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Marty Jones: Most teachers try not to take sick days, resulting in taking them once they are ready to retire. There is a problem with politicians wasting money, not teachers. Jeanne Searcy Block: My parents were teachers and they tried every which way not to take sick days. It was such an ordeal and even though they had them it was frowned upon to take one. They didn’t “hoard” them — they just didn’t feel comfortable taking them. There was also the guilt of letting the kids down by not being there. Politicians are to blame. They are just trying to make us forget that. Vince Gay: Yup. The Bevin answer would be to corporatize schools, make his buddies rich and teach nothing. Carolyn Gaddis: Our objections and rational responses will fall on deaf ears; he is as narcissistic as the guy in Washington. As long as his loopholes are safely in place, we can all eat cake. Not sure why Kentuckians voted for him. I didn’t. Vince Gay: Let me guess: Use a sick day, and you’re goldbricking; don’t use it yet, and you’re “hoarding.” Comments posted at Facebook.com/CincinnatiCityBeat in response to Aug. 31 post, “Morning News: Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is getting flack for comments about teachers in the state ‘hoarding sick days.’ ”

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What a Week! BY T.C. Britton

WEDNESDAY AUG. 30

Mark Wahlberg was in town last week to scope a new location of his family’s restaurant chain, Wahlburgers, coming soon downtown. Brothers Mark (the funky one) Donnie (New Kids one) and Paul (the chef one) opened their first restaurant in 2011 outside of Boston. Not only are the Wahlbergs in the music and burger biz, but they also have a reality TV show about the venture, also called Wahlburgers. Cincy saw another musical family go into the service industry when Nick and Drew Lachey opened Lachey’s Bar in 2015, which was documented on Lachey’s: Raising the Bar. The creativity is endless! (But on the real, the tots are delish.) Will these musically minded family restaurants stand the test of time? Just don’t ask Bootsy Collins (Bootsy’s) or Toby Keith (I Love This Bar and Grill). We’re still holding out for Ludacris’ Chicken + Beer or Susan Sarandon’s SPiN Ping-Pong lounge.

THURSDAY AUG. 31

Brace yourself: An all-women Lord of the Flies film is coming. But don’t worry, meninists, it will be written and directed by two dudes, Scott McGehee and David Siegel. It can be great to get a women-led reboot of a classic. The new Ghostbusters is a great example, and we’re not ashamed to admit our excitement about the upcoming lady-centric Ocean’s Eight. But a story that explores dangerous views on masculinity and violent machismo leading to the

downfall of men, recast for women, from the minds of men? Perhaps a bit tone-deaf. Besides, WE * ALREADY * HAVE * THE * REAL * HOUSEWIVES.

FRIDAY SEPT. 01

Wanna feel old? It’s been 20 years since Will Smith’s “Welcome to Miami,” the premiere of Ally McBeal, Venus Williams’ U.S. Open debut, and, sadly, Princess Diana’s untimely death — in case you didn’t know by the 500 exploitative news specials about it. Has anyone else noticed the onslaught of rehashed ’90s and early-aughts crimes and tragedies? Last year it was all about O.J. Simpson and JonBenét Ramsey. This year we’ve got series and specials about Natalee Holloway, Chandra Levy, Scott and Laci Peterson, the Menendez brothers, Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. — and that’s just in recent or coming months. Y’all, we got a nostalgia problem when we’re rehashing murders and disappearances like funny retro fashion trends.

SATURDAY SEPT. 02

Basic bitches and celebrities who want to party outside their natural habitat are turning once-low-key festivals into a security-ridden glamping shit show. Burning Man was probably the final frontier in that respect, but nevermore. What used to be a temporary town erected in the Nevada desert for radical hippies celebrating counterculture is now basically a slightly dustier version of Coachella and ultimate photo op

for rich people (#DoItForTheGram). From 1986-1996, tickets went from no cost to a reasonable 35 bucks. Now, they start at $400, not including a luxury suite, all-terrain Segway and raver Mad Max ensemble. Paris Hilton, Diplo and a bevvy of runway models were in attendance this weekend. In non-celeb news, one attendee jumped into the flames of the giant wooden effigy. At least legit Burners are still doing drugs?

SUNDAY SEPT. 03

Oktoberfest — in both Munich and here in Zinzinnati — kicks off later this month. Here, at the largest celebration outside of Germany, this festival means many things: the start of fall, the celebration of German culture and heritage, the running of the wieners and, above all else, beer. Pair the amount of walking with beer by the steinful and a bit too much schnitzel, and by the end of the night your stomach might be in bad shape — along with your kicks. More to the point: You might get beer or barf on your shoes. Thankfully, Adidas has created a new booze- and vomit-resistant sneaker. The Adidas München Oktoberfests feature a DPBR (“durable puke and beer repellant”) coated leather and lederhosen-y embroidery, are emblazoned with a golden “Prost,” the German equivalent of “cheers,” and even come with their own stein. Unfortunately for us, they’re only available in the fatherland. Now if they can just make them resistant to baby stroller scuffs, we’ll have the official shoe of the Cincinnati festivalgoer.

MONDAY SEPT. 04

Monday was Labor Day, ender of summer, last of its name (shouldn’t everything have a Game of Thrones-style title? No?). WEBN Day is the final work holiday until Thanksgiving and last chance to wear white for probably some sexually repressed reason. Let the Seasonal Affective Disorder begin! But Sept. 4’s true holiday is Beyoncé’s birthday. Jay-Z led the crowd at the Made in America music festival in singing “Happy Birthday,” while some of the coolest women on the planet showed Bey their love by recreating her “Formation” look, from Michelle Obama to Serena Williams (who just birthed a baby girl on Sept. 1. Even her babies are No. 1!). Oh, and speaking of labor, the Duchess of Cambridge will soon be preparing for it (sorry). Britain’s royal family is about to expand, with Will and Kate expecting their third child.

TUESDAY SEPT. 05

This week in questionable decisions: Cleveland cops refused to hold the flag at Browns games because of all the players who kneel in protest during the national anthem; possible Senate candidate Kid Rock responded to accusations of a campaign finance violation with “go fuck yourselves”; and movie promoters in Australia are tying red balloons to sewer grates to hype the horror remake It, as if we didn’t just recover from the killer clown scare of 2016. CONTACT T.C. BRITTON: letters@citybeat.com

Cincinnati Bengals 2017 Season Predictions! Who Dey! BY DANNY CROSS

ANDY DALTON AND A.J. GREEN WILL KEEP BEING COOL. People in this town hate on Andy Dalton because they’re dumb. After Reds fans booed him during a celebrity softball game in 2015, he went out and had his best season. He was even in the MVP conversation before he broke his thumb trying to tackle a huge-ass Pittsburgh defensive end who intercepted his pass in the red zone. OK, that was dumb, too.

CUTTING THEIR FIFTH-ROUND-PICK KICKER WILL PROVE VERY SMART. Bengals scouts thought rookie kicker Jake Elliott was worth drafting in the fifth round of the draft even though the consensus best college kicker ended up going in the seventh. Then they cut Elliott in favor of veteran Randy Bullock. If Bullock kicks the ball between the yellow poles well this year, the Bengals will have a great season. Elliott is now on the practice squad, where he will try to get better. PACMAN JONES AND VONTAZE BURFICT WILL ACT NORMAL ALL YEAR. To be fair, Burfict will play at least three fewer games than most Bengals this year because he is suspended for sort of hitting a Chiefs player who didn’t have the ball in a preseason game. And Pacman’s latest offseason run-in with Cincinnati police resulted in this funny excerpt from a Cincinnati Enquirer court story: “2:55 - Cotton says he needs to search Jones. ‘I’m Pacman Jones, n*****, what the f*** I got on me,’ Jones says.” Still, Vontaze and Pacman will focus on the game, be good role models for Joe Mixon and the season will proceed without incident. “ c a n ’ t wa i t ” f o r t h e s e a s o n . // P H O T O : K E I T H A L L I S O N

THE BENGALS WILL WIN THE SUPER BOWL. Fuck the Steelers.

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MIKE BROWN WILL DRIVE HIS GOLF CART OVER ONE OF CHAD OCHOCINCO’S PROPS. The Bengals are celebrating their 50th season this year, and during certain games they’ll honor some of their 50 best players. Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson will be one of them, and hopefully he hides various funny things around the stadium to make us laugh as much as that time he legally changed his name when the league wouldn’t let him wear OCHOCINCO on the back of his uniform. #FUTUREH.O.F.20??

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Fickell Is Just What UC Needed BY JACK BRENNAN

A friend of mine has an old family saying about a guy who “fell down in the outhouse and came out wearin’ a new suit.” Ladies and gents, meet University of Cincinnati football. Even if the Bearcats lose big at Michigan this week — and they might, based on last week’s season opener — they’ll survive with real hope budding again. I say “again” because last year the program’s fragile self-image — of finally being a real Division I NCAA outfit after literally 100 years of deep football obscurity — was shaken. The hope comes from new head coach Luke Fickell, who gets a pass for last week’s totally underwhelming 26-14 win against lowly Austin Peay. He gets it because: 1) he did win the darn game, horrible as it was to watch, 2) his inherited talent base has holes that can’t be filled this season and 3) since taking this job last December, he has proven in every way to be a far more appealing choice than UC might have expected to get. Prior to Fickell’s arrival, UC football was in a real fix. It started last season with a big off-field downer, spurned in September in a highly publicized bid to join the “Power 5” Big 12 conference. The Big 12 decided not to add any schools, so UC was still stuck in the much less prestigious American Athletic Conference. Then the Bearcats couldn’t win even in the AAC, posting a 4-8 record that included an agonizing 13 straight quarters without a touchdown. And head coach Tommy Tuberville — formerly of some renown at Ole Miss, Auburn and Texas Tech — was branded as an empty sweatsuit, not only for losing but for failing to restock the decent program he took over in 2013. Tuberville hit bottom in early November, when he violated a cardinal rule for coaches, “Never Rip the Fans.” After a listless loss to Brigham Young, a fan hollered at Tuberville that he was “stealing from this university.” Tubs responded in front of multiple witnesses by shooting himself in each foot, first with a “Go to hell” and then with the old sure-to-backfire special, “Get a job.” I sat in the Nippert Stadium stands for last season’s Memphis game, a couple weeks after the BYU loss. It was milepost four of a five-game losing streak to close the year, and the rancor against Tuberville was loud and raw, like nothing I’ve experienced in a life of visiting stadiums for both business and pleasure. The eventual 34-7 loss to Memphis sparked fears that UC’s program was truly off the rails, after roughly 20 years of finally being more than a football nonentity. (Seriously, UC’s ancient program was so starved for buzz over the course of 112 seasons — 1885 through 1996 — it’s amazing it even survived. The road to respectability began

in 1997, when coach Rick Minter took the team to its first bowl game in 46 years, and though modern-era teams need only be decent to make bowls, still it’s impressive that the Cats went to 14 in the 20 seasons from 1997-2016.) But it was all so bad last year that some people in my world were bringing up the old “nuclear option” for UC football: Blow up the big-time pretensions, they said, and retreat to the Mid-American Conference. What a chilling prospect. Week after week after endless week of Akrons, Kents, Buffalos and Directional Michigans. When less than 10 years ago, under coach Brian Kelly, you were in backto-back Orange and Sugar Bowls (2008-09 seasons)? But UC found a way to ease Tuberville out, relieving huge fears he’d have to be retained because his contract wasn’t up. And just six days later, on Dec. 10, athletic director Mike Bohn announced the hiring of Fickell. Ohio born and bred (Columbus area), Fickell played defensive line for Ohio State and later produced consistently top-drawer defenses as OSU’s coordinator, including for a national championship team under Urban Meyer in 2014. Fickell was part of another OSU national title winner in 2002, his first Buckeye coaching year, when mentor Jim Tressel hired him as special teams coordinator. And in 2011, at the age of only 38, he was called on to serve a difficult year as OSU head coach, named as a placeholder when Tressel was ousted due to a scandal over player perks. Fickell produced only a 6-7 record, but he earned marks for class and maturity. When Meyer was hired in 2012, Fickell returned to his post as defensive coordinator. And now, at age 44, Fickell is much more than just a guy with an excellent résumé. He hasn’t made one false move since taking over the UC program. Handsome, robust and personable, he has won respect at all levels, especially inside the fraternity of Ohio high school coaches, so crucial to the essential task of recruiting. That relationship was a huge minus for Tuberville. Quite simply, for us veteran observers of Cincinnati sports, Fickell just passes the smell test as a guy of great integrity and commitment. We can spot a phony in a New York minute, and Fickell is definitely not that. When facing some negative questions after the Austin Peay game, he was

candid and unthreatened, two areas where many coaches fail. Most coaches, for example, can get huffy if it’s implied they might not have all the bases totally covered at any given moment. Football coaches tend to be all about attempting an aura of infallibility. But when Fickell was asked whether he had talked to his placekicker, who had very distressingly missed two easy tries, he took it not as an inquisition, but simply as help for his to-do list. “No,” he replied with a smile. “I know that’s one thing I’ve got to get to.” Regarding a flawed overall effort against an inferior foe, he said, “I tell (the players)

“Fickell just passes the smell test as a guy of great integrity and commitment.”

all the time that the game is about chaos, and there was some chaos. And at times they kind of dropped their heads. A huge key is having the ability to pick your head back up, take care of business and learn something about yourself.” On coming to UC, despite having the résumé to possibly land a Power 5 job not far down the road, he said: “In my mind, this was the right opportunity. My passion had changed over the last year. I still love coaching defense, but I wanted the ability to have a greater effect on a bigger group of kids. I think great things can be done here, and I was excited even to have the chance to interview for this job.” Some coaches would drip B.S. saying something like that. But Fickell came off as sincere. “He’s as personable and accessible as any UC coach I’ve ever covered,” says Bill Koch of GoBearcats.com, who has covered UC sports for major media for 29 years. “He’s done a great job of engaging the fan base, and the players have taken to his intensity and energy. At this point, he appears to be just what UC needed after the way last season ended.” JACK BRENNAN’s column appears in this space biweekly. Contact him: letters@ citybeat.com.

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Lawmakers consider tightening restrictions on executing inmates who suffer from provable mental illness BY NICK SWARTSELL

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Seitz, who served on the death penalty task force, tried to advance a similar bill in 2015, when he was a state senator. He says excluding the mentally ill and disabled from execution is a way of avoiding executing people who do not fully understand the crimes they’ve committed due to mental illness, while protecting legitimate use of the death penalty from legal challenges. John Murphy, executive director of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association, has said that current state laws against executions for the mentally ill or disabled are adequate safeguards and that any further bars would inhibit the justice system from appropriately applying the death penalty. Murphy and others who see the death penalty as a necessity oppose the legislation. “If this were enacted, I think it would in effect repeal the death penalty,” Murphy told the Columbus Dispatch. “Proponents argue that the process would apply to very few persons — we don’t see it that way. I think every single one of the persons on death row will file for this.” But groups like Fair Punishment Project that take a more critical look at the death penalty nationwide say the state needs to consider who it is executing. The Massachusetts-based group

A study by Harvard Law School’s Fair Innocence Project found that a majority of Ohio inmates awaiting execution over the next three years have mental illness or disability. advocates for a more fair and accountable justice system across the country. It says Ohio’s death row inmates illustrate big problems with its administration of the state’s most severe punishment. “Our research on individuals facing execution in Ohio turned up some absolutely horrifying stories of abuse, mental illness and disability,” Fair Punishment Project legal director Jessica Brand says. “In fact, in 88 percent of the cases we looked at, we found significant impairments, many of which were never considered by a judge or jury. This indicates something has clearly gone awry in the state’s implementation of the death penalty.” According to the Fair Punishment Project report, Otte certainly exhibits symptoms that make his execution questionable. Other inmates awaiting execution have even clearer signs of mental illness, intellectual disability or childhood trauma. The group’s report found that 11 of the 23 men for whom mitigating evidence was presented in court have intellectual impairments, 17 had experienced severe childhood trauma rooted in physical or sexual abuse and that six were experiencing severe mental illness. Three of the 26 men on Ohio’s death

row waived the opportunity to present mitigating evidence related to their crimes, and thus it’s unknown if they have a history of abuse, mental illness or cognitive disabilities. Another inmate, Archie Dixon, was also 20 when he was accused of the 1993 murder of his roommate Christopher Hammer. Dixon experienced a lifetime of physical and sexual abuse within his family. His IQ has tested at just 77, and he has a deformation in his ribs from an incident in which his father kicked him with steel-toed boots. Dixon also witnessed his father abuse his mother and siblings. His grandfather also sexually abused his sisters during Dixon’s childhood. His attorney never presented this information during Dixon’s one-day murder trial. Other inmates profiled in the Fair Punishment Project report have similar backgrounds, leading the group to call foul on Ohio’s scheduled executions. “The Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of society’s most vulnerable and limits its imposition to the most culpable in our society,” the report concludes. “Unless the governor or a court intervenes, over the course of the next two years, Ohio is poised CONTINUES ON PAGE 13

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n 1992, Gary Otte was convicted of shooting two people during armed robberies just outside of Cleveland. Otte committed those murders when he was 20 years old, and his short life before that was marked with deep strife. He struggled with drug abuse from the time he was 10 years old and attempted suicide when he was 14, exhibiting a long pattern of chronic depression and other psychological problems. Records show he has suffered from developmental delays and learning disabilities. Currently, Otte is the next person Ohio is slated to execute by lethal injection Sept. 13. Now that it has resumed executions after winning a fight over controversial lethal injection drugs, Ohio is set to put 26 people to death over the next three years. But new legislation state lawmakers are mulling could give at least some of those inmates a new chance to appeal their death sentences. Of those death row inmates slated to be executed in the next few years, the vast majority have intellectual disabilities, struggle with profound mental illness or suffered from severe childhood trauma and abuse, according to a study from Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project released last week. The group analyzed the case histories of 23 of the 26 Ohio death row inmates slated for execution between now and 2020 and found that each has circumstances that make the appropriateness of their death sentence questionable. The report comes as some lawmakers, including a local state representative, look to tighten restrictions on the state’s ability to execute inmates who suffer from provable mental illness or mental disability. But those in favor of the death penalty, including the head of the organization that represents Ohio’s county prosecutors, say that’s a bad idea. An Ohio Supreme Court joint task force on the death penalty included a ban on executing the mentally ill among recommendations it has made to the state. Many of those recommendations, including the ban, have not been passed by state lawmakers or implemented by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. A bill currently before the Ohio General Assembly sponsored by State Rep. Bill Seitz, a Republican from Cincinnati, would take up that recommendation, preventing the execution of convicts who can prove they were suffering from mental illness or impairment at the time of their crimes and allow current inmates on death row to file for re-sentencing.

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Cincinnati officials say they would like to get the city’s pension investments out of the private prison business. The city of Cincinnati’s pension fund holdings include more than $2.5 million in stocks for private prison companies. But an effort spearheaded by City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld’s office and backed by a majority of Council and Mayor John Cranley is seeking to divest from nearly 600,000 shares in CoreCivic, GEO Group and G4S currently held by the city’s pension system. Those companies own and run private prisons. “If you want a glimpse into a person or a city’s values, then follow the money,” Sittenfeld said during a news conference Aug. 30 announcing the effort. “And the money that flows into the private prison business is a stain on our community.” Council members David Mann, Yvette Simpson and Wendell Young appeared at the event and spoke in support of divesting from the private prison companies, and Councilman Chris Seelbach also supports the policy directive. That’s enough to push the move through Council, though it would still need to be approved by the city’s pension board. Council appoints four members of the ninemember board; the other city pensioners and other board members elect the other five. Sittenfeld says the board wasn’t aware of the investments and that his office started looking into it after New York City moved to divest $48 million invested in private prison companies by its pension fund. A number of groups say they support the move. Rev. Troy Jackson of the Amos Project, representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union; Cincinnati’s NAACP chapter; and the Ohio Justice and Policy Center all appeared at the news conference to speak in support of divesting from private prisons. Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland also attended the event to lend his support to the effort. “When revenues drive decisions, everyone associated with those prisons, including inmates, guards, family members, contractors and the community at large suffer — all except the profiteers,” said ACLU of Ohio’s Jay Bennett Guess. In 2012, CityBeat detailed myriad problems with Ohio’s private prisons, which were at the time operated by three companies including the GEO Group. The companies that now operate the state’s remaining private prisons — Corrections Corporation of America and Management and Training Corporation — are not represented in the city’s pension holdings. Critics say for-profit prisons are incentivized to keep people incarcerated and that their rise over the past few decades has

contributed to America’s mass incarceration problem. Though it has just five percent of the world’s population, America holds a quarter of all incarcerated people in the world in its prison system. What’s more, people of color bear the brunt of that incarceration — blacks, for example, are 10 times more likely than whites to be imprisoned for drug offenses, despite research that shows drug use between the two groups is roughly equal. A 2012 study by George Washington University found that assaults on prison guards by inmates were more than 50 percent higher in private prisons and that assaults between inmates were 66 percent higher. Experts attribute that to inadequate training and lower staffing levels at private prisons. Under President Barack Obama, the federal government was set to end partnerships with private prisons that housed federal prisoners. “They simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs and resources; they do not save substantially on costs,” then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates wrote in a memo last year. President Donald Trump has reversed the decision, however, after Core Civic and GEO gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Trump campaign and his inauguration fund. The federal government recently signed $774 million in contracts with GEO. The Obama administration’s move didn’t cover the vast majority of for-profit prisons, which contract with individual states. Last year, Ohio officials indicated they would not terminate contracts with for-profit prisons. But despite reticence from many conservative leaders up to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, some in the state’s criminal justice administration have blasted private prisons. Chris Mabe, president of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, a threedecade veteran of Ohio’s rehabilitation system, decried the “unholy cause” of prison privatization. “We have a moral compass in the department of corrections when it comes to right and wrong,” Mabe said at the news conference last week. (Nick Swartsell)

Nonprofit Behind Simpson Attack Ads Run by Former Cranley Campaign Manager A nonprofit running ads against mayoral candidate Yvette Simpson is run by a person who less than two months ago ran the reelection campaign for Simpson’s opponent, Mayor John Cranley. Former Cranley campaign manager Jay Kincaid founded the nonprofit A Stronger Cincinnati Aug. 1. A month prior, political operative Chandra Yungbluth replaced Kincaid as Cranley’s campaign manager. CONTINUES ON PAGE 13

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to violate that constitutional limitation by scheduling the executions of nearly a dozen individuals with devastating impairments, including mental illness, childhood abuse and intellectual disability.” Fair Punishment Project also suggests Otte should be spared the death penalty because he was too young at the time to fully understand his crimes. Otte is one of three inmates on Ohio’s death row who committed their crimes before their 21st birthdays. The U.S. Supreme Court barred the execution of inmates who committed their crimes before the age of 18, arguing that young people are more susceptible to outside influences and that scientific research suggests their brains haven’t developed

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As a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, A Stronger Cincinnati is prohibited from backing or coordinating with specific candidates but can raise unlimited amounts of money and does not need to divulge its funders. That’s raised eyebrows among Cranley critics. Kincaid also worked on Cranley’s 2013 campaign and was the mayor’s chief of staff until last year. The ad, which is running on social media

enough to prevent them from sometimes incredibly irresponsible behavior. Because of that, the court found that even egregious acts by juveniles aren’t as “morally reprehensible as that of an adult.” Fair Punishment Project’s report argues that 18 is an arbitrary, and too early, age at which to draw the line and that inmates like Otte shouldn’t be put to death for crimes they committed before 21. “Because the same deficiencies in cognitive processes, risk-reward evaluation and emotional regulation exist in young adults, their culpability, relative to a mature adult, is likewise reduced,” the report reads. “For this reason, a trial court in Kentucky recently found the death penalty was unconstitutional for those who committed their crimes before turning 21.” ©

sites, slams Simpson for her vote against the $500 million expansion of Children’s Hospital in Avondale earlier this summer. That expansion will increase capacity for the hospital to treat sick kids, but will also require the demolition of a number of houses and the relocation of families. Avondale’s community council and other neighborhood groups strongly opposed the move following a history of expansion by Children’s, the Cincinnati Zoo and others. (NS)

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MUSIC: DADA plays a 25th-anniversary show at the Southgate House Revival. See Sound Advice on page 30.

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EVENT: HARVEST HOME FAIR Come one, come all to “the biggest little fair in Ohio.” Kick off this family-friendly West Side tradition on Thursday with the 60th-annual parade through Cheviot. The 150-year-old event will feature a weekend’s worth of entertainment for all ages, including arts and crafts vendors, horse shows, a flower show, contests (including a homemade wine competition), carnival rides, livestock shows and tons of tasty fair food. Operated by the Kiwanis Club of Cheviot-Westwood, the Harvest Home Fair raises funds for local youth and community programs. 6 p.m. parade, 7-10 p.m. fair Thursday; 5-11 p.m. Friday; noon-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-10 p.m. Sunday. $5; free children 12 and under. Harvest Home Park, 3961 North Bend Road, Cheviot, harvesthomefair.com. — ALISON BAXTER

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performing one where he swallows razor blades, someone gave him a fake blood capsule. “It got a whole different reaction.” He’s been shocking audiences, as well as making them laugh, ever since. 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday; 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday; 7 p.m. Sunday. $22. Liberty Funny Bone, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty.funnybone.com. — P.F. WILSON EVENT: CINCY BEERFEST Happy drinking, everyone! The ninth-annual Cincy Beerfest celebrates the end of summer with two days of craft beer, live music, food trucks and thousands of friendly festgoers. Beer enthusiasts and breweries from down the street and across the county will descend on Fountain Square to sip, sample and sling beers from the likes of Braxton, Taft’s, Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, Ballast Point and more. VIP admission includes a souvenir mug, 25 sample tickets and access to VIP portable potties. Other ticket packages include varying amounts of alcohol, from two pints to 15 5-ounce pours. Ticket prices are for single-day entry. 6:30-11 p.m. Friday; 3-11 p.m. Saturday. $15; $40 two-person pack; $40 VIP; $10 designated driver. Fountain Square, 525 Vine St., Downtown, cincybeerfest.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO COMEDY: ONE-MAN STAR WARS Impress you, he will. Canadian actor Charles Ross is bringing his One-Man Star Wars Trilogy show to Memorial Hall on Friday, along with the films’ iconic characters — all of whom he portrays himself. Since the Off-Broadway play — which Ross also wrote — premiered in 2001, it has been performed more than 1,000 times. Expect Ross to use eerily accurate voice impressions, sing music from the movies, unsheathe light sabers in battle and even fly ships through the stars, all while condensing the plot of the trilogy into one packed performance. Suitable for “ages 6 to Yoda.” 8-11 p.m. Friday. $20-$32. Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, memorialhallotr.com. — EMILY BEGLEY

COMEDY: THE AMAZING JOHNATHAN Most people would describe The Amazing Johnathan as a magician and comedian, but he started as the former. “I used to do it in junior high and high school,” he says. “Then I did a high school talent show and that went horribly wrong.” He stopped doing magic for a year and started doing street performance in San Francisco. “That’s when I became interested in comedy, gradually bringing the magic back in because that was the only thing I knew how to do,” he says. Making lemonade out of his high school performance, he purposely messed up the tricks. After

EVENT: MAINSTRASSE OKTOBERFEST Prost! MainStrasse’s hyper-local Oktoberfest is back for its 39th year with a renewed focus on Covington- and Northern Kentucky-based businesses. Braxton Brewing Company will pay homage to its hometown by introducing a brand-new Covington-based brew, and Villa Hillbillies and Second Sights Spirits will craft cocktails using moonshine distilled in Northern Kentucky. Two steins will also be rolled out during the fest, one of which will be the event’s first limited-edition, Villagethemed ceramic stein. But the fun isn’t just boozy: Kinder can head to the fest’s

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ART: JOSEPH WINTERHALTER: PAINTING DAAP Galleries hosts an opening reception for Cincinnati-based artist Joseph Winterhalter at The Philip M. Meyers Jr. Memorial Gallery on the University of Cincinnati campus. The artist, who also works as a preparator at the Taft Museum of Art, creates his paintings using a labor-intensive process, which involves repeatedly layering, scraping or peeling and polishing his surface. Winterhalter’s works typically include text as a clue to some larger historical narrative, often informed by revolutionary movements and radical theory. Opening reception 5-7 p.m. Thursday. Through Oct. 18. Free. Inside the Steger Student Life Center, University of Cincinnati, Clifton Heights, daap.uc.edu/galleries/meyers_gallery.html. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER

Kinderplatz section for carnival rides, Circus Mojo performances and a fire show Saturday night, and the Tower Legacy Foundation will be offering tours of the village’s iconic German-style clock throughout the event. 5-11 p.m. Friday; noon-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-8 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. MainStrasse Village between Fifth and

Seventh streets, Covington, Ky., mainstrasse.org. — EMILY BEGLEY

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MUSIC: Unique Country band THE MAVERICKS plays Taft Theatre. See Sound Advice on page 30. CONTINUES ON PAGE 16

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ONSTAGE: SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE William Shakespeare wrote a lot of plays, but he never became a character. That happened four centuries later when a 1999 Oscar-winning movie imagined a great story about young Will wrestling with writer’s block early in his career. A love affair helps him break through, and now the tale has moved from the silver screen to stages, including the Cincinnati Playhouse. Shakespeare’s affair with aspiring actress Viola De Lesseps — in an era when women were not allowed onstage — inspires the impassioned romance of Romeo and Juliet. It’s a tale of backstage intrigue and mistaken identity told with great humor and wit. Through Sept. 30. $30-$85. Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mount Adams Circle, Mount Adams, cincyplay.com. — RICK PENDER

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MUSIC: UBAHN FEST Cincinnati’s Ubahn Fest has emerged as the biggest Hip Hop/EDM festival in the region, featuring two days’ worth of local, regional and national acts in one of the area’s most unique event settings: the underground transit tunnel near the riverfront and Paul Brown Stadium. Each year, Ubahn’s organizers top themselves with the lineup, and this year’s event features the most star power yet. Friday’s lineup includes dual headliners Steve Aoki, one of the most successful EDM artists/DJs on the planet, and Trap icon 2 Chainz, whose 2017 album Pretty Girls Like Trap Music hit No. 2 on the Billboard album chart. Saturday’s Ubahn lineup includes three of today’s biggest Hip Hop stars — Big Sean, Gucci Mane and Lecrae, who transcended the “Christian Hip Hop” pigeonhole beginning with 2012’s big-selling Gravity album (his debut release in partnership with Columbia Records, All Things Work Together, is due Sept. 22). For a look at some of the local acts rocking Ubahn 2017, see Spill It on page 29. 6 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday. $65; $75 day of show; $120 two-day passes. Riverfront Transit Center, 220 Central Ave., Downtown, ubahnfest.com. — MIKE BREEN

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MUSIC: THE RECORD COMPANY brings an incendiary Blues show to the Big River Get Down in Hamilton. See Sound Advice on page 31. EVENT: CHEESE FEST Looking for something cheesy to do this weekend? Head to Smale Riverfront Park. The third-annual Cheese Fest is a literal smorgasbord of more than 350 artisan cheeses from over 75 producers, made even better with beer, bourbon and wine pairings. Oh, and samples of cheese are unlimited. Cooking demos, live music and opportunities to meet the makers take place throughout the day, and chefs will go head to head in the Macdown and Meltdown competitions — challenges to whip up the most creative mac and cheese and grilled cheese dishes as determined by both hungry attendees and a panel of cheese-wise judges. 2-10 p.m. Saturday. $10. Smale Riverfront Park, 100 W. Mehring Way, Downtown, thecheesefest.com. — EMILY BEGLEY

EVENT: FRANZTOBERFEST The fifth-annual Franztoberfest at Rhinegeist celebrates the city’s German roots with an offbeat Oktoberfest-style celebration full of good vibes and weird mustaches. The event will feature inflatable jousting, German food, live music and plenty of Franz, the brewery’s Märzen/Oktoberfest beer. German outfits are highly encouraged. Noon-midnight. Free admission. Rhinegeist, 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/rhinegeist. — MAIJA ZUMMO EVENT: CINCINNATI HISPANIC FESTIVAL The Cincinnati Hispanic Festival, now in its 24th year, is a two-day fiesta comprised of food, music, dancing and family-friendly fun at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds. Programmed with the goal of sharing cultural diversity, the event is organized by the Hispanic Culture Society of Cincinnati, with proceeds from the festival going toward scholarships and resources for members of the local Hispanic community. Watch folkloric dance performances, hear

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EVENT: TASTE OF INDIA Head to the Hindu Temple of Greater Cincinnati for the Taste of India, a celebration of the South Asian country’s cuisine and culture. Throughout the day, you can dine on sweet and savory dishes from local vendors and restaurants (like you can literally walk from booth to booth and gorge yourself on a bunch of different Indian foods), check out festival rides, shop Indian-inspired vendors, take a yoga class, watch the Naach Sitare traditional dance competition (expect some beautiful costuming from this) and close out the evening with a Rozzi’s Famous Fireworks display. Noon-8 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. Hindu Temple of Greater Cincinnati, 720 Barg Salt Run Road, Summerside, tasteofindiacincinnati.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

Latin American music and dine on generous helpings of traditional Latino food. Noon-11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. $10 per car; $2 walk in. Hamilton County Fairgrounds, 7700 Vine St., Carthage, cincinnatihispanicfest.org. — EMILY BEGLEY

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MUSIC: PROTOMARTYR plays Northside Yacht Club. See interview on page 28.

EVENT: THE SCOTT BROTHERS HOUSE PARTY Drew and Jonthan Scott, the titular brothers/twins/real-estate-agent-contractor-duo of HGTV’s popular Property Brothers franchise, are heading to the Taft Theatre to renovate the Neo Classical 1920s venue. Just kidding (ha ha). They’re there to tell stories onstage based on their memoir It Takes Two: Our Story. Expect tales of buying, selling and renovating properties along with behind-the-scenes bloopers, audience participation, dos and don’ts, nuggets of entrepreneurial wisdom and a lot of goodnatured sibling rivalry. 7:30 p.m. Sunday. $39.75-$59.75; $150 VIP. Taft Theatre, 317 E. Fifth St., Downtown, tafttheatre. org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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EVENT: SECOND SUNDAY ON MAIN Over-the-Rhine’s eclectic monthly summer street fest continues with a celebration of King Records. This month’s theme is “King Records in the Queen City,” and the party will feature live music from the Queen City Kings, playing select King Records Funk, Soul and Country songs, plus the exhibit King Records: The Lost History Of Rock ’N Roll and a pop-up record fair. This is all in addition to the standard Second Sunday programming, with more than 100 vendors, Main Street merchants, arts events and a biergarten. Noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Main Street between 12th and Liberty streets, Over-the-Rhine, facebook. com/otrssom. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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Current renovation will provide a new home for a classic mural and bring other dramatic changes BY STEVEN ROSEN

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t was 10 years ago this month that the Cincinnati Art Museum announced selection of a Dutch firm, Neutelings Riedijk Architects, to build a 60,000-square-foot, $45 million expansion on its Eden Park campus, in tandem with a renovation of existing buildings. The concept for the new building — an exhibition hall and an almost 200-foot-tall tower with a tulip-like edgy (literally) top — would have made it a radically transformative structure and a major landmark. But the Great Recession delayed those plans — and the departure of the museum’s director, Aaron Betsky, in 2014 probably ended them. But, both under Betsky and current Director Cameron Kitchin, renovations, alterations and updates have continued. Some have been subtle, such as the nighttime illumination of the museum’s old tower-like stone-clad cast-iron chimney. But some have been pronounced. One such pronounced change is underway right now — a $2 million “reinvention” (in Kitchin’s words) of the historic Schmidlapp Gallery, a long corridor connecting the museum’s two central gathering points: the Main Lobby/Main Entrance and the Great Hall. The gallery, built in 1907 as part of the Schmidlapp Wing or Schmidlapp Extension, was the first expansion beyond the museum’s 1886 original building. The gallery portion has been home to plaster casts of classical sculpture (in the days when those were popular), antiquities displayed in long glass cases and — most recently —a gallery for museum “icons.” That last concept, a Betsky idea, placed a small selection of the museum’s best and most well-known pieces in one compact space.

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Saul Steinberg’s “Mural of Cincinnati” once again will be on display at the museum. “This project is one… that’s really been in the making since 1907,” Kitchin says. “The new Schmidlapp Gallery borrows from the best of each of those installations over time. It is a complete rethinking of not just the design, but the purpose of the space — why it exists in the architecture of the building and the pathway of the visitor experience.” The new gallery is slated to debut in October, but won’t be fully complete until early 2018, with the permanent installation of one of the museum’s (and the city’s) key, yet under-viewed, pieces: famed Romaniaborn New York cartoonist Saul Steinberg’s 75-foot-long “Mural of Cincinnati.” (The museum wants to be sure the new Schmidlapp’s temperature and humidity levels are conducive to the mural; there will be a temporary art installation in the space in the meantime.) As redesigned, the gallery will have big new windows that will look out into the Alice Bimel Courtyard and its 2004 reflecting pool/fountain, which has a lovely Zen garden-like feel. This will be a conspicuous way to bring the outdoors and controlled natural lighting inside. “These windows are startling in their scale, and will change the feel the space gives,” Kitchin says. The new Schmidlapp also will have a “looking lounge” element, just as the icons installation did — a handful of glass-encased objects, mostly threedimensional, from the collection will be displayed around seating designed by University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning-trained designer David Dahl to prompt viewer contemplation and discussion. “We’ll choose each of those objects for their narrative power as well as their

historical power, meaning there’s a great story there that a curator can help guide us through and a visitor can discover through that object,” Kitchin says. “This also borrows from the notion of the kunstkammer or the wunderkammer — the early idea of the museum having these great objects of wonder. So rather than seeing (only) the most notable and known objects from the collection, they’re objects that inspire conversation.” The returning-to-view Steinberg mural was originally commissioned by Thomas Emery’s Sons, Inc. for the Skyline Room restaurant in its modernist Terrace Plaza hotel, which opened in 1948. It was donated to the museum in 1965, when the Hilton chain took the hotel over. It was off museum display from 1991 until a special exhibit in 2007, which showed off a restoration funded by a Save America’s Treasures grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. But it’s been in storage since then. According to the website of the Saul Steinberg Foundation (the artist died in 1999), the Cincinnati mural was his second and consisted of eight oil-on-canvas panels with images stacked vertically on an upright plane to avoid a convention panoramic presentation. An essay on that website quotes writer Joel Smith as saying the murals “demanded a merger of technical ingenuity and visual invention, as (Steinberg) experimented to fit a page-illuminator’s style to architectural scale.” After Cincinnati, Steinberg used photographically enlarged drawings for his murals, which was less labor-intensive. In 1949, he created a cityscape mural for a

landmark museum show, the Alexander Girard-curated An Exhibition for Modern Living, at Detroit Institute of Arts. It does not survive, although drawings for it are on display through Oct. 8 at suburban Detroit’s Cranbrook Art Museum in the show Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe. At the time of Cincinnati’s 2007 Steinberg exhibition, CityBeat contributor Jane Durrell recalled just how much the mural had needed the just-completed restoration: “When Hilton took over in 1965, it was transferred to the CAM and mounted by tacks, still bearing the grime and smoke from its years in the restaurant,” she wrote. “Some of us can remember it slowly sagging on the wall, looking very brown.” Now, Steinberg’s “Mural of Cincinnati” gets its pride-of-place home, along a gallery wall opposite the new windows. Once it’s up, it will be near two other Terrace Plaza gifts that have been on permanent display — Joan Miró’s “Mural from the Terrace Plaza Hotel” and Alexander Calder’s mobile made of sheet metal and piano wire, “20 Leaves and an Apple.” “A single unbroken wall of that length is a rarity,” Kitchin says. “Now we get a chance to bring (the mural) back out in a pristine, conserved state and install it in a tribute to Cincinnati history and to Steinberg and his take on Cincinnati. It’s fanciful and truly wonderful, and a conversation starter as well.” The CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM is located at 953 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams. More info: cincinnatiartmuseum.org.

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Welcome to MPMF.17 Two days of music celebration and discovery return to Over-the-Rhine Sept. 23 –24, 2017 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, our 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. Each fall, the streets of Cincinnati become a music lover’s paradise. This year, the festival is centralized to a location with all stages within one block of each other in downtown Cincinnati. This collection of young creative talent among an architecturally rich urban setting makes MidPoint a one-of-a-kind experience. 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 Band of Horses, Reggie Watts, Bob Mould, Kamasi Washington, 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, Dirty Projectors, Speedy Ortiz, Lost in the Trees, Deaf Heaven, 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. Attendance has grown with the buzz of these bands, jumping from 13,500 in 2008 to around 30,000 today. Bands like to play here to reach new fans. Fans like discovering something they’ve not heard before. It’s a win-win! Find a venue map below to see how close everything is. Hoofing it around Cincinnati is no longer an issue due to the consolidation of the stages to one centralized location. We love Cincinnati and the music scene here. We hope you enjoy experiencing all of the showcased talent, both local or otherwise.

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VIP: If you want to feel like a superstar, we’ve got you covered. VIP tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis, offering an enhanced experience with VIPonly viewing access at each stage, an indoor, air-conditioned VIP-exclusive lounge, a special MPMF.17 laminate and T-shirt, five free drinks each day and an open invitation to Fusian-catered VIP receptions from 4-7 p.m. each day. Gluten-free beer and vegetarian options will be available while supplies last. ATMs: ATMs will be available onsite, 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 two and up require tickets. 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, offer high-fives and moral support if necessary. The onsite box office will also be a source to tap for questions and concerns.

PARKING: You’re smart! Plan ahead! There are numerous parking garages within a couple blocks of the festival site and along the streetcar route. Additionally, we suggest sharing a ride with a friend or utilizing services like Red Bike or the Cincinnati Bell Connector. 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, either. STREET CLOSURES: Fifth Street will be closed from the east side of Sycamore to the west side of Broadway. ACCESSIBILITY: We are dedicated to making sure MidPoint is accessible to all. This year, the festival is centralized to a location with all stages within one block of each other. Accessible entrance points

and restrooms, paved surfaces and friendly staff willing to lend a hand will contribute to ease of access for all. Please note, the Taft Theatre and Masonic Lodge are historic buildings, built before the time of elevators. Anyone needing assistance in these buildings should alert staff, who will be standing by, happy and willing to assist. Have concerns or questions? Let us know! Email us at info@mpmf.com. WEATHER: Although the majority of acts at the festival will occur indoors, there is an outdoor stage. We have very little control over the weather. It might rain. It might be hot. 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: umbrellas are not allowed within the ticketed area. We recommend suiting up in a super-chic poncho in case of rain. WRIST BANDS: Tickets will be swapped for wristbands at the gates. BROKEN/LOST WRISTBANDS: If you break your wristband and present it to the onsite box office, they will give you a new wristband and take the broken wristband. If you lose your wristband, they cannot be replaced. No two-day or VIP passes will be sold to replace lost wristbands. REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES: All ticket sales are final. Refunds and exchanges are not allowed after a ticket is purchased. Can’t make it? Give your ticket to a friend as a gift for being so great.

Alcohol from outside the festival site Glass containers Food or beverages from outside the festival site Coolers Skateboards, inline skates, bicycles, carts, Segways, scooters or personal motorized vehicles Large chain or spiked jewelry or clothing Hula hoops Musical instruments Inflatables Stickers Flyers CDs Fireworks or explosives Laser pointers Umbrellas Tents Pets (except for service dogs) Video equipment Drones Professional still cameras and equipment Audio recording equipment

MPMF.17 // SCHEDULE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

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Walk the Moon (Cincinnati)

Filthy Friends (Seattle; Portland, Ore.)

8 p.m.

Dan Deacon (Baltimore, Md.)

Preoccupations (Alberta, Canada)

7 p.m.

Harbour (Cincinnati)

The New Pornographers (Vancouver, Canada)

Welles (Nashville, Tenn.)

6 p.m.

Automagik (Cincinnati)

Swarming Branch (Columbus, Ohio)

5 p.m.

Daniel in Stereo (Cincinnati)

Lemon Sky (Cincinnati)

4 p.m.

Sphynx (Austin, Texas)

The Speedbumps (Akron, Ohio)

3 p.m.

Moonbeau (Cincinnati)

Taft T heatre / C entral Parkway Y M CA S tage Broken Social Scene (Toronto, Canada)

9:45 p.m.

BadBadNotGood (Toronto, Canada)

Frightened Rabbit (Glasgow, Scotland)

8:15 p.m.

Noname (Chicago)

Bedouine (Los Angeles)

7:15 p.m.

Flint Eastwood (Detroit)

Adam Torres (Austin, Texas)

6:15 p.m.

Ledges (Akron, Ohio)

DYAN (Los Angeles)

5:15 p.m.

B.Miles (Los Angeles)

Saturn Batteries (Cincinnati)

4:15 p.m.

A Delicate Motor (Cincinnati)

Blossom Hall (Cincinnati)

3:15 p.m.

Current Events (Cincinnati)

T he Ballroom at the Taft / S uperior K ia S tage Citizen (Toledo, Ohio/Detroit)

11: 15 p.m.

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Pile (Boston)

9 p.m.

Aaron Lee Tasjan (Nashville, Tenn.)

Ampline (Cincinnati)

7:45 p.m.

Mandolin Orange (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

6:45 p.m.

The Ghost of Paul Revere (Portland, Maine)

5:45 p.m.

Jeremy Pinnell (Burlington, Ky.)

Kid Stardust (Cincinnati)

4:45 p.m.

Young Heirlooms (Cincinnati)

Even Tiles (Cincinnati)

3:45 p.m.

Edward + Jane (Cincinnati)

Lo, The Loyal Conscripts (Cincinnati)

2:45 p.m.

The Long Lost (Chicago)

M asonic Cathedral S tage Valerie June (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

10 p.m.

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (Lagos, Nigeria)

The Cactus Blossoms (Minneapolis, Minn.)

8:30 p.m.

The Urban Renewal Project (Los Angeles)

William Elliott Whitmore (Lee County, Iowa)

7:15 p.m.

Charly Bliss (New York City)

David Luning (San Francisco)

6 p.m.

Amy O (Bloomington, Ind.)

Virginia Man (Fredericksburg, Va.)

5 p.m.

Varsity (Chicago)

Youth Yamada (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

4 p.m.

Bicentennial Bear (Columbus, Ohio)

Rachel Mousie (Cincinnati)

3 p.m.

Coastal Club (Cincinnati)

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MPMF.17 // SaturDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Fifth Street/Skyline Stage 9:15 p.m. The New Pornographers (Vancouver, Canada) Indie Rock/Pop

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In 2000, The New Pornographers’ debut album, Mass Romantic (later declared one of the best Indie Rock albums ever made), yielded the deliriously compelling “Letter to an Occupant” and heralded the beginning of an unbroken 17-year string of recorded excellence. From the hair-raising Roy-Woodmeets-Ray-Davies thump of Twin Cinema and the darkly bracing Challengers to the exquisite New Wave/Synth Pop reinvention/ revisitation of Brill Bruisers and brilliantly transitional Electric Version and Together, the pure-Pop-for-all-people collective has managed to push all the right buttons and amass one of the most consistently satisfying music catalogs in Rock history. The band’s latest, Whiteout Conditions, is a logical extension of Brill Bruisers, with even more electronic texture and pulsations underpinning the New Pornographers’ adrenalized Canadian Invasion Pop/Rock in a hybrid frontman A.C. Newman once described as “Krautrock Fifth Dimension.” You’ll Dig It If You Dig: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame condensed into a single wing. And Krautrock Fifth Dimension. (Brian Baker) 8 p.m. Filthy Friends (Seattle; Portland, Ore.) Pop Rock

What do you get when you combine members of Sleater-Kinney, The Fastbacks,

Young Fresh Fellows, King Crimson and R.E.M.? Filthy Friends answered that question for the masses this year and it’s as entertainingly varied as you’d expect. Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker provides the sublime lead vocals, giving the band’s first full-length effort — the recent Kill Rock Stars release, Invitation — its sense of cohesion, while Peter Buck’s guitar playing remains as identifiable as any other player of the past 40 years outside of The Edge, giving the LP’s tracks a welcoming sense of familiarity. Overall, Invitation is simply a fun jam session of a Rock & Roll album, though incredibly well written and constructed (the precise backing vocals drive home the point that this is not a toss-off — these people are f’ing pros!). Moving from vintage Power Pop and early CBGB’s Art Punk to swaggering Glam Rock and Nuggets-ready Garage Pop, Invitation actually sounds like the musicians are having a great time in the studio making it, which is especially infectious coming from a band of musicians with such an extensive collective history in the biz. YDIIYD: Patti Smith, Sleater-Kinney, R.E.M., the history of melodic Rock & Roll. (Mike Breen) 7 p.m. Preoccupations (Alberta, Canada) Post Punk

The sense of unease in Preoccupations’ shadowy Post Punk is like a scar. After the band Women ended suddenly following an onstage fight (the group’s guitarist died after the split as well), some of the members formed Viet Cong, eventually signing with taste-making indie imprint Jagjaguwar and launching a self-titled album into a seemingly welcoming Indie Rock scene in 2015. When the band started work on a follow-up, the earth was shifting under the members’ feet — longtime relationships ended in the wake of touring behind the debut, every musician had moved to a different city and, after announcing it would change its name from Viet Cong in the wake of mounting protests, the group hadn’t yet settled on the moniker it would use. The disjointed musicians came together in the studio with

a blank slate and used the swirling turmoil to their advantage, injecting it into the dark, absorbing 2016 album Preoccupations, which was also the new band name. YDIIYD: Swans, Interpol, Echo & the Bunnymen, Wire. (MB) 6 p.m. Welles (Nashville, Tenn.) Psych Pop

drummer Lon Leary, and the duo’s experimental approach to writing and recording typically involves an Impossible Missions Force of talented collaborators and the concept that the group’s sound will be determined in the moment of live or studio creation. That said, Swarming Branch’s recently released new album, Surreal Number, represents Graham’s most linear musical execution to date while maintaining an adventurous sense of artistic whimsy, all contained within the concept that synthetic and organic systems can successfully work in tandem. Even with a loose set of applied rules, Surreal Number proves that Swarming Branch is still a freewheeling example of originality within a familiar musical framework. YDIIYD: Dan Bejar’s Destroyer making 8-bit Folk Rock with Beck. (BB)

Jeh Sea Wells’ grandfather gave him a cassette copy of Sgt. Pepper when he was in second grade, and it became a listening obsession for the Arkansas native. The irony in this situation is that the Fab Four’s masterpiece is over twice as old as Wells, yet he effortlessly channels the spirits of The Beatles in their experimental phase (even drifting into “White Album” territory), as well as Nirvana at its angst-ridden best, with discernible shades of David Bowie floating through the mix. Wells’ early work was credited to Jeh Sea Wells, but a couple of years ago, he decided to operate under the band name Welles, which is how his brilliant new five-song EP Codeine is bannered. Whatever name he decides to hang on it, Wells needs to make a couple of full-lengths of this stuff as soon as humanly possible. YDIIYD: Kurt Cobain’s tribute to Sgt. Pepper with “fuck” inserted into every song, literally and figuratively. (BB) 5 p.m. Swarming Branch (Columbus, Ohio) Glam Folk

Swarming Branch is not a band in the conventional sense. The core of the collective is vocalist/guitarist Andrew Graham and

4 p.m. Lemon Sky (Cincinnati) Psych Rock

At the nexus of Prog and Pop and the most classic of Classic Rock, Lemon Sky exists as ephemeral idea and solid structure, as paisley hallucination and tangible reality, as crystalline melodicism and monolithic riffage. In a single song, the Cincinnati quintet can encapsulate the pummeling bravado of Led Zeppelin, the passionate innocence of The Beatles, the intricate head-trip of Pink Floyd and the contemporary heart-punch of Queens of the Stone Age and The Flaming Lips. The exciting thing about Lemon Sky is that its wide-eyed, self-titled first album and emphatically brilliant sophomore release Dos, as good as they both happen to be, are mere hints at the band’s musical potential. A more recent triumph is its unexpected cover of The Beatles’ “I Want You (She’s So Heavy),” one of the more potent entries in the Fab Four’s catalog, which Lemon Sky transforms into a soaring, searing sonic marathon of orchestrated guitars and a Viking rhythm section. Valhalla my ass, Lemon Sky is Rock heaven on earth. YDIIYD: The Beatles and Led Zeppelin going full metal crouching tiger with light saber guitars. (BB)

SaturDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 // MPMF.17 3 p.m. The Speedbumps (Akron, Ohio) Indie Folk Rock

After dropping out of Kent State and traveling around playing music for change, singer/ songwriter/guitarist Erik Urycki returned to Northeast Ohio to form a band. Launched in 2007, The Speedbumps developed an acoustic sound informed by a love for both contemporary Roots artists and Indie Rock, releasing its first album in 2013 and earning praise from a variety of outlets. When the band decamped to an isolated cabin to make the follow-up to 2015’s Soil to the Seed, The Speedbumps began a musical transformation sparked by Urycki’s discovery of the joys of the electric guitar and a general desire to shift gears. Released in July, When the Darkness Comes is a more full-bodied and vigorous collection of songs that lean more in the direction of rich, emotive Indie Pop and Rock than Americana, still centered by Urycki’s raspy voice and captivating melodies, but delivered with a renewed sense of energy. YDIIYD: Artists unafraid of drastically reinventing themselves after establishing a successful formula, like Wilco and Radiohead. (MB)

Taft Theatre/Central Parkway YMCA Stage

The Broken Social Scene collective was created by core members Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning just before the turn of the millennium, birthing a project that expands

YDIIYD: The sound of Canadian Indie Rock circa the 21st century. (MB) 8:15 p.m. Frightened Rabbit (Glasgow, Scotland) Indie Rock

Scottish guitarist/vocalist Scott Hutchison found the perfect vehicle for working out his internal struggles when he began writing 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 on their amazing fifth album, last year’s Painting of a Panic Attack, with production by The National’s Aaron Dessner. The group was such a hit at last year’s MPMF (the band also apparently had a great experience,

calling MidPoint “brilliant” on its Facebook page), it’s back for the 2017 edition. YDIIYD: Snow Patrol and Travis shooting dice in the Gallagher brothers’ alley. (BB) 7:15 p.m. Bedouine (Los Angeles) Folk/Pop

Azniv Korkejian is truly a citizen of the world. Born in Syria and raised in Saudi Arabia, she later relocated to Boston and Houston before her nomadic existence in America took her through Kentucky, Texas and Georgia, where she earned her degree in sound design. Korkejian settled in L.A. and became a dialogue and music editor for the film industry, but a fortuitous meeting with bassist/producer Gus Seyffert led to her evolution as a singer/songwriter. For her stage identity, Korkejian adopted the name Bedouine, a feminization of the Arabic word for nomad, a fitting description of not only her life’s journey so far, but also her ephemeral style, sound and approach. Bedouine’s self-titled debut is a marvel of atmospherically orchestrated ’60s Folk/Pop that is gently time-machined into the 21st century. YDIIYD: Julee Cruise and Norah Jones sitting in on Nick Drake’s beyond-the-veil music class. (BB) 6:15 p.m. Adam Torres (Austin, Texas) Indie Folk

Singer/songwriter Adam Torres’ life so far has been pretty fascinating, in and out of music. Born in New Mexico and raised in the Cincy exburb West Chester, Torres found his musical footing in Athens, Ohio, where he

performed as a solo artist and as a member of the regionally popular band Southeast Engine. Torres put out his first album, Nostra Nova, DIY-style in 2006, then carried on with his life, still writing music but quitting the band, focusing on college and traveling to Ecuador to do volunteer work. Ending up in Austin, Texas in 2011 for graduate school, Torres later worked on a project to improve the water quality of the Rio Grande River, all the while hearing the music calling him back. Since leaving Athens, Nostra Nova had become a cult favorite, earning a widely praised reissue in 2015 and building up anticipation for Pearls to Swine, Torres’ debut album for the respected Fat Possum label, a year later. Now entrenched in the latest unexpected phase in his life, Torres kicked off 2017 with the EP I Came to Sing the Song, then headed out on the road for new adventures, playing shows all over the world. YDIIYD: Neutral Milk Hotel, Jeff Buckley, Bon Iver. (MB) 5:15 p.m. DYAN (Los Angeles) Indie/Electronic Pop

Indie Pop trio DYAN came together when the film-scoring duo Alexis & Sam (whose work can be heard in various feature films and TV shows like Animal Kingdom and Sesame Street) decided to write a more traditional song to use over the main title sequence of a movie they were scoring. Inspired, Alexis Marsh (singer/guitarist/bassist) began writing more songs, eventually decamping to Cincinnati to form an album. Dan Dorff Jr. (once a regular presence in the Cincinnati music scene who went on to work with Jim James and Ray LaMontagne) joined Marsh while recording in Louisville, Ky., adding drums and piano. Marsh’s scoring partner Sam Jones (guitarist/synths) came in during the album’s mixing, marking the first time the three members of DYAN worked together. The trio’s sparse but warm, visceral mix of synths and electronics with enchanting melodies and textural guitars and cello exhibited on DYAN’s 2016 debut, Looking for Knives, hit a nerve, garnering attention from popular music blogs and traditional music-press outlets while

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9:45 p.m. Broken Social Scene (Toronto, Canada) Indie Rock

and contracts depending on which of its 20-plus members are involved at the time. The rotating cast features primarily Canadian singers and musicians, many of whom are involved in their own bands, some of which have experienced major success — Amy Millan and Emily Haines of Indie faves Stars and Metric (respectively) are original members of the BSS family, as is breakthrough singer/ songwriter Leslie Feist. Those vocalists and the 12 other artists involved at the start of BSS returned for the latest album, Hug of Thunder, the project’s first since 2010’s Forgiveness Rock Record. Despite the many contributors, Drew and Canning have always done a good job of keeping BSS albums focused — the band’s music is certainly its own entity, regardless of who’s involved — while live shows (which also utilize the revolving-door policy) can feature more than a dozen musicians, adding an extra sense of jubilance to the proceedings.

MPMF.17 // SaturDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 notching 500,000 spins of the title track on Spotify in just its first month available (it’s now nearing 1.8 million streams). YDIIYD: Sylvan Esso, Purity Ring, The xx. (MB) 4:15 p.m. Saturn Batteries (Cincinnati) Indie Pop/Rock

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From its beginning seven years ago, Saturn Batteries has been the sonic equivalent of the story of five blind men describing an elephant based on its disparate body parts. With guitarist/vocalist Brad Gibson at the helm, a rotating collective of band members created a broadly familiar yet ephemerally unclassifiable body of work and a solid reputation as an energetic, powerful and versatile live act. Saturn Batteries’ two EPs, 2013’s Ever Been in Love? and 2014’s Real Far East, offered up spritely Indie Pop with a beautifully dark streak that hinted at early New Wave/Pop/Punk elements refracted through a modern Midwestern sensibility. The arrival of former Gold Shoes guitarist/ vocalist Archie Niebuhr added yet another layer of emotional and musical complexity to Saturn Batteries’ already tangled definition of itself. The band has evidently been working on a full-length debut for the past few years, and hopes run high that this year will yield the fruit of that labor. YDIIYD: The Cure if they’d been born 35 years later as a Pop band in the Midwest with no eyeliner or hairspray. (BB) 3:15 p.m. Blossom Hall (Cincinnati) Indie Rock

A couple of years ago, keyboardist/vocalist Nancy Paraskevopoulos and guitarist/ vocalist Phil Cotter (welcome back?) began writing odd little Pop-goes-the-Garage songs that didn’t really fit into the context of their respective groups at the time. Equal parts ’80s New Wave, ’90s AltRock and contemporary jitter Pop, Paraskevopoulos and Cotter’s outlet project became Blossom Hall. Initially practiced as a duo, an impending show necessitated a call to drummer/ friend Charlie Schefft, who filled in for the gig and never left. The trio has posted a few of their live performances on YouTube and recently released its first official single, the reflective yet propulsive “Easy to Want to Die,” inspired by Paraskevopoulos’ neardrowning experience. A full Blossom Hall album is in the works; hopefully, additional material will require no further brushes with death for inspiration. YDIIYD: The quiet insistence of Belle and Sebastian, the loud insistence of Blondie. (BB)

The Ballroom at the Taft/ Superior Kia Stage 11: 15 p.m. Citizen (Toledo, Ohio/Detroit) Emo/Hardcore

Citizen formed while its members were still in high school; a few short years later, the band was signed to Punk/Hardcore label Run for Cover Records. It’s debut fulllength, 2013’s Youth, and its melodic mix of Hardcore and Emo sounds raised the band’s profile, as did a persistent touring schedule, which included dates with The Wonder Years and Modern Baseball, as well as a stint on the Warped Tour. As one might expect from a band that got its start so young, as the musicians’ skills sharpened, Citizen’s sound has evolved: 2015’s breakthrough album Everybody is Going to Heaven was even more informed by Grunge, Emo and other AltRock influences (even Shoegaze and Post Punk) and helped expand the group’s listenership. The band’s popularity continues to rise, assisted by sweet gigs like an opening slot on this

summer’s AFI/Circa Survive tour of theaters, amphitheaters and arenas, setting the stage for the October release of Citizen’s third album, As You Please.

7:45 p.m. Ampline (Cincinnati) Post Punk/Post Rock

YDIIYD: Title Fight, Alkaline Trio, Superheaven. (MB) 9 p.m. Pile (Boston) Indie Rock

In 2007, Pile was created by young singer/ guitarist Rick Maguire as a solo project. Within a couple of years, Pile evolved into a powerhouse four-piece band, becoming heroes of Boston’s music scene (particularly among fellow musicians) before expanding its loyal fan base by regularly taking its fervent, visceral live show on extensive tours across the U.S. and Europe. Pile’s legend is also built on the oscillating dynamics of its music — while certain traits (unanticipated structures, tension, emotional directness and intensity) seem inherent, new elements and angles of Pile are revealed with each album release. The band’s explorations and Maguire’s expansive framing have led the music through the realms of Post Punk, Hardcore, Noise, Folk, Prog, Punk, Indie Rock and beyond. Even given those standards, Pile’s fifth album, this year’s A Hairshirt of Purpose, is a fairly drastic tonal shift, with more of a focus on melody and much of the bombast and complexity replaced by fluidity and introspection. The songs retain Pile’s unconventional slant, but the expansiveness is more in the scope of the lens than in the winding, twisting roadmap. As usual, the results of Pile’s latest redirection are revelatory.

Ampline’s roots go back nearly two decades. The band began as a quartet but shed members over the years, eventually leaving founding bassist Kevin Schmidt, who soldiered on with guitarist Mike Montgomery and drummer Rick McCarty to become one of the loudest, most powerful and most intricately arranged juggernauts in this or any city. Originally all-instrumental but developing a vocal component over time, the past 16 years have seen Ampline release four incredible albums of anthemic Punk/Prog, marked by Jazz-tinged time signatures and arena Rock bombast, and become a live act with an almost feral intensity. The trio’s fifth album (and first new album in seven years), Passion Relapse, is slated for release in January 2018 and is cause for the kind of celebration reserved for astronauts returning from the moon. You can prepare for the idea of Ampline, but the reality will blow your mind every time. YDIIYD: Volume you can touch, invention you can hear, music you can taste. (BB) 6:45 p.m. Mad Anthony (Cincinnati) Rock

YDIIYD: At the Drive In and The Jesus Lizard switching bodies with Failure and Built to Spill. (MB) Mad Anthony’s Ringo Jones and Adam Flaig wield two guitars as loud as Krakatoa’s megaton hissy fit, and Marc Sherlock hits the drums with an impact that has to be measured in velocity and foot-pounds per square inch. And through it all, Jones howls like an enraged mutant singing into the exhaust fan of a jet engine at full thrust,

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SaturDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 // MPMF.17 defiantly remaining audible over the din. Mad Anthony’s live shows and catalog over the past decade have earned the band a zealous and righteous fan base, but its latest project, the yearlong Mad Anthology, is insanity on a massive scale. Built on its wellexecuted plan to write and record a song a week, alone and with numerous brilliant friends, for 12 calendar months, the band released the results online weekly. With that stone successfully pushed up a steep hill, the only thing crazier would be to release the results in physical form. Meet crazier: Mad Anthology: Volume One, a collection of highlights from the series, is on track for a vinyl and CD release, with plans in the works for further volumes getting hard-copy runs. I’ll have what they’re having, in a much smaller dose. YDIIYD: Throw five pounds of nuts and bolts in a musical blender, garnish with guitars and drums, serve scalding hot. (BB) 5:45 p.m. Brat Curse (Columbus, Ohio) Pop/Punk

YDIIYD: The raised-in-Ohio Buzzcocks taking Manhattan with Dinosaur Jr. (BB)

into Even Tiles with the release of 2013’s The Lower Tangent, a six-track EP that garnered critical acclaim and high expectations for the future. The band, with a few personnel changes along the way, has been a fixture at subsequent MidPoint showcases and other events ever since. Even Tiles’ website bio promises an imminent update, which we can only hope is the band’s subliminal message that new recordings may be on the horizon.

Masonic Cathedral Stage 10 p.m. Valerie June (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Folk/Soul/Country

YDIIYD: Broken Social Scene meets Clem Snide meets Deerhunter meets your soul. (BB) Powerful vocalist Chrissy von Savoye and imaginative guitarist Drew James met when they were both living in New Jersey trying to play music. The seeds of Kid Stardust were in the ground after that meeting, but the pair decided that the high cost of living in Jersey wasn’t particularly conducive to their Rock & Roll dreams and ultimately decided to relocate to Cincinnati, where they hooked up with bassist Ryan Hickman and drummer Rick Henry and were embraced by the local music community. A debut EP, last year’s Something Like This But Better, offered a great representation of Kid Stardust’s expressive, from-the-gut Indie Rock. The complete lack of gimmicks and pretense allows the band’s music to exist without a timestamp — it’s a sound that would have been just as enthralling had it existed in peak-CBGB’s New York, the pre-spotlight Seattle of the late ’80s or the Strokes-ruled turn-of-the-millennium NYC scene. YDIIYD: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Gits, early Pretenders, Bully. (MB) 3:45 p.m. Even Tiles (Cincinnati) Indie Rock

2:45 p.m. Lo, The Loyal Conscripts (Cincinnati) Prog/Post Rock

Orchestrating a sound that dramatically maneuvers between a shimmer and a roar, Lo, The Loyal Conscripts’ music brings together cerebral intricacy, wild-eyed exploration and feverish intensity, exploiting and balancing the tension and harmony of its arrangements. Formed from the ashes of Cincinnati band If I Ever, Lo, the Loyal Conscripts initially featured a vocalist and released 2015’s Remember to Breathe, but ultimately the musicians decided to go the all-instrumental route and allow their heavy Post Rock to speak for itself. This summer, guitarist Daniel Whitford and drummer Ryan Braun (joined by bassist Tyler Stemmer for its MPMF performance) announced plans to take a break from live shows in order to write and refocus, with MidPoint serving as their last show for the time being.

Without ever hearing a note of music by acclaimed singer/songwriter Valerie June, just knowing that the Tennessee native’s first major-label album, 2013’s Pushin’ Against a Stone, was produced by and cowritten with The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach — and that June has collaborated with the Old Crow Medicine Show and opened for Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Norah Jones and Jake Bugg — would be enough to draw a crowd to her shows. But it turns out June is as versatile and sharp as a Swiss army knife and blessed with a talent that stretches the boundaries of human measurement. Her new album, The Order of Time, is a thing of interstellar beauty and an exquisite joy; the perfect synthesis of everything Valerie June has done better than well to this point. YDIIYD: Sturgill Simpson and Nikki Lane having a music baby and raising her up to take over the family business. (BB) 8:30 p.m. The Cactus Blossoms (Minneapolis, Minn.) Americana/Country

YDIIYD: Russian Circles, Rosetta, Mouth of the Architect. (MB)

Former Atriums/Die Pilot vocalist/guitarist/ songwriter Justin White tried several band projects before going solo with songs that could either be performed alone with loops and pedals or with a complete band. From there, White assembled Justin WW and the Inner Ocean, which ultimately evolved

Brothers Jack Torrey and Page Burkum formed The Cactus Blossoms after a childhood of Beatles fandom and the discovery of classic and obscure Country music and early Rock & Roll. After self-releasing a few albums (beginning with their 2011 eponymous debut), an appearance on

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There was a time not terribly long ago that Dayton, Ohio’s Astro Fang was one of the most popular Indie Rock bands from the Gem City whose name didn’t include the words “guided” or “by” or “voices.” The band’s unexpected breakup was triggered by the relocation to Columbus, Ohio of guitarist/vocalist Brian Baker (what a virile, talented, handsome name he has). Joined by Astro Fang drummer/vocalist Chris Mengerink and new bassist Justin Baker, the equally adrenalized and potently hormonal Brat Curse took shape and soon took Columbus by similarly electrified storm. The band’s self-titled debut was a contemporary blaze of ’70s British Punk cross-pollinated with ’80s Midwest Pop/Rock. With the arrival of guitarist Joe Camerlengo, Brat Curse’s imminent new album promises more and better of the same.

4:45 p.m. Kid Stardust (Cincinnati) Indie Rock

MPMF.17 // SaturDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Prairie Home Companion and extensive touring, the breaks came head-spinningly fast: Americana sensation JD McPherson’s offered to produce their first widely available album, 2016’s acclaimed You’re Dreaming, and David Lynch’s production company invited them to be involved in an episode (or more) of the director’s reboot of Twin Peaks. Classic Country with a modern twist doesn’t come any better than The Cactus Blossoms.

6 p.m. David Luning (San Francisco) Folk/Americana/Country

YDIIYD: The Louvins, the Delmores and the Everlys interpreted by Dwight Yoakam. (BB)

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7:15 p.m. William Elliott Whitmore (Lee County, Iowa) Roots Folk

Many musicians have day jobs that they toil away at when they’re not writing, recording and touring, but William Elliott Whitmore’s working alter ego is slightly more complicated than that — he’s a farmer in Iowa and has to schedule all of his musical activities around planting/growing/harvesting cycles. Over the past two decades, Whitmore has managed to turn out eight stellar examples of his Folk/AltCountry craft by adapting the same basic principles of farming taught to him by his father: Care for your creations in the brief time you have to tend to them and diversify to maintain healthy growth. Whitmore’s last album, 2015’s Radium Death, found the acoustic singer/songwriter plugging in and playing electrically (mixed in with his proven stripped-down approach) for the first time in his recorded career with fairly stunning results. Like every good Folk artist, the power of the songs themselves is Whitmore’s primary concern, and regardless of the nature of their presentation, his material worms its way into the listener’s head, heart and soul in equal measure and with equal force. YDIIYD: The social and musical traditions of a whole lot of Guthries, and the translations of Cincinnati’s own (and now New York’s) Josh Eagle. (BB)

David Luning didn’t find his calling particularly late in life, but he was introduced to the medium of his calling surprisingly late, especially considering how well suited he proved to be for it. While at Berklee College of Music in Boston studying film scoring, Luning says friends played him some Folk/Americana music and it was the first time he’d every really listened to anything from the genre. But considering the music was by songwriting legend John Prine, perhaps that lightning-bolt moment when Luning changed course and decided to become a Folk/Americana troubadour isn’t a complete shock. He dropped out of school and retreated to California, developing a Country-flavored sound and releasing his debut album, Just Drop On By, in 2012. Luning’s risk seemed to be pay off, with the album drawing critical praise (including a co-sign from superstar Keith Urban) and leading to extensive touring, film and TV song placements and a profile-raising audition on American Idol. Earlier this year, Luning released his highly polished followup, Restless. YDIIYD: The Steel Wheels, The Honey cutters, Jim Lauderdale. (MB) 5 p.m. Virginia Man (Fredericksburg, Va.) Indie Folk Rock

The last time a band made serious inroads with a grassroots fan-building effort on Southeastern college campuses, it was a little outfit known as the Dave Matthews

Band. The latest group to work that angle is Virginia Man, a talented quintet that wears its home-state pride in its name. The big difference is that Virginia Man was born in the firestorm of the social media age, which has fast-tracked its exposure, leading to a fairly quick 250,000 spins on Spotify for its debut single, last summer’s “Paper Shields.” Virginia Man was still keen to hit the road and earn its audience the old-fashioned way, but with the modern twist of capitalizing on the exposure with a 21st-century crowdfunding campaign that raised over $8,000 for the band to record Let Us Be, Virginia Man’s debut EP from earlier this year. YDIIYD: Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers with a few less men on a dead man’s chest. (BB) 4 p.m. Youth Yamada (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Indie Pop/Rock

Born in Philadelphia, singer/songwriter Youth Yamada grew up in Japan, developing his musical skills and a deep love of The Beatles — he claims to be able to sing and play the basic instrumental parts for every one of the more than 200 songs The Beatles released. Forming the band The World Chocolate in Tokyo, Yamada recorded and released albums and toured Japan before moving to New York in 2009 and putting his skills to work in The Meetles, a Classic Rock cover band that, of course, plays a lot of Beatles. Funneling his classics-informed talent into a solo career, Youth Yamada’s album debut, this year’s Acoustic Safari, makes for a satisfying and entertaining listen, with Yamada expertly translating the melodic and musical spirit of The Beatles and other ’60s Pop icons into his upbeat acoustic stroll. His slightly loose grasp on English creates a vague lyrical haze, but it adds an offbeat charm to the album that just makes you want to keep listening. YDIIYD: Jonathan Richman playing The Beatles, The Beatles playing Jonathan Richman. (MB)

3 p.m. Rachel Mousie (Cincinnati) Indie Pop

Inspired by the artistry of performers like Nina Simone, Norah Jones and Radiohead, Cincinnati native Rachel Mousie started writing and performing music when she was in college at Ohio University. Since then, her R&B, Pop and Jazz-influenced original songs have been featured on a pair of albums and she has become a regular performer all over her hometown area. For live shows, Mousie developed a setup that incorporates a looping station, allowing her to layer her vocals in the moment and also craft percussion sounds on the spot, creating a unique new dimension to her songs. With the technique becoming a part of her songwriting process and creative identity, Mousie entered the studio with co-producer Michael Ronstadt (who also provided strings) to record her third album, Talk to Your Babies, which is set for release in early October. YDIIYD: The way songwriters like Imogen Heap and KT Tunstall use looping vocals to add an otherworldly aura to their songs. (MB)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 // MPMF.17 Fifth Street/Skyline Stage 9:15 p.m. Walk the Moon (Cincinnati) AltPop Rock

In 2010, Cincinnati’s Walk the Moon played a high-energy club show at the MidPoint Music Festival for a small but enthusiastic crowd of no more than 50 people. This year, Walk the Moon triumphantly returns to its hometown festival as headliners and superstars, rocketed into the mainstream music world with its single “Shut Up and Dance” off of its 2014 RCA Records release, Talking is Hard. With its engulfing live show and mix of earworm melodies, passionate vocals, echoing, U2-like guitars and danceinducing rhythms, the Cincinnati foursome isn’t likely to fall into “one-hit wonder” obscurity, something its consistently highon-the-poster festival bookings and loyal hardcore fan base seem to confirm. The band is revving up for the release of its third major-label album — due in November and advanced by the single “One Foot” — meaning hometown fans should get a little dose of Walk the Moon’s future during its MPMF performance.

8 p.m. Dan Deacon (Baltimore, Md.) Electronic/Indie Rock

There was a time when Dan Deacon lived hand-to-mouth, sleeping in his van

YDIIYD: Music that is orchestral and classical and synthy and blippy and all the other dwarves at Snow White’s rave. (Brian Baker) 7 p.m. Harbour (Cincinnati) AltRock/Pop

YDIIYD: Bad Suns, Colony House, Bleachers, Young the Giant. (MB) 6 p.m. Automagik (Cincinnati) AltRock

YDIIYD: Owl City produced by Jimmy Eats World. (BB) Greater Cincinnati altrockers Automagik came together in 2010 with a sharp, dynamic sound drenched in a gush of kinetic energy, catchy hooks, insistent grooves and an overall sense of fun and offbeat humor that combine for one of the more crowd-engaging live shows in the region. After a couple of self-issued releases, Automagik teamed with well-distributed indie label Old Flame Records for 2015’s Dark Daze EP, which spawned write-ups from national outlets like Consequence of Sound and Interview Magazine. Regular touring and appearances at festivals like Bunbury and South by Southwest have also helped Automagik spread its joyous Pop Rock playfulness to a broadening audience. Last summer the band released The Road, a four-song EP issued as a limited-edition cassette. YDIIYD: Cage the Elephant, Foxy Shazam, Weezer. (MB)

If you are looking for the next band out of Cincinnati with the potential to take on the Pop charts and follow in the footsteps of Walk the Moon, don’t sleep on Harbour, which was formed in 2014 by five friends in nearby Lebandon, Ohio. With its warm and infectious AltRock sound, the group has amassed a rabidly dedicated area following that has helped them sell out hometown shows. Harbour’s monster hooks and sonic charisma are primed for wider attention, something the members are trying to hasten with performances at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York and a touring radius that has extended to numerous college campuses around the country. This summer, Harbour hosted its own music festival to celebrate the release of its latest full-length, Heatwave.

Chimusoro has recorded and released his debut 4 Years EP, energized a couple of pretty big crowds at consecutive Bunbury Music Festivals, had a bit of a hit with 2015’s giddy “Lipstain” and earned a well-deserved nomination in the Alternative/Indie category at the last Cincinnati Entertainment Awards ceremonies. DiS has released a series of singles since the EP came out, including the new “Fool Me Once” — hopefully there’s a full album’s worth of Daniel in Stereo on its way in the near future. The world needs a full measure of his brand of happy in the worst way right now.

5 p.m. Daniel in Stereo (Cincinnati) Indie Rock

Mary Tyler Moore wasn’t alone in her ability to turn the world on with her smile. Daniel Chimusoro, better known to various and sundry as Daniel in Stereo, has a megawatt grin that could very easily power a small Midwestern city during a power outage and an infectious musical presentation that matches it step for bounding step.

4 p.m. Sphynx (Austin, Texas) Dance/Pop/Electronic

If you are in the groove to move at MidPoint, let Sphynx be your full-service disco (lightup dance floor not included… probably). The MPMF veterans’ entertaining live show and deeply funky, playfully retro ElectroPop sound made them one of the more popular live entities in Austin, Texas — one of the biggest music towns in the world — before the musicians decided to take their glammed-up show on the road, sprinkling clubs and festivals across the country with Sphynx magic dust. To crank up the party vibes, the group is known to pull out an ironic crowd-pleasing cover song or two, but after spending much of 2016 writing and recording new material, the current focus is on the new jams featured on the recently released Golden Garden album and a companion EP, Spacecamp. Still, you’ll never know if Sphynx would have played Steve Perry’s “Foolish Heart” at MPMF if you don’t yell it out. YDIIYD: Chromeo, MGMT, Daft Punk, Jamiroquai. (MB)

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You’ll Dig It If You Dig: ’80s influences like The Police and Talking Heads mixed with a Modern Rock verve, contemporary Pop charm and timeless passion. (Mike Breen)

and doing his avant DIY Electronic set in seedy clubs, basements and abandoned warehouses; in other words, anywhere. While an electro-acoustic/computer music composition student at SUNY Purchase, Deacon self-released instrumental and experimental Electronic recordings. But in 2007, he dropped his first widely available album, Spiderman of the Rings, and it was an immediate sensation, hitting the Top 25 of traditionally snarky Pitchfork’s Top 50 albums of the year (2009’s Bromst was similarly lauded). Over the subsequent decade, Deacon has moved toward analog synths, live instrumentation and vocal manipulation with equally stunning results, particularly on 2012’s politically charged America and 2015’s triumphant Glass Riffer. The 10th-anniversary release of Spiderman is a revelationm, and so is Deacon’s interactive live show, which is a lot like driving a car — pay attention and be engaged and involved every second or you’ll crash. Don’t forget your mosh pit belt.

MPMF.17 // SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 3 p.m. Moonbeau (Cincinnati) Indie/SynthPop

Back when he was in the eighth grade, The Yugos’ vocalist/guitarist Christian Gough began exorcising his ElectroPop/New Wave jones with Moonbeau, a dead-perfect evocation of ’80s Synth Pop avatars like A Flock of Seagulls, Modern English and New Order. In the present tense, Gough — working side by side with vocalist Claire Muenchen and drummer Alex Murphy-White — hits all the right highlights of a bygone era, but with a completely fresh and contemporary passion and energy. Until recently, the band had only posted a number of demos and live videos of its work, but the recent release of Moonbeau’s first fully produced single, “Are We in Love Yet?,” was the first step toward a full-length album next year through Old Flame Records. Make no mistake, “Are We in Love Yet?” could be Moonbeau’s Walk the Moon moment and, by the way, the answer is, “Yes, we are most definitely in love with Moonbeau.”

all the spotting characteristics of Jazz, its hairpin tonal shifts from pleasant melodicism to discordant abrasion earn the group the often-abused Avant Garde designation. In BadBadNotGood’s case, its freeform flights of fancy are never merely noise for noise’s sake, but rather an exploration of boundaries that allows the musicians to fearlessly stray from known paths with the surety that they will either find their way back or blaze a new trail in the process. All of this is heightened by the collective’s use of Electronic and, more grippingly, Hip Hop elements within the Jazz framework — if it can work with American history on Broadway, it can work anywhere — which has led to collaborations with Tyler, the Creator, Frank Ocean and Ghostface Killah. Since 2010, BadBadNotGood’s members have developed a telepathic synchronicity, as evidenced on its album releases, which have included interpretations of songs by My Bloody Valentine, A Tribe Called Quest, Kanye West and other unexpected artists, as well as original material. The band is a marvel of deconstruction, reinvention and refinement, where tradition is both honored and ignored. YDIIYD: Can and Weather Report playing John Coltrane’s songbook upside down and backward. (Brian Baker) 8:15 p.m. Noname (Chicago) Hip Hop

YDIIYD: Synth Pop introduced by Martha Quinn, then and now. (BB)

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To define BadBadNotGood in any definitive fashion is to unfairly relegate it to a constraining musical singularity that wouldn’t adequately describe the ensemble in any event. While the quartet clearly fits

Since her first release, last summer’s Telefone, Noname has become one of the most acclaimed musical acts in independent music. But the buzz around the unsigned artist started before Telefone made it on numerous outlets’ “Best of 2016” lists. Making a name for herself in Chicago as a slam poet, Noname’s collaborations with Hip Hop artists drew wider attention, particularly her work with friend Chance the Rapper, with whom she appeared on Saturday Night Live late last year. The imaginative Telefone more than lived up to the promise of her guest appearances. Draped in an atmospheric, low-key Soul/Funk sound, Noname’s musical vocal delivery and the

thoughtful, creative poetry of her lyrics — which gracefully move between introspective reflection and inspection and social commentary — earn her a high-ranking position among the current wave of artists (Chance included) who are taking Hip Hop to new and exciting places, both musically and lyrically.

6:15 p.m. Ledges (Akron, Ohio) Indie Rock

YDIIYD: The musical and socially awake spirit of Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo delivered with the heart and soul of a poet. (MB) 7:15 p.m. Flint Eastwood (Detroit) Indie Rock

Flint Eastwood, the recording/performing identity of the brilliant Jax Anderson, began as an amazing Indie Dance Pop outfit that utilized Surf Rock as well as spaghettiwestern soundtracks as an undercurrent, a sound that ran through 2012’s debut EP, Late Night in Bolo Ties. On its follow-up, 2015’s Small Victories, the band became more reflective of Anderson’s solo aspirations and signaled a new phase in Flint Eastwood’s creative evolution. Her latest EP, Broke Royalty, is an extension of the shift on Small Victories toward more orchestration and a more expansive and atmospheric sonic canvas, tagged with a message of empowerment and unity. The EP’s first single, “Queen,” starts with a bombastic fanfare and offers the potent lyric, “I’m a queen not a soldier, relentless and chosen, I’m fighting a war tonight.” Sign up. Flint Eastwood needs you.

Akron, Ohio might seem an unlikely musical hotbed to the uninitiated, but the onetime rubber capital of the world was key in shaping the sound of Alternative Rock, giving the world DEVO and Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. Current arena-fillers/Akronites The Black Keys were the latest reminder to the masses that Akron has an active music scene, but a powerful contender to represent the city’s current music-makers is Ledges, a very promising Indie Rock trio potentially on the verge of a big breakthrough. Though first emerging in 2014 with an EP release, Ledges underwent a reinvention of sorts over the next two years, developing not only the storyline that would become the basis for the trio’s debut fulllength album, the just-released Homecoming, but also a richer, soaring sound with an alluring emotional depth and atmospheric layers that craftily incorporate elements of “Alternative” music from the ’80s into the dreamy soundscape. The band’s latest music also has a magnetic Pop pull to it that, mixed with the emotional relatability of the lyrics and vocals, could take Ledges’ music well beyond Akron’s city limits. YDIIYD: Smallpools, The Neighbourhood, The 1975. (MB) 5:15 p.m. B.Miles (Los Angeles) Electronic Pop

YDIIYD: Kate Bush taking over LCD Soundsystem. (BB)

The moody, dreamlike sounds of L.A.-based singer B.Miles caught on almost as soon as it caught some ears. In 2015, she released

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 // MPMF.17 a three-song EP, the result of an extended recording session with some friends, which instantly became a music-blog favorite and shot to the top of Spotify’s viral charts in four countries. The EP’s “Salt” — which became the theme song for the Netflix Spanish-language show Las Chicas Del Cable — has earned more than nine million plays on Spotify. B.Miles’ soulful, seductive voice wraps around chilled beats and airy electronics to even greater effect on her latest release, a much-anticipated self-titled EP that was released to even greater fanfare in March. With a four-piece backing band, she has hypnotized crowds with only a select few shows since the EP’s release, making her MPMF appearance a rare treat. YDIIYD: Vocals that evoke smoky vocal sculptors Sade and Billie Holiday twisted through a 21st-century Trip Hop filter. (MB) 4:15 p.m. A Delicate Motor (Cincinnati) Avant Indie Pop

YDIIYD: Ambient Indie Rock with Jazz and Electronic undercurrents, orchestrated by improvisational deliberation. (BB)

With persistent shows around Greater Cincinnati over the past couple of years with a wide variety of local and touring bands, Current Events has been able to showcase its music in front of a diverse cross-section of local music fans, building its own following along the way. The ability to gracefully slot into almost any Indie or Alternative Rock lineup comes down to the quartet’s music (and the fact that the band plays it incredibly well), which was shaped by the varied tastes and influences each member brought to the group. On its EPs and singles released since 2015, you can hear the trace of Post Hardcore and Post Punk in the creative rhythmic thrust, while the stellar guitar work recalls everything from Post Rock to Prog. Current Events’ solid vocals, melodies and lyrics tie everything together, delivered with the kind of earnestness and honesty that are the hallmarks of the Emo sound.

gun for bands like Everest, Alberta Cross and Semi Precious Weapons? Any and every time, sport. With his band, the exquisitely named Madison Square Gardeners, or on his own as a solo act, Tasjan lights it up even more, writing and performing material that stands shoulder to shoulder with the giants of Folk/Rock storytelling (Arlo Guthrie, John Prine, Todd Snider, Guy Clark, Steve Goodman, etc.). Throw in the fact that Tasjan might be one of the most gifted and versatile guitar slingers in Nashville or anywhere, and that his solo works — Crooked River Burning, In the Blazes and the shiver-inducing Silver Tears — show him to be a multifaceted purveyor of freewheeling Honky Tonk, reflective Country Rock, free-range Folk and anything else that will serve his songs well. There aren’t many true originals anymore, but Aaron Lee Tasjan is two or three of them. YDIIYD: The combined musical histories of Nashville and Memphis stitched together in a lightning-animated Nudie suit. (BB) 7:45 p.m. Mandolin Orange (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Folk/Americana/Country

YDIIYD: Jimmy Eat World, Copeland, Joyce Manor. (MB)

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As a well-traveled sideman, Aaron Lee Tasjan has conclusively proven there is absolutely nothing that is beyond his ability. Second guitar for the New York Dolls? Done. Regular touring six-stringer for Kevn Kinney’s Drivin’ N Cryin’? Let’s go. Hired

After meeting at a Bluegrass jam session, Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin pooled their talents to form Mandolin Orange in 2009; both musicians sing (and create stunning harmonies) and each is a gifted multi-instrumentalist. After a few years of touring and self-releasing material, Mandolin Orange’s well-constructed and expertly played blend of Folk, Country, Bluegrass and Pop caught the attention of Yep Roc Records, home to fellow young Roots music bright lights like Aoife O’Donovan and The Stray Birds. The duo (which tours and records with a backing band) has built a large following in the Americana scene with impassioned live shows and Yep Roc albums like 2015’s Such Jubilee. Last year’s Blindfaller was Mandolin Orange’s crowning artistic achievement, with critics praising Marlin’s sharpened songwriting skills and the duo’s ability to sound contemporary while retaining the vintage, timeless aura of its influences.

YDIIYD: Once-in-a-lifetime, born-to-betogether Folk music pairings from Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons to Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings. (MB) 6:45 p.m. The Ghost of Paul Revere (Portland, Maine) Americana/Folk/Bluegrass

In the relatively short time since its 2011 debut show, The Ghost of Paul Revere has earned a press kit full of accolades, including “Best in Maine” at 2014’s New England Music Awards, and amassed an increasingly fervent fan base with a pair of EPs and its 2015 full-length debut, Believe. But it’s with electrifying live shows that The Ghost of Paul Revere has made the most significant impact, making its acclaimed debut at the Newport Folk Festival in 2015 and opening for (and generating favorable comparisons to) the likes of The Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show. Last year, The Ghost of Paul Revere took a short break from the road to record its new full-length album, slated for release later this year, but now the band members are back in the van, plying their hair-raising hybrid of Folk, Gospel, Bluegrass and rootsy Americana and featuring gorgeous sibling harmonies without the potentially messy sibling connections. The Ghost of Paul Revere will keep riding to spread the message that Roots music is alive and well in the new millennium. YDIIYD: Church and a post-service party with the Avetts and the McCourys. (BB)

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Adam Petersen is one of Cincinnati’s true musical originals. A classically trained pianist, Peterson adapts his skills in the practical sense by teaching piano and chorus, but he applies his musical aspirations and inspirations in a lateral-not-literal manner by way of his sonic alter ego, A Delicate Motor. Utilizing a variety of keyboard and percussion instruments, direct and ethereal expressions of his vocal presence and the technological voodoo of looping, Peterson/ ADM builds soundscapes that are rooted in and yet manage to transcend traditional structures and executions. With its latest album, Fellover My Own, A Delicate Motor turned into more of a band, with local musicians lending guitar, bass and drums to the tracks in the service of compositions that challenge the Indie Rock form more often than they conform to them. To support the album, Petersen enlisted different local players to form a new group to play live shows.

3:15 p.m. Current Events (Cincinnati) Indie Rock

MPMF.17 // SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 5:45 p.m. Jeremy Pinnell (Burlington, Ky.) Country/Honky Tonk

After packing his résumé with plenty of Rock, Punk and Folk bullet points, guitarist/vocalist Jeremy Pinnell took a break from music to get his head straight. When he returned, he was drawn to the Country sounds that he and old friend Cameron Cochran had explored together as teenagers, and in short order he formed the Honky Tonk crew the 55’s, which became a strong Cincinnati-area draw. Boosted by his otherworldly voice and deep, rich songwriting talent, Pinnell’s debut solo album, OH/KY, was hailed as a triumph in local, regional and national media. After lots of grueling coast-to-coast, pole-to-pole road work, Pinnell finally returned to the studio for his amazing sophomore effort, Ties of Blood and Affection, where he attempts to resolve the darkly emotional issues he addressed on OH/KY. YDIIYD: Classic Country and Honky Tonk indelibly tattooed with the images of a hard but well-lived life. (BB)

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4:45 p.m. Young Heirlooms (Cincinnati) Folk Pop/Americana

Music festivals have been good to Young Heirlooms. With their beautiful contemporary spin on Folk music and compelling, intimate, shut-everyone-up-instantly live performances, the band has been a regular highlight at past MidPoint Music Festivals. Christopher Robinson (guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Kelly Fine (vocals, guitar, mandolin) formed the band in 2010 after initially

meeting at a music festival in Dayton, Ohio. And after releasing a self-titled debut album in 2013, the six-member group quickly became a favorite locally, earning regular bookings — yes, including festival gigs — as well as airplay on beloved Northern Kentucky radio station WNKU. Young Heirlooms are currently getting ready for the release of its follow-up album, The Hammer, the first glimpse of which was the sublime single “Bury Me with My Hammer,” which shimmers like an Indie Folk version of Fleetwood Mac. The track was issued on vinyl this summer with a cover of the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young classic “Ohio” on the B-side. But first, another music festival and another chance for Young Heirlooms to shine. YDIIYD: The Lone Bellow, The Head and the Heart, Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty. (MB) 3:45 p.m. Edward + Jane (Cincinnati) Folk/Americana

There is a pretty good chance that if you attend an Edward + Jane show, you are going to leave with new friends — namely, the musicians in the band. Placing the highest value in family and friends (even using the band name “Family and Friends” for a spell), Edward + Jane is a Folk music collective founded by Timothy Carpenter and Emilie Creutzinger in Chattanooga, Tenn. Like an antidote to the technology-enabled isolation of our times, Edward + Jane have taken their music across North America with the mission of connecting and engaging with listeners to inspire them with music. After releasing their debut EP, As Family We Gather, and getting married, Carpenter and Creutzinger relocated to Cincinnati, bringing Edward + Jane’s base of operations along with them. YDIIYD: The Head and the Heart, pre-avantgarde Bon Iver, The Lone Bellow. (MB)

2:45 p.m. The Long Lost (Chicago) Indie Folk/Americana

People tend to focus on New York’s Bleeker Street as the center of the Folk universe, but let’s not forget the healthy scene in Chicago. Look at all the greats that have passed through the Old Town School of Folk Music, like John Prine, Roger McGuinn, Steve Goodman, Andrew Bird and Blues legend Big Bill Broonzy, who taught there. Given that lineage, it’s no surprise when amazing Folk groups like The Long Lost emerge from the city. Fronted by the close-knit harmonies of impossiblyyoung-to-be-this-good Katie Burke and Andi Avalos and backed by the compelling skills of bassist Kevin McMahon and pianist Steve Ashum, The Long Lost merges Folk’s tradition with Indie Rock’s passion to create a familiar-yet-singular sound. The Long Lost’s new EP, Don’t Wait Up For Me, is a tantalizing glimpse at a long but certainly not lost future. YDIIYD: Unplugged Haim (minus one), The Lumineers, The Civil Wars, The Head and the Heart. (BB)

Masonic Cathedral Stage 10 p.m. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (Lagos, Nigeria) Afrobeat

There may be no single figure in contemporary African music more revered that Afrobeat founder and legend Fela Kuti; in the face of government oppression and imprisonment, he forged and championed an exciting new sound with his band Afrika

70 that became a symbol of freedom’s ever-vigilant battle against tyranny. When Fela died in 1997, his youngest son Seun stepped into his father’s nearly unfillable void to lead Egypt 80 at the age of 14. Seun, who had already been performing with Egypt 80 for several years, has continued to honor his father’s musical legacy by performing Afrika 70 studio material that Fela never played live and pushing Egypt 80 to even greater heights by evolving the Afrobeat sound — the group’s 2011 album, From Africa with Fury: Rise, was co-produced by Brian Eno — and remaining committed to his activist father’s social, cultural and political causes. YDIIYD: Soul, Jazz and Psych Rock from the original continent. (BB) 8:30 p.m. The Urban Renewal Project (Los Angeles) Soul/Hip Hop/Jazz/Dance

Rotating L.A. collective The Urban Renewal Project is a big band with the brass section to prove it. But, though you’ll hear some remnants of classic Big Band Jazz in some of its horn charts, the 13-piece URP swings with the high-octave groove of Funk and Hip Hop, creating an expansive and bombastic fusion of sound that straddles multiple eras. Formed in 2010 by saxophonist R.W. Enoch and rapper Elmer Demond, the group became an in-demand club attraction on the West Coast with its adrenalized live show, reworking everything from Jazz standards to Pop hits to cool selections like Pixies’ “Where is My Mind?” After moving toward original material and recording with guest rappers and singers from all genres, URP is looking to expand its national profile with the September release of 21st Century Ghost, which includes a feature from NYC Hip Hop heroes Camp Lo and is the first release on Fastrac Records, a new imprint from respected Jazz reissue label Resonance Records. YDIIYD: The Count Basie Orchestra if it had come up on the Modern Funk scene alongside The Motet and Snarky Puppy and Basie was deep into old-school Hip Hop. (MB)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 // MPMF.17 7:15 p.m. Charly Bliss (New York City) Indie Rock/Pop

she acknowledges are therapeutic vehicles for dealing with difficult issues in her life. Last year’s Arrow, for instance, was O’s reaction to the tragic death of a friend, but it also served as an inspiration for her to concentrate even harder on her music, which resulted in the release of Elastic a little over a year later. YDIIYD: Sleater-Kinney obsessed with Cheap Trick. (BB). 5 p.m. Varsity (Chicago) Indie Rock/Pop

New York quartet Charly Bliss has been together for five years, played hundreds of well-received gigs and put out an EP, 2015’s Soft Serve, and the just-released 10-track, 30-minute full-length Guppy. But the band’s inherent chemistry goes deeper than that — lead vocalist Eva Hendricks and guitarist Spencer Fox met at a Tokyo Police Club show when they were 15; Fox and bassist Dan Shure met at summer camp; Hendricks and Shure dated as teenagers; and Eva and drummer/brother Sam Hendricks have that DNA thing. It all comes together in a boiling pot of Pop melodicism and Rock adrenaline, as sticky and sweet as a fresh piece of bubblegum and as infectious as the best possible communicable disease (Skittles pox?). There might be nothing better right now than a dose of Charly Bliss. YDIIYD: The thought of Liz Phair and Juliana Hatfield putting together a Letters to Cleo tribute band. (BB) 6 p.m. Amy O (Bloomington, Ind.) Indie Pop/Rock

YDIIYD: Finally getting that late-night campfire kiss from a new love at the end of the perfect beachside vacation. (MB)

YDIIYD: Bear-on-bear action, to a soundtrack that reveres Cheap Trick, The Hold Steady and The New Pornographers. (BB) Much like Alice’s Restaurant, you can get anything you like in Chicago. Enter Varsity, a versatile and bouncy quintet exuding an infectious melodicism and ass-shaking energy that blends contemporary Indie Rock with bubbly Synth Pop, whipping both into a frothy meringue. Varsity’s first two releases, 2013’s Thanks for Nothing EP and 2015’s eponymous mini-album, were followed by a year’s worth of online digital singles that exhibited the band’s expansive range and stylistic depth, earning them a notice as one of the 10 “Under-the-Radar Chicago Releases of 2015” in Chicago paper RedEye. Not to shabby for a band that’s been around for about four years. What will Varsity do for an encore? Just about anything.

4 p.m. Bicentennial Bear (Columbus, Ohio) Indie Rock

One of several hundred recent bands to sport an ursine presence in its name,

3 p.m. Coastal Club (Cincinnati) Indie Pop

Land-locked Cincinnatians who dream of living in a beachside setting can find some solace in the local music scene. Assume Cincy band The Harlequins’ refrain “Midwest is the best coast” as your motto, hang out at local-music venue Northside Yacht Club and become the biggest fan of Queen City bands whose music evokes images of chilling by the ocean, including Harbour, Coconut Milk and Coastal Club, a Pop Rock quartet that claims fond memories of hanging on the beach not only led to its ironic name (the group was briefly called Local Waves), but also informs its sound and songwriting. Formed just last year, Coastal Club has been pimping its smooth, warm and highly melodic take on Indie Rock in local clubs, releasing an eponymous EP this past spring that crisply showcases the foursome’s animated rhythms, swirling guitar trickles and spirited hooks.

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YDIIYD: Katrina and the Waves if the Waves were Vampire Weekend. (BB)

Elastic is the perfect title for Amy Oelsner’s latest album. The Arkansas native taught herself to play guitar and write songs, has lived all over the East Coast and Midwest, attended college, worked at a variety of jobs and self-released or indie-released nine albums. Amy O’s early work was solo-based, but since moving to Bloomington, Ind. she’s assembled a crack band to translate her exuberant yet introspective songs, which

Bicentennial Bear is the only one (to my knowledge) able or willing to use the appellation Bi Bear as a shorthand reference. From just up the road in Ohio’s capitol, Bicentennial Bear also comes frontloaded with lots of local/regional cred — the quintet has opened shows for R. Ring, Ampline and erstwhile GBV collaborator Jason Narducy’s new band, Split Single, and the group actually did one of its album release shows — for its last full-length, 2015’s Doubt & Distortion — at the Southgate House Revival in Newport, Ky. But the band’s greatest claim to fame may well be the unsubstantiated rumor that their 2010 holiday single, “All I Want for Christmas is an Afghan Whigs Reunion,” might have jump started the very event it was wishboning. That’s enough to recommend Bicentennial Bear’s MPMF performance in the strongest possible terms.

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The Black Box Theater Is the New Thing BY STEVEN ROSEN

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As the Contemporary Arts Center is getof C. Jacqueline Wood’s multi-channel video ting ready to start the 2017-18 season of its installation What Makes a Life. Black Box performance series, the concept “I don’t know the origins of that term of alternative “black box” performance ‘black box’ — it’s really stripped-down raw spaces — with programming to match — is space,” says Dennis Harrington, the Weston’s catching on here, not only at the CAC but director, of the theater. “Maybe that phrase also at the Aronoff Center for the Arts and ‘thinking outside the box’ can be applied here. Music Hall. It permits something a bit looser, maybe, At the CAC, the term is potent enough although for us it is a practical consideration.” that it’s even used to identify performances Perhaps the most interesting evidence of that occur outside the museum’s lower-level the growing desire for black box venues is Black Box theater, which can hold 150 to the new Wilks Studio at Music Hall. Under 200-plus people and has a high ceiling and construction as part of an overall renovaremovable seating. The first performance of the new season, a dance/ movement production called Corbeaux (“crows” or “ravens”) by Moroccan choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen and her troupe of women, occurs Sept. 16-17 with three separate shows in other spaces. The first two take place on Sept. 16 at 3 p.m. in the CAC lobby and 7 p.m. at Findlay Market, with a third performance at 7 p.m. Sept. 17 at Yeatman’s Cove beneath the Purple People Bridge. Work is underway on Music Hall’s new Wilks Studio. Admission is free. PHOTO : courtesy of 3CDC The series then starts its actual programming in the Black Box theater space Sept. 28-29, when tion of the three-building complex, it is the Portuguese playwright and actor Tiago being formed by installing a second floor Rodrigues presents By Heart, an immersive into a space in the North Wing. It will have program in which he teaches 10 volunteers windows looking onto 14th Street and a glass to recite a poem from memory — intersperspartition separating its performance space ing that process with anecdotes and observafrom its entry foyer. Although its first priortions. (Tickets are $12 for CAC members; $18 ity is to be a rehearsal hall for Music Hall’s others at contemporaryartscenter.org.) resident companies, they are also being Another CAC Black Box performance — encouraged to use it for events. It might be a presentation of Kate McIntosh’s In Many able to hold as many as 250 people. (It also Hands — takes place April 12-14, 2018 at the will be available for rentals.) Aronoff Center’s Fifth Third Bank Theater. Cincinnati Opera already has scheduled Although the Aronoff does not officially the debut performance in its new Next: refer to it as a “black box,” and it is not speDiverse Voices initiative — a partnership cifically dedicated to alternative programs, with the University of Cincinnati Collegeit can seat up to 150 or be configured for Conservatory of Music and Equality smaller events. And it can be very, very dark. Ohio — for the space July 25-30, 2018. It’s Aronoff’s Weston Art Gallery also will a chamber opera called As One, in which a use the Fifth Third Bank Theater for two promezzo-soprano and a baritone both depict grams in a new performance series. The first, the experiences of its transgender proon Jan. 14, 2018, has two parts: a public readtagonist, Hannah. The work is from coming by Kathy Y. Wilson, in connection with poser Laura Kaminsky and librettists Mark her upcoming Sanctuary: Kathy Y. Wilson Campbell and Kimberly Reed, and will be Living in a Colored Museum show at the directed by Robin Guarino. Weston; and a lecture by Dr. David Pilgrim of “I love hearing that our resident comthe Jim Crow Museum at Michigan’s Ferris panies refer to it as a black box that’s for State University. The museum is a 12,000experiments and creative new concepts,” piece collection of racist artifacts used in the says Scott Santangelo, director of operateaching of tolerance. The second Westontions for Music Hall. “We’re happy to supsponsored performance program is a May 19, port that and whatever goes along with it.” 2018 screening, with live accompaniment, of CONTACT STEVEN ROSEN: srosen@citybeat.com the 1926 silent film A Page of Madness, part

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Why Is Everything Today “Immersive?”

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BY ERICA REID

During this summer’s Fringe Festival, I find is that people mistake immersive and attended a theater piece that marketed itself interactive,” Earnest says. as “immersive.” The performance that folIn my view, an interactive show involves lowed was anything but — the actors did not the audience directly and literally. Immersive so much as make eye contact with the audiperformances might involve the audience ence, causing the experience to feel insular more passively, abstractly, ambiently. and inaccessible. It seemed “immersive” was Earnest performed in Know Theatre’s just being used as a catchphrase, something production of Beertown, during which increasingly common in the arts these days. every member of the audience became a I believe the recent overuse of the term citizen of a fictional town, engaged in a civic “immersive” comes from art’s natural desire forum. A show that immerses the audience to redefine itself and break its own boundat this depth requires a different set of aries. The word is used as a signal: This acting chops altogether. “You’re creating performance will be different in some indefinable way. But theaters (dance companies, galleries, etc.) should reconsider their use of the term. It is becoming too vague, signifying too little. Immersive is on the rise as a buzzword. Google Trends suggests a spike in its usage starting around 2012, possibly in conjunction with the growth of virtual reality technology. Merriam-Webster doesn’t even recognize the word yet; the closest it will take you is “immersion.” Eileen Earnest in the legitimately immersive Beertown Dictionary.com is more PHOTO : dan r. winters lenient; its definitions offer that immersive art might be absorptive, attention-getting. another actor on stage, another character,” The senses are key to making a perforEarnest says. “Depending on the audience, mance immersive. At this year’s Fringe Fessome people agree to that 100 percent and it tival, the show Place/Setting by Pones Inc. goes exactly as you imagined. Other people dance troupe used food as an element in its are not necessarily ready for that and you performance about the culture of American have to be OK with that.” immigrants. Its Main Street venue smelled of Not every theatergoer wants to be curry and pepper, and attendees were invited blindfolded, pulled on stage or even directly to share spiced rice dishes as they listened engaged, which is why it is so important to to stories from Cincinnati’s own immigrant market a performance correctly. Art should population. It was legitimately immersive. surprise, delight and stun, but many attendI spoke with Eileen Earnest, an actress ees feel freer to enjoy the performance when active both in Cincinnati and across the they have a baseline understanding of the country, who recalled another sense-invoklevel of participation required of them. Even ing performance she attended while working an incredibly strong show can leave a bad in Washington, D.C. In that piece, Sense-able, taste in one’s mouth if it is not what the visiaudience members were blindfolded and tor was expecting. On the opposite end, retiassigned a caretaker who led them through a cent theatergoers might be avoiding shows tactile experience that involved, for example, that they may otherwise enjoy because they the feel of soft blankets and the smell of fear the word “immersive.” coffee beans. “It was such a vulnerable trust, Most art is challenging to put into words. because you couldn’t see so you didn’t know Performances that break the traditional what they were doing,” Earnest recalls. “The molds can be even more elusive. However, idea was to take away the one dominant even when art becomes difficult to describe, sense that theater seems to bring — sight. we should still endeavor to do so — not You could still hear, but that was not importo spoil our surprises, but to set accurate tant. Sensations of touch and taste were all expectations for (and attract the right) audimuch more heightened. It was an immersive ences. We need to be thoughtful about what and vulnerable experience.” immersive means when it’s used to describe But there are plenty of shows that call a cultural event. themselves immersive yet are fundamentally CONTACT ERICA REID: letters@ citybeat.com traditional in presentation. “What I often

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People’s Liberty’s Globe Grants Are Growing BY LEYLA SHOKOOHE

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Along with this week’s announcement • Rewriting Our Narrative by Melissa of the 2018 winners of the coveted $15,000 Aydogan; September-October: It will turn People’s Liberty Globe Grants comes news the space into a Turkish teahouse with that there will now be two storefront spaces ground seating, Turkish lanterns and rugs, for them to transform with installations. music and conversation over sweets. One is the existing location at 1805 Elm Before settling on Camp Washington as St., across from Findlay Market in Over-thethe site for their expansion, Fournier and the Rhine. The new space will be at 2849 ColPeople’s Liberty team compiled a short list of erain Ave. in Camp Washington. It is more potential neighborhoods. Camp Washington than three times the size of the 800-squarehas seen new galleries and a museum in foot Elm Street space, with 3,000 square feet recent years. People’s Liberty engaged neighavailable for Globe Grant recipients. borhood residents and influencers to gauge “With People’s Liberty being a five-year their reaction to the idea and it was positive. experiment, we’re always trying to innovate and find new ways to break down the fields of traditional philanthropy,” says Aurore Fournier, program director with the organization. People’s Liberty, begun in 2015, is a philanthropic laboratory that’s part of the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation. “We’ve been intrigued thinking of our future — does it live on?” she continues. “If so, do we have tiny branches in different Recipients of newly announced Globe Grants for 2018 neighborhoods or does it PHOTO : Anna maffe y spread out? Does it only live online? With the Globe Grants, we could start to experiment about People’s Liberty’s Fournier envisions being present in a different neighborhood.” Camp Washington as a destination location, The 2018 Globe Grant winners for the while the Elm Street location has the benefit new Camp Washington space are: of fairly steady foot traffic from Findlay • LOOK by Sidney Cherie Hilley and Anh Market patrons. Lessons learned from past Tran; February-April: It will be a shop and Over-the-Rhine programming will help reading lounge with artist-made publicaguide community-engagement activities at tions from local and regional contributors. both locations. The back area will have space for perfor“The space made it so attractive to us,” mances and an open studio. says Cleary of SkateAble Vs. Non, the skate • Fashion Bootcamp by Kaley Madden; park/art gallery installation taking over the May-July: The storefront becomes an educaCamp Washington storefront for a period tion sanctuary and upcycling center, targetnext year. “The opportunity to do it in a ing high school students to participate in a bigger space with funding is so exciting. We six-week fashion-design boot camp. remember Camp Washington before; it was • SkateAble vs. Non by Jill Cleary, Ali Calis, industrial. People don’t realize how cool it is Zach Kincaid and Scott Licardi; Augustnow. It’s inspiring in itself.” October: It’s an artist-led skate park that will The SkateAble vs. Non installation will teach local residents about skateboarding. feature a skateable side and an art/illustraThe 2018 Globe Grant winners for the tion side. It will offer board building, in-shop Elm Street/Findlay Market space are: skating, interactive screen-printing opportu• The Good King by Arian Armstrong; nities and more. Cleary said her team hopes March-May: It will turn the gallery into an to screen films about skateboarding. abandoned clock tower/art studio, with old “Our main goal is to create an inviting and wooden floors, stone walls overgrown with inclusive space for community members to ivy, rustic beams and more. come in and own it,” she says. “I got together • Make Someone’s Day by Bethany with all my old skateboarding friends and Pelle; June-August: It will promote colwe started talking about how can we bridge laborative gestures of kindness. Visitors that gap between art and skateboarding.” will nominate locals to receive handmade Learn more about People’s Liberty GLOBE ceramic flower arrangements and then help GRANTS at peoplesliberty.org. create them.

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Awards Season Gets Underway with Toronto Film Festival

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BY T T STERN-ENZI

As I prepare to make my annual trek up Here are some other Toronto films I’m to Canada for the most important of all fall really excited about checking out: film festivals, the Toronto International • A Season in France Film Festival, I’ll have my first opportunity Immigration narratives have resonance to form critical takes on the year’s most all over the world, so it is intriguing to see important movies. And I’ll be writing in my how other countries grapple with the perSeptember columns about what I find. sonal stakes of this global/political crisis. Last year, I caught the three pictures that Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s figured most in the Academy Awards for A Season in France focuses on an African 2016 releases — Manchester By the Sea, La high school teacher (Eriq Ebouaney) who La Land and Moonlight. This year, the early festival buzz offers reverential love for films like Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, whose A Bigger Splash was a favorite of mine from 2015), Stronger (David Gordon Green), Downsizing (Alexander Payne), Battle of the Sexes (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris), Mother!, (Darren Aronofsky) and The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, potentially working in the same mode as his Pan’s Labyrinth). Call Me By Your Name’s Timothée Chalamet (left); Armie Hammer Guadagnino’s Call Me By PHOTO : courtesy of sony pictures cl as sic s Your Name has a screenplay by James Ivory, who as a director worked with the late producer flees his war-ravaged nation with his chilIsmail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth dren for France and winds up falling in love Prawer Jhabvala on such memorable literary with a French woman willing to offer solace films as A Room With a View, Howard’s End to him and his family. Haroun, a native of and The Remains of the Day. Based on a Chad, boldly explores political conflicts in novel, Call Me is about a relationship that his homeland, but here the issues take a develops between two young men in 1980s backseat to the personal. Italy. Stronger features Jake Gyllenhaal as the real-life Jeff Bauman, whose efforts to recover from injuries suffered in the Boston Marathon bombing have inspired many. Downsizing is a satire about a couple (Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig) that shrinks to four inches, ostensibly to reduce their human footprint on the environment. Battle of the Sexes casts Emma Stone and Steve Carell as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, who played a much-ballyhooed Sally Hawkins (left) and Octavia Spencer in The Shape of Water tennis match in 1973. The P H O T O : c o u r t e s y o f f o x s e a r c h l i g ht p i c t u r e s thriller Mother! has Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence • The Square and Javier Bardem as a couple whose life at Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure was an their country home is disrupted by strange unforgettable Toronto experience a few guests. And the fantastical yet real-worldyears ago, so my personal expectations are rooted The Shape of Water is set during the quite high for his latest, The Square, which Cold War and features Sally Hawkins as an satirically examines our notions of commuisolated employee of a government laboratory who, with co-worker Octavia Spencer, nity, our moral and philosophical integrity discovers a secret experiment. and the identity crises of the upper class.

It already sounds like a spiritual sequel to Majeure, which means that the added attraction of familiar talents like Elizabeth Moss and Dominic West will only solidify this as a must-see. • The Florida Project Director Sean Baker (Tangerine) forges ahead with his low-fi aesthetic in full force, as The Florida Project tracks the summer odyssey of a six-year-old girl named Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) as she gallivants around with her playmates and her free-spirited mother, all under the looming shadow cast by Disney World. Baker casts Willem Dafoe as a grizzly Oz-like mentor and, if the advance word is to be believed, he might be looking at Best Supporting Actor nomination. • Molly’s Game / The Mountain Between Us Back in 2015, Idris Elba had what should have been his long-awaited breakout turn in Beasts of No Nation, but a misfired release (thanks to the film’s acquisition by Netflix)

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delayed, once again, his ascension. This year, Elba has two chances to secure his spot as a top Hollywood actor. In Molly’s Game, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, he plays a lawyer defending the woman (Jessica Chastain) who ran one of the most exclusive high-stakes poker games in the world (with movie stars, top-level entrepreneurs and Russian mobsters) before running afoul of the FBI. That one is based on a true story. The Mountain Between Us, Hany Abu-Assad’s adaptation of a Charles Martin novel, details the bond forged between two strangers (Elba and Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet) stranded after a plane crash in a remote snowy region. Survival demands that they embark on a perilous trek across the wild expanse. • Chappaquiddick / Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

Past is most definitely prologue with these two festival films that offer sharp insights into scandalous crash and burns. John Curran’s Chappaquiddick looks at the events of 48 years ago, when Senator Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) accidentally drove a car off a bridge on Massachusetts’ Chappaquiddick Island, resulting in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara), a campaign worker. Curran recreates that moment, and its conspiracy-laden aftermath, with a moodily suspenseful take that poses questions about how and why this tragedy occurred in the first place. In Mark Felt, director Peter Landesman (Parkland) advances us ahead to 1972, as Felt (Liam Neeson), a dedicated special agent at the FBI, breaks with the agency over its handling of the Watergate investigation. Taking it upon himself to leak information to Bob Woodward at the Washington Post (earning the legendary label “Deep Throat”), Felt’s heroic decision to defend the nation against internal abuse of power serves as an example for our current situation today. • Lady Bird Greta Gerwig steps behind the camera — doing double duty as writer and director — for this tale about Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), a young Northern California high school senior fumbling her way through a difficult year. Her mother (Laurie Metcalf) is working overtime to support the family when her father (Tracy Letts) gets laid off, while her brother and his girlfriend — college graduates — toil away at a supermarket. Gerwig is known for capturing whimsical awkwardness in her performances, but Lady Bird finds her helming a head-on collision with adulthood. • Mudbound The idea of two Americas coming together lies at the heart of the new film from Pariah’s Dee Rees. Mudbound, an adaptation of Hillary Jordan’s prizewinning novel, follows two World War II veterans (Garrett Hedlund and Jason Mitchell) as they return to their Mississippi home and attempt to adjust to a post-war life beset by Jim Crow-fueled racism. There are no lasting monuments to the everyday heroes who made sacrifices to defend our country’s ideals against such racism, but Rees and her talented cast — also including Mary J. Blige (yes, the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul) — might lay a golden foundation for a moving memorial. CONTACT TT STERN-ENZI: letters@ citybeat.com

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Issa Rae may call her breakout series and Molly and a dose of heartbreak. Rae’s Insecure (Season Finale, 11 p.m. Sunvoice is one-of-a-kind and so very funny — day, HBO), but the creator/star can take captured best when Issa is rapping about confidence in the fact that she is behind her innermost thoughts. When we catch her one of the freshest comedies on TV today. fantasizing or practicing interactions in front Based on her popular web series Awkward of a bathroom mirror, it’s a cross between an Black Girl, Insecure uses the familiar plot interior monologue, a personal pep rally and of exploring a young woman’s life, friends, a freestyle rap session. Those moments are relationships and career to interpret the always a highlight. Reluctantly comparing contemporary black experience. The stories Insecure to Girls, Hannah Horvath’s cohorts feel genuine not only because the diverse represented some of your worst features or cast matches the real world around us, but those of the girls you might begrudgingly call also because the characters have very realistic lifestyles. We catch up with best friends Issa (Rae) and Molly (Yvonne Orji) not straight out of college, but early enough into adulthood where they’re still working out the kinks. Nobody lives in a chic Brooklyn loft despite being unemployed — carefree NYC Girls they are not. The women have actual jobs, reflected in their home spaces, clothing and experiences. Issa works for a nonprofit, the humorously Issa Rae, creator/star of Insecure named We Got Y’all, helping PHOTO : justina mintz/courtesy of hbo students in lower-income schools. She has an undeniably and naturally cool style about her, but your friends. But Issa is your oldest friend; she’s ballin’ on a budget, throwing house she’s maybe even you. parties and drinking cooking wine just like The show, which has seen two seasons in the rest of us broke late-20-somethings. less than one year, joins a small but growAs a lawyer, Molly does have a badass ing pool of smart, compelling comedies apartment and beautiful wardrobe. In many dominated by people of color, series like ways, she has it together. But that doesn’t Black-ish, Atlanta and Master of None. mean she’s devoid of work hang-ups, like It’s refreshing to see a show dominated when she accidentally opens the paycheck by people of color having very normal, of a white male co-worker who, it turns out, relatable lives while still addressing the undeservedly makes more than her. And realities of blackness. Issa and friends are when it comes to romantic relationships, not the picture-perfect Johnsons we see both friends have their share of drama. in Black-ish, yet they live a more comfortLast season saw Issa stuck in a stable but able lifestyle than the up-and-comers in stale relationship, contemplating whether Atlanta’s Rap scene. to stick it out with Lawrence (Jay Ellis) or The Emmy Awards coming up on Sept. 17 revisit a former flame, Daniel (Y’lan Noel). offer a chance to highlight some of those She tried to swing both, but ended up alone. contemporary, diverse stories. In fact, all This time around, single Issa begrudgingly aforementioned series are nominated — dives into the dating pool, still unsure of except Insecure. It’s certainly a snub — the what she even wants. She and Molly both show offers just as much hilarious, heartfelt push away the men they pursue — Molly cultural commentary, with as solid a cast wants a relationship but sleeps with her of performers, writers (Rae included) and friend’s husband; Issa seems to seek somedirectors (the talented Melina Matsoukas) thing more casual, but lands on guys who as the others. want to settle down. That uncertainty is But maybe Insecure doesn’t need Televisomething of a crux for this generation and sion Academy approval — the show is lauded in Insecure, relationships and especially by critics, celeb fans and viewers alike, and sex scenes are relatable and realistic — perit’s already been renewed for Season Three. haps to an unprecedented extreme. While Insecure Issa may still be figuring it Insecure masters the perfect balance out, the real Rae is destined for greatness. of witty, laugh-out-loud humor, a splash of CONTACT JAC KERN: @jackern romance, great BFF moments between Issa

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OTR Bagel Bar will sell classic and clever bagel and cream cheese varieties at its storefront. in Over-the-Rhine for a number of years. He did a brief stint at Cincinnati State’s Midwest Culinary Institute before moving to New York City to pursue a career in art. Cavallaro, too, lived in OTR for awhile and worked at the Moerlein taproom and with the OTR Brewery District for nearly three years. While there, he oversaw operations at Findlay Market’s Biergarten. “I think not only at the market but in Cincinnati in general, ‘bagel’ is missing from the landscape,” says Joe Hansbauer, Findlay Market president and CEO. “We’ve got a couple of national players that are here that are making reasonably good bagels, but no one that’s really making something really unique and really good.” There is Lil’s Bagels, a local New Yorkstyle bagel operation that provides bagels to the likes of Carabello Coffee, Point Perk and Hotel Covington, but it doesn’t have a standalone storefront. While they complete work on the OTR Bagel Bar storefront, Cavallaro and Mann are baking out of the nearby Findlay Kitchen’s full-service, food department-certified incubator. It takes about a half hour for one bagel to come to fruition, says Cavallaro. “It’s New York-style, so we boil and bake,” he says.

A tentative lineup of 10 standard bagels — such as poppy seed, onion, everything and plain — and specialty bagels like carrot cake will grace the menu. They will also be making specialty cream cheeses, like jalapeño and cookie dough, and bagel breakfast sandwiches. “Five dollars gets you a good bagel, cream cheese and a coffee,” Cavallaro says. Plans for deli-meat lunch sandwiches are in the works, too. They’ll be sourcing many ingredients from Findlay Market, smoking their own salmon and making their own roast beef and falafel patties. For goetta lovers, the bagel bar will offer goetta from Eckerlin Meats. They’ll also carry a processed meat product called Taylor Ham or Taylor Pork Roll, something wildly popular in New Jersey. Cavallaro and Mann have their sights set on potentially keeping the store open at night, attaining a liquor license and positioning the OTR Bagel Bar as a late-night destination. For now, they will operate on Findlay Market hours. OTR Bagel Bar takes its decorative cue and overall ambiance from what Cavallaro calls a “nostalgic” stance. The tables will have gameboard tops — ’80s board games

will be present to play — and colorful chairs have been sourced from elementary schools. The wall space will serve as a rotating gallery to showcase urban and street art, a nod to Mann’s art school days. “We’re trying to have fun with the idea and not be too stuffy of an atmosphere,” Cavallaro says. “What we’ve been trying to do is almost like an alternative version of a place — late ’80s, early ’90s, when MTV was cool.” Their logo is a riff on the old MTV logo, with a bagel in place of the “M.” “I’ve been involved in OTR for a long time, off and on, and I’ve seen a lot of change. (There can be a feeling that) not everybody belongs or feels comfortable walking into some of these newer places,” he says. “That’s not what I want the bagel place to be. I want it to be a place where everybody from any background can go in and sit down and hang out have a good time. “This is a community place. We’re at Findlay Market and it’s been there for 150 years or so. Everybody’s welcome.” OTR BAGEL BAR will be located at 107 W. Elder St., Findlay Market, Over-the-Rhine. More info: facebook.com/otrbagelbar.

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usiness partners Marshall Mann and Chris Cavallaro started tossing around the idea of opening a quality bagel shop in 2016, inspired in part by Mann’s recent return to Cincinnati from the bagel mecca that is New York City. The pair cites national corporate chains like Bruegger’s and Panera as some of the only outlets available locally for folks to regularly get their bagel fix, but when the former’s Clifton location temporarily closed in 2016 due to a fire, the pair saw an opportunity. “Marshall works at the Moerlein taproom, makes the food there, and I would occasionally bartend on weekends, and for almost a month or two I would bring in Bruegger’s bagels,” Cavallaro says. “And then one weekend, (Bruegger’s) caught on fire and I was like, ‘Shit. There’s no good bagels anymore!’ ” So the two started joking around about opening their own bagel shop. “(Chris was) joking around; I was serious,” Mann says. Mann decided to test out some bagel recipes, bringing them to the taproom for friends to try. “Every Saturday at the taproom for the last two, three months, I’ve been making bagels, just practicing, giving them out to employees or friends, a lot of the tour guides,” he says. They were a hit. He was “doing all this crazy stuff,” he says, exploring different flavor combinations including cookie dough cream cheese, marshmallow fluff cream cheese for a s’mores-esque bagel with graham cracker crumbs and a sauerkraut cream cheese with chicken schnitzel. “That one’s definitely going to be on the menu,” Mann says. After the positive response, Cavallaro and Mann began to build out the idea for a bagel shop in earnest, scouting locations through friends and eventually landing on 107 W. Elder St., the former Daisy Mae’s Market in Findlay Market. They were connected with Barry Cooper, proprietor of the now-closed storefront and owner of the building. “I think it took a couple months to convince Barry,” Cavallaro says with a chuckle. But the pair finally succeeded and began renovations in June, adding a new restroom and doing cosmetic tweaks. The current timeline has them opening in mid-October, but things can always change. “It’s good timing to be down here,” Mann says. “We looked at other places, we looked at places downtown, deeper OTR, but we both have ties to (Findlay Market).” Mann is a graduate of the School for Creative and Performing Arts and lived

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Cincinnati Street Food Festival — The sixth-annual streetfood festival in Walnut Hills features food trucks, interactive art, live music and other tasty bites from area food entrepreneurs. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free admission. E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills, facebook.com/cincystreetfoodfest. Cincinnati Hispanic Fest — Celebrate local Hispanic culture at this two-day festival. The 24th-annual fest features food, a

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oe Casey, frontman for Detroit’s Protomartyr, possesses a modest sing/ speak voice that’s as agitated as it is evocative. His singular delivery is complemented by an ominous Post Punk clatter that is as claustrophobic as it is often epic, as if the listener is falling into an all-encompassing vortex of sound and emotion. Protomartyr’s fourth album, Relatives in Descent, which hits streets Sept. 29, again features taut, mood-altering grooves courtesy of Alex Leonard’s insistent, tribal drumming, Scott Davidson’s nimble bass lines and Greg Ahee’s corrosive guitar, which moves from swirling slabs of noise to righteous riffs, often within the same song. CityBeat recently connected with Casey — reached via cell phone as he was ordering a “No. 2” meal at one of the Detroit area’s many fast food establishments — to discuss the band’s evolution from complete musical novices to one of the most acclaimed acts of its kind.

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CityBeat: The first time I saw you guys was at MOTR Pub in Cincinnati. The last time I saw you, which was a little more than a year later, was at the Pitchfork Music Festival. That’s a pretty radical shift in terms of crowd and venue size. How do you approach such different types of crowds and contexts? Joe Casey: You’d like to say that it doesn’t affect you but it does. I remember at Pitchfork I could see the stage next to us. They had my face on the Jumbotron thing, and that was disconcerting. I think we’re at our best at smaller places, but you don’t really want to say that because then you’ll never play a larger place. If I’m being honest with myself, I think we’re better at nighttime and not during the day, and we’re better (in) slightly smaller confines. It’s not necessarily a stadium sound that we have. (Laughs.) As far as the crowd goes, we were amazed when people we didn’t know came to see us, so anytime there is more than five people, we’re amazed. CB: From the beginning you guys have had this ominous, tension-laced and atmospheric sound. Where does that come from? JC: When we started, Greg was the only one who had musical talent. He had played guitar for a while. Alex had played a little bit of drums, but very little. I had never sung in a band before. Scott, I think, had played some guitar but had never played bass before. So we kind of developed our own styles that maybe were at cross-purposes with being in a band and somehow the four of us kind of fit together. That kind of adds

The fourth LP from Protomartyr (pictured with unidentified photo-bomber) drops Sept. 29. tension. And I can say this now after four records — I think Alex is one of the most original drummers around. I think he’s our secret weapon. I’ve heard other drummers talk to him and ask, “What the hell are you doing?” He’s doing something that’s not right but it somehow works. I think that adds to the tension. I think the fact that I have to bark over everything adds tension. I don’t really know how to do a melodic resolve, so there’s no resolving. CB: The new record seems to employ a slightly crisper sonic approach. What was your goal this time for the production side of things? JC: The last two were down by Bill Skibbe in Benton Harbor (Mich.), and we were very happy with the outcomes of those, but it’s one of those things where we wanted to try something different and just kind of push ourselves and see if we’re a band that can survive different people recording us. Or is it just one guy can record us and we sound like shit with everyone else? That does happen a lot. Domino (Records) suggested Sonny (DiPerri), and in my mind I was picturing a very Hollywood producer with gold chains and sunglasses, but he’s a studio rat. He just really is a genius with recording sound. For

us it was exciting. You never know working with a producer if it’s going to be terrible, but it ended up being very smooth. Greg had some ideas about what he wanted to put on this record as far as weird new sounds for us, and Sonny was able to capture that for us, so we’re all happy about it. CB: I’ve read that you never write lyrics prior to the band writing the music, that you kind of mumble to the music until you have actual lyrics. How does that work? JC: Yeah. This time Greg and Alex worked pretty hard. They took it like a job. They went to the practice space every day and worked a couple hours on drumbeats and sections that Greg would bring in. And then I was able to come in in the afternoons and listen to what they had done. I would mumble over it — I don’t have any prewritten lyrics — and it has to sound where it fits into the music. In our practice space we have a little P.A., but I wouldn’t be able to hear myself anyway because it’s so loud. We record these practices and work out the songs, and then I would go back and listen to them later and say, “Ah, that song gives me this mood and that mumbling I did sounds like these words, or I can force them

into sounding like these words.” That’s kind of how the songs are written. CB: I read a piece the other day where the writer described your appearance as being basically frumpy professor types and how he was surprised by what the band sounded like when you started to play. That said, before seeing you guys live I also had a preconceived idea of what you’d be like based on the music… JC: When I was young I remember seeing a picture of the band The Cult and being like, “Oh, wow, they look like Native American Punk rockers.” And I listened to the music and I was like, “Huh, what the hell is this?” So, yeah, I know that feeling. It’s funny; I do think that happened to us. People who heard the first couple of albums, if they didn’t know what we looked like, probably imagined us to be like the band Iceage — young guys who looked like sexy vampires. I’ve seen people online who say, “Oh, that band isn’t Post Punk because they don’t look Post Punk.” Like we have to look like people in a German Expressionist film or something. PROTOMARTYR plays Northside Yacht Club on Sunday. Tickets/more info: northsideyachtclub.com.

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Music and Goosebumps A University of Southern California student is the source of the latest “no duh” study that probably doesn’t mean anything but will likely score tons of headlines from information-starved music-news outlets not wanting to write about Taylor Swift anymore (oh, hi!). Published in the very-smart-soundingso-it-must-be-legit Oxford Academic, the study finds that people who get goosebumps while listening to music are better in touch with their emotions. The student — who used a massive sample pool of 20 people(!) — says his findings suggest music could be used for patients in therapy for depression. Oh, “Mickey” Toni Basil — best emembered for her early ’80s hit “Mickey” and its MTV-ubiquitous cheerleader music video — is now in her 70s and suing several companies over use of her most famous song, which the suit claims causes her “sleep deprivation, nightmares and anxiety.” Though she doesn’t own the song rights (and the song itself is a reworking of the track “Kitty” by British band Racey), Basil’s lawyers say the parody of “Mickey” used in a 2008 South Park episode and straight-up use of the song in a Forever 21 commercial have harmed her brand, the value of which she apparently and refreshingly low-balls — she’s reportedly only seeking around $25,000 in damages. Kid Rock Acting Presidential Rocker Kid Rock still hasn’t officially declared if he will run for a Senate seat repping Michigan, despite releasing “Kid Rock for Senate” merchandise and earning support from Republicans eager to test GOP voters’ limits. But an independent, non-partisan watchdog organization has filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice, arguing that by Rock selling merchandise and explicitly asking fans to buy it and “donate to the campaign,” he is violating campaign laws. Rock addressed the complaints in the “fake news” with a succinct, Trumpian denial stating he hasn’t announced his run and also, “Go fuck yourselves.”

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Four years later, dada announced it was recording a new album, but the sessions stalled and nothing was ever released. Since then, dada has played sporadically, embarking on a comprehensive 20th-anniversary tour in 2013 (with 7Horse as the opening act), and following it up this year with an equally extensive 25th-anniversary tour. The band still plays marathon two-to-three-hour shows and continues to inspire old fans while attracting new ones. Regardless of age or geography, dada is going to Dizz Knee Land. Take that, Mouse. (Brian Baker) The Mavericks Saturday • Taft Theatre One of Country music’s most unique, long-running bands, The Mavericks, has been thrilling audiences since 1989 with their dramatic blend of Latin-tinged, turbocharged twang and the big-voice stylings of Raul Malo. Born in Miami, Malo is Cuban-American and a first-generation Floridian who grew up in the ’70s listening to crooners like Frank Sinatra and, especially, Elvis Presley. While his peers dabbled in Classic Rock and New Wave, Malo found himself drawn to his dad’s love of traditional Country acts like Buck Owens and Johnny Cash, as well as his mom’s affection for opera and Big Band Swing music. Like his heroes, he discovered early on that he also possessed one of those dynamic, larger-than-life voices that can change a room’s molecular structure. It’s easy to get the sense that Malo could equally sing a Puccini aria, a Hank Williams’ weeper or a Roy Orbison-style anthem with similar grace and resonance. Begun way back in 1989, The Mavericks have veered between stardom — charting over 14 singles on Billboard’s Country chart in their prime and winning a Grammy — and breakups, ending their first incarnation in 2004, with Malo releasing a handful of acclaimed solo records afterward. Reunited in 2012, The Mavericks have revived their career with concert swagger and a series of invigorating records, culminating in one of their best ever: this year’s Brand New Day. Even the title proves to be prescient, because for the first time ever, The

Mavericks released a record on their own new label, Mono Mundo Recordings. This means they are now calling all of the shots on their own inimitable music, a rollicking, eclectic mix of Dancehall horns, spiked accordion and Eddie Perez’s rockabilly guitar. From the opening cut, “Rolling Along,” to the sweeping title song, The Mavericks’ exuberant concoction of retro-Swing, Tropicorhythms and stirring melodies showcases the band’s special musical brand. Once telling the U.K.’s Country magazine that his whole creative life has been about trying to remake Elvis’ “It’s Now or Never,” Malo takes charge on Brand New Day. While certainly far from imitation, the Elvis influence shapes much of the record. With its grand echoes of romantic heft, soaring vocals and charismatic flair, The Mavericks have indeed once again embarked on their own brand new day. (Gregory Gaston)

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The Record Company with The Revivalists, Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Naughty Professor and more Saturday • RiversEdge (Hamilton, Ohio) Although The Record Company has been a band for the past six years, its greatThe Record Company est successes have P H O T O : J a c o b B l i c k e n s ta f f come recently. The trio — guitarist/ vocalist Chris Vos, bassist/vocalist Alex Stiff and drummer/vocalist Mark Cazorla — coalesced in 2011 around a shared love of traditional electric Blues masters like John Lee Hooker and their translational boogie children, including The Rolling Stones, with the visceral passion of The Stooges adding fuel to the creative fire. In fact, it was Vos’ tale of seeing Iggy and the Stooges at L.A.’s Palladium that led them to start playing together — within two days of their initial jam session, the musicians set up mics in Stiff’s living room and started recording themselves, with the results cementing their decision to become a band. The Record Company subsequently played every conceivable gig it could book and built a zealously loyal fan base in and around Los Angeles by consistently offering an incendiary live show that transcended the constraints of a mere Blues band. In the process, the palpable buzz the trio generated led them to opening slots for Blues legends B.B. King, Mavis Staples and Buddy Guy, as well as contemporary sensations like John Mayer, Dawes, Kurt Vile and Grace Potter. The Record Company also squeezed a ton of promotional attention from its three initial EPs, Superdead and Covers (both in 2012)

and Feels So Good in 2013. Songs from all of these releases, some of which would feature on the band’s first full album, were used in commercials for Coors Light and Miller Lite and in a variety of television shows, including Nashville, Suits and Orphan Black. On the heels of The Record Company’s successful European circuit opening for Blackberry Smoke in 2015, the band finally released its debut full-length, 2016’s Give It Back to You. The almost universally acclaimed album hit the Top 25 of the Billboard 200 chart, while its lead single, “Off the Ground” — sounding like a butt-shaking hybrid of The Black Keys and Morphine — topped the magazine’s Adult Alternative Songs chart. Within two months of the album’s release, Rolling Stone cited the band as one of its “10 New Artists You Need to Know.” Give It Back to You generated airplay on a broad spectrum of Rock radio stations and was eventually nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category. The Record Company play with a controlled ferocity and an honest desire to make great music and, unlike most other record companies, they know exactly what they’re doing. The band is part of the Big River Get Down at the RiversEdge outdoor amphitheater in Hamilton, Ohio, a day-long fest created by David Shaw, Hamilton native and frontman for New Orleans’ group The Revivalists. Shaw’s band headlines, and other acts include Smooth Hound Smith, Atlas Road Crew and The Marcus King Band. For details, visit bigrivergetdown.com. (BB)

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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - River City Roustabout. 9 p.m. Folk. Free. BLUE NOTE HARRISON - Upchurch The Redneck. 8 p.m. Country Rap. $20. BOGART’S - Here Come the Mummies with Matt Schneider. 8 p.m. Funk/Dance. $25. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE Mandy Gaines with the Steve Schmidt Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. THE COMET - Peace Attack with Sarn Helen and Sofia Stone. 10 p.m. Indie/Garage/Pop/Rock/ Various. Free. THE GREENWICH - Just Friends Friday with Kathy Wade featuring the Julie Spangler Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD Battle for the Stage. 9 p.m. Various. Free. JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER Danny Frazier. 9 p.m. Country. Free. KNOTTY PINE - The Brownstones. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. LIVE! AT THE LUDLOW GARAGE Makana. 8 p.m. Hawaiian/Adult Contemporary. $15-$40. THE LOUNGE - The Lounge Karaoke. 8:30 p.m. Various. Free.

RICK’S TAVERN - Deuces Wild. 9:30 p.m. Country/Rock. Cover. RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER Chris Stapleton with Anderson East and Lucie Silvas. 7 p.m. Country. Sold out. RIVERFRONT TRANSIT H CENTER - Ubahn Fest with 2 Chainz, Steve Aoki, New Thousand, Chuck Diesel, Niykee Heaton, The M.O.O.N., Malcolm London, Jayal and Hilliard. 6 p.m. Hip Hop/EDM. $65, $75 day of show. SCHOOL OF ROCK MASON School of Rock Mason Tribute to Prince. 7:30 p.m. Prince tribute. $6, $8 day of show. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Calumet with Jake Simmons & the Little Ghosts and The Fever Haze. 9:30 p.m. Rock/ Roots/Various. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL H (SANCTUARY) - The Yugos, Keeps, Blossom Hall and Kid ESP. 9 p.m. Indie Rock. $10, $12 day of show.

TRACI’S SPORTS LOUNGE AND GRILL - Chris Lee Acoustic. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free. THE UNDERGROUND - Make Me Forget, Samson and King Josiah. 7 p.m. Rock/Various. Cover. URBAN ARTIFACT - David Liebe Hart with Wed ZepWeen and more. 9 p.m. Comedy/Experimental/ Various. $10. WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Brent Gallaher Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum). WOODWARD THEATER - Nikki H Lane with Motherfolk. 9 p.m. Country/Roots. $12, $14 day of show.

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SATURDAY 09 ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Modern Groove. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. BLUE NOTE HARRISON - Twistlock. 9 p.m. Rock. Free. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE Brian Lovely, Steve Schmidt and Peter Gemus. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free. THE COMET - Enzo, Actual Italians, John Bender and Zheg. 10 p.m. Electronic/Experimental/Rock/ Punk/Various. Free. COMMON ROOTS - Paul Sprawl. 8 p.m. Americana. Free. EASTGATE BREW & VIEW - Encore Duo. 6:30 p.m. Acoustic Classic Rock/Americana. Free. THE GREENWICH - Kelly Richey. 8 p.m. Blues/Rock. $10. HENKE WINERY - Chris Lee Acoustic. 7 p.m. Acoustic. Free. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - Gee Your Band Smells Terrific. 9 p.m. ’70s Pop/Dance/Various. $5. JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER Jamison Road. 9 p.m. Country. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Joey Said No. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. LIVE! AT THE LUDLOW GARAGE Joe Purdy with Amy Vachal. 8 p.m. Singer/Songwriter. $15-$30. THE LOUNGE - The Lounge Karaoke. 9 p.m. Various. Free. MADISON LIVE - Orphaned H Land and Voodoo Kungfu with Automaton. 8 p.m. Metal/Various. $15, $18 day of show.

MANSION HILL TAVERN - Soul Pushers. 9 p.m. Blues. $3. MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Just 2 Howlers. 9 p.m. Classic Rock. Free. THE MOCKBEE - Even Styler, Craig V, Bit Flip, Firecat 451 and Project Rain. 9 p.m. Electronic. Free. MOTR PUB - Pop Empire with David Barbe and Inward Dream Ebb. 10 p.m. Rock/Blues/Psych/ Various. Free.

OTR LIVE - Musiq Soulchild. 6 p.m. Soul/R&B. $30. PEECOX ERLANGER - Saving Stimpy. 9:30 p.m. Rock. $5. PLAIN FOLK CAFE - The Tadcasters. 7:30 p.m. Americana. Free.

Company, Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band, The Marcus King Band, Atlas Road Crew, Smooth Hound Smith and Naughty Professor. noon Rock/Roots/Blues/Soul/Various. $20-$35.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB H Protomartyr with Tweens and Melkbelly. 10 p.m. Post Punk/ Rock/Indie. $7.

SONNY’S ALL BLUES LOUNGE Blues jam session featuring Sonny’s All Blues Band. 8 p.m. Blues. Free.

SCHOOL OF ROCK MASON School of Rock Mason Yes vs King Crimson Show. 7:30 p.m. Prog Rock. $6, $8 day of show.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - The Pickin’ Pear with Strutterer and Twig & Leaf. 4 p.m. Roots/Folk/Americana. Free.

SILVERTON CAFE - Chapter 4. 9 p.m. Dance. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Homemade Sin featuring Warner Hodges. 8 p.m. Roots Rock. $12, $15 day of show.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Graceful Closure, Circle It, Coastal Club and The Civics. 8 p.m. Alt/Pop/Rock. $10, $12 day of show.

TAFT THEATRE - The Mavericks. H 8 p.m. Country/Rock/Pop/ Various. $48.50-$58.50. THOMPSON HOUSE - Saving Shemiah with In Days Forgotten, Returning His Crown, End of Days, The Human Tragedy and Vain Interior. 8 p.m. Metal. $10. THE UNDERGROUND - Battle Of The Bands 2017 Round 1 with Joshua Scales, Shock Relief, Read Metafor and PoundSalt. 7 p.m. Various. Cover. URBAN ARTIFACT - Moira, H Smut, Damn the Witch Siren and In Details. 9 p.m. Indie/Rock/ Pop/Various. Free.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Bobby Sharp Quartet featuring Jennifer Ellis. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum). WOODWARD THEATER - Diarrhea Planet with DAAP Girls and Death Before Disco. 8:30 p.m. Indie Rock. $10, $12 day of show.

SUNDAY 10 BOGART’S - Toadies with Local H. 8 p.m. Alt/Rock. $20. BREWRIVER GASTROPUB - Todd Hepburn. 11 a.m. Blues/Various. Free.

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URBAN ARTIFACT - PsychoH Acoustic Orchestra. 7 p.m. Jazz/Various. $10 (suggested donation).

WOODWARD THEATER H School of Rock Mason Tribute To Prince (7 p.m.); School of Rock

Mason: Yes vs. King Crimson (4 p.m.). 4 p.m. Rock/Pop/Soul. $6, $8 day of show.

MONDAY 11 THE MOCKBEE - OH jam! presents Off tha Block Mondays with hosts Stallitix, Goodword, DJ Noah I Mean, Chestah T, Gift of Gabi, Christian, Toph and Preston Bell Charles III. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. Free.

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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Casey Campbell. 7 p.m. Blues. Free. CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL Live@Lunch with Ron Esposito, Michael G. Ronstadt and Brandon Scott Coleman. 12:10 p.m. Jazz/ World/Various. Free.

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MANSION HILL TAVERN - Open Blues Jam with Jimmy D. Rogers. 6 p.m. Blues. Free.

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URBAN ARTIFACT - Tatsuya H Nakatani with Napoleon Maddox, Brent Olds & Michael McIntire.

Gray, Lecrae, Audley with Sylmar, Clockwork DJ, Monty C Benjamin, DJ J. Dough, Strykur and Bergs. 6 p.m. Hip Hop/Dance/Various. $65, $75 day of show.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - One Degree from Mande with Falls City Drifters. 9:30 p.m. Rock/Country/Blues. Free.

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