December strikes another devastating blow to the hearts of Cincinnati music lovers, stealing Dan Hamilton of the Spookfloaters:
Kinda hard to go on with this silly little post now. But Dan loved music, and lived music. Next gig you go to, send some positive vibes to his family.
This Friday:
Ian Noe plays Southgate
Over The Rhine kicks off a three-day run at Memorial Hall (Sunday’s gig is a 4 p.m. matinee)
Ricky Nye plays a free gig at The Orbit Room near Findlay Market
Plush Machine and Fairmount Girls rock Northside Tavern
Herman’s Hermits/Peter Noone have an Xmas show at Ludlow Garage
The 1975 has a sold-out gig at the Marsha Brady
The 1971… “how about the flip side?”
Saturday night, it’s the Big Show… the Royal Crescent Mob reunion show at Madison Theater. It’s a fundraiser for the Tri-State Cancer Research Fund. Dan “Danny Crash” Reed (97X, WVXU Nightwaves, WNKU, WXPN) will be spinning some old school funk to open up the gig. Hat tip to Jon Calderas for a great interview with David Ellison on CincyMusic.com. Nice to see some coverage in CityBeatand Cincinnati.com as well. Hope to see you there!
Less hair now, but still just as cool.
Other Saturday shows:
Motherfolk plays “A very Motherfolk Christmas” at Bogart’s
Afro-Man’s “Merry Spliff-mas” is at the old Annie’s
Pam Tillis plays a holiday gig at Ludlow Garage
Hard Rock Casino hosts “A Boy Band Christmas” with members of 98 Degrees (but not Nick Lachey… weird), O-Town and All-4-One, plus Ryan Cabrera.
I will Alvvays love you…
After Saturday’s shows, we hit the Xmas lull… not much on the ol’ Koncert Keeper until late in the month. You’ll have to tide yourself over with this great live in-studio set from Alvvays:
Speaking o’ live, Ryan Adams brought his A-game for his 35-song set at the Jan Brady.
If you care to share your faves of the year, you can do so here.
He “Ken” rock you!
List member Ken “Music is my hobby” Laube now has an air shift at Inhailer Radio. Tune in (online, on the app or WGUC HD-3) to his “Welcome to the Weekend” show Fridays from 3-7 p.m.
Speaking of players, let’s see who’s playing this week.
Tonight:
Steep Canyon Rangers are at Annie’s
Soul Pocket headlines the free show on Fountain Square
Tower of Power and Lettuce play the Rose Music Center
On Saturday:
Sleigh Bells play the Taft. (It may seem early for sleigh bells but I had a pumpkin beer last night so all bets are off.)
Lany is at the Bobby Brady.
The Zac Brown Band and the Robert Randolph Band play Riverbend.
The Spinners play Ludlow Garage.
Local band The Newbees have a free show at Fernbank Park (7-9 p.m.)
Ziggy Marley does a tribute to his father at Rose. (Note: this is much better than his tribute to the comic strip Ziggy.)
And Southgate will have something called “Super Satan Fest II – Live as Hell”
“Something Involving a Monkey” for the band name win…
On Sunday, Boz Skaggs and The Robert Cray Band are at Rose, and Southgate House hosts a matinee benefit show for Eastern Kentucky Flood Relief:
Monday, it’s the “uplifting band name” trifecta: Anthrax, Black Label Society and Hatebreed at the Mike Brady.
Tuesday:
Wilco plays the Ovation
The Beach Boys and the Temptations are at PNC Pavilion
Lake Street Dive plays the Marsha Brady. The following evening, they’ll be at the Rose.
Other Wednesday shows:
Kid Rock is at Riverbend.
Yngwie “Can I buy a vowel, Pat” Malmsteen is at Ludlow Garage
Accordionist Sally Lukasik plays an early gig at Baker’s Table Bakery. I normally don’t mention accordion shows, but Sally just seems so darn happy in her promo photo:
On Thursday
River Whyless is at Southgate
The Surfragettes (yes, a surf rock band, how’d you guess?) play Ludlow Garage
Alicia Keys works the keys at PNC
The Dead Man String Band and Ray Vietti do the free gig at Washington Park
Bam Powell & the Troublemakers play an equally free show at Behringer-Crawford Museum in Covington
Next Friday:
Chris Stapleton is at Riverbend
The Del McCoury Band plays Memorial Hall
Al Stewart is at Ludlow Garage
The two-night Whimmydiddle Festival kicks off at RiversEDGE in Hamilton with Shovels & Rope as the headliner
Normally when you hear “shovels and rope” and “Hamilton” in the same sentence, it’s about a crime scene.
Distant Early Warning
Since list member Michael “Rico” Carrico gave me so much grief for not mentioning the last Ian Noe show at Southgate (which, it should be noted, Rico did NOT attend), I need to let you “Noe” that Ian has another Southgate gig lined up for December 16th.
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Reason #3,698 of why I love Wussy
On their most recent FB livestream (which is reason #2,294 of why I love them!), Lisa posed a question about “who are your three favorite vocalists?” Check out Chuck and Mark waxing poetic about a band that I also happen to love dearly:
