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Vibrant Troubadours are releasing their sophomore album, Cool Grass, this Saturday at MOTR! Also playing will be The Whiskey Shambles and When Particles Collide. Music starts at 10p, but be sure to get there early!

The wait is over! Mark your calendars for the 17th-annual Midpoint Music Festival happening Saturday and Sunday, September 23-24, 2017 in downtown Cincinnati. MPMF will feature WALK THE MOON, THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, BADBADNOTGOOD, VALERIE JUNE, NONAME & many more!

Pluto Revolts released the video for “Tidal Wave” off of their Tidal Wave EP yesterday! Watch it here.

For their latest 45 single, Soul Step Records partners with Nashville’s The Nobility for their first ever vinyl release. Fresh off the success of their latest album, Ashford Castle, The Nobility shares an album favorite “Wonderful Night” with a special never before released track, “Retrograde Amnesia.”

Sylvan Esso are headed to Bogart’s on September 21^st! They just released a video for their new song, “The Glow” from their second album, What Now.

The operators of the historic Herzog studio space downtown - the last standing structure where Hank Williams Sr. recorded, where Cincinnati's first R&B tracks were recorded by Henry Glover with Bullmoose Jackson and released on King Records, where legends like Flatt & Scruggs, The Delmore Brothers, Patti Page and Rosemary Clooney made musical history - is on the verge of sharing big news.

Royal Holland recently visited Leesta Vall Sound Recordings in Brooklyn, NY to record an in office live-to-vinyl session with engineer and owner of Leesta Vall Aaron Zimmer. The session took the course of a Saturday afternoon finding Holland and 3 members of backing band The Rotation (Freedom Nicole Moore, Matt Retherford and Charlie Smith) crammed into a tiny Brooklyn office space. The results of the session were 12 unique takes of 4 different Royal Holland songs (Demimonde, The Grave, Statues and Shore) cut in real time to vinyl record on a lathe that was made in the 1950’s.

Music Resource Center is excited to announce its second quarterly live music series, The Sampler, will be held on Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Aspiring MRC recording artists, vocalists, and musicians will engage the stage. The Sampler grants exclusive access to hear and enjoy the latest music from the center’s diverse community of teens in grades 7-12, who may one day be the music industry’s next innovators. The performance will be held at The Venue, MRC’s sleek black-box/lounge-styled space, and is open to all ages, free of charge.

Tim Goshorn was a musician, a force in the Cincinnati Music Community, and an admirable family man. Goshorn performed with Pure Prairie League, The Goshorn Brothers Band, and The Tim Goshorn Band. The Fort Thomas native was also a member of the Northern Kentucky Music Legends Hall of Fame along with his brother, Larry Goshorn. They were inducted in 2015.

The American Sign Museum will present Signs & Songs, an Americana Music Series, on June 17, July 8, and August 11. The series will spotlight three separate nights of live music by some of the Queen City’s top musicians.

The renovation of our legendary Music Hall is almost complete. We had a chance to tour Music Hall to get a glimpse of the renovations so far!

Paul Simon has been a musical hero of mine since I was a kid. For whatever reason, the album, Sounds of Silence resonated with me as a young person. I would scribble the lyrics to, “I am a Rock” and “The Sound of Silence” all over my notebooks. The Simon and Garfunkel music catalog catapulted me into a life-long love affair with folk music.