COMET BIKE NIGHT
2019-03-12 17:00 - 22:00, 2019-03-19 17:00 - 22:00, 2019-03-26 17:00 - 22:00, 2019-04-02 17:00 - 22:00, 2019-04-09 17:00 - 22:00, 2019-04-16 17:00 - 22:00, 2019-04-23 17:00 - 22:00, 2019-04-30 17:00 - 22:00 UTC | The Comet, 4579 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45223, United States
Motorcycle enthusiasts gathering.

MARCH ARTIST RESIDENCY: MARC GOVERNANTI
2019-03-12 22:00 - 2019-03-13 01:00, 2019-03-19 22:00 - 2019-03-20 01:00, 2019-03-26 22:00 - 2019-03-27 01:00 (America/Detroit)
Experimental Pop
marcgovernanti.bandcamp.com/music

THE BLUE ROCK BOYS
2019-03-16 22:00 - 2019-03-17 01:00 (America/Detroit)
It’s a Saint Patrick’s Day tradition with the Blue Rock Boys at the Comet (a day early)!

COMET BLUEGRASS ALL-STARS
2019-03-17 18:30 - 21:00, 2019-03-24 18:30 - 21:00, 2019-03-31 18:30 - 21:00, 2019-04-07 18:30 - 21:00, 2019-04-14 18:30 - 21:00, 2019-04-21 18:30 - 21:00, 2019-04-28 18:30 - 21:00 UTC
The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars (CBAS) assembled in 1996 as the Sunday night house band at The Comet. Since that time the popularity of the band has grown beyond the Comet lounge, opening for such national acts as Sam Bush, Blue Highway, Del McCoury, Peter Rowan and Ricky Skaggs.
The Sunday night Bluegrass sessions at the Comet are informal and known to draw a diverse, “listening” audience, from small children to senior citizens. Those attending the shows find each member of the band accomplished singers and multi-instrumentalists in their own right, with the live combination of these players presenting an even greater sum than its parts, through amazing musical interplay and high lonesome bluegrass harmony.

VALLEY OF THE SUN + CASINO WARRIOR
2019-03-21 22:00 - 2019-03-22 01:00 (America/Detroit)
Kicking off their first major tour of the US and Canada, from the Comet, come hang!

KERCHIEF
2019-03-22 22:00 - 2019-03-23 01:00 (America/Detroit)

SANDY EWEN + BLAKE CONLEY + FOSCO + RACHEL THODE TRIO + KEELING + PAPE
2019-03-23 22:00 - 2019-03-24 01:00 (America/Detroit)
Sandy Ewen is an experimental guitarist, artist and architect who has recently relocated to NYC from Houston, TX. She has performed extensively in 2018, including at the Sant’anna Arresi Jazz Festival, Experimental Sound Studio Option Series and the High Zero Festival. Sandy spent much of 2017 performing solo sets and in collaboration with Steve Jansen (tapes and electronics) and Maria Chavez (turntables) around Europe. Her other current projects include the trio Etched in the Eye, a duo with Tom Carter called Spiderwebs, the trio Garden medium, and ongoing collaborations with percussionist Weasel Walter and bassist Damon Smith. In years past, Ewen has performed alongside Roscoe Mitchell, Keith Rowe, Lydia Lunch and many others, and has performed and recorded with Jaap Blonk, Henry Kaiser and more. In 2014 she performed at San Francisco’s 13th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, and she has made several appearances at Austin’s annual No Idea Festival. Ewen’s approach to playing is centered around found objects and extended guitar techniques.
http://www.5049records.com/podcast/sandy-ewen
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2016/10/introducing-experimental-guitarist.html?m=1
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8fSH-seqD8s/VHTQGl-3fdI/AAAAAAAAsjs/7cmhXbxv4_k/s1600/68681_4941429334450_1118484086_n.jpg
“Like Keith Rowe and Kevin Drumm, Ewen plays an electric guitar that is laid flat before her. But one doesn’t get the impression that she is layering artistic and historical codes like Rowe or plumbing every identifiable extreme like Drumm. Rather, she seems to want to hear what a guitar can do when it is free of expectations. So while you won’t hear any conventional strumming or picking on this album’s six numbered tracks, the sounds that she does extract are imbued with an essential guitarness.
A gentle touch and prodigious amplification allows tiny string sounds to prick and stab, and for the vibration of air confined within the guitar’s body to swell like a looming thunderhead of feedback. Even the moments where Ewen gets physically busy to create a particular sonic environment, and there are moments on Tributaries where she gives the strings quite a scrubbing, evolve patiently. And why not? Even more than in one of the destination burgs, when you play free music in a place like Houston it’s because it’s what you want to do. So why rush anything?”
-Bill Meyer, dusted magazine
sandyewen.com
weirdweeds.com
Blake Edward Conley (Louisville resident, of droneroom and several other ventures)+Pete Fosco on dueling electric guitars will be joined for the first time by percussionist Rachel Thode of cincinnati shoegaze heroes Slow Glows for a blown-out free improv psychedelic sunset ride into the deepest parts of your scrambled cabbage brain. it’s 2019, you didn’t need it anyway. enjoy.
Nick Keeling (8-track tape loops plus piano)+signal wizard Fritz Pape first ever duo collaboration
“Fritz Pape (fka Zijnzijn Zijnzijn!) explores the process of auditory growth and decay from whispered drones through digital corruption, utilizing a swath of guitar pedals, synthesizers and other sound-making devices. A deep dive through tiny crevasses of sound, stretched into gentle infinity.”
https://noisenotmusic.com/2018/03/19/review-nick-keeling-kaily-moon-schenker-marker-torn-light-jan-8/amp/
https://nickkeeling.bandcamp.com/
https://fritzpape.bandcamp.com/merch

SLOW GLOWS + BERNIE & THE WOLF + SOFTEN
2019-04-05 22:00 - 2019-04-06 01:00 (America/Detroit)
Slow Glows
“Their characteristic trait is the vocal that can be both dreamy and quite pugnacious, even within one song. The slow pace, such as the opening of ‘December,’ is measured by the clear, pulsing hit of the drums. This band wants to send positive vibes out to the world. They surely do send the dreamy-trance-inducing ones.”
–Labandzi Spiew (Indie In Red)
Bernie & The Wolf (Chicago)
Sultry vocals and dreamy yet alt-rock-driven guitar soundscapes float over a rhythmic whiplash of drumming to fill an impressive amount of space between just two people. The band released their debut album “Catch Some” in 2017 and have since frequently toured the U.S. and Canada, most recently in support of their newest single “This Time Last Year.”
Soften
Four-piece indie rock band from Cincinnati, OH. They released their debut album “Seen + Unseen” in the Fall of 2017 and earned a nomination for Best New Artist at the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards in the same year.

LEOPOLD THE GHOST + THE KNO NOTHINGS + THE ELECTRIC INDIGO
2019-04-06 22:00 - 2019-04-07 01:00 (America/Detroit)

BLEARY + MAGGY + CAPTAIN CARELESS
2019-04-12 22:00 - 2019-04-13 01:00 (America/Detroit)
Bleary (Nashville)
Shoe-gaze, rock
https://bleary.bandcamp.com/track/ghosts
“Ghosts” is the first single off Bleary’s upcoming Gates EP, a six-song release that takes the formulas seen on their Winter Demos release, ups the clarity, and turns the catchiness dial to eleven… “Ghosts” is second on the EP – lyrically introspective, as Mercer begins “I can’t relate to the voices in my head, and I can’t get out of bed,” buffeted by massive, dreamy guitars. The chorus is an explosion – guitars soar as Mercer recounts being “surrounded by [his] ghosts at night.” The song is contagiously energetic, compulsively kinetic, subverting the emotionally-driven words being broadcast. But despite the brooding lyrics, I’m filing this baby into my running playlist. Catch you in a few miles.” – Jordan Reyes, Ears to Feed
Captain Careless (Cincinnati)
https://captaincareless.hearnow.com
Indie, Dreamy, Math Rock
Stoked to see them at AYE fest? Why don’t you have a burrito about it! With a low end that will do that thing to your tummy whilst delightfully calculated leads lend you wings to soar up and out of your sneakers. The percussion like an ocean of glue crashes and brings everything together. Put their single “Flash Me” on all of your playlists right now
it fits
Maggy (Cincinnati)
https://maggy.bandcamp.com/releases

SLUTBOMB + KREUTZER SONATA + MY WALL
2019-04-13 22:00 - 2019-04-14 01:00 (America/Detroit)
SlutBomb
Local Hardcore
http://slutbomb.bandcamp.com
The Kreutzer Sonata (Chicago IL)
Street Punk/D-Beat
https://thekreutzersonata.bandcamp.com
My Wall (Nashville, TN)
Psychedelic Doom Metal
https://nosabesprojectz.bandcamp.com/album/my-wall

TV MOMS + EUNIOA + WELP + BI
2019-04-19 22:00 - 2019-04-20 01:00 (America/Detroit)
TV Moms
Noise rock from Minneapolis, Minnesota
https://tvmoms.bandcamp.com/album/believe-anything
Eunioa
https://eunoia513.bandcamp.com/releases
Welp
Cincinnati
Bi
https://biohio.bandcamp.com/

THE DADDY SISTERS
2019-04-26 22:00 - 2019-04-27 01:00 (America/Detroit)
Two-Headed, sibling rock n’ roll brought to you by Chick and Zuko, from Bowling Green KY.
https://thedaddysisters.bandcamp.com

BLESSED
2019-04-27 22:00 - 2019-04-28 01:00 (America/Detroit)
Blessed plays Cincinnati for the first time!
Blessed –
www.blessedtheband.com
www.blessedband.bandcamp.com
Formed in the early winter months of 2015 in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley, Blessed were born from a shared creative objective. From the start, its original four members found themselves naturally amalgamating elements of Post-Hardcore, Minimalism, New Wave, Krautrock, and Punk. To date, Blessed has released one single with Toronto’s Buzz Records (Weaves, Dilly Dally, Greys), and two critically lauded EPs. The Fader wrote of the EP II: “Dominated by the high-fructose riffing pioneered by Deerhoof, giving way to a darker, propulsive jam that’s just as chaotic, yet well-controlled.”

Team Two + Lost Coast + Rachel Mousie
2019-05-03 22:00 - 2019-05-04 01:00 (America/Detroit)
Team Two (Kalamazoo MI)
Lost Coast
Rachel Mousie
