Tune in to the tunes

Concert Listings, Music

Before we get to the virtual tunes, let’s have a moment of silence for John Prine, Adam Schlesinger, Hal Willner and all the other talented musicians we’ve lost to COVID-19.

As if we needed any more bad news, The National’s Homecoming festival has officially been cancelled. But list member Dale Doyle (the original D2) is doing the album artwork for Matt Berninger’s solo album and says the tunes are great. So we have that to look forward to.

It’s yet another week of live music lockdown, which stinks. But it seems like more and more artists are turning to the “home concert” option to stay connected. Here are a few of note:

List members Dave and Jacqui are turning their Parlor & Patio house concert featuring Liz Longley into a virtual event next Friday (4/17). This is sad news for people who like free pie (they serve it at intermission of their house shows), but good news for those who originally couldn’t snag a seat when the show sold out in 48 hours! Here’s the Eventbrite link. Just like usual Parlor & Patio shows, all ticket proceeds go directly to the artist.

List member Doug Hill-Harriss is still trying to convert me into a Radiohead fan, so he mentioned that they are posting a classic show every Thursday on their YouTube channel. Read more here.

What did I expect from a guy with a hyphenated last name…

The Grateful Dead are streaming an old show each Friday at 8 pm EDT on YouTube. Read more on Rolling Stone.

NPR’s list of virtual gigs keeps growing. I’ll let you peruse for yourself, but the Hamilton Leithauser show tonight at 7 should be fun, and these Saturday gigs look promising:

Billboard also has a list of virtual gigs.

Shawn Colvin is playing from her house on Saturday afternoon:

Rob Fetters will be doing gig #3 Saturday at 9 pm. Here’s what list member Lisa Collins had to say about his first show: LOVED the Rob Fetters show! Wow! Such a great songwriter!

Jesse Malin will be doing his third home show this Saturday at 4 Eastern on YouTube. Both previous gigs have been killer. (Last week’s show is posted below.) Don’t just take my word for it, here’s what Rolling Stone had to say in their “Best Streamed Performances of the Stay-at-Home Era” article:

For the past two Saturdays, Jesse Malin has been performing full two-hour concerts from his Manhattan apartment, each with their own theme. Dubbed “The Fine Art of Self-Distancing” (a play on the title of his 2003 debut, The Fine Art of Self-Destruction), the intimate gigs touch on songs from throughout his career, along with covers by Neil Young, Squeeze, and his old band D Generation. He also does a goofy show-and-tell routine and offers his recommendations for staying sane during quarantine: books by Alan Ginsberg and Debbie Harry, a doc on the Bad Brains, and what he calls Scorsese’s last great film, The King of Comedy. But it’s Malin’s stories — told by a guy who literally grew up in and around the New York punk scene — that are the rare gems, like one in which Joey Ramone tells off Lorne Michaels for never booking the Ramones on SNL.

And my boy Bill Janovitz from Buffalo Tom is doing his 4th weekly “Virtual Happy Hour” – last week’s 24-song set included covers of Hüsker Dü, Fountains of Wayne, Psychedelic Furs, Lefty Frizzell, Bill Withers and the Rolling Stones. His rehearsal version of the Fountains of Wayne tune is below.

Dan’s with the Band

“These virtual concerts are all well and good, but how about a story from list member Dan ‘Reds are gonna win it all’ Lewis?” you say…. So here’s Dan’s sordid saga about what went on backstage at a KISS concert:

My brother met the tour manager in our hometown of Lancaster Ohio (small world). He got us passes. If it wasn’t for a neighborhood buddy who I hadn’t seen in a while… back in eighth grade, if he didn’t invite me up to hear the new KISS record, I’d probably be a lawyer today. (I didn’t even like KISS but he had every Cream and Circus rock magazine …so very cool). So my brother says he’s got backstage passes for KISS. This is like 1998. I’m like, “I prefer to remember them from the Destroyer tour. But sounds like it would be fun.” Guy was great. Showed us the oxygen masks behind stage. Machines that blew the smoke out, then the machines that sucked the smoke back in!! (Because they were getting old, etc.)

There you have it, Dan Lewis’ tale of “sucking” backstage at a KISS concert.

Tributes to Prine

First Avenue Club in Minneapolis — documentary

List member Mighty Joe Sampson (as heard on the 97X podcast here) sent the link below. Cool doc celebrating 50 years of the iconic Twin Cities club. You’ll see some familiar faces mixed in the awesome archival footage

Gigs, interviews, and clips…

Shameless self-promotion

Sometime tomorrow, you’ll be able to check out a new episode of the 97X Rumblings from the Big Bush podcast featuring our interview with John Curley of the Afghan Whigs. NBD.

It’s Virtually a Concert

Concert Listings, Music

Hate to start on a sad note, but losing Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne and Ivy (and other projects) was a real kick in the trousers. This line from a Washington Post tribute sums it up nicely:

… his sharply tuned ear for both catchiness and emotion meant that Schlesinger could do something rare: He wrote songs that were not only wonderful but also could help you understand what it was that you loved about an entire genre of music.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/02/adam-schlesinger-wrote-great-songs-helped-us-understand-why-we-loved-them

A couple of nice tributes are in the WaPo and The Ringer.

Here are a few links to check out over the weekend (and in some cases, ongoing) for your semi-live music fix.

KEXP in Seattle has a list of Virtual Concerts here: https://www.kexp.org/events/

NPR’s list is here: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/816504058/a-list-of-live-virtual-concerts-to-watch-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown

A few shows of note for Saturday 4/4:

Jesse Malin plays at 4 p.m. on YouTube. Last week’s gig is here (and below)
Bill Janovitz (Buffalo Tom) is doing another Happy Hour at 4:30 on FB (at that link he has video of his rehearsal of the Fountains of Wayne song “Hackensack”)
Rob Fetters is playing another “from home” show at 8 p.m.

FWIW, I think the Instagram interface is the worst of the bunch… small screen, and the artist is usually partially obscured by the comments stream.

Shows already recorded for your viewing pleasure:

Richard Thompson did a great gig. Then again, every gig he does is great.

Here’s Jesse Malin’s show from last week:

Joe Pernice is doing Barry Manilow covers here: https://vimeo.com/user6808878/videos. (This Paste interview with Joe has more details.)

Sofar has a YouTube channel with several artists’ performances: https://www.youtube.com/user/Sofarsounds

Just for fun

If you’ve never checked out the Comedy Bang Bang podcast, you need to do so. And here are videos of the host (Scott Aukerman) and a frequent guest (Paul F. Thompkins) adding their own version of the Star Wars cantina music to classic scenes from several movies. The entire playlist is below… watch all of them as it has a cumulative silliness effect.

Adam Schlesinger’s passing reminded me of this great Robbie Fulks tune:

And finally a great tweet from Craig Finn:

Stay positive indeed!

Shows to see when you can’t see shows

Concert Listings, Music

This coronavirus lockdown is a real kick in the trousers for fans of live music. Yes, it’s flattening the curve, but it’s also flattening the hearts of music fans everywhere, and flattening the already-skinny wallets of many performers.

Several artists are turning to “virtual concerts” to raise funds for themselves, raise funds for charity, or just to keep from going stir-crazy.

NPR is listing a lot of the virtual gigs here:
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/816504058/a-list-of-live-virtual-concerts-to-watch-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown

I’ve tuned in to a few: Lucius with Courtney Barnett, Josh Ritter, Indigo Girls, Orville Peck, Julia Steiner (lead singer of Ratboys – check ’em out), Bill Janovitz from Buffalo Tom, Liz Longley… not the same as being at a club, but better than sitting in your basement staring at the same four walls.

Check out Orville Peck’s version of “Islands in the Stream” – video is cued up to that spot

List member Michael Orzali offered up these viewing options as well, courtesy of Nugs.net: YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs9tH6M6AW16i3s8WabzAfA

And Michael said you’ll find more “couch tour” shows here: https://www.jambase.com/collection/couch-tour-alert

(In case you couldn’t tell from the links above, Michael is a jam band fan.

Happy listening, until we meet (in person) again!

Bill Janovitz saved my life last night.

Concert review, Music

This post originally appeared on my personal blog, but I’m re-posting here because it’s about music… and music posts are pretty scarce these days..

Back in my Catholic grade school days, the nuns talked about the Corporal Works of Mercy, one of which is “feed the hungry.”

William Shakespeare said “if music be the food of love, play on!”

Bill Janovitz, the lead singer of my favorite band, Buffalo Tom, hosted a “Virtual Happy Hour” this past Saturday afternoon, via the band’s Facebook page. After mixing himself a martini in his kitchen, he headed down to the basement to play songs from throughout his career, usually on acoustic guitar, occasionally on piano. It was like manna from heaven. A feast for the music-starved masses.

I’ve seen Buffalo Tom several times — in Cincinnati, in New York, L.A., Chicago — and have loved every second of every show. But last night’s solo gig was not just something I wanted to see, it something I desperately needed after a long, long week of work and worry and weirdness. And it wasn’t just me that needed this catharsis — a thousand folks tuned in from around the world. Australia, Italy, England, Abu Dhabi…

I’m not big on the FaceGrams and the InstaTweet and the other social mediums, but yesterday, it sure came in handy as a way to bond with like-minded fans. It provided a true sense of close connection in a social distancing world.

Bill was in his basement, sipping a martini and playing his songs. 800 miles away, I was in my basement, singing along at the top of my lungs (something I’d never do at a regular Buffalo Tom concert – I respect the other fans too much to torture them with my off-key warbling) and crying in my beer at the sad songs. It was more than music, it was magic.

Fancy suit. Sensible footwear.

In addition to being a fabulous songwriter and performer, Bill is also a caring dude. He’s heavily involved in the Hot Stove Cool Music fundraisers that provide scholarships for kids and families in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Boston. Yesterday’s gig raised more than $4,000 (via Venmo and PayPal “tip jars”) for local venues, promoters and musicians who are out of work during the coronavirus lockdown.

Bill’s already booked another “Virtual Happy Hour” gig for this Saturday, March 28th, at 4:30 EDT. Grab a beverage and belly up to the basement bar for some musical salvation. This go-round, the donations go to Bill, because he was originally scheduled for a gig that evening. So tip generously.

Until then, why not use a bit of your “house arrest” free time to check out Buffalo Tom’s most recent album Quiet and Peace. It’ll be good for what ails you.

Episode 31: Kathie Lucas, Director of First (and Lasting) Impressions

97X, Music, podcast

Kathie Lucas went from fast food to “Fast Times at WOXY.” She worked at 97X for a decade, yet was never live on the air. Instead she handled a number of crucial behind-the-scenes roles from 1994-2004… “Director of First Impressions,” Traffic Director (i.e. scheduling the commercials), Promotions Director… she even raised her daughter Sophie at the station! We chat with Kathie about her many roles (including a starring role in a commercial), her Harlequin romance moment, the infamous “butt coolers” at Lollapalooza, and her amazing warehouse stash of 97X promo items.

Kathie and Bryan J. outside the station, with the giant wood-carved Elvis looming in the background

Kathie savoring her Dave Matthews moment.

Julie Maxwell, Susan Schreiber and Kathie Lucas

Here’s just a sampling of the type of promo items that 97X gave away back in the day:

“Gonna be another hot one… better get your ass to the butt cooler!”

Kathie with her husband (and Dave’s man-crush) Mike

Kathie with her daughter Sophie, who spent her baby/toddler years at the station.

Both Dave and the Farrah poster are scheduled to appear at the 97X reunion at Bake’s house this summer

This Week in Live Music: March 9-15

Concert Listings, Music

Hey kids, let’s Spring Forward into some live tunes (see what we did there?)

On Monday, you should get to bed early to make up for lost time.

You’ll need the extra rest, because it’s a very busy week of music.

Tuesday gigs:

Fruition plays Madison Live, with former Houndmouth member Katie Toupin as the opener
Bear Hands plays Riverfront Live
Ms. Lauryn Hill is at the Taft Theater
Jerry Springer records another batch of podcasts at Folk School Coffee Parlor in Ludlow, KY.

On Wednesday, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong (they’re a jam band, in case you couldn’t tell by their name… “I’ll see your String Cheese Incident and raise you 200…”) will be at the Madison Theater, with Goose as the opener.

Instead of “say ‘cheese'” it’s “say ‘Duuuuuuude!'”

Other Hump Day gigs:

Theo Katzman plays 20th Century Theater
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is at Memorial Hall
MammaBear plays MOTR

Thursday shows:

Whiskey Myers plays Taft with The Steel Woods
Melvin Seals and the JGB play Ludlow Garage (Jerry Garcia will NOT be there… well, I suppose it depends on what sort of mushrooms you have for the pre-show dinner)
Kelly Richey and Sherri McGee play Dead Low Brewing
Fea, Patsy, and Megahussy are at Southgate
Death Hags and Brindle play MOTR
Ben Levin is at BrewRiver

This coming weekend is close enough to 3/17 to serve as a handy excuse for a “St. Patrick’s Day Weekend” at every bar in America. Please be careful out there.

Friday is busy night for gigs too:

of Montreal plays the Woodward, with Lily and Horn Horse
Caamp plays a sold-out show at Madison Theater
Tommy Emmanuel plays Taft with opener Sierra Hull
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram plays the Mad Frog
Motherfolk and Bad Bad Hats play Southgate’s Revival Room
Lost Dog Street Band plays Southgate’s larger Sanctuary
Culture Queer plays MOTR with Disaster Class and Quotah
Saxy man David Sanborn has a sold-out gig at Ludlow Garage

Here’s your Saturday smorgasbord:

Guster plays an evening of acoustic music and improv at Memorial Hall
Kasim Sultan’s Utopia plays Ludlow Garage
Dermot Kennedy is at Taft
The Nude Party and Boa (seems like a fitting pairing) play Southgate
Anna Burch and Carriers play MOTR
The Ark Band is at Fretboard Brewing
Georgia Middleman and the Ruby Green Duo play the Downtowne Listening Room
Ben Levin and Noah Wotherspoon play Mansion Hill Tavern
Camp Springs Tavern (co-owned by the extremely talented designer/artist Keith Neltner) hosts a 4-Year Bash and Print Trader art show, with a nice music lineup:

On Sunday, Bogart’s has a nice double bill: Anderson East and Foy Vance. And Southgate has a four-band lineup of Tiny Moving Parts, Belmont, Capstan and Jetty Bones.

Recommended Viewing

If you weren’t alive when Battle of the Network Stars was on TV, have you really ever lived? Feast your eyes upon the glory of this clip:

Check out Bill Simmons’ ESPN article about the Battle clip too.

Concert Review

Wussy crushed it, as always, at Woodward this past Friday. Such a fantastic band! In my next life, I want to be married to Chuck Cleaver and/or Lisa Walker.

Album Cover of the Week

Shows that I’m attending

A recurring theme in the tons* of emails we get every week is: “Hey TWILM Editor, you seem like a really cool person. What shows are you attending?”

Why, thanks so much for asking! Here are the shows for which I have tickets in hand (I type with my other hand):

Rob Fetters at Roebling Point Books in Covington on Saturday, March 21
Bob Mould at 20th Century on Sunday, March 22
Shovels & Rope at Ludlow Garage on Wednesday, April 8
Watkins Family Hour at Memorial Hall on Saturday, April 11
Liz Longley at Parlor & Patio on Friday, April 17
Robyn Hitchcock at Southgate House on Sunday, April 26
Greg Dulli with Joseph Arthur at Woodward Theater on Wednesday, April 29
The National’s Homecoming Festival on May 8-9
Andrew Bird, Calexico and Iron & Wine at PNC Pavilion on Saturday, June 20

(*tons = smattering)

Have a great week!

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Party Dungeon

97X, Music, podcast

16 months ago, Dave and I launched the 97X Rumblings from the Big Bush podcast. We had absolutely no experience in the medium (it showed… still does) and zero expectations. We just liked getting together and talking about the great memories that were formed during our time at 97X, and we thought we’d get the old gang back together, press ‘record’ and put these stories out into the ether, just for kicks.

Over those 16 months, we’ve rediscovered something that we always knew back in our radio days: 97X listeners are a very loyal bunch. Somehow, some way, despite our complete ineptness at self-promotion, the folks who loved 97X/woxy.com found us. I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised — after all these are the same people who had to stick a aluminum-foil-wrapped boombox antenna out their window to tune in back then. But when we get emails at 97Xwoxy@gmail.com like the ones below, it gives us our own Sally Field moment.

From Fred G.:

Hi guys,
LOVE the podcast thank you for doing this. I could write an extremely long email trying to explain how much 97X/WOXY meant to me but I would most likely ramble on and on.
The reason I am writing, outside of wanting to share me praise is I had a WOXY related memory come up on Facebook today from 2013 and thought I would share it. Here goes:

Was listening to NPR’s “Talk of the Nation”, in the car, on the way home from work. There were talking about personal important moments in radio in response to World Radio Day. The moment that came to my mind was not a big national event. It was the last terrestrial broadcast of Oxford’s Ohio’s 97.7 (97X) (WOXY) “BAM The Future of Rock n Roll”

WOXY was not only one of the first independent “Modern Rock” radio stations in the country but they were OUR station. In a local market that was and is dominated by big Clear Channel cookie cutter stations and talk radio, this was something cool and oh so local. The station started in 1983 and I stumbled upon it in high school around 84 or so and my outlook on music was changed. Not only was there great music but there were the DJs themselves, the quirky self-produced commercials and so much more.

When it was announced in 2004 that WOXY would be ending all broadcast (including internet as far as we knew at the time) I was devastated. 97X went out in style though, which brings me to my whole point:
I was trying to listen to the last minutes of the broadcast over the internet on my home computer. Technology was not cooperating, so I had to drive my car to the top of the hill in Mariemont in order to get a signal. (97X was notorious for not having the strongest signal in the Cincinnati area.) So I sat in my car in the dark of an empty parking lot as Steve Baker does his poignant and heartfelt final sign off and then silence….
The internet stream was revived. It was awesome and I loved it so until it too came to an end in 2010, but 97X truly died for me that night in 2004.

Thanks again!! And keep up the great work.
Fred Gumbert

From Heidi Arnold (later featured on Episode 20)

Thanks so much for this podcast! It really has made me so nostalgic for my childhood. I grew up in Oxford and religiously listened to the station until I left for college… There are so many bands and songs that make me think so fondly of 97X. 97X will forever have a place in my heart.

From Aaron Borns, former 97X employee later interviewed in Episode 22:

Loving the podcast! Great to hear your voices…and so cool you’re doing this. I discovered them last week…going through them in order and just finished listening to Julie’s episode.

I am so incredibly grateful for being given the opportunity to work at the station for the time I did….I can’t believe my good fortune. It truly was something special, and for you guys to bring those memories back to life in the way that you are is just too much fun (joy? 🙂 ).

From James Brubaker (his research was later featured in this 97Xbam post):

I’ve really been enjoying the podcast. I actually stumbled across it while doing some research for a project I was working on, and figured I’d share it with you guys. Here goes…
I recently came across the archive of Modern Rock 500 lists on Craig Froehle’s website, and thought it would be fun to crunch some numbers and come up with a Modern Rock 500 Top 500. So, with the caveats that I had to do some data entry that might have some mistakes, and that Froehle’s site is missing lists for 94 and 98 (well, lists are there, but they appear to just be the 95 list repeated), here’s a ranking of the Modern Rock 500 Top 500: https://jamesbrubaker.net/the-modern-rock-500-500/

Anyway, the podcast is a nice mix of nostalgia and fun behind the scenes info. I’m really digging it. Keep up the awesome work.

From Daniel Jones (later interviewed on Episode 27):

Thanks for the pod. It is like finally being able to talk with someone about the treasure that was WOXY. I was overjoyed the times I went back to Oxford to visit old professors (handful of times only) and even more so when I accessed the stream and saw WOXY was still the best station in the universe. It’s absence is a very felt presence still. Thanks for the pod and for the WOXY spirit in which it is produced. Eagerly awaiting each episode!

Thank YOU for listening!

Folks are thanking us when really we should be thanking them for tuning in. As 97X station owner Doug Balogh liked to say, “without listeners we’re like one hand clapping.” Emails like the ones above really warm our hearts (and Dave is one cold-hearted SOB most of the time).

Connecting with you makes us do our happy dance.

Sure, we’re not exactly conquering the podcasting universe… Serial and Joe Rogan don’t need to worry about us overtaking them anytime soon. But I like to think that Rumblings from the Big Bush is the Velvet Underground of podcasting.

“My reputation is far bigger than my sales,” he said with a laugh on the phone from his home in Manhattan. “I was talking to Lou Reed the other day, and he said that the first Velvet Underground record sold only 30,000 copies in its first five years. Yet, that was an enormously important record for so many people. I think everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band! So I console myself in thinking that some things generate their rewards in second-hand ways.”
Brian Eno, in an interview published in the Los Angeles Times in May 1982

We may have only a handful of listeners, but for those dedicated folks, we’ve given voice to the songs in their hearts. We’ve helped them reconnect with some old friends and fond memories, and we’ve had quite a few laughs along the way. That’s success in our book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XknRuPMOKEo

This Week in Live Music: March 2-8

97X, Concert Listings, Music, podcast

Howdy, gang! You’re probably saying “what’s the buzz, tell me what’s a-happening”… perhaps you’re even singing it…

Well, I’ll tell you what’s a-happening. More live music.

Tomorrow, the Fairmount Girls kick off a four-week Monday residency at MOTR. Tomorrow’s special guest: Slutbomb. Yes, you read that right. Slutbomb.

Wednesday, Dave Mason brings his Feelin’ Alright tour to Memorial Hall for a sold-out show, and Ricky Nye and Matt Wiles play two sets at MOTR.

On Thursday, Daniel Donato plays Southgate’s Revival Room, and River Snout plays Big Ash Brewing.

Friday has a slew of shows:

Wussy plays the Woodward,with Vacation as the opener. I’ll be at that gig, along with a host of list members.
Donna the Buffalo stomps into Ludlow Garage.
The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars are actually playing a different bar: Big Ash Brewing
The Brook & The Bluff is at Madison Live
Maurice Mattei & The Tempers play Wiedemann’s Tap Room
The Harlequins are at Northside Tavern
Matt Waters & the Recipe play Southgate’s Revival Room

Saturday‘s busy too. Southgate hosts Rock n’ Revival for a Cure – doors at 3, show starts at 3:45.

Other Saturday shows:

A.J. Croce plays the songs of his father Jim at the Fairfield Community Arts Center. (That show is sold out… but you can get in if your name is Slim or if you are the jealous husband of a Southside Chicago resident named Doris.)
Ohio Valley Salvage plays Bircus Brewing
Heavy Hinges and 3 other bands play Urban Artifact
Hot Magnolias are at Big Ash
Dave Webster is at Camp Springs Tavern
The Indiana casino circuit is busy with “heritage” acts: The Little River Band is at the Lawrenceburg (IN) Event Center and Blue Öyster Cult plays Belterra in Florence (Indiana, not KY y’all). B.Y.O.Cowbell.

Last but certainly not least, the Warsaw Falcons play Weidemann on Saturday Night as they celebrate the 70th birthday of local legend David Rhodes Brown. Check out this article about DRB.

On Sunday, Big Ash hosts an Irish Music Jam Session (B.Y.O.Bodhrán) and Geldings play MOTR with El Chapo.

Hot Ticket Alert

The Record Company plays 20th Century Theater on Tuesday, May 19th. Maybe not the hottest of hot tickets, but I thought I’d mention it because 20th Century shows can slip through the cracks.

Recommended Listening

Throwing Muses and Archers of Loaf have new music out. Read more about Throwing Muses in Rolling Stone and check out the new tunes below.

Just for Fun

Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers play production assistants to Conan O’Brien… hilarious.

Shameless Self-promotion

The newest episode of the 97X Rumblings from the Big Bush podcast features an interview with Timothy Hiatt, who was only at 97X for a year back in the late 80s, but has carved out a very cool career as a live music photographer in Chicago. Here are a few of his concert shots:

Have a great week!

Episode 30: Tim Hiatt – The Kid Stays in the Picture(s)

97X, Music, podcast

A self-proclaimed “bit player” at 97X in the late 80s, Timothy Hiatt joined the station fresh out of high school, stayed for only a year, and has gone on to a great career as a world-renowned photographer based in Chicago. Tim talks to Dave and Damian about how 97X still influences his life, his gigs as a music photographer, and how he came full circle with Bob Mould.

Tim at far left, with Mr. K, Kurt Neumann of the BoDeans, Jetson and Sammy Llanas of the BoDeans.

Timothy’s clients have included heavy hitters such as Rolling Stone, MTV, VH1, NBC, SiriusXM, Pandora Music and Entertainment Weekly. His work has appeared in dozens of major magazines and newspapers around the world. In 2012, he was #9 on Complex Magazine’s 50 Greatest Music Photographers Right Now list.

Here are some of the amazing shots Tim has taken at shows:

Most of the images on Tim’s website are available as a print – contact him about sizes and pricing. Follow him on Instagram @timothy_hiatt.

Tim went on tour with The Joy Formidable.

Here are videos from two bands Tim has joined on tour.

This Week in Live Music: February 24-March 1

Concert Listings, Music

Before we get into the gigs, TWILM would like to wish a hearty “Happy Birthday!” to list member Ted G., who turns 16 on February 29th.

Speaking of birthdays, I was at a real rager of a BD bash last night. It got soooo out of control that a cop showed up… to politely ask us to move our cars to the other side of the street. But that reminded me of the famous “this is the Minneapolis Police” intro to the Replacements song “Kids Don’t Follow”…

The story behind that intro (which was real, not fake) is pretty cool, and you can read all about it in this 2016 blog post from the Minneapolis radio station The Current.

OK, let’s get to the live stuff.

On Tuesday, Ben Levin (“the hardest working college sophomore in show business”) plays BrewRiver, and the Northern Kentucky Bluegrass Band plays Sis’s in Newport.

Wednesday:

The Austin band Star Parks plays MOTR
Ben Levin plays happy hour (5-8) at the Residence Inn/Phelps downtown
Chris Cusentino and Brad Meinerding play Ripple Wine Bar in Covington
Janis Ian plays Memorial Hall. List member Ted G. will undoubtedly enjoy listening to her biggest hit on Feb. 29th, 2024.

On Thursday:

Town Mountain plays Southgate along with Buffalo Wabs & The Price Hill Hustle.
The Soul Rebels (“an eight-piece New Orleans based brass ensemble that incorporate elements of soul, jazz, funk, hip-hop, rock and pop music within a contemporary brass band framework”) are at Riverfront Live, with opener Ernie Johnson from Detroit
Jam band Manic Focus plays Madison Live
Ace of Wands (the band, not the Tarot card) plays Northside Tavern

If you’re in a movie mood on Thursday, list member Eric Weltner has poured his heart and soul into creating a cool film:

International Incidents chronicles Central Ohio’s three original professional hockey teams that played in the International Hockey League between 1966 and 1977. The film serves as a glimpse into a rough and tumble era of old time hockey in the minor leagues. Men named Wild Willie, Terrible Ted and Battleship Bob patrolled the ice. Transport yourself back to a time when helmets and common sense were optional.

https://www.facebook.com/Internationalincidents/videos/3479597982111555/

You can catch that film at the Woodward Theater. Get tickets here.

Quick, grab a goat… Bockfest kicks off Friday with the annual parade starting at Arnold’s and winding up (or down) at the Christian Moerlein Brewery.

Move along… nothing to see here, just your average, everyday motorized bathtub driven by a lederhosen-wearing, cigar-chomping dude with a rubber duck hat.

Other Friday events:

Chicago Farmer has a record release show in Southgate’s main Sanctuary
Legendary psychedelic prog rockers Nektar are at Ludlow Garage
Gaelic Storm plays Bogart’s
The Stolen Faces are at Stanley’s
Flocks flocks to MOTR
a local band with the great (or not so great) name of Two Inch Winky is playing Southgate’s Revival Room.

On Leap Day Saturday:

The Huntertones play Ludlow Garage
The Yugos play MOTR
Highly Likely has an album release party at Dead Low Brewing
Ludlow, Kentucky hosts the Cabin Fever Music + Arts Festival at several venues (lineup below)

Also on Saturday, list member Ted G. might get his driver’s license.

Hot Ticket Alert

Railbird announced their 2020 lineup:

Too Hot To Handle Ticket Alert

Foxy Shazam sold out their Taft Theater show in approximately 25 seconds.

Current Videos

Throwback Video

Now this was a kickass band:

Dan’s with the Band

Tributes to Prine

First Avenue Club in Minneapolis — documentary

Gigs, interviews, and clips…

Shameless self-promotion

Here are a few links to check out over the weekend (and in some cases, ongoing) for your semi-live music fix.

Shows already recorded for your viewing pleasure:

Just for fun

Recommended Reading

Recommended Viewing

Concert Review

Album Cover of the Week

Shows that I’m attending

From Fred G.:

From Heidi Arnold (later featured on Episode 20)

From Aaron Borns, former 97X employee later interviewed in Episode 22:

From James Brubaker (his research was later featured in this 97Xbam post):

From Daniel Jones (later interviewed on Episode 27):

Thank YOU for listening!

Hot Ticket Alert

Recommended Reading

Recommended Listening

Just for Fun

Shameless Self-promotion

Hot Ticket Alert

Too Hot To Handle Ticket Alert

Recommended Reading

Current Videos

Throwback Video

Album Cover of the Week