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This morning, organizers of the Bunbury Music Festival — which returns to Cincinnati's riverfront (on stages throughout Sawyer Point and Yeatman's Cove) June 3-5 — announced the lineup for this year's event. This is Bunbury's second year under the ownership of Columbus, Ohio-based concert promoters PromoWest Productions and its fifth overall.
Scheduled to perform at the 2016 Bunbury festival: The Killers, Florence + the Machine, Mudcrutch (featuring Tom Petty), Tears for Fears, Haim, Ice Cube, Of Monsters and Men, Grimes, Big Grams, Umphrey's McGee, The Neighbourhood, X Ambassadors, Elle King, G. Love & Special Sauce, Charles Bradley, J. Roddy Walston & The Business, Bayside, The Wombats, The Dear Hunter, The Mowgli's, Diarrhea Planet, Grizfolk, Cincinnati native Cal Scruby, Here Come the Mummies, Austin Plaine, Red Wanting Blue, Oddisee, Coleman Hell, Lany, Whilk & Misky, Connor Youngblood, PVRIS, Louis the Child, Foxing, Lydia, The Shelters and Holy White Hounds.
Cincinnati-area acts booked to perform so far include Dead Man String Band, Dawg Yawp, Mad Anthony, Automagik, Leggy and Arlo McKinley & the Lonesome Sound.
Three-day passes are available now for $169 (single day tickets will also be available for $89). VIP ticket options are also available. Click here for more info.
Since its formation in Feb. 2013, Siegelord has been biding its time and waiting for the right moment to strike. After several sound, image and name shifts, the Cincinnati-based Metal band finally found its footing and began building a legion of fans. The quartet (vocalist Ulfr, guitarist Therod, drummer Sieven and bassist Warg) may have taken its sweet time releasing its first full-length, Ascent of the Fallen, but spinning the 12-track debut is enough to get any listener prepped to strap on some armor and go to war, even if it is just in the mosh pit.
Fans of Ulfr, Sieven and Warg's previous band, local Folk Metal crew Winterhymn, can definitely hear some stylistic similarities. But where Winterhymn focuses its efforts on the Folk aspects of its formula, Siegelord leans more heavily upon Black and Death Metal to craft its battle anthems. Both bands weave orchestration into their songs, but Siegelord trade in the violins and keys for powerful blasts of horn and sprawling synths to give their tracks a more tribal and feral edge. These are not odes to honorable warriors but to conquerors and bloodthirsty warlords. and the musicianship reinforces that distinction.
Each members' individual inspirations permeate every track. Ulfr's love of Behemoth and Gwar fills every growled and shrieked line, Sieven's Hardcore background can be heard in his bombastic cymbal crashes and heavy-handed pounding. Therod's thrashy riffs, reminiscent of Amon Amarth and similar acts, along with Warg's classically constructed bass rumbles fill the rest of the bloody picture. Throughout, the synth and horns add a flourish to each song and enhance each track's intended mood. The driving, violent call to arms of "Gatebreaker" just wouldn't be the same without a bellow from the horn, calling the fighters to one singular purpose — in this case, a massive, track-ending breakdown.
While the music itself is suitably brutal, Ulfr's lyrics are what sets Ascent apart. The album is autobiographical in many ways, as Ulfr weaves a tale of the four characters banished from their realm and exiled to an inhospitable desert, ultimately finding a way to make their new homeland truly theirs. Sprinkled throughout are several interludes where Ulfr expands on the story he weaves. These tracks avoid feeling like filler due to Ulfr's savage, spoken delivery, which elicits a shiver or two from the listener. Furthermore, "Siegelord" and "Warchief of Fallen Spirits" take time to develop Ulfr, Sieven, Warg and Therod's individual backstories.
Buried within the fantastical saga that Ulfr shares are some true-to-life revelations regarding deception, lies, love lost and overcoming exceptional odds at all costs. In many ways, Ascent of the Fallen is a literal title and the band's material benefits from not relying simply on classical fantasy tropes or focusing too heavily on creating a concept album to construct its tale.
Siegelord's inception was a tumultuous one, coming out of very real, personal schisms. While most of these divisions have healed with time, their memory helped fuel the creation of an album that ties together many familiar influences and mechanics, but ultimately is able to rise above them. The intelligent use of Ulfr's commanding vocals, riffs that cut like a broadsword, drumming and bass that crashes across your chest and driving orchestration has led to an album that may have taken several years to finally complete, but was worth the wait. Local Metal fans need only to listen to the album before exclaiming, "Praise the fuckin' Lord."
Siegelord's new album can be purchased (digitally or on CD) here.
Last night at the Madison Theater in Covington, CityBeat hosted the 19th annual Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, honoring Greater Cincinnati's rich music scene. Check out this week's CityBeat for a full wrap-up. In the meantime, here's who won what:
World Music/Reggae: The Cliftones
Jazz: Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra
Singer/Songwriter: Kate Wakefield
Country: Taylor Shannon
Punk/Post Punk: Tweens
Indie/Alternative: Us, Today
Rock: Wussy
Electronic: Black Signal
Blues: The Whiskey Shambles
Bluegrass: Rumpke Mountain Boys
Folk/Americana: Buffalo Wabs & the Price Hill Hustle
Hard Rock/Metal: Casino Warrior
R&B/Funk/Soul: Krystal Peterson & the Queen City Band
Hip Hop: Buggs Tha Rocka
Best Music Video: Molly Sullivan – "Before"
New Artist of the Year: Dawg Yawp
Best Live Act: The Cliftones
Album of the Year: Honeyspiders – Honeyspiders
Artist of the Year: Jess Lamb
I first encountered the phenomenon that is Josh Eagle on a warm August evening four and a half years ago. We were meeting for an interview to discuss his then new album with his band, Harvest City, A Good One is Hard to Find.
When I located him at Northside Tavern, he was seated in a corner of the patio, engrossed in a book, something lofty and cool as I recall. Before we'd said a word to each other, my initial impression of him was that he seemed like a homegrown Jack Johnson, a hippie surfer boy that had somehow been incongruously dropped, like David Bowie's man who fell to earth, in the landlocked limbo of Ohio. But as he wove his tale of creating his own unique brand of Americana/Roots/Folk and, by proxy, his life, it struck me — he was no stranger in a strange land. He recounted a boozy evening that spontaneously led to a stint on an organic raspberry farm in Hawaii, and how that experience blossomed into the epiphany that he had merely traded one paradise for another. It was clear his home had given him the inspiration, the brushes and colors with which to work, and his songs became the canvas onto which he could interpret and transfer his feelings about his real life experiences and the ephemeral melancholy and joy that resulted from them.
I went into the inteview as a big fan of the music, and left an even bigger fan of the man who made it.
Josh and I have subsequently crossed paths innumerable times, at MidPoint, Bunbury, the CEAs, local shows (his own and other bands) and at Class X Radio, where he guested one evening in 2013 to promote his self-titled third album before heading north to play a gig. Every time he and I have found ourselves in the same vicinity, the outcome was always the same — "Great to see you" pleasantries and personal updates, followed by a conversation that typically factored in triumphs, misfortunes, advances and reversals, all discussed with Josh's sublime sense of humor and the irrefutable logic that the bad times would pass and the good times should be savored while they lasted.
At his most downcast, Josh has always been optimistic, hopeful and upbeat. Those are the qualities that I will personally miss the most when Josh and his girlfriend Jacqueline Hull leave Cincinnati to begin a new leg on life's grand tour in one of the most adventurous locales on the planet, New York City. Jacqueline's marketing job has made her an offer that makes the relocation incredibly attractive, and Josh will do what he does best, which is make music and find work to fill the gap.
Before Josh and Jac's departure on Feb. 5, the pair will be hosts and stars of their own farewell tribute at Newport's Southgate House Revival this Sunday at 2 p.m.tmp_1453480629691 It promises to be a raucous and emotional event.
"It's actually going to be in the afternoon, because I wanted kids to be able to come, like a family day," Josh says over lunch at Melt in Northside. "I want people to feel so warm and fuzzy that they're losing their minds, and what better way than to have the kids."
The possibility of a New York move came up last year when Josh did a bit of world traveling and he and Jac spent a few days in the environs of New York.
"I've always wanted to live in a place like that," Josh says. "I went to Paris, Barcelona and Madrid this past year, and you can't just pop into CVG and go straight there, you've got to go to a big hub. So when we got out at JFK, we decided to stop there for five days. We were like, 'Ha ha, we could do this,' joking around a little bit, not really considering it an option. But we knew our time had passed in Cincinnati. We felt like we had made great friendships and done great things here, but what else is out there for us?"
The gauzy NYC fantasy became an attainable reality when Jac discussed the idea of a transfer with her employer, and an actual offer turned the joke into a plan.
"Then it was like, 'What's Josh going to do?,' " he says. "I'm going to continue to do what I've always done — write songs, release albums, write stories and try to make it work. And usually I have. It's been great, it's been fun for me. But today I applied for a job at the Brooklyn Brewery, because I've got to have something else besides the arts that pays way too much to the landlord. But we're beyond excited."
Josh and Jac recently made an exploratory trip to New York to check out the housing situation and, against all odds, wound up finding an apartment in Brooklyn. With that part of the equation solved, the pair returned to Cincinnati with a rather strange sensation.
"We feel like that's our home already," Josh says. "We came back and we were a little melancholy. It was like, 'We just left our home. We just paid the guy a couple grand and we came back here. This feels weird.' But we're pumped, we're excited for the opportunities. To me, it's one of the greatest and definitely most diverse cities in the whole world."
Josh has several New York music contacts and plans to get settled and then continue to cultivate those relationships in order to re-launch his career. It's an odd construct for the singer/songwriter, essentially going back to square one with his music.
"First I've got to make sure that every place I play has a backline, which a lot of them do. I researched this," Josh says with a laugh. "I'm not going to be bringing my PA and my amp everywhere I go. I'll be pretty much guitar and harmonica in hand and I should be good to go. I'm really just reaching out in that way, and then seeing what other people want to play. I feel like I'm really starting from scratch again, but in the way I did when I was 15, 16 and I was figuring all this out. I've got a good amount figured out, and how to do it, it's just making the right contacts, and finding people that I like and that like me. Both sides. And Jacqueline and I have been singing together for the past year so if she'd be into continuing to do that, we'll continue to write songs together."
In the nearly three-year gap since his eponymous 2013 album, Josh has compiled somewhere between 20 and 40 new songs, which are in various stages of completion; somehow in the next couple of weeks, he's planning on doing some recording with the Harvest City's Tommy Cappel and The Ready Stance's Wes Pence. Last year, he and Jac assembled a video crew, cooked everyone dinner and the the crew shot the two of them singing their songs at their kitchen table, which they logically titled The Kitchen Sessions. The results are available to view on YouTube.
Josh has also devoted time to writing short stories, and has some unique ideas on how to distribute them into the wider world.
"My original idea was, instead of just doing a record, 10 songs and there it is, to do two songs a month, with a short story," Josh says. "Sadly, with the whole Spotify crap, it seems like people are doing bits of songs. Not that I want to give up on the idea of a full album, but this is just an experiment to see how receptive people would be to do that for six months. Twelve songs, and six stories. Is that the right math? I'm not a calculus professor."
To begin, Josh is planning to present the songs and stories independently and gauge the interest level. If it's sufficient, he'll look at the possibility of a publisher.
"I'll see how I feel about it and how other people feel about it first, before going into vast landscapes," Josh says. "But I'm having fun trying out the short story thing. Might as well do something with them. I'm sick and tired of reading them, that's for damn sure."
Josh and Jac's send-off show at the Southgate is shaping up to be a star-studded affair, with former members of the Harvest City and a slate of special guests lined up to bid the couple a fond if somewhat tearful adieu.
"My pals are coming, and it happens that they're really good," Josh notes. "Mark Becknell, who plays with Queen City Silver Stars and Frontier Folk Nebraska and does his own solo stuff, which is fantastic. Jeremy Smart, original guitar player for Harvest City, will be there and Matt McCormick, who used to play with Shoot Out the Lights and he's with Frontier full-time. That'll be the core. Then Joe Mitchell from the Mitchells will be coming in, David Faul from the David Faul Band, Travis (Talbert) and Michael (Hensley) from Frontier Folk. 2 p.m. is when (openers) The Mitchells will start, they'll do a set, Jacqueline and I will probably do some solo Kitchen Sessions stuff, and some fun covers. It's going to be a bittersweet day, for sure. A lot of 'Hey, haven't seen you in awhile, great to see you, goodbye.' "
Two weeks later, the pair will head east.
"I'll put the dog in the front of the cab and the cat on my lap and load our stuff in the U-Haul and bounce," Josh says. "We've been here a long time, but we've got that itch."
And with that, Josh will begin writing a new chapter in his big book of What Next. His time in Cincinnati has been fruitful, to be sure; he's recorded three well-received albums, two with Harvest City, his songs have been placed on Stalker, House and American Pickers, he took home the Singer/Songwriter Cincinnati Entertainment Award in 2012, and he's sitting on a pile of songs that could be the album that breaks him big, in New York and beyond. Not that he's fishing on that side of the boat, mind you. As he has always done, Josh Eagle will take things exactly as they come, he'll ride the crest of any wave the universe challenges him with and he'll ultimately coast safely into shore. Maybe he's a hippie surfer boy after all.
On Jan. 31, 2016, the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards winners will be announced at the 19th-annual ceremony/show/party at Covington's Madison Theater. Today we are happy to announce the nominees for the CEAs, which are presented by CityBeat and honor Greater Cincinnati's rich and eclectic music scene.
Again this year, the public was invited to submit nominee suggestions via an online ballot; a list of the top vote-getters in each category was given to members of the CEA nominating committee for consideration. The committee, which features local music writers, club owners, radio DJs and others, helped decide the final slate of nominees in the genre categories, as well as categories for Best Live Act, Singer/Songwriter and Best Music Vide (which are open to all genres). Public vote decides the winner of a majority of the categories; the nominating committee determines the winner of the Critical Achievement categories (Album of the Year, New Artist of the Year and Artist of the Year).
This year's nominees include several artists who have previously been nominated (or won) CEAs, as well as numerous first-time nominees. Walk the Moon have scored two Artist of the Year CEAs in past years and return to the category after exploding internationally with its ubiquitous, Platinum-selling hit "Shut Up and Dance" and Talking is Hard album (both released towards the end of 2014). Singer/songwriter Jess Lamb, who kicked off 2015 by appearing as a contestant on American Idol (and is a previous CEA performer and nominee), earned five nominations, including her first Artist of the Year nod. Artist of the Year nominee Wonky Tonk (the Indie/Country guise of Jasmine Poole) also earned nominations in the Singer/Songwriter, Best Music Video and Country categories, following a 2015 that saw her Stuff We Leave Behind album earn widespread national acclaim. Perennial Hip Hop nominee Buggs tha Rocka, who has been working with indie Hip Hop legend Talib Kweli's Javotti Media label and played the 2015 A3C Hip Hop fest in Atlanta and Cincinnati's own Ubahn fest, earned his first Artist of the Year nomination.
First-time CEA nominees this year include Country artist Taylor Shannon, Jazz player/composer Brad Myers, Metal newcomers Casino Warrior and jazzy Soul/Pop ensemble Krystal Peterson & the Queen City Band.
The New Artist of the Year category (as well as other promising new performers) will again be spotlighted at CityBeat's Best New Bands showcase at Bogart's on Jan. 16. This year's New Artist of the Year nominees are Dawg Yawp, Coconut Milk, The Skulx, Go Go Buffalo, JSPH and Mutlimagic. New Artist nominees from the 18th-annual awards program returning to the CEA ballot this year in a big way include Leggy, Honeyspiders and Noah Smith.
Public voting opens at noon on Monday, Dec. 21 here.
Ma Crow and the Lady Slippers
The Missy Werner Band
Rumpke Mountain Boys
Comet Bluegrass All-Stars
My Brother's Keeper
Jeremy Pinnell
Dallas Moore
Wonky Tonk
Noah Smith
Taylor Shannon
Arlo Mckinley & The Lonesome Sound
Willow Tree Carolers
Buffalo Wabs and the Price Hill Hustle
Young Heirlooms
Honey & Houston
World Music/Reggae
Elementree Livity Project
The Cliftones
Queen City Silver Stars
Mayan Ruins
Know Prisoners
Mad Anthony
Alone at 3AM
Lovecrush 88
Zebras in Public
Hard Rock/Metal
Electric Citizen
Lift The Medium
Casino Warrior
Wonky Tonk (Jasmine Poole)
Jess Lamb
Kate Wakefield
Royal Holland (Matt Mooney)
Dallas Moore
Daniel Van Vechten
Us, Today
Daniel in Stereo
Jess Lamb
The Yugos
DAAP Girls
Punk/Post Punk
The Slippery Lips
Tiger Sex
The Z.G.s
Noah Wotherspoon Band
Silver Pockets Trio
Kelly Richey
Sonny Moorman
Johnny Fink and The Intrusion
The Whiskey Shambles
The Almighty Get Down
Krystal Peterson and the Queen City Band
The Perfect Children
The Cincy Brass
Freekbass & the Bump Assembly
Brad Myers
Dan Karlsberg and the 'Nati Six
The Faux Frenchmen
Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra
Blue Wisp Big Band
The Hot Magnolias
Hip Hop
Napoleon Maddox
Ilyas Nashid
Buggs Tha Rocka
Mix Fox
Black Signal
Skeleton Hands
Playfully Yours
Best Live Act
Tiger Sex
The Whiskey Shambles
The Yugos
The Slippery Lips
Buffalo Wabs and the Price Hill Hustle
The Cliftones
Noah Smith
Best Music Video
Molly Sullivan - "Before"
Jess Lamb - "Memories"
Automagik – "Pop Kiss"
Playfully Yours – "Colorvision"
Puck – "Ruined"
Electric Citizen – "Light Years Beyond"
Wonky Tonk – "Denmark"
"Denmark" by Wonky Tonk from Mopics on Vimeo.
Zebras in Public – "John Doe"
Critical Achievement Awards
Album Of The Year
Honeyspiders – Honeyspiders
Us, Today - T E N E N E M I E S
Dawg Yawp - Two Hearted
Honey & Houston – Barcelona
Jess Lamb - Circles
Noah Wotherspoon Band – Mystic Mud
Dan Karlsberg - The 'Nati 6
The Sundresses – This Machine Kills
New Artist Of the Year
Dawg Yawp
Coconut Milk
The Skulx
Go Go Buffalo
Artist Of The Year
Walk the Moon
Jess Lamb
Noah Smith
Wonky Tonk
Buggs tha Rocka
David Rhodes Brown's Warsaw Falcons and Nick Dellaposta's To No End could not possibly be any further from each other on the musical continuum.
The Falcons, recently reborn with the classic lineup of Brown on guitar/vocals, the thunderous John Schmidt on bass and the irrepressible Doug Waggoner on drums, are Rockabilly personified, heavy on the Rock and hypercaffeinated to the point of heart palpitations.
At the other end of the spectrum, Dellaposta's To No End is a Prog-tinted Blues unit with a propensity for lilting atmospherics and visceral Pop/Hard Rock anthemics.
Oddly enough, both bands are touting new releases, and each one is, in different ways, associated with a legendary entertainment figure. The Warsaw Falcons' new EP, Warsaw Falcons Live with Bobby Keys, features the work of the saxophonist sharing the title, one of Rock's most travelled and compelling sidemen who boasted near-membership with The Rolling Stones and sessions with Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, Carly Simon and three of the four Beatles, among many others.
To No End's new video for the track "Twisted Knives" from its third album, Remora, features the on-screen talents of Michael Parks, one of Hollywood's most versatile and durable actors whose television credits include Then Came Bronson in the late '60s and Twin Peaks in the '90s, and who has since become part of Quentin Tarentino's ensemble of reliable players.
The Warsaw Falcons' latest archive release is a five-song excerpt from a live recording done at Top Cat's in Clifton in the very early '90s. Keys, already a fixture in the industry (his iconic blowing was all over the Stones' Sticky Fingers, one of Rock's acknowledged masterworks), had played with Brown in Nashville and had become a semi-official member of the Falcons, eventually guesting on their 2003 album Right It on the Rock Wall.
At the time of the Top Cat's gig, Brown had just returned to Cincinnati to care for aging mother, and had reassembled the Falcons for occasional in-town performances. Bassist John Schmidt reclaimed his spot with the band, while guitarist George Cunningham and drummer Maxwell Schauf rounded out the quartet.
For the Top Cat's recording, the Falcons blew through a jumped-up set of band faves with Keys, visiting from Nashville to lend his towering sax fills. Although there was a good deal more material delivered at the Top Cat's set, the five tracks on the EP represent the songs where Keys was most directly and completely spotlighted. And Live with Bobby Keys might well stand as the most incendiary and pulse pounding 22-and-a-half minutes released this year.
The release starts with the rafter-rattling thrash of "Jello Sal," a five-minute Rockabilly workout featuring Brown's distinctive vocal rasp and his and Cunningham's slinky yet muscular guitar gyrations, grounded by Schmidt's bedrock solid bass and Schauf's technicolor timekeeping. On the EP's second track, "Sometimes," Keys intros the song by thanking the Falcons for inviting him to the gig and pledging his admiration for Cincinnati and its desire to Rock and Roll.
"That's what we do," Keys declares in his authentic Texas accent. "Rock and roll!"
What follows is the Falcons' version of a ballad, a slow-cooking slab of meaty, bluesy Rock that gives way to its primal impulses and howls with blood-boiling intensity, even as the band maintains an almost laconic pace. Brown and the Falcons mix a jaunty Blues stroll with an effervescent Chuck Berry bounce on "You Can't Do That to Me," switching to spy-theme noir for the insistently smoky and sultry "Two Cigarettes in the Dark" and finishing with a pulsating version of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels' classic cover of the Righteous Brothers' "Little Latin Lupe Lu," with Brown doing his best hip-twitching, lip-hitching impression of Elvis while the band kicks up its heels and swings with deliberate abandon.
Through it all, Keys — who passed away last year at age 70 — does what he always did best; find the emotional heart of the songs and then play the living hell out of them. Keys had the intuitive gift to know when to serve as a brilliant supporting accompanist or elevate his position to an equal partnership in the arrangement, as evidenced by his call and response lick-trading on "Jello Sal." Brown says there may be more recordings of Keys in the Falcons' extensive and as-yet largely unplumbed archive. Based on the results of Live with Bobby Keys, which was officially be released at a Thanksgiving Eve extravaganza at the Southgate House Revival, we can only hope there's a lot more.
Meanwhile, To No End's new release, Remora, the band's third album since forming in 2012, is not only musically dichotomous from the Falcons' EP, it's quantitatively different as well, with an additional 11 tracks over two discs. But, as noted, the one area where the two bands intersect is in their use of a celebrity guest to enhance their presentation.
With TNE, it's the presence of famed actor Michael Parks in the band's video for "Twisted Knives." TNE frontman Nick Dellaposta secured Parks' services for the video through Dellaposta's lifelong friend Josh Roush, whose journey is the subject of "Twisted Knives," perhaps the most personal and deliberately direct song he's ever written.
A decade ago, Roush departed Ohio for Los Angeles, where he has worked in the film industry in various capacities, which led to a position last year on the set of director Kevin Smith's horror film Tusk. During production, Roush met and became friends with Parks, who had a role in Tusk. When Dellaposta invited Roush to partner up to produce the "Twisted Knives" video (the two had worked together on TNE's first video, "Somethin' Wrong with You"), the pair decided to ask Parks if he would be interested in appearing the video, which is largely made up of eerie atmospheric footage that Roush has shot himself over the years.
As for the rest of Remora, Dellaposta takes To No End further down the similar path he and the band explored on last year's excellent Peril & Paracosm, which blended the Kenny Wayne Shepherd-meets-Warren Haynes
Blues direction of the band's debut with a blistering '70s Hard Rock energy. In addition, Dellaposta has divided Remora into a pair of 30-plus-minute sides that are stylistically distinct. The harder Side A is subtitled "The Underworld," while the gentler and more contemplative Side B is themed "The Great Unknown."
"The Underworld" songs clearly follow Peril & Paracosm's general blueprint, with Dellaposta and guitarist Grant Evans soaring and scorching with the intensity and focus of '70s guitar heroes like UFO's Michael Schenker and Budgie's Tony Bourge, polished to a contemporary but never overproduced shimmer. The opener and ostensible title track, "The Afterlife II (The Underworld)," is a perfect example of Dellaposta's modern Blues/Hard Rock translation, a riff-laden celebration of the forms painted with a new brush. The guitars careen and howl while the rhythm section of bassist Eli Booth and drummer David Nester provide a sturdy but flexible foundation for the song's shifty mood swing between jaunty minor key melodicism and darkly menacing wordplay.
Elsewhere, "Shatter" starts out with the reflective quiet of an O.A.R./Red Wanting Blue ballad but becomes more forceful and expansive as the song unfolds. "Everybody Talks" offers an indiosyncratic New Wave clockwork guitar motif that displays an interesting new songwriting wrinkle for TNE, while "Like Hell" and "Play That Card" show that Dellaposta's heart will never stray too far away from his KWS/Gov't Mule roots — even if they come out in fascinatingly different ways.
Remora's second "side," "The Great Unknown," dials down the volume but not the songwriting intensity. Two songs from "The Underworld," "Twisted Knives" and "Trash Day," are reprised on the second disc, with "Twisted Knives II" presented in an almost Folk/Americana light. "Trash Day" is similarly counterpointed between the pummeling Zeppelinesque boogie of "The Underworld" version and the lilting yet still powerful take of "Trash Day II." And for sheer beauty, look no further than the acoustic heart-tug of "Hinterland Empire," a gorgeous evocation of The Beatles' classic "Blackbird."
While Remora's 16 songs would have fit comfortably onto a single CD, Dellaposta was clearly more interested in thematic continuity than production costs. Rather than interspersing Remora's more sedate songs with its amped-up fist-pumping anthems, Dellaposta and To No End show two different sides of themselves to suit your listening moods, further proof of his thoughtful creativity and amazing talent.
Warsaw Falcons' Warsaw Falcons Live with Bobby Keys is currently only available at live shows (look for copies in brick-and-mortar, local-friendly record shops soon). Click here and here for show updates and more.
For more on To No End, click here. Remora is available on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play. Click here and here for more on the album and the band.
That old trope about doers doing and non-doers teaching holds no currency with saxophonist Dave McDonnell. The Chicago native relocated to Cincinnati six years ago to complete his doctorate Jazz studies at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, which ultimately led to positions at UC and the University of Dayton, teaching both music and music technology.
At the same time, McDonnell never abandoned his love for performance, composition and recording. Early in his Jazz career, McDonnell divided his time between waiting tables, teaching private music lessons and playing in an impossible number of bands; he even worked with Elephant 6 icons Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control (studio sessions with the former, touring with the latter).
Family life and academic rigors forced McDonnell to dial down his band participation — he currently works with Michael Columbia, Diving Bell and Herculaneum — but his reduced roles also provided him the impetus to resume exploring his own work, leading him to assemble a coterie of friends and bandmates from his Chicago experience (guitarist Chris Welcome, bassist Joshua Abrams, drummer Frank Rosaly, vibraphonist Jason Adaiewicz and cellist Tomeka Reid) and form the Dave McDonnell Group.
Utilizing a blend of crafted and precise composition and free-form improvisation, McDonnell created a masterful and acclaimed debut album, last year's the dragon and the griffin. The album was by turns contemplative and explosive, but always guided by the spirit of Ornette Coleman's similarly constructed pieces, where the tunes' purposefully written passages set the tone and established a foundation and framework for the band's circuitously invigorating spontaneity.
Just a little over a year and a half later, McDonnell and his Group (a version of which features Cincinnati players for area live shows) have returned, once again eschewing upper-case titling and stodgy tradition on the appropriately christened the time inside a year, his debut for esteemed Chicago Jazz label Delmark. While McDonnell adheres to his winning compositional-vs.-improvisational strategy on the time inside a year, he also adds a new wrinkle with a slightly older piece from his canon, namely his three-movement suite "AEpse," which grew out of his doctorate studies at CCM and which he debuted in Chicago two years ago.
"AEpse" stands in contrast to the grooves, shifting rhythms and dazzlingly intricate harmonics of the rest of the time inside a year. "AEpse," as a three-part, 11-minute piece of music, explores a chilly soundscape of electronic expanse, appointed by Reid's mesmerizing cello incantations, which drift through McDonnell's constructed atmosphere like smoke in a virtual opium den. But rather than present this sonorously beautiful piece as a whole, McDonnell chose to intersperse the three "AEpse" movements within his gyrational Bop tracklist, allowing them to serve as way stations along the album's journey.
And what an impressive journey it proves to be. Opening with the quietly propulsive "Bullitt," moving into the slinkily engaging and sensual "Vox Orion" and on to the jaunty "The Contract with Bees," McDonnell displays his considerable skills as both a powerful frontman and a generous bandleader, jumping to the fore with appropriately frenetic flurries of notes or delicately woven passages, or yielding the floor to Adasiewicz's fluid and enchanting vibraphone runs or Welcome's always brilliant guitar contributions, all of it made possible by the gymnastics of Abrams and Rosaly's limber and diverse rhythm section.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the swinging, shattering "Baker's Man," which begins and ends with the band in unison on the song's loping theme and fills its center with a dissonant Sun Ra/Zappa/Beefheart explosion of sounds and ideas. As atypical as it is sonically to the rest of the time inside a year, it perfectly points up McDonnell's incredible compositional skills and DMG's extraordinary ability to go completely off the map and then return to the radar in a fraction of a heartbeat.
Cincinnati has enjoyed a long and storied Jazz tradition, spawning some of the most profoundly talented and inventive players in the country, but even its most revered alumni must be sitting up and taking notice of the jaw-dropping accomplishments of Dave McDonnell and his innovative and musically curious Jazz collective. Clearly McDonnell's depth and breadth of experience informs every second of the Dave McDonnell Group's incredible output, but it is the application of that experience to his own work that is so consistently impressive. Two years and two albums in, and the anticipation of where DMG might head next is palpable and exciting.
THE DAVE MCDONNELL GROUP, with guitarist Brad Myers, bassist Peter Gemus and drummer Dan Dorff, plays Urban Artifact on Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Greater Cincinnati is now home to several major music events. Summer festivals like Bunbury and Midpoint capture a lot of the public interest and fill downtown for days at a time. But for fans like me who prefer their music with a bit more bite, there's really only one fest in the area that matters — Ironfest. The two-day event, now in its sixth year, is held at Newport's Southgate House Revival to honor the late "Iron" Mike Davidson, a local musician whose passing inspired the festival's creation. I may have gone to a Midpoint show or two this year (Jameson makes memories hazy), Ironfest is the one event that I truly look forward.
The founder of Ironfest, John Gerhardt, created the show to raise money for Davidson's family and he is steadfast in his goal. Tickets for the event are $5 online or $10 at the door for each night, and I suspect that price will stay the same for years to come. With over 50 bands on the bill, the price-to-band ratio obviously can't be beat, and that's just how Gerhardt likes it. The low-price mantra even carries over to the merch. An Ironfest shirt will set you back $5 and items like hoodies and hats are also reasonably priced. Even the pizza that's brought in to help soak up the booze is free, with only a donation requested.
While the fundraising tradition that built Ironfest continues, the festival itself has grown immensely over the last few years. Gerhardt works all year to bring together local and regional talent to fill the house's three stages, and this year's lineup was the most eclectic and vast group of bands fans have seen yet. Groups came from Cleveland, Dayton, Chicago and Boston to be a part of this year's Ironfest, and the genre mix was as wild as ever.
The majority of the bands fell into the heavier genres of Rock & Roll, Punk or Metal, but this year saw Industrial music (Chicago's Hide), an experimental string music (Kate Wakefield) and Electronica (Black Signal) represented, amongst many other styles. To say that a fest has a little bit of everything is an advertising trope nowadays, but having this kind of diversity in one house over a two-day period is pretty damn impressive. Especially when walking from one room to the other provided massive swings in sound each time you transitioned. The lineup was spread out in such a way that if you truly wanted to see every band (a daunting task to be sure), you could give each group at least some of your time.
As music journalist, Ironfest makes my job easy. With so many great bands onstage at once, there's bound to be some that I haven't heard or a young band who's just starting out. Buying several CDs in one night may hurt my wallet, but my ears couldn't be happier. Thanks Hide, Good English, Tiger Sex and The Skulx for all making one hell of a first impression on a grizzled veteran (which is a fancy way of saying the drunk guy whose neck is sore from head-banging this weekend).
That isn't to say that returning bands were slouches this weekend either. There were a ton of amazing performances, but a few are worth a special mention. Valley of the Sun played its first show in months in Southgate House's Lounge and promptly blew eardrums with a six-song set that featured three new tracks from the band's upcoming release. The Honeyspiders released its highly-anticipated debut album in conjunction with their Ironfest appearance and offered something special for fans of the Harrison brothers' previous band when they were joined onstage by former Banderas guitarist Jesse Ramsey (in town playing with his new band, Punching Moses) to perform an old Banderas track to round out the set.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention the dirty elephant in the room. With Mainstay Rock Bar's closing late last year, Cincinnati filth mongers Dandelion Death no longer had a place to hold its yearly show. So when the group were added to this year's Ironfest lineup, there's was much rejoicing. When the band took the stage to close out Saturday night in the Sanctuary, the room was full of people who had no idea what they were in for. But those of us who did got to see a Dandelion Death at its most ridiculous, with a stage large enough for the band and its female companions to actually fit on. While Mainstay's center stage pole was sorely missed, it didn't hinder any of the ridiculous Metal that only Dandelion Death can get away with.
While Ironfest may be built on a very Metal foundation, for many, it is about more than the music — it's about community. For anyone plugged into Cincinnati's Rock scene, Ironfest is akin to a high-school reunion, except everyone's drunk and people are actually having fun. The sheer number of musicians in the house leads to tons of Rock & Roll run-ins with longtime friends. At times, it's hard to go outside for a smoke or grab a drink at the bar because walking the 20 feet to either location involves stopping, saying hi to an old friend and catching up. By now, my friends know to just abandon me if I stop on the way to a destination; I'll catch up eventually.
Ironfest started as a way for one friend to honor the life and memory of a fallen buddy and, at its core, that is what Ironfest still is. But in the past six years, Ironfest has grown into a massive beast that many music fans eagerly look forward to year after year. Those that knew "Iron" Mike speak of the man with nothing but the upmost respect and fondness. His passing truly rocked those who knew him and Ironfest's origination becomes obvious if you hear just one of his friends speak about his legacy. While I never knew the man, every year I thank him, because his memory spawns an amazing event full of amazing bands and people, and personally brings me so much joy. So cheers to you, Mike; I may not have known you, but I really wish that I did.
The wholly unexpected announcement of a pair of reunion shows by one of Cincinnati's greatest bands, Ass Ponys, inspired a sense of excitement within me that was matched only by the birth of my two children, the legal end of my first marriage and meeting the woman who convinced me to sign up for a 33-year-and-counting second hitch.
You might think that's overstating a case, and I might think so as well, but the fact remains that I was beside myself at the thought of seeing Ass Ponys in action after a decade-long hiatus. And the reason was quite simple — I had never seen the Ass Ponys during their 17-year run.
As Ass Ponys frontman Chuck Cleaver has said many times since the reunion was trumpeted, the band was never nearly as popular here in Cincinnati as they were out in the wider, smarter world. That fact had nothing to do with the reality that I had never seen them play. I loved them before they'd recorded a single note of music.
My first exposure to Ass Ponys was their one-song appearance on WVXU's tribute to The Who in the summer of 1989, simulcast live from the station's studios and appropriately dubbed "Who Cares." Ass Ponys were among a stellar local lineup that included The Afghan Whigs, The Speed Hickeys, The Thangs, Human Zoo, Bucking Strap, SS0-20, Warsaw Falcons and many others. Each contributed a single song to the proceedings. Ass Ponys, accompanied by local guitar legend Bill Weber, roared through a Who rarity, "Glow Girl," an outtake that appeared on the 1974 collection, Odds & Sods. Having heard about them but never actually having heard them, the band's R.E.M.-esque take on "Glow Girl" sold me in half a heartbeat. I taped all of the musical performances from "Who Cares" on that July evening (oddly enough the 20th anniversary of the moon landing — insert inadvertent Keith Moon reference here) and I cherish that cassette. Ass Ponys' rendition of the Who's archive gem remains a personal highlight.
Four months later, I took a job with a design/marketing firm and almost immediately began clocking serious overtime. Just over a year after that, I revived my freelance writing career as an adjunct to my full-time position, and hours that might have been used to see local shows dissipated like cigarette smoke in a cyclone. As much as I wanted to see Ass Ponys, the planet alignment of my ability to slink out into a night coinciding with one of their local appearances never occurred.
But I avidly followed the band's recording endeavors. I bought Mr. Superlove and Grim upon release in the early '90s, and my freelance writing activity earned me a contact at A&M Records, which resulted in Electric Rock Music and The Known Universe showing up in my post office box. I raged at the cosmos when Ass Ponys was dropped from the label's roster and exulted when they chimed with typical Cleaver "fuck it" bravado and re-blazed their independent trail with Lohio and Some Stupid with a Flare Gun.
Ass Ponys' catalog took on the gravitas of scripture for me, stone musical tablets engraved by the flaming finger of God and sent forth into the world to instruct the unwashed and convert the unconverted. They sang about loss and death and dysfunction and insanity with a cheerily twisted conviction that was infectious and transcendent, and I drank their bitter Kool-Aid with a smile on my face and their songs in my heart.
Obviously, just as the Ass Ponys blipped off area radar screens in 2005, Cleaver's musical collaboration with Lisa Walker was blossoming, laying the foundation for a decade of Wussy brilliance (which continues next March with the release of Forever Sounds). Yet even as Wussy's star ascended, and the band's permanence was asserted, questions lingered about Ass Ponys' status. They had never regretted to inform their fans of their demise, never bid the faithful a teary farewell at the finale of a blaze-of-glory last show. Ass Ponys simply ceased to be, its members scattering to new situations and directions.
Maybe that's why the announcement of Ass Ponys' reunion shows at Over-the-Rhine's Woodward Theater Nov. 6 and 7 was met with such an exuberant reception. As inauspiciously as the band retreated into the shadows, Ass Ponys planned their return with an equal lack of fanfare. But the loyal had little interest in allowing the band to shuffle quietly back into the spotlight. It was quickly apparent by way of social media posts that fans from around the country were already planning their Cincinnati pilgrimages to crowd the front of an Ass Ponys stage one more time.
With the Friday night show, after weeks of fairly intense rehearsals, the waiting came to an end and Ass Ponys steeled themselves to the task of presenting material that was, in some cases, close to a quarter-century old. Cleaver reported just prior to the show that he was likely the least nervous member of the band, revealing that bassist Randy Cheek had been up all the previous night thinking about their first show in over 10 years; presumably, guitarist John Erhardt (who plays with Cleaver in Wussy) and drummer Dave Morrison expressed similar signs of anxiety. But Cleaver also noted that the Woodward shows would be populated by the friendliest audiences Ass Ponys had ever attracted.
Friday's show began with a terrific set from Swim Team, which rocked a vibe that was part '60s-Pop melodicism, part Blondie-tinted New Wave edge and part Slits avant Art Rock eclecticism. Frontwoman Lillian Currens veered from a sweet Pop croon to a visceral Rock wail while the rest of the band provided an appropriately dynamic soundscape for her gymnastic vocals to pinwheel around in, creating a Riot Grrrl/Lana Del Ray mixtape. The quartet's brash and jittery opening set was the perfect introduction to what would prove to be an incredible moment in Cincinnati's musical history.
Given that I was an Ass Ponys stage virgin until Friday's glorious deflowering, I can offer no comparisons, no yardstick of performances past by which to measure the band's transfiguration into a contemporary unit. What I do know is that the four members of Ass Ponys have spent the last 10 years playing in some of the best and brawniest and most creative bands in recent memory, and that expansive breadth of experience couldn't help but elevate Ass Ponys' performance to an incredible new level in the modern context. Cleaver had noted during an interview on Class X Radio with Eddy Mullet and I the Monday before the shows that the band had discussed how to approach their material, with everyone agreeing it was best to relearn and rearrange the songs with their current expertise, rather than to recreate them note for note for the sake of some manufactured nostalgia.
The wisdom of that decision was proven with indelible and muscular versions of some of the best selections from Ass Ponys' powerful songbook. They went effortlessly from strength to strength, spitting and kicking and tearing through early classics ("I Love Bob," "Azalea"), A&M-era standouts ("Earth to Grandma," "Shoe Money," "Under Cedars and Stars") and late period wonders ("Butterfly," "Pretty as You Please," "Astronaut"), all with a renewed vigor and the hyper-electric jolt of pissing on an electric fence.
As usual, Cleaver was an engaging ringmaster. Three songs in, he noted in classic style, "Some things never change. I still sweat like a whore in church." He then recounted an observation made by a woman he overheard at an Ass Ponys show years ago: "I've never seen a man sweat that much without passing out." Throughout the night, people would call out unrehearsed requests which Cleaver fielded with a definitive "Nope." Cleaver explained the origins of songs ("This one's about a monkey …") and kept up his standard patter-on-wry, but mostly he thanked the multitude for its dedication and passion, noting how humbling it was to see how many people drove and flew in from all over the country (rumor had it someone was coming from England) with the sole objective of witnessing the Ass Ponys' fresh splendor.
At the end, Cleaver announced — sarcastically and yet somehow lovingly — "This is the one that bought us our luxurious lifestyle," and the group launched into its MTV/college radio hit, "Little Bastard," the last in a long string of sing-along moments. If the show had gone on for another two hours, it would have seemed too short, but with the fading strains of "Little Bastard" ringing in my ears, I felt that my first and likely last live exposure to Ass Ponys was an overwhelming success and quite possibly an ecstatic religious experience.
As Wussy bassist Mark Messerly noted before the show started, the atmosphere at the Woodward was like a high school reunion "where you like everyone and you want to be there." 500 Miles to Memphis frontman Ryan Malott recounted how he had grown up down the street from Cleaver and had graduated with his daughter, ultimately crediting the Ass Ponys with sparking his interest in picking up a guitar and making his own music.
A lot of Friday's attendees had a direct connection to Ass Ponys' past and present. Vacation/Tweens drummer Jerri Queen (who would be opening Saturday's show with Vacation) helped produce and engineer the new Wussy album (as did Swim Team guitarist John Hoffman). The Ready Stance guitarist/vocalist Wes Pence, now bandmates with Cheek, was a contemporary of Ass Ponys with his '90s outfit Middlemarch. Afghan Whigs bassist John Curley produced or engineered the first four Ass Ponys releases. Tigerlilies guitarist/vocalist Pat Hennessey was fronting The Thangs back in '80s and '90s, and was in a Fairmount Girls lineup with Cheek. Jim and Darren Blase helped maintain the Ass Ponys' flame by releasing the 2005 two-disc retrospective, The Okra Years, on their Shake It Records imprint.
Blase, freshly relocated back to Cincinnati after several years in Cambridge, Mass. (stop into Shake It's shop and welcome him home), rightly noted that while Ass Ponys' influence is far-reaching and pervasive, no one, from the time of their first rehearsal in 1989 to the Woodward show we were anxiously awaiting, sounds quite like they do, a sound Blase likened to "an Americana Pere Ubu." No truer words.
The two Woodward appearances could well be the last we ever see these members on stage together. There are still plans afoot to reissue the band's long out-of-print catalog, and several people noted that both shows were being recorded, suggesting a live record could be in the works. And since Cleaver never says never, he answered the point blank question from a fan after the show — "Will you guys ever record again?" — with a nebulous yet hopeful, "Who knows?"
Whatever happens, however it shakes out, my first Ass Ponys show was a blast. If more crop up going forward, I'll be there, as well. But you never forget your first.


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IN THE ARTICLE I WROTE LAST YEAR FOR Inroads ("Haiti: The Island's Wounded Wing," Inroads 13, Summer/Fall 2003), I concluded that "Haiti is mired in the worst kind of poverty, spinning its wheels." By contrast, the neighbouring Dominican Republic has made impressive progress over recent decades. Again to quote myself, "It would fly in the face of every trading nation's interests to sit back and let the weight of Haitian poverty crush the Dominican progress."
Since I wrote that article, Haitian political wheels have continued to spin - and have dug in deeper. In March of this year an armed rebellion toppled President JeanBertrand Aristide. What should the international community - by which I mean the United Nations and, in particular, the United States, France and Canada - do now? The answer can be found by looking at what it did the last time it intervened in Haiti. The lesson is obvious: there is no quick fix.
In 1994, UN troops took over from 20,000 Americans who had just pushed out the military dictator, Lt.-Gen. Raoul Cedras. Then they escorted back Aristide, who had fled in 1991 after a coup. It was a hopeful time. Aristide, once a priest, was the first fairly elected leader in the nation's 190-year history. He talked like a visionary - a man of the people. He seemed obsessed with the need to be honest and fair.
Canada was involved big-time with Aristide's return. Our foreign affairs minister of the day, André Quellet, flew with him to Haiti in a show of solidarity. Canada donated 50,000 shovels - a modest but practical gift to farm families that had nearly starved during a three-year trade embargo imposed by the U.S., France and others to put pressure on the military dictator. We also reopened schools and hospitals. Our soldiers patrolled the streets, with colleagues from Jamaica, Bangladesh and a dozen other countries. And 100 Mounties helped out, keeping an eye on the work of those deemed to be the best of the old regime's police officers, who were allowed to stay on the job, while training recruits for what was to be Haiti's first honest and professional police force. Indeed, reform of all aspects of Haiti's corrupt, dysfunctional justice system became Canada's focus for the nearly three years we stayed.
It didn't take a lot of effort then to maintain order. It was a time before drug thugs turned Haiti into a major transshipment point, and there were few weapons around. Besides, order was something most Haitians craved. Though Aristide asked the UN troops to leave, they were made to feel welcome by most of the people.
In 1997, the Canadians and their UN colleagues decided to go home. Aristide's dark side began to surface. He led Haiti down a slippery slope of political corruption. By last year, his government had the shameful distinction of being ranked the third most corrupt in the world by Transparency International. He and the Chimères, his armed supporters, embraced violence, intimidation and fraud as political tools to maintain power. All of the reforms launched by Canada and its UN partners fell apart.
The lesson to draw from this failure is that Canada and other countries pulled out before they finished the job. Prime Minister Paul Martin understands as much. Speaking last March, he said, "The international community left Haiti prematurely, and we saw what happened. The international community must not make that mistake again. And Canada is going to stay there and make sure this does not happen."
But there is no sign that the PM means what he says. Indeed, Canada's contingent of 450 soldiers is only half what we sent in 1994, and they are to stay only three months. Although Martin has committed Canada to a year's involvement, officials in Ottawa are already making excuses about not having enough troops to replace the 450 when their tour is up - though we may send some a few months later.
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It's a basic mathematical equation. NHL teams that boast the most number of players whose stock is trending up are the ones that will be most successful. Similarly, teams whose players' stock is doing the Enron will invariably be the ones you can locate at the bottom of the NHL standings. As teams race toward the quarter pole of what has already been a turbulent NHL season, we take a look at five players whose stock is on the rise and five whose value has taken a surprising nosedive.
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Before the Madness began, an expectant Lorenzo Romar grabbed a microphone and informed the crowd at the Don James Center that his team was...
Before the Madness began, an expectant Lorenzo Romar grabbed a microphone and informed the crowd at the Don James Center that his team was already in anytime-anyplace-anywhere mode for the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
"If they send us to Alaska, we're going to be ready to go!" Romar declared as the spectators applauded.
Well, Sarah Palinville wasn't an option this year, but how does a short trip to Portland to play perhaps the most recognizable No. 13 seed ever sound?
If you groaned after seeing Mississippi State, the Southeastern Conference tournament champion, underneath Washington's name, you were justified in doing so. It's a shocking pairing at best, a shafting at worst, and peculiar all the way around, but it also fits the story line of the Huskies' revival season.
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After a trying and circuitous three-year journey back to prominence, after being snubbed by the NIT two years ago and ousted early from something called the College Basketball Invitational last season, the Huskies shouldn't have expected to have their pick of the Cleveland States of college hoops in the opening round. For a hard-nosed team with a hard-luck back story, the Big Dance just had to include a Big Predicament.
Don't expect the Huskies to whine about it, however.
"I can't, and we can't, get caught up in all of that," senior forward Jon Brockman said. "We have a chance to play in the NCAA tournament. We're doing something we've been dreaming of since we picked up a basketball. We're on the biggest stage, playing in the best games. There's not a more exciting time than March Madness."
Go ahead and tell the Huskies they got a raw bracket. Tell them it doesn't make sense for the SEC tournament winner to play the Pac-10 regular-season champ in the first round. Tell them Mississippi State has a center, Jarvis Varnado, who averages nearly five blocks per game, and how many No. 13 seeds have ever possessed a player with his go-go-Gadget arms?
Now, listen to Romar laugh and say, "You can't block them all, at least I don't think."
Listen to junior forward Quincy Pondexter express surprise that the Bulldogs were seeded so poorly before adding, "I bet some of those other 13 seeds are just as good, but they don't have the name of Mississippi State."
And listen to the rest of the Huskies welcome the challenge of playing such a high-profile opponent because it means they won't slack in preparation.
"All I can say is, enjoy it," senior guard Justin Dentmon said. "If you don't want to bring your 'A' game, then sit down."
No politics. Just basketball. The Huskies might be the happiest No. 4 seed ever to see their name on the big screen. They've known for weeks that they would be in the Big Dance, but they refuse to take it for granted, not after what they've been through.
The memories of missing the tournament for two straight seasons remain with them. Brockman couldn't bear to watch the selection show on CBS those years. Romar watched, but the disappointment of not being in the field burned his insides. Pondexter sat alone in his room, quiet, eating pizza, wondering what might have been if only he'd done more for his team.
"I was angry at myself for not helping us get to the point where we should've been in the tournament," he said.
On Sunday, he experienced the joy of making the field for the first time. When he came to Washington three years ago, he thought the tournament was a given. The Huskies had been to three in a row. His recruiting class was hailed as possibly the greatest in school history.
Three years later, Spencer Hawes is in the NBA. Phil Nelson and Adrian Oliver have transferred. But there's Pondexter, the lone holdover from a banner class, improving, flourishing and now dancing at last.
"It means the world to us," Pondexter said of this NCAA berth. "We've been through so much as a team, and I think it's made us who we are today."
Who are they? They're not a spoiled Pac-10 champ crying over a lack of respect. They're a blooming program determined to make something of every opportunity they get.
"We're still a work in progress," Romar said. "We're still trying to build our program up to that top level."
Maybe one day, they'll look at NCAA tournament bids snootily and make more noise about being slighted. Not now, though. They're too busy trying to prove themselves again. After all, they do play an SEC champ in three days.
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Brenda and Kerry Burrows of Amarillo announce the engagement of their daughter, Andrea Nicole, to Mitchell Chad Ables.
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The prospective groom played football at HSU and received his bachelor's degree in physical education in 1998. He played arena football for the Pensacola Barracudas and the Tri-City Diesel. He will receive his master's degree in sports and recreational management in December. He is the assistant intramural director at HSU.
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This picture shows the Mary Jackson House on the left side of the street. Opposite the Mary Jackson House at 112 South Mason Street is the blue Miles Cary House
Built circ. 1800. This two-story federal style residence was added to a small Dutch-roofed house, which was later moved to the back of the lot and was eventually torn down. The house was restored between 1997 and 2003 by Trey Gwaltney.
Farther down the street at the corner of Cedar Street & South Mason Street is the red brick Trinity Methodist Church. This Gothic structure, built in 1898, replaced an earlier frame church.
In the next block (but not shown) at 205 South Mason Street is the red brick Smithfield Academy (circ. 1826)
The building was erected in 1826 as a private school for young men. After 1872, it became a public school and later a Masonic Lodge. Restored in 1963, it is used by the Trinity United Methodist Church.
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This weekend exactly one year ago I started with light-painting at this exact same spot. It turned out to be a very addictive new art form for me and I cant live without now anymore so I want to thank everyone who helped me in the past year! Greets, Jelle.
>>> [link] to my first lightpainting shot one year ago.
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Love the color! I am really jealous of this piece.
Thanks Richie! start out small, trail and error, step by step, combine more and more elements, and most of all have fun!
how in the world did you do that! its cool!
Awesome Shot!!!
This is awesome, very inspiring, I cant wait to start experimenting, Id say it gets very addictive...the possibilities appear limitless
Man this is so cool.
This is trippy, I love this. You said you don't use photoshop or photo manipulation, I'm curious as to how then you make such intricate spirals on top of the rail road tracks that look like energy, and the circular lights and sparks at the end of the tunnel.
With light-painting its all about long exposure in the dark and using/moving a light source. Its like having a black empty canvas and literally paint with light what ever you want. Search on 'light painting tutorials' online and you will find out how its done, you should try it too its great fun!
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This is really cool. I want to get into Light Painting now...
Thanks! and yes you should its great fun! search on 'light painting tutorial' and you will find enough to get you started.
Great work, wow only a year, I did my first in April this year, I hope i can become as good as you in 10 years let alone 1.
Thanks Steve! we LP folk are all on the same team, its not a contest its about having fun but I know the feeling, just keep on experimenting and trying different things, let me know if I can help, thanks for the kind words!
Awesome piece of lightpainting. Well done!
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Happy Birthday to this kind of work for you, then !
{Maybe a link to your very 1st shot same place last year would be interresting...?}
{Maybe a link to your very 1st shot same place last year would be interresting...?}
Looks complicated. Very awesome work.
Thank you! It took some time to get it like this, I was on my own without any help so a lot of running around, I first make test shots of the different elements before doing them all in one exposed shot.
nice shot! what did you use for the tracks?
I lit the tracks with a flash light from above and use a custom light-wheel-tool for the interlaced effect.
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Passenger loads at Tulsa International Airport have been down, but that didn't stop Southwest Airlines from adding a new nonstop to Chicago.
The low-cost airline announced Monday it will add a flight from Tulsa International Airport to Chicago's Midway International Airport, the first flight Southwest has added from Tulsa since 2008 when it picked up Denver. Currently, none of the airlines fly Tulsa to Midway but American Airlines and United Airlines serve Tulsa to Chicago through O'Hare International Airport.
Flights begin in June and can be booked through Aug. 9.
Tulsa International Airport experienced a nearly 5 percent drop in outbound passengers in October, compared with the same month in 2011. Passenger gains were made in April and May but slipped in the following months. Overall, departures have decreased more than 1.5 percent this year.
"As we continue to identify opportunities for new service and as airlines work with us to bring that service on line, hopefully we can generate additional demand," said Alexis Higgins, an airport spokeswoman.
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At Will Rogers World Airport, a dip in September didn't continue in October, when the airport had a 1.62 percent increase in departing passengers.
Travelers, however, are being cautious about holiday travel and the airlines have indicated flights won't be at maximum capacity this week, said Karen Carney, a spokeswoman for Will Rogers World Airport.
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TUKWILA — To call Sounders FC's goalkeeping situation a nightmare is only part hyperbole.
The team's top three goalkeepers (Michael Gspurning, Marcus Hahnemann, Josh Ford) are out injured, and the only one healthy and under contract (Andrew Weber) was acquired just last week on loan from third-division Phoenix FC.
"It's difficult, to be honest with you," said goalkeeper coach Tom Dutra. "It's a very difficult time; it's one that has kept me up the last couple nights."
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Gspurning, an MLS Goalkeeper of the Year finalist last season, had his forearm in a splint at Tuesday's practice after getting stepped on in San Jose over the weekend. He was scheduled to meet with a specialist in the afternoon, the diagnosis from which wasn't immediately known.
Regular backups Hahnemann (hamstring) and Ford (knee surgery) are out, too, leaving Weber in line to start Saturday against Colorado. Seattle native Doug Herrick is set to serve as backup as an MLS pool goalkeeper reserved for emergency situations.
The only time coach Sigi Schmid has had it worse was 2006 in Columbus.
"At one point I was down five goalkeepers, and we actually called a guy out of retirement," he said.
Schmid then joked he might have to do the same with broadcaster Kasey Keller, Seattle's goalkeeper from 2009-11.
It might come to that with another injury — and Weber kidded he might wear a football helmet and pads in practice — but the Sounders are comfortable with their options, mostly due to familiarity.
Weber was one of Seattle's five goalkeepers last year and has other MLS experience. The 29-year-old played well in San Jose after Gspurning went out injured and made one of five MLS Save of the Week nominees.
"It's unfortunate what's happened to Mike, but … you just have to be ready when your name is called," Weber said. "So here I am, ready to go."
Schmid likened Weber to a "big insurance policy."
Dutra added: "Andrew knows this is an opportunity for him, and he doesn't want to lose out on it."
Perhaps an overlooked victim in the mass of injuries is 41-year-old Hahnemann, who came out of retirement to sign with the Sounders last August.
Playing time as a backup looked bleak this season after the team was eliminated early in the U.S. Open Cup and failed to qualify for the 2013-14 CONCACAF Champions League later this summer. When the opportunity came via injury to Gspurning, Hahnemann was on the mend, as well.
"I'm truly gutted for the guy," Dutra said of Hahnemann. "When Mike went down I was like, 'Wow, this couldn't have been worse timing.' … Timing is so much of the position, luck and timing, and when you're called upon, you want to be able to have the opportunity to have the job."
• Patrick Ianni was added to the long list of players with injuries/ailments as he missed Tuesday's practice with flu-like symptoms.
• Bryan Meredith, another one of last year's backup goalkeepers, was a newcomer to training Tuesday, but he's not expected to be a factor in the near term. The 23-year-old spent the past six months playing for IK Brage of the Swedish second division before recently parting ways. Schmid said Meredith could go to third-division Phoenix FC, the team that loaned Weber to the Sounders.
• Eddie Johnson and Brad Evans could be called to the U.S. national team for the knockout round of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The federation is allowed to make four changes to its roster following Tuesday's conclusion of the group stage, and the two Sounders were on the provisionary roster. Schmid said he would talk to U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann before any decisions were made, as any other absences would be devastating with Seattle's personnel woes.
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sylveon this eevee evolution is second or even tied for first for the design of the evolutions
Hey there, Sexy!
I'm a sucker for the eevee evolutions! Did you hear about the new type? Sylveon is a Fairy-type, which is super effective against Dragon types! They're even going back and making some pokemon like Gardevoir and Jigglypuff fairy types as well as their original types!
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Sketchbook pro6
what type is it supposed to be?
Wow, it's awesome!
with those fang it more like a dragon type
Haha ikr
The cutest Eeveelution
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oh so that's what it's english name is now
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Solution Overview
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2012-2014 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2012-2014 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
Synopsis :
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description :
Einar Lonn discovered that Bind incorrectly initialized the
failing-query cache. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause
Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Solution :
Update the affected libdns64, libdns69 and / or libdns81 packages.
Risk factor :
High / CVSS Base Score : 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score : 6.8
Public Exploit Available : false
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Nessus Plugin ID: 60136 ()
Bugtraq ID: 54658
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