest as inspirain Cincinnati,” she says. “It’s great for audition. He described working on Veep as being ences to see what a variety there is of improv, heavily influenced by improv. He played secwhat an amazing art form it is and how many retary Sue’s replacement, Cliff, in Season 2 different ways you can experience it.” and returned for a few episodes in the most Improvisational comedy consists of two recent season. key types: long form and short form, both Veep creator Armando Iannucci and his led by audience suggestions. Long form writers would write a script and then bring tends to be character- or event-driven. the actors in to read it, Cackowski says.

Short form includes games where audience “Then he’d have them put it down and just members shout suggestions for comedians start to improvise a scene with what they to incorporate in a short skit. thought their characters might say. Then he Beyond this year’s festival, Smith has would reincorporate those lines they improhigh hopes for improv in Cincinnati. vised into the script. It was a really cool way “We are looking forward to the future,” she of working.” says. “The end goal is that someday we can Cackowski will also share his tricks of have our own theater space, running an the trade in two IF Cincy workshops. One, improv theater with performances every “Dr. Cacky’s Improv Cleansing,” is already night of the week. We’re always looking to sold out. The other, “Sell It!,” is recombuild that up.” mended for both veterans and newbies.

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‘Complete Unknown’ Is an Intimate High-Wire Act

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Who hasn’t considered stepping away Ramina (Azita Ghanizada) to leave the East from the lives we find ourselves in? The Coast to attend graduate school out west. daydream washes over us while we’re at He supported her desire for change work or waiting in line at a coffee shop. without fully considering the impact it would Maybe it comes from seeing someone — an have on his own work, and now he’s quesintriguing figure wearing surgical scrubs, tioning whether to stay in his comfortable perhaps? — who makes us wonder what it situation, leave with his wife or, after taking would be like to stride confidently into an off on a night-long excursion with Alice/ emergency room and assess the scene, then Jenny, head off into the unknown with her. take command of a team of professionals in Tom and Alice share a couple of quiet order to save a life. Or maybe the fantasy is conversations, catching up with each other less glamorous, rooted in the solitude that in a way that, on a certain level, is fraught comes from conducting esoteric research with tension and confusion. But when Alice in isolation, hoping the vital data amassed has the potential to impact thousands later.

That’s what makes acting so fascinating. For the duration of a shoot, a film actor steps into a role, an entirely different persona. Sometimes that effort is shaped specifically by character traits, psychological triggers and emotional responses.

In other situations, characters are molded based on tasks, allowing an actor to immerse himself or herself in a divergent field of study. The Michael Shannon in Complete Unknown opportunity exists to approxiPHOTO : courtesy ifc films mate what it means to be a politician, physician, dancer breaks free of the party, Tom follows her. or an athlete, and to do so with authority.

The pair embarks on an interlude during In Complete Unknown, the new release which he gets the chance to sample what it from Maria Full of Grace writer-director is that Alice does, and how easy it is to take Joshua Marston (who co-wrote the script on another identity. with Julian Sheppard), we can see such a They help an older woman (Kathy Bates) journey occur for both the actors and the in the street and walk her home, extending characters they play. The film progresses the chance exchange when they interact through a series of shifting tableaus featurwith the woman’s husband (Danny Glover). ing Rachel Weisz in a parade of roles. We Tom slowly adjusts to the new role he’s taken see fragments of distinct lives and it would on, and Shannon’s acting illustrates for us be easy to assume that she’s going through just how gradual and discomforting the tranthem as if they might be garments off the sition can be. But we also see him settle in. rack, items she can slip in and out of, as she’s Of course, the moment of truth arrives trying to find that one perfect fit. But, slowly, when both Tom and Alice must decide what even in these brief sketchy flashes, we sense to do. Can she finally embrace one identity how she more fully inhabits each role, investand the routine happiness it might provide ing them with meaning and specificity. her? Marston’s narrative wants us to imagine She is not merely a tourist or a supportshe is at the end of her journey while Tom ing player in someone else’s story. In each may be ready to take flight. So much of life role, she claims center stage, as we all do and relationships is about the combination of in our own lives. In her current incarnation finding the right person at the right time. in the film, she is Alice, a researcher who Complete Unknown tweaks that idea, insinuates herself into the life of a man who shifting the focus from the search for happens to be the friend and co-worker of another person who might complete us to Tom (Michael Shannon), a former lover who discovering the best and most complete knew Alice back when she was Jenny, before version of ourselves. It is an intimate she started escaping into other lives.

When Alice and Tom finally meet, at his high-wire act, completely open to interprebirthday party, she catches him off guard, tation, but with Weisz and Shannon as our but also at a time when stepping away might guides, Complete Unknown doesn’t leave have a certain appealing allure for him. He us stranded alone. (Opens Friday at Esquire feels trapped by the decision of his wife Theatre) (R) Grade: B+

IN THEATERS SULLY – As both an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood works best in the quiet. Whether in moments of complete stillness or in the heat of the action, the presence of Eastwood emerges in how everything — the hectic pace, the barrage of bombs and/or bullets, the punches thrown and landed, and the yelling — gets dialed down to a manageable level or sometimes even lower; down to the point where you don’t even need to hear yourself think. So it is no surprise that he would be drawn to the story of Chesley Sullenberger (played by Tom Hanks), the heroic pilot who, against all odds, landed a troubled plane full of passengers and crew in New York’s Hudson River. Sully just might be the perfect analogue for Eastwood’s efforts behind the camera.

(Twenty-five years ago, Eastwood might have been in front of the camera, too.)

Yet that would have been wrong for the movie, while Hanks is perfect casting.

In Sully, Eastwood spends an inordinate amount of time trying to place us in the head of a man who is not so sure of himself and his actions, despite the fact that what he did, in a moment of crisis, saved lives and made him a hero. The brief flight haunts Sullenberger. Although he is alive and well and safe, along with the 155 passengers who were on the plane, every time he replays those events he sees the plane crashing spectacularly in New York, taking countless others to their deaths.

Hanks fits into this persona like a hand in a well-worn glove. Much like Eastwood has his particular star mode, Hanks has comfortably settled into the all-American guy role, the man of honor who does the right thing, but never without acknowledging the fear and desperation that drives him. Remember Saving Private Ryan? His Captain Miller led his troops into harm’s way, braving death every second. But what likely stands out, when we think of that character, is the moment when we see his hands shaking. The fear is alive in him; it is the drumbeat of his heart.

That is what Eastwood gets so right in this retelling of Sullenberger’s story. He does the right thing in the moment, but then must struggle to appreciate just how right it truly was. That doesn’t come easily. Sully shows us how difficult it is to be heroic in today’s world, to trust in ourselves. It is Eastwood, once again, finding and working in the quiet. (Opens wide Friday) — tt stern-enzi (PG-13) Grade: A

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Pamela Adlon is known for many things: her distinctively raspy voice work for Weediquette (10 p.m. Wednesday, VICEcharacters like Bobby Hill in King of the LAND) – A look at marijuana in the NFL, Hill and Spinelli from Recess, her frequent from a pain treatment for players to a collaborations with comic Louis C.K., her protectant against brain injury. own career as a comedy writer and producer and her real-life role as a single mom Mr. Robot (10 p.m. Wednesday, USA) – of three daughters.

Elliot worries that Mr. Robot has been In Louie, Adlon’s character (also named lying; Darlene tries to do the right thing; Pamela) is the raccoon-eyed, ball-busting Dom and the FBI close in. on/off love interest of the show’s star, Finding Prince Charming (Series played by C.K. Both single parents, they Premiere, 9 p.m. Thursday, Logo) – Finally: meet at a local park where their kids play.

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Their relationship takes a decidedly adult turn soon after.

If you’ve ever wondered what Louie would be like with more Pamela, look no further than Better Things (Series Premiere, 10 p.m.

Thursday, FX).

The show in general is based a little more in reality than the oftensurreal Louie, but features the same unfiltered dark comedy that riffs on parenthood, divorce-dom and the entertainment business.

It makes sense: C.K. and Pamela Adlon, center, plays Sam Fox in new show Better Things.

Adlon created the series P H O T O : C o l l e e n h ay e s / f x together, and he takes writing and direction credit on various episodes.

One Mississippi (Series Premiere, Friday, In Better Things, Adlon’s Sam Fox is an Amazon) – Tig Notaro stars in this loosely actress and single mother of three girls biographical dark comedy about her return (Adlon dedicates the pilot to her daughto her hometown in Mississippi after her ters). We see her audition for acting gigs mother’s sudden death and her own health and do voice-over work for cartoons. This scare. Louis C.K. is everywhere lately — he iteration seems closer to the real-life Adlon serves as producer alongside Juno’s Diablo than the Louie version.

Cody. Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said) We find Sam begging her teenage daughdirects. The series seems to fit in line with ter to hide things like sex and drug use from Amazon’s breakout hit, Transparent. You’ll her, and navigating relationships with the laugh; you’ll cry. fathers of her daughters as well as negotiatDancing with the Stars (Season ing her own current dating situation.

Scenes could easily take place with Premiere, 8 p.m. Monday, ABC) – For 23 Louie and his daughters. But she’s also seasons, DWTS has been helping D-list taking on new challenges you won’t find as celebs get in shape while clinging onto much in Louie, like problematic sex scenes, fame. Tune in to see Olympic bonehead misogynist casting calls, aging as a woman Ryan Lochte, former governor Rick Perry, in L.A. or simply going to the gyno. the shockingly still somehow relevant “Have I shut down, down there, yet?” Sam Vanilla Ice and others duke it out on the asks her doctor (Cleopatra Coleman from dance floor.

The Last Man on Earth — expect lots of Halt and Catch Fire (10 p.m. Tuesday, great guest spots) post-examination. “Am I AMC) – Joe and Ryan make a discovery; a man yet?”

Gordon and Donna ditch camping for It’s told that late comic great Chris a staycation; Bos and Cameron return Farley would say he only played one charto Texas. acter, just at different volumes. In that vein, Adlon’s latest role is coming through loud Atlanta (10 p.m. Tuesday, FX) – Earn goes and clear with perfect pitch. And since we out on a date despite the fact that he has don’t know when -- or if -- the next season no money; Paper Boi proves himself. of Louie is coming, Better Things serves CONTACT JAC KERN: @jackern as an adequate stand-in.

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Bellevue’s new Darkness Brewing will appeal to even the pickiest drinkers REVIEW BY MADGE MARIL

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As the name suggests, Bellevue’s Darkness Brewing specializes in dark beers.

“It’s not any extra for the coffee infusion.

I just made it like this at home, so I brought my cold brew in for everyone else to try, too,” Sanders said as he administered droplets of homemade cold brew coffee concentrate into the bottom of a pint glass with surgical precision.

After asking a regular which beer was Darkness Brewing’s signature brew, I was pointed to the Stonebraker, a smoked porter.

For a dark beer, it was surprisingly easy to sling back — a smooth, almost chocolatey smoky beer with a mild aftertaste. I was tempted to fill a growler ($15) to bring home for later.

Finally, I ended my party with the Centennial Anomaly. The Anomaly is so named because it appears as a very dark beer in the glass but tastes light as can be. I didn’t believe that a dark beer could taste light until I took a sip.

After I tasted it — it was refreshing and fruity — I made my friends try it, too. Each of us was shocked. It’s definitely the perfect beer to have on the roster. For anyone

who just can’t do dark beers but wants to visit Darkness Brewing, order the Anomaly.

Darkness Brewing also featured a cider and a few other lighter options the night I visited. This rotating list made me want to come back in the next night, and the next night, and the one after that, just to see what would make the seven taps.

In just one short month, Darkness Brewing has become the spot in Bellevue to stroll to with your dog (pups are allowed on the patio and in the taproom) and your best friend for a brew. They’ve invited food trucks to park outside the building, although they’re planning to create a food menu in the future.

While they don’t offer mixed drinks, the variety and craftsmanship of beers offered will satisfy practically anyone in your friend group. Not sure? Come in for a sample. I saw the owners personally talk through flavors with customers, allowing newcomers to sample any beer before deciding to buy.

They’ve begun to host live acoustic music and comedy acts, giving stage to Northern Kentucky’s arts scene. There’s free wi-fi, too.

Whether you’re a dark beer aficionado or just a local looking to try something new, walk on over to Darkness Brewing for a taste of a new Bellevue original.

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ave you ever walked into a bar and immediately felt like you were a character on How I Met Your Mother? The beer is dark and delicious, everyone is laughing at something hilarious the bartender said and that one song by your favorite band you thought no one else had ever heard of is playing in the background. It’s a vibe many breweries in the area shoot for, but Darkness Brewing, located in blossoming downtown Bellevue, Ky., effortlessly captures it and then some.

This is due in part to the impeccable aesthetic. Like a speakeasy, you might miss Darkness Brewing if you don’t keep your eyes peeled.

When I went on a recent Saturday, a hand-decorated chalk sandwich board outside was the only indication that I’d found the brewery. The white industrial building — a former car showroom — is set back from the street, with a handful of picnic tables on the blacktop lot out front.

The inside of the brewery is washed in a warm glow by strings of patio lights. The actual bar is made out of salvaged wood, each piece gleaming with a different tone.

A game of giant Connect Four sits in the corner and eclectic local artwork covers the walls.

There isn’t just a personal touch here or there at Darkness Brewing — the entire brewery is a personal touch.

“We want this to be a good hang-out spot,” says co-owner Ron Sanders. “We started as buddies making beers in the kitchen.”

It’s that sense of being at home, drinking beers with your best friends, that permeates Darkness Brewing. Sanders and fellow co-owner Eric Bosler began homebrewing together in 2011.

After being asked by friends why they don’t just open up a brewery, they took the plunge and officially opened Darkness’ doors on July 23.

Instead of following Cincinnati’s German beer trend, Darkness Brewing offers a selection of dark beers that will make even the pickiest drinker smile. And I should know — I’ve been known to turn down Guinness, even on St. Patrick’s Day. I ordered three house beers from the brewery’s seven taps: the Thanks A Latté ($6), the Centennial Anomaly ($5) and the Stonebraker ($6).

I started with the Thanks A Latté, a milk stout with an optional coffee infusion.

After my first sip, I suddenly understood why my mom had taken a trip to Ireland just to taste where dark beer was born. It was the perfect summer treat: creamy and cold with a coffee finish.

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Where the locals come to eat, drink and have fun

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Back when I was a little half-Persian On a second, solo dining trip, I indulged kid, I would have rather died than bring my and ordered an extensive array of Persian immigrant grandmother’s painstakingly favorites. The veggie gormeh stew ($10.99) — prepared, Old Country meals to school. Perwhose star ingredient is fenugreek, a pungent sian food was weird looking and the names and flavorful herb — was rich and aromatic, were even weirder — I would rather have comprised of cilantro, kidney beans and Perhad Lunchables and maintained some shred sian limes simmered in a dark green sauce. of playground respect.

The staple partner-in-crime for nearly every It’s too bad, because maybe if I had, I dish is Basmati rice, topped with golden could have helped turn the tide toward mainsaffron and served here with a pat of butter stream acceptance of Persian food in some (atypical in my many years of Persian dining, small, butterfly-effect way — the fare has but perhaps regionally specific). sadly floundered in this city. The last Persian The Shirazi salad ($3.99) featured the most restaurant in the Tristate, Persian Nights in finely diced tomatoes, cucumbers and onions West Chester, closed more than two years ago.

House of Grill stands to correct this cosmic mistake.

After lunching with proprietor Jonathan Azami and returning a week later for more, I can say that Grandma’s got some competition, as do all the other ethnic hot spots.

Tucked in a strip on Fifth Street in Covington, House of Grill’s interior is unassuming and relaxed. The black contemporary furniture is slightly reminiscent of a Chinese buffet, but a few House of Grill serves authentic Persian in Covington. pieces of ethnic Persian PHOTO : jes se fox artwork line the creamcolored walls, and a cluster of photographs of Azami’s relatives brighten I’ve ever seen, mixed with lemon and mint it up. I was greeted with a complimentary juice. Must-o-khiar ($3.99) is a traditional glass of strong, loose-leafed black Persian appetizer of creamy yogurt, cucumber and tea upon arrival. (Lesson time: Tea in Farsi, mint served with pita, and the serving here the national language of Iran, is “chai,” prowas huge. Juicy cubes of lamb chenjeh ($7.99) nounced cha-ee, so when you order a chai were perfectly marinated and seasoned. I tea at Starbucks, you’re asking for a “tea topped the meal off with a glass of doogh tea.” The more you know.) ($3.99) — a refreshing, foamy yogurt and mint I ordered the eggplant stew ($11.99) on beverage — and sholeh zard ($3.99), a saffron my first visit. The rich sauce hit the spot; the rice pudding studded with almond slivers eggplant is simmered to draw out the flavor, and topped with cinnamon. There are plenty along with melt-in-your-mouth beef. A rich of vegetarian options — veggie kebabs and sheen of oil glazed the top of the stew. When the eggplant stew, along with salads — and a stew has that sheen, you know it’s done though it’s not on the menu, you can order a right — Persian cooking prizes that gloss, side of rice and craft an à la carte meal. Breakas it indicates all flavors from the spices fast is also offered; the French toast, my very (saffron and sumac, typically) and the vegthorough waiter told me, is notable. etables and meat have fully co-mingled.

House of Grill offers an authentic taste of After immigrating to America, Azami and Iran. It’s worth noting that on my second trip, his wife, Nazi, lived in San Diego for many more than 10 Persians came in for a Tuesday years before moving to Cincinnati. His wife’s night dinner. I saw three people get carryout. passion is cooking, and he has a background There were no offerings of non-Persian humin horticulture and food, so the two decided mus or tabbouleh, as happens in so many to combine their skills and open a restaurant. other Mediterranean restaurants trying to Azami is from the Ghashghai region in appeal to a generic familiarity. House of Grill northern Iran, a culture of Turkish origin, sticks by Azami’s assertion that Persian food and speaks proudly of his people’s expertise is good in its own right and that if you try the and “magic” with lamb kebabs, beef chenjeh right stuff, you’ll be hooked for life. and marinades, as well as a childhood spent HOUSE OF GRILL is located at 14 E. Fifth St., learning how to cook. Azami also stresses Covington, Ky., kentuckyhouseofgrill.com. the necessity of fresh ingredients.

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Tapas with Spanish Wines — Liz and David Cook of Daveed’s hosts this class on cooking tapas. 6:30-9 p.m. $65.

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My Favorite Southern Brunch with Marilyn Harris — The menu includes cheese grits, breakfast sausage, apple streusel muffins and peach bellini. 6:30-9 p.m. $60. Cooks’Wares, 11344 Montgomery Road, Harpers Point, cookswaresonline.com.

Weeknight Jerk Chicken — Make a jerk chicken spice blend that works well for a fast weeknight meal. 6-8 p.m. $70. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com.

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Streetcar Launch Party and Traction Tapping — Celebrate the launch of the Cincinnati streetcar at Rhinegeist with a tapping of their Traction cream ale. Get a commemorative glass while supplies last.

3 p.m. Free admission. Rhinegeist, 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, rhinegeist.com.

Heritage and Hops Brewery District and Craft Brewery Tour — Two tours in one day. Visit the Brewing Heritage Trail to see historic breweries and underground lagering cellars and then visit three modern, local breweries for tours and tastings. 10:30 a.m. $75. Christian Moerlein Brewery and Malthouse, 1621 Moore St., Over-the-Rhine, cincybrewbus.com.

MainStrasse Village Oktoberfest — German and American food fest in MainStrasse Village. The three-day fest includes live German music and dancing, German eats and German alcohol. 5-11:30 p.m. Friday; noon-11:30 p.m. Saturday; noon-9 p.m.

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St. Clement Festival and Pig Roast — A church fest with a pig roast on Saturday and Sunday. 7-11 p.m. Friday; 3-11 p.m.

Saturday; 1-8 p.m. Sunday. Free. Vine Street Park, 4700 Burnet Ave., St. Bernard, 513-242-8667.

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Sample cheese, meet the producers and purchase your favorites while sipping on wine or craft beers. 1:30-7 p.m. $35; $75 VIP. Smale Riverfront Park, 100 W. Mehring Way, Downtown, thecheesefest.com.

Making the Most of the Harvest Cooking Class — Celebrate the end of growing season with a healthy meal using produce grown on the farm. 4:30-7 p.m. $50; $45 members. Gorman Heritage Farm, 10052 Reading Road, Evendale, gormanfarm.org.

Russian Festival — Celebrate the culture of Russia with food, crafts, jewelry, music, dancing, craft beer and a vodka tasting.

110 a.m.-8 p.m.; 4 p.m. vespers. Free. St. George Russian Orthodox Church, 118 N. Lebanon Road, Loveland, stgeorgeroc.org.

Cincinnati Hispanic Fest — Celebrate the food, culture and entertainment of Latin America. Noon-11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. $8 per car; $1 walk-in. Hamilton County Fairgrounds, 7801 Anthony Wayne Ave., Carthage, cincinnatihispanicfest.org.

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Bold Angel

My Woman finds Angel Olsen expanding as an artist and aiming for the unexpected

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ngel Olsen’s voice is an uncommonly expressive instrument — subtle and intimate one minute, big and raw the next. Her lyrics are just as distinctive — they’re evocative and personal without being too literal.

The Missouri’s native’s full-length debut, 2012’s Half Way Home, featured an impressive array of gothic-tinged Folk songs, which brought to mind a female Roy Orbison doing Moon Pix-era Cat Power covers.

The follow-up, 2014’s Burn Your Fire for No Witness, broadened her sonic palette, mixing Olsen’s minimalist leanings with a noisier, full-band sound (or, as she calls it, “my Velvet Underground stuff”).

Now comes the just-released My Woman, her most diverse offering to date. Synthdriven album opener “Intern” conjures a cross between something David Lynch might use on the Twin Peaks soundtrack with a moody, ’80s Pop hit. And “Shut Up Kiss Me” is a jaunty rocker with a killer hook, Olsen’s voice as sassy and combative as it’s ever been. Then there’s the album’s lengthy and languid second half, during which tunes like the captivating “Sister” go into unexpected directions — from Blues and R&B to Psychedelia and straight-up Neil Young-esque guitar excursions.

CityBeat recently connected with Olsen to discuss everything from her need to mess with audiences’ expectations to her love of renaissance outfits.

CityBeat: The first half of the new record is filled with shorter, more upbeat songs, and the second half has longer, more languid stuff. That can’t be a coincidence. What was the thinking behind that?

Angel Olsen: It was mostly that those songs were really long and it just didn’t seem right to put them next to the upbeat songs. It’s also me playing with the audience — here’s all the stuff I’ve already been doing in the past (style-wise) on side A, the accessible side. And then here’s the other side, the mellower side, which is me hanging out with my friends. You can come join us, but we’re going to be on this side, and you can come over when you’re ready.

Another reason I did that is that was the only way it could fit, because I was really pushing the amount of minutes for the record in general. We had two other songs that were lengthy, and I was going to do a double LP, but it would have been really annoying for vinyl collectors, because you’d have to flip it after every three songs.

I didn’t want to do that to them, so it was more like, “OK, how do I make this concise while also going with a vibe.” It just felt

Angel Olsen relishes the idea of confounding fans with her unpredictable new album. wrong, too, to put “Sister” and “Woman” next to “Shut Up Kiss Me.” It just seemed unnatural.

CB: So it was a matter of both tone and the practicality of playing it on a turntable?

AO: It was definitely inspired by the turntable. When I wrote the songs I didn’t have a specific concept in mind. I came up with the album cover and the title itself at the last minute. The cover reminded me of a Soul record, so I was like, My Woman sounds like a Soul record. It made me laugh, because it’s kind of degrading. And I guess I am talking about what it is to be a woman in some of the songs, but to me it was like a funny thing to do. Of course, as with anything I do, because my work was serious in the past, people are really afraid to let me have some levity and really afraid to view it as a situation that doesn’t have a lot of meaning. They’re like, “So what does it mean, Angel, are you the woman?”

And I’m like, “I don’t know. I guess I’m still figuring it out. It’s a process.” Obviously I wrote the songs, so they’re part of me, but I hope they’re relevant to other people, even people who aren’t women.

CB: My Woman is your most stylistically diverse album yet. There were a few

times listening to it when I surprised.

I was like, “Where is this song going?”

“Sister,” for instance, sounds like Mazzy Star for the first two-thirds, and then morphs into something that wouldn’t be out of place on a Fleetwood Mac record…

AO: Mazzy Star has always been a reference point for people, so I’m not surprised by that at all, but I hadn’t been listening to Mazzy Star in a long time. But I do like Catherine Ribeiro. She is this French singer who was in the Alpes. They were like this Psychedelic Prog band, and I really love Aphrodite’s Child. I love playing organs and renaissance outfits and being over-the-top glammed up. That era of music (the late-1960s/early-1970s) inspired a lot of the longer songs for me. I definitely just wanted to be able to play my music and to sing more, to use my voice more.

For example, on “Sister” and “Heart Shaped Face” I use a certain voice, but then on “Pop” I’m using an entirely different voice and music aesthetic. On “Intern,” the synth song, I was like, “Is this me?” But then I was like, “I don’t care. I like it. It’s my voice.

It’s not anyone else’s voice.” I thought it was really funny, because I wanted to start the album off like a disclaimer. The whole song is about me talking about the interview

process and about people trying to get down to the bottom of things. I thought it would be an interesting way to start a record not only because of the subject matter but also because it’s a synth song, and that’s the last thing people expect to hear from my music.

CB: So you wanted to subvert listeners’ expectations? That certainly happened with me a few times with this one.

AO: Yeah. They think it’s a synth record, and it pisses them off. I wanted that to happen. I want people to be like, “What the fuck is this?” I want it to be fun for me, too. And for me having fun is not regurgitating the same thing every time. I want to test my own limits. I feel like, even more than in the past, that with this record I’m taking some chances and doing something that’s new. Fans will either come with you or they won’t. I think the last record was great, but I need to develop other things and to play more and allow myself and my band to play different things.

ANGEL OLSEN performs Sunday at the Woodward Theater. Tickets/more info: woodwardtheater.com.

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Local Musicians Hitting the Road

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“Blurred Lines” Appeal Support Most people didn’t care much when Marvin Gaye’s estate was awarded well over $5 million in a case against Pharrell and Robin Thicke over their song “Blurred Lines,” because a jury felt it had enough of a similar “feel” to Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” to warrant copyright infringement.

But musicians and other observers recognized what a stifling effect the ruling would have on artists who’d now have to worry if their songs’ influences were buried enough to avoid a lawuist. Supporters — which ranged from Tool and Linkin Park to R. Kelly and film composer Hans Zimmer — signed a document for the appeals filing that reads, in part, “All music shares inspiration from prior musical works.”

Obamapalooza Further proof that President Obama truly is in the “rhymes with ‘bucket list’ ” period of his presidency (his words!), it was announced that he’d host a music festival on the lawn of the White House next month. Tickets are $400 and the reunited Misfits, Phish, Death Grips and LCD Soundsystem are headlining.

Just kidding — the event, dubbed South

by South Lawn, is a collaboration with Texas’ South by Southwest conference/ music fest (at which POTUS spoke this year) and will include film and tech components, as well as music. The lineup hasn’t been announced, but whitehouse. gov says the festival will feature established acts and up-and-comers who use their music “to inspire audiences.”

Kitty Music Time to add to the music history books — Universal Music will finally become the first major label to put out an album for cats.

A cellist and music researcher created the album (called Music for Cats, of course), which includes purrs, suckling and other cat noises, blended with music provided by the National Symphony Orchestra. Music for Cats (due in late October) was designed to calm anxious or neurotic felines. Sorry owners of nutty dogs — the researcher says no dog music is coming because there are too many differing breeds of dogs.

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It seems like lately more and more • Local Boogie Woogie Blues pianist musicians from Greater Cincinnati are hitextraordinaire Ricky Nye is no stranger to ting the road for extensive tour runs. Here the road, with his frequent performances are a few who are either getting ready for every year in Europe, where the Boogie Woobig trips or are already in the midst of gie style has a big following. Nye is currently their travels: overseas performing several dates throughout • Hard-rockin’ Cincinnati crew Ohio September in the Netherlands, France and Knife is gearing up for its debut full-length Spain. Nye returns to the States in October release and, as it says on the group’s and will resume his busy local performance website, the band is “going big” with the schedule, which includes his 17th-annual new album. The trio (singer/guitarist Blues & Boogie Woogie Piano Summit, a Jason Snell, drummer Joe Suer and newest unique showcase of players from around the member Scotty Wood on bass) is taking world. The popular event takes place Nov. 4 pre-orders now for the album, Scalp or Be and 5 at Newport’s Southgate House Revival Scalped, at its website (ohio-knife.com). (visit ricknye.com for ticket info).

The vinyl release features cover art by noted graphic artist Art Chantry, who has previously designed covers for bands like Mudhoney, Soundgarden, The Sonics and even Cincinnati Garage Rock heroes The Mortals (he was also art director for Seattle’s legendary music publication, The Rocket).

Ohio Knife is promoting the new LP with its first cross-country tour. The Day and Night Tour kicks off Sept. 14 in Indianapolis, and from there the group Ohio Knife is preparing to tour behind its debut album release. is traveling throughout the P H O T O : S c ott B e s e l e r month of September, with stops that include Denver, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Nye also recently released a new album, Portland, Ore. and Seattle.

Gettin’ Loose!, which is available to purLocal fans will have two more chances chase at the pianist’s shows; fans will also to see Ohio Knife before the tour. Friday, soon be able get it at cdbaby.com/artist/ the band is participating in the Mega Jam rickynye. The album features a couple of skateboarding/music/art happening at original tunes, as well as tributes to sevNorthside Yacht Club (4227 Spring Grove eral influential artists, including local hero Ave., Northside, northsideyachtclub.com).

Big Joe Duskin and the late, great guitarist The event is part of professional skateLonnie Mack (who also spent a lot of time boarders Mike Vallely and Kristian Svitak’s in Greater Cincinnati, notably as a session tour promoting the Street Plant board and player at King Records). accessories brand. Other professional and • Also no stranger to overseas touring local riders will strut their stuff on a skate(in fact, they seem to tour there as much if able art installation by local artist Ali Calis not more than they do in North America), of Able Projects. The skating portion of Cincinnati heavy rockers Electric Citizen the event is all ages and runs 5-9 p.m. The return to Europe starting Sept. 30 for sevmusic keeps going until midnight, with eral dates with Orange Globin and Salem’s Ohio Knife being joined on the lineup by Pot (the band’s labelmates on the CaliforKnife the Symphony, Ampline, Alone at nia-based RidingEasy Records). The road 3am’s Max Fender and The Harlequins. trek will take the band to England, the Then, at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Ohio Knife Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France hosts a launch party for its new album and and Italy, among other stops. impending tour at Northside Tavern (4163 Before Electric Citizen’s band members Hamilton Ave., Northside, northsidetav. pack their bags, however, hometown fans com). Besides performances by OK and will get one more chance to see them live.

Mad Anthony, the event will also serve as The group is playing a free show this Satura listening party for Scalp or Be Scalped. day at Northside Tavern at 10 p.m.

In October, after Ohio Knife’s travels, there CONTACT MIKE BREEN: mbreen@citybeat.com will reportedly be a hometown release party for the album.

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Marc Broussard Saturday • St. Xavier High School A decade and a half ago, Marc Broussard was a member of a Christian Rock band. But after its quick demise, the son of Louisiana Hall of Fame guitar legend Ted Broussard went the solo route with his debut album, 2002’s Momentary Setback. Broussard’s finely chiseled good looks and infectious blend of Soul, Pop, R&B, Funk, Blues and Southern Rock — evident in his cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Back in Your Arms” on 2003’s Light of Day tribute compilation — attracted the major labels, resulting in an Island contract and his 2004 acclaimed sophomore release, Carencro.

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After the 2005 devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Broussard established the Momentary Setback Fund to help rebuild his home state, releasing the Bootleg EP as a fundraising benefit. He signed with Vanguard for 2007’s The Revivalists S.O.S.: Save Our P H O T O : T r av i s Sh i n n Soul, which notched significant chart success, cracking the Top 100 of Billboard’s album chart. Perhaps drawn by his vocal similarity to Otis Redding, Atlantic Records signed Broussard for 2008’s Keep Coming Back and his eponymous 2011 release, but his return to Vanguard for 2014’s A Life Worth Living resulted in the highest chart position of his career.

Broussard had established his G-Man label to release his 2013 concert album, Live at Full Sail University, which was followed up with his first Christmas album, last year’s Magnolias & Mistletoe.

His imminent new release, S.O.S. 2: Soul on a Mission, is another example of his philanthropic generosity; the nearly all-covers album, comprised primarily of ’50s and ’60s Soul/R&B tunes from Solomon Burke, Etta James, Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke and many others, will benefit the poverty-relief agency City of Refuge and will stand as the first in a series of fundraising releases for nonprofit organizations through Broussard’s new Save Our Soul Foundation.

For nearly half his life, Marc Broussard has been doing heaven’s work with God-given talent and a hellacious passion.

(Brian Baker) David Shaw’s Big River Get Down with The Revivalists, The Wild Feathers, The Marcus King Band and more Saturday • RiversEdge Amphitheater Last year, Hamilton, Ohio native and Revivalists frontman David Shaw founded the Big River Get Down, a one-day music festival intended to celebrate the city’s civic pride, display the beautiful RiversEdge Amphitheater and to benefit the city itself. This year’s second-annual BRGD will again feature Shaw’s Revivalists as headliners (and an acoustic set by Shaw himself), and a slate of great musical talent. Proceeds will help fund next year’s Fourth of July fireworks in Hamilton and additional free RiversEdge concerts.

This year’s lineup includes: • The Revivalists, David Shaw’s multigenre septet, is a shiver-inducing blend of Folk, Jazz, Jam, Indie Rock, Reggae and Pop, born in New Orleans and steeped in the city’s traditions and unique musical atmosphere. Since 2007, The Revivalists have made their bones through tireless touring and three strong albums, including last year’s joyous Men Amongst Mountains, which earned them a spot on Rolling Stone’s “Ten Artists You Need to Know” list. Onstage, the band lives up to its name, with tentrevival fervor rippling through an audience of believers and imminent converts.

• Formed in Nashville in 2010, The Wild Feathers blend propulsive Indie Rock with distinct southern Soul hearkening back to ’60s Pop and ’70s Rock. The quartet’s eponymous 2013 debut and this year’s Lonely is a Lifetime offer visceral, twangy Rock energy sweetened with Everly Brothers harmonies.

• The Temperance Movement is a UK quartet with the soul, grit and gutbucket determination of early British Blues (Savoy Brown, et al) and a contemporary energy.

With one album under its belt, the band was invited to open for The Rolling Stones’ 2014 Berlin and Vienna shows. The Temperance Movement’s thunderous White Bear was released earlier this year.

• As a teenager, Marcus King played guitar with his father’s Blues band, and at 20 he’s ready to drop his second slab of Psychedelic/Soul-tinted Southern Rock with his gifted band. Outdoors is the best venue for The Marcus King Band — no possibility of door/roof damage.

• Maggie Koerner is a Louisiana native who could be a high-magnitude Pop star, but she uses her estimable talents to present her Soul/Blues Pop/Rock songs with a swampy swagger and an atmospheric edge.

Koerner sang lead for Galactic on its last two albums, has two solo albums of her own and is working on a third.

• The Trongone Band hails from Richmond, Va., and has earned a sizable East Coast fanbase with packed shows and ecstatic reviews.

The band is preparing to unleash the studio translation of its formidable live skills, deep fried in funky Southern Rock and frosted with sweet Americana Jam. • Roosevelt Collier is a former member of Gospel/Blues sacred-steel group The Lee Boys, and Eskimeaux was a finalist in PHOTO : Richard Gin Guitar Center’s 2009 King of the Blues competition with a band as tight as a gnat’s ass and a squalling, blistering mastery of the pedal steel. Collier and his ace band opened for The Allman Brothers during their final circuit.

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So to reclaim her cultural identity, Smith decided as a teenager to perform her lo-fi “Bedroom Pop” under the name Eskimeaux.

After a childhood of choir and violin training, Smith began writing songs in her late teens and released her first album, iglu songs, in 2008, the same year she enrolled at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts. Two years later, Smith dropped out of school and returned to Brooklyn, N.Y., where she crafted three more releases before co-founding The Epoch, a Brooklyn collective comprised of local artists and friends she had met at UOTA with the aim of establishing a support system for the area’s creative community.

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re-recorded versions of her 2010 demos collection, Ixsixan, a project she completed during a bout with writer’s block. Inspired by artists at The Epoch and friend Frankie Cosmos (the performing name of Greta Kline, daughter of actors Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates), Smith created last year’s more full-bodied O.K. album, a combination of her wispy Synth Pop and waves of Electronic-washed Indie Rock featuring contributions from her live band, Oliver Kalb, Felix Walworth and Jack Greenleaf.

The most recent Eskimeaux release, the six-track Year of the Rabbit, follows a similar path, with an emphasis on the Indie Rock direction as bubbly Pop melodies and Smith’s Dominique Durand-meetsJane Siberry vocal thrall act as a stealthy disguise for her dark ruminations on the end of a relationship.

In a mere 15 minutes, Smith unleashes more raw emotion and captivating music than many musicians can muster in three times that length.

Amazingly, after eight years and a dozen releases, Eskimeaux may just be hitting her stride — her next steps will be thrilling to witness. (BB)

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Wednesday 07 Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Todd Hepburn. 7 p.m. Blues/Jazz/ Various. Free.

Bella Luna - RMS Band. 7 p.m. Soft Rock/Jazz. Free.

Blind Lemon - Sara Hutchinson.

8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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Bogart’s - The Used. 7 p.m.

Post Hardcore. $29.50.

Century Inn Restaurant - Paul Lake. 7 p.m. Pop/Rock/Jazz/ Oldies/Various. Free.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Steve Thomas. 6 p.m. Sax/Piano/ Vocals. Free.

MOTR Pub - Uncommon H NASA and Counterfeit Money Machine. 10 p.m. Hip Hop/Experimental. Free.

Pit to Plate - Bluegrass Night with Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 7 p.m.

Bluegrass. $2.

Silverton Cafe - Bob Cushing. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Howlin’ Maggie. 9 p.m. Pop/Rock/ Various. $10, $15 day of show.

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Urban Artifact - Know H Prisoners, Razzvio and Witches in Paris. 9 p.m. Rock/ Reggae/Soul/Various. Free.

Friday 09

Bella Luna - Blue Birds Trio. 7 p.m. Classic Rock/Jazz. Free.

Blind Lemon - Donna Frost (9 p.m.); Tom Roll (6 p.m.). 6 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Blue Note Harrison - Whey Jennings & The Unwanted. 8 p.m.

Country.

Century Inn Restaurant - Jim Teepen. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Clifton Plaza - Simple Swing. 7 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Southgate House Revival H (Lounge) - Ric Hickey and Bam Powell. 9:30 p.m. Various.

The Comet - Swarming Branch, Adam Remnant and Andy Gabbard. 10 p.m. Folk/Rock/ Various. Free.

Tin Roof Cincinnati - Pete Dressman. 9 p.m. Rock.

Hannon’s Camp America H Laniakea Transformational Arts Festival with The Juantee,

Free.

Woodward Theater - Tyler Bryant and The Shakedown. 9 p.m. Rock.

Free.

Thursday 08

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Dottie Warner. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Blind Lemon - Mark Macomber.

8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Fountain Square - Salsa on the Square with Salsazón!

(2016 Fiesta Salsera Dance Competition Championship). 7 p.m. Salsa/Dance. Free.

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Riverbend Music Center - Toby Keith with Eric Paslay and Waterloo Revival. 7 p.m. Country. $28.50-$58.25.

The Greenwich - The RetroNouveau Quartet. 8:30 p.m.

Jazz. $5.

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SassafraZ, The Magic Beans, Elementree Livity Project, Strange Mechanics, Earphorik, Subterranean and more. 3 p.m.

Rock/Jam/Reggae/Soul/Funk/ Various. $75 (weekend pass).

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - The Company. 9:30 p.m. Dance/ Various. Cover.

Jim and Jack’s on the River Danny Frazier and Anna LaPrad.

9 p.m. Country. Free.

Knotty Pine - The Brownstones.

10 p.m. Classic Rock. Cover.

MOTR Pub - Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber. 10 p.m.

Jazz/Funk/Fusion/Soul/Various.

Free.

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Knotty Pine - Kenny Cowden. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

The Mad Frog - Bigg Henn. 8 p.m.

Hip Hop. Cover.

MOTR Pub - Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber. 10 p.m.

Jazz/Funk/Fusion/Soul/Various.

Free.

Madison Live - Jerry’s Little Band. 8 p.m. Rock/Jam. Cover.

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Newport on the Levee - Live at the Levee with The Rusty Griswolds. 7 p.m. Pop/Rock.

Free.

Plain Folk Cafe - Open Mic with Russ Childers. 7 p.m. Various.

Free.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Jay Jesse Johnson. 9 p.m. Blues. $4.

Northside Tavern - A Voice For The Innocent: Hip Hop Show featuring Eugenius, Devin Burgess, Vo Fareal, Sons of Silverton and Raised X Wolves. 9 p.m. Hip Hop. Free.

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Northside Yacht Club H Kristian Svitak, Joey Jett and Mike Vallely’s Open-Hearted

Midwest Tour with Ampline, Knife the Symphony, The Harlequins, Ohio Knife, Max Fender and more. 5 p.m. Indie/Rock/ Skateboarding/Various.

Plain Folk Cafe - The Low Country Boil. 7:30 p.m. Rock/ Various. Free.

Rick’s Tavern - Deuces Wild. 10 p.m. Country/Rock. $5.

School of Rock Mason H School of Rock Mason Tribute to Nirvana and Nevermind.

7:30 p.m. Rock. $6, $8 day of show.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Thor Platter. 9:30 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Punk Rock Night with The Jericho Harlot, On The Cinder, MCRNR and Patsy.

10 p.m. Punk Rock. $5.

Thompson House - Corpus Christi with Spirit and the Bride, Among Giants, Silence the Ocean, Avanti and Two Seconds Too Late.

8 p.m. Rock/Metal. $10.

Tin Roof Cincinnati - Anthony Orio. 10 p.m. Country.

Trinity Gastro Pub - Bob Cushing.

8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

The Underground - MidWest Epic, Nicholas Brehm and Peonies. 7 p.m. Rock/Various. Cover.

Urban Artifact - Go Go H Buffalo, Flesh Mother, Kumasi and Build Us Fiction. 9 p.m. Rock/Alt/Various. Free.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Jim Connerley & Friends. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/ drink minimum).

The Cricket Lounge at The Cincinnatian Hotel - Phillip Paul Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Silverton Cafe - Mr. Chris & the Cruisers. 9 p.m. Rock/Country/ Blues. Free.

Front Street Cafe - April Aloisio.

7 p.m. Jazz/Bossa Nova.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Judge n Jury, Wild Mountain Berries and Jason Matheny. 9:30 p.m. Alt/Folk/ Roots/Various. Free.

Hannon’s Camp America Laniakea Transformational Arts Festival with Particle, Manitoa, EGi, Freekbass, Spiritual Rez, Preidoni, Shrub, Wanyama, Rockstead, SolEcho and more. 2 p.m. Rock/Jam/ Electronic/Funk/Reggae/Various. $75 (weekend pass).

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Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Wet Soul. 9:30 p.m. Funk/Soul/ Dance. Cover.

Jim and Jack’s on the River Dan Varner. 9 p.m. Country. Free.

Knotty Pine - LDNL. 10 p.m.

Pop/Dance/Various. Cover.

MOTR Pub - DTCV with Local H Waves. 10 p.m. Indie Rock.

Free.

MVP Bar & Grille - Renee Kirby-Beard-Heckman “A Celebration of Life” Memorial Concert with From Our Ashes, Counting Stars and The New Void.

8 p.m. Rock. Free (donations encouraged).

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Madison Live - Shut Up and Rhyme featuring Goodword of BPos, Ianigma, Sons of Silverton, Brady Glenn, DJ Noah Sweeny and more. 7 p.m. Hip Hop. $10, $15 day of show.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Prestige Grease. 9 p.m. Blues. $3.

Northside Tavern - Electric Citizen. 10 p.m. Rock. Free.

H Northside Yacht Club H Mouth of the Architect with Casino Warrior and Ethicist. 9 p.m. Progressive Metal. Free.

Saturday 10

Plain Folk Cafe - Evan Lanier and The Bluegrass Express. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

Bella Luna - Blue Birds Trio. 7 p.m. Classic Rock/Jazz. Free.

Rake’s End - Known Pleasures: Joy Division/New Order Dance Night with DJ Will Ross. 10 p.m.

Dance/DJ. Free.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill Lagniappe. 9 p.m. Cajun. Free.

Blind Lemon - Michael J (9 p.m.); Evan Uveges (6 p.m.). 6 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Blue Note Harrison - Bad Habit, East of Austin and Band of Brothers. 8 p.m. Rock/Country.

Clifton Plaza - The Perfect H Children. 7 p.m. Garage Soul/AltCountry Blues. Free.

The Comet - Basement Reggae Night. 10 p.m. Reggae/DJ. Free.

Rick’s Tavern - Justin Bryan Band. 10 p.m. Country. $5.

RiversEdge - David Shaw’s H Big River Get Down with The Revivalists, The Wild Feathers,

Maggie Koerner, The Temperance Movement, The Marcus King Band, The Trongone Band and Roosevelt Collier. 1 p.m. Rock/ Alternative/Various. $20, $25 day of show (tickets available at bigrivergetdown.com).

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Bedford & Co. and Caleb Jones & The Family Band. 8 p.m. Rock. $8.

St. Xavier High School Performance Center - Marc Broussard. 7:30 p.m. Funk/Soul/ Rock/Pop/Roots. $35-$375.

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Tap & Barrel Tavern - Bob Cushing. 9 p.m. Acoustic.

Traci’s Sports Lounge and Grill - Basic Truth. 8 p.m. Funk/R&B/ Soul. Free.

The Underground - Battle of the Bands with Moment 44, Scout, Lily Isabelle, AustinTyler and Ephesus. 7 p.m. Various. Cover.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Andrea Cefalo.

9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

Sunday 11

Blind Lemon - Jeff Henry. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

The Comet - Comet Bluegrass All-Stars. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass.

Free.

Gallagher Student Center Theatre - Four Freshmen. 3 p.m.

Swing/Jazz/Various. $3-$28.

Knotty Pine - Randy Peak. 10 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

MOTR Pub - Show Me the Body.

10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Open Blues Jam with Uncle Woody & the Blue Bandits. 7 p.m. Blues.

Free.

Northside Tavern - “Classical Revolution.” 8 p.m. Classical/ Chamber/Various. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - Angry Gods, Moral Void, Coelacanth and Caves. 9 p.m. Metal/Punk/ Hardcore.

Sonny’s All Blues Lounge Sonny’s All Blues Band featuring Lonnie Bennett. 8 p.m. Blues.

Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Woody Pines. 8 p.m. Folk/Americana. $8, $10 day of show.

Southgate House Revival H (Sanctuary) - Basement, Eskimeaux and OVLOV. 7:30 p.m.

Indie/Rock/Various. $15, $18 day of show.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - The Amador Sisters.

5:30 p.m. Latin/Various. $10 (food/drink minimum).

Woodward Theater - Angel H Olsen with Alex Cameron.

7:30 p.m. Indie Rock. $12, $15 day of show.

Monday 12

Blind Lemon - Allison Bishop. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

The Celestial - Tom Schneider. 6 p.m. Piano. Free.

Knotty Pine - Open Mic. 8 p.m.

Various. Free.

MOTR Pub - Pink Mexico. 10 p.m.

Rock/Garage. Free.

McCauly’s Pub - Sonny Moorman. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

Northside Tavern - Northside Jazz Ensemble. 10 p.m. Jazz.

Free.

Tin Roof Cincinnati - Pete Dressman. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

Tuesday 13

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Casey Campbell. 7 p.m. Blues/Roots.

Free.

Blind Lemon - Nick Tuttle. 8 p.m.

Acoustic guitar. Free.

Christ Church Cathedral - Music Live @ Lunch with Ron Esposito.

12:10 p.m. Tibetan brass bowls.

Free.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Zack Shelly and Chon Buckley. 6 p.m.

Piano/Vocals. Free.

MOTR Pub - Writer’s Night. 10 p.m. Open mic/Various. Free.

Northside Tavern - Ohio H Knife & Mad Anthony Record Launch Party. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

Stanley’s Pub - Trashgrass Night with members of Rumpke Mountain Boys. 9 p.m.

Jamgrass/Bluegrass/Jamgrass/ Various. Cover.

Urban Artifact - Mighty Midwest Music Showcase with LBM Drick, Team Paychex, Young OG and more. 8 p.m. Hip Hop/R&B. Free.

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