Bob Mould

You MAY be entertained

Concert Listings, Concert review, Music

Geez, I was so busy going through my Signal chats that time got away from me and I missed a couple of days of Ye Olde Koncert Keeper. Well, they weren’t MY Signal chats, per se, but somehow I got included on them.

Maybe it’s a signal that I should stick to concert listings. Let’s take a look.

Saturday night:

  • Los Honchos play a free show in the Southgate House lounge
  • The Laurelys play at the Lost Bridge Beverage Co. (Carriage House Farm)
  • The Aristocrats are at Ludlow Garage
  • Madison Theater hosts Greggie & the Jets: A Tribute to Elton John

On Sunday, Joseph Huber and Sean Geil (The Tillers) play Southgate

Tuesday gigs:

  • Blues rocker Beth Hart plays the Bobby Brady
  • Memorial Hall hosts “Our House: The Music of CSNY”
  • Woodward Theater has Season to Risk, Sofa King, and Old City*

*Old City was the original name of Del Boca Vista

Thursday is May Day!

That evening:

  • The Mystery Lights (garage/psych band from Brooklyn) play the Woodward, with M. Ross Perkins and General Baxter also on the bill.
  • Tinfoil Hat Cowboys play a free gig in Southgate’s Lounge
  • Liberty Theater has a free Songwriters in the Round show with Dave Lacy and Jaden Decker
  • Lissie is at Ludlow Garage.

Lissie fun facts: Lissie has recently appeared in TV shows Twin Peaks and Loudermilk, as well as co-owns the music genre-themed popcorn company Otts Pops Indie Pop and is involved with land conservation.

Next Friday (May 2), you get Five for Fighting.

Uh, it’s the band Five for Fighting, not the hockey penalty. They’re at Ludlow Garage. Other shows that evening:

  • Mosant at Liberty Theater
  • Brie Salmena at Southgate
  • Runaway Gin (a band “inspired by Phish”) at the old Annie’s
  • Madison Theater has Jump: “America’s Van Halen Experience”

(I thought Van Halen was “America’s Van Halen Experience”… )

Shows next Saturday (May 3):

  • Camp Springs Tavern hosts “Jam on the Creek” with Ralph Martin, Dave Webster, South of Sin, and Northern Kentucky Derby
  • Michelle Robinson has an album release show at Liberty Theater
  • Noah Wotherspoon plays Fretboard in Blue Ash
  • Dead Centric and Plazmatic are in Southgate’s main Sanctuary
  • Carrie Nation & the Speakeasy, Dead Man String Band, and Run Rabbit Run play upstairs in the Southgate Revival Room
  • Spyro Gyra at Ludlow

Next Sunday is May the Fourth!

That evening, Jackie Venson will set her guitar phasers to “stun” as she plays Southgate’s Revival Room.

The band Knotts will open for Jackie. Some people claim that the band members are half-siblings fathered by Mr. Furley with Cindy Snow and Terri Alden.

Monday, May 5 is Cinco de Mayo!

That evening, The Dirty Grass Players and Mama Said String Band will play the Liberty Theater

On Tuesday, May 6, Nashville indie-pop artist Genevieve Hayward plays a free show in the Southgate House Lounge.

Shows on Wednesday, May 7:

  • Anvil plays Southgate (main room) – don’t tell Wile E. Coyote
  • Matthew & the Atlas and Foreign Fields are in the Revival Room
  • Matisyahu plays Ludlow Garage
  • The Columbia in the East End hosts their first Wednesday “WEENsday” playing Ween’s Golden Country Greats album. (I went this month – it’s a fun hang!)

Thursday, May 8:

  • Son Volt plays Trace and pays tribute to Doug Sahm at Ludlow Garage (I’ll be there!)
  • Rhiannon Giddens & The Old-Time Revue at Memorial Hall
  • Carriage House Farm in North Bend hosts the second Thursday live broadcast of BlackFork Radio

On Friday, May 9:

  • Rumpke Mountain Boys are at the old Annie’s
  • ekoostik hookah plays the Liberty Theater
  • Josh Radnor plays the Woodward
  • Bendigo Fletcher is on the Madison Theater rooftop, with Producing a Kind Generation
  • Ludlow has Live at the Filmore (Allman Bros. tribute) and Broken Arrow (Neil Young tribute)

Saturday, May 10 is action-packed:

  • Kaleta & the Super Yamba Band at Liberty Theater
  • Mason Jennings with Lydia Shae at Southgate
  • The old Annie’s has Fillmore On The River, with an Allman Brothers tribute band (Nathan Jenkins Band) and a Grateful Dead tribute band (I Dig Pig)
  • Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons play a “The Last Encores” show on the lawn at the Hard Rock Casino

Phillip-Michael Scales plays the Liberty Theater on Sunday, May 11. Can’t wait to see ol’ Tubbs!

Wait, my bad, that’s Philip Michael Thomas. But my mistake gives me a convenient excuse to subject your eyeballs to this:

Shows on Tuesday, May 13:

  • Bruce Cockburn plays Memorial Hall (when I worked at 97X, his albums had a sticker on them with “it’s pronounced ‘Coe-burn'”… I appreciated the help.)
  • The Arcadian Wild plays The Woodward Theater with River & Rail opening
  • Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass play the Taft – that show is BYOWC (Bring your own whipped cream)
  • Insane Clown Posse plays the Ovation – that show is BYOF (Bring your own Faygo)

We love it live!

There’s no way Alejandro Escovedo is 74… he tore it up at Southgate, even coming into the audience to do a couple of unplugged tunes. Great songs, great stories!

It was fun hanging with Steve “El Blanco” White too, but we missed our friend Dave Tellmann, who is on injured reserve for a bit. Get well soon, my friend!

Kevn Kinney, the opener for Alejandro, did a fine job too!

And list member John Kennedy was in the house too. But our former co-worker Dan “Reds in 2025” Lewis was nowhere to be found. Rumor has it that since he retired from the Reds, “Disco Dan” spends most evenings cutting a dashing figure on the dance floor and showcasing his killer moves at the hottest nightclubs.

Gone but not forgotten

R.I.P. Clem Burke

And R.I.P. David Thomas (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu). Choice quote from the Guardian tribute:

We’ll leave you with his own words, which sums up who he was better than we can: ‘My name is David Fucking Thomas… and I’m the lead singer of the best fucking rock and roll band in the world.’”

Best Commencement Speaker Ever!

Album Cover(s) of the Week(s)

The woman on this album cover – model Dolores Erickson – is the same woman who appeared on the cover of the Herb Alpert Whipped Cream & Other Delights album.

Erickson, who wore a bikini with the shoulder straps pushed down and hidden, was for the most part surrounded by cotton batting and many cans’ worth of shaving cream because actual whipped cream turned runny and smelly under hot lights. The real thing was used only on her head and on the index finger she touched to her lips.  Adding to the not-really-very-sexy-at-all atmosphere was the fact that Erickson was three months pregnant with her son, Brett.

Who needs mariachi when you’ve got marinara?

2 responses to “You MAY be entertained”

  1. Dan “Vincent Vega” Lewis Avatar
    Dan “Vincent Vega” Lewis

    Disco Dan will be at the Son Volt show cutting the rug.

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    1. Damian Avatar
      Damian

      Nice! See you there!

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February made me shiver…

97X, Concert Listings, Music

… and I’m really tired of shivering.

But I do love pie. Except for the Shepherd’s kind.

You can’t spell February without “F-U.”

Let’s warm up our weary bones with some hot live tunes.

Tomorrow night (2/20):

  • Robert Ellis plays Southgate
  • Young Heirlooms, Mol Sullivan, and Annie D are at the Northside Tavern
  • Liberty Theater has a Songwriters in the Round free show with Anthony Ray Wright and Andrew Hibbard

Kim Deal (Pixies, Breeders, Huber Heights, OH) plays a sold-out show at the Woodward Theater on Friday night. I’ll be there, along with list members Mighty Joe, Deuce, Lobby Boy, Matty V, Jarrod, Shay-Shay, and a cavalcade of stars. It’ll be like the greatest episode ever of The Love Boat

Other Friday shows:

  • Justin Wells has an album release show at Southgate, with Casey Campbell and Adam Lee also on the bill
  • Susto and Rose Hotel are at Ludlow Garage
  • Cincy Brass plays a free show at MOTR (9:30)
  • Jim Trace & the Makers (featuring two of my co-workers) play an album release show at Northside Tavern, with The Electric Indigo and The Laurelys

On Saturday, the Cabin Fever Festival takes over historic Ludlow, KY. I went last year and loved it – it’s a great showcase for the amazing roots/Americana/bluegrass talent in this area, in some really cool venues (including a Funeral Parlor!).

Needless to say, I’m going again this year. (I just hope the funeral home folks don’t try to stick me in a coffin.)

Join me, won’t you? (At the festival, not in the coffin.) Tickets are dirt cheap too – get ’em here.

Other Saturday shows:

  • Nicholas Jamerson plays Southgate, with Jonathan Peyton as the opener (I really like Jonathan’s latest release)
  • Mike Detmer has an album release show at Liberty Theater, with Rob L. Ford, and Adam Gilliam
  • Annie’s hosts Fillmore on the River 2 with the Almond Butter Band and Scarlet Fire
  • The HercuLeons (feat. Bluegrass Hall of Famer John Cowan and fiddler/vocalist Andrea Zonn) play Ludlow Garage
  • Memorial Hall has The Drowsy Lads

On Sunday, Mike Oberst and Justine Cefalu play the Rabbit Hash “Music Behind the Stove” series and Tinfoil Hat Cowboys play MOTR.

The Nasty Nati Brass Band is at Memorial Hall on Monday.

On Tuesday, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (fiddler from Molly Tuttle’s band) is at Southgate, and the Mercantile Library’s Memoir Lecture is from Michelle Zauner, author of Crying in H Mart and also lead singer of Japanese Breakfast. (That appearance is sold-out.)

Taft Theatre has An Evening with Drew and Ellie Holcomb next Wednesday (2/26).

The Joe Stamm Band plays Whiskey City’s Liberty Theater on Thursday, Feb. 27th, with Clint Park as the opener.

The Noah Smith Band is at Liberty Theater on Friday, 2/28, and Southgate has a couple of shows going on that evening:

  • Eddie Spaghetti and “Metal” Marty Chandler from Supersuckers play the main room (Skunkdog opens)
  • Logan Ledger plays the Revival Room, with Mason Via.

Plenty o’ shows on Saturday, March 1st:

  • Robyn Hitchcock plays Southgate (I’ll be there with list member Dave Tellmann) – Robyn has a great interview on the Sound Opinions podcast
  • Noah Wotherspoon Band at Liberty Theater
  • Lydia Shae, Amy Jo, and Stone & Snow play Southgate’s Revival Room
  • Helles Belles (all-female AC/DC cover band) play Ludlow
  • The Blue Note in Harrison hosts Crown Watts: An Evening of Rush

Shows on Sunday, March 2nd:

  • Burning Caravan plays Rabbit Hash (2pm)
  • Tommy Castro & the Painkillers are in Southgate’s main Sanctuary
  • Flamy Grant and Heather Mae play the Southgate Revival Room
  • Dropkick Murphys are at the Bobby Brady
  • Comedian John Caparulo plays a 6:30 show at the Woodward

Gigs on Wednesday, March 5th:

  • Jordan Tice plays the Liberty Theater
  • Crumbsnatchers play Southgate (bio description: “Hailing from Nashville, Crumbsnatchers’ catchy songs echo the wit of Pixies and Talking Heads, backed by the fervent force of Beastie Boys.”)
  • It’s WEEN Wednesday at the Columbia – the album featured will be Pure Guava

Life is a carnival. Summer is a festival (or seven).

Bourbon & Beyond has crammed about five festival’s worth of artists into their lineup:

Nelsonville hasn’t announced their full lineup yet, but they had me at Waxahatchee, MJ Lenderman, Dehd, and Low Cut Connie.

Hear, here!

The new album from Ex-Vöid is great!

One of the principals in Ex-Vöid is Owen Williams from The Tubs. I’m obsessed.

Waxahatchee has a new non-album track out (with M.J. Lenderman on guitar and backing vocals). It’s delightful.

And Katie Crutchfield harmonizes with Patterson Hood (Drive-by Truckers) on a track from his upcoming solo release. As list member Mighty Joe Sampson says, “This is the good stuff. Harmonies to melt your ears on a cold winter day.”

The Reading Room

This article from The Atlantic is heart-breaking for any record collector, or really any music lover.

And in the WaPo, Will Leitch expresses his admiration for the way that R.E.M. did their thing, then closed up shop.

In his interview with Allmusic, Bob Mould gives a shout-out to stations like 97X:

“There were a lot of radio stations that had been around. College stations, and then stations like WLIR in New York. So, that was all part of building the firmament, as well. It was a long process. It didn’t just happen out of thin air. And WBCN, and Matt was DJing down in South Jersey. So, that late ’80s through ’91/’92, all of that was critical infrastructure, as well. It’s just funny – you know this and I know this – but there’s sort of a ‘mainstream history,’ like, ‘There was all this hair metal, and then Nevermind came, and it changed.’ There was a lot of people who did a lot of work to get to that point.”

Amen, Brother Bob! Here’s the title track from his upcoming album:

Album Cover of the Week

I picked up this gem of an album, in this condition, note and all, at the Mt. Washington St. Vincent de Paul store. (On “Senior Sunday” when I get a 25% discount!) My best guess is that the two-time owner of the album found someone who DIDN’T like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain.

Episode 86: Keri Crawford found freedom and family at 97X

97X, Music, podcast

Keri Crawford was at 97X from 1998-2001, as a DJ and program director. She talks to us about her radio and record label background, the unique energy of 97X, the fun shows she got to organize and promote, the fervor of the listeners… and how her dog had free rein at the office.

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.
Tim chats with John “JJ” Jesser.

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:

[Iggy really needs no caption]
St. Vincent
Flaming Lips… but of course.
Patti Smith. Powerful.

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.