Fresh off the heels of his F*ck A Job album release, Oski Isaiah drops a new clip for smoothly-served project cut, "Company." Oski released the 10-track Autumn Jivenchy-produced album this summer, which celebrated the Cincinnati rapper focusing full-time on his music career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkJr5y0Is4I Directed by Dre Shot This, the clip opens up on a signed [...]
Late last month, Strobobean released two new hauntingly beautiful singles, "Ghost" and "Walking Alone," ahead of their fall tour. The Cincinnati shoegaze post-rock trio is fronted by Pop Empire's Katrina Eresman and Jake Langknech and Soften's Brianna Kelly. Their debut 4-track EP, Winter, arrived this past May. “I'm excited about our new tracks because they [...]
After being friends for decades, former members of The Muffs, The Pandoras, and The Friggs, Kim Shattuck, Melanie Vammen, and Palmyra Delran, finally decided it was time to start their own band together. Kim and Melanie first played together in The Pandoras and went on to form The Muffs, meeting The Friggs’ Palmyra on a [...]
Cincinnati trio Pop Empire recently dropped their nine-track album, Novena. The indie-rock outfit will head out on a supporting tour this month. Novena marks the 10-year-old group's first full-length album since 2014's Future Blues and the first album with the group's current lineup - founding member Henry Wilson, guitarist Katrina Eresman, and drummer Jake Langknecht. Teased [...]
For this week's Playing Cincinnati, we traveled 20 miles north to Dave Chappelle's Gem City Shine Benefit Concert in Dayton, Ohio. Chappelle, who lives in the neighboring Ohio town of Yellow Springs, threw the enormous block party to commemorate the nine lives lost in a recent mass shooting at a local bar that left nine [...]
Ihlana at Timeless Recording Studio. Photo by DeAndre Favors. Ihlana Niayla is a force to be reckoned with. Since developing a love for all things audio during college and in an audio/visual role working at the Cincinnati Zoo, the producer-engineer-songwriter followed her passion behind the board and recently became Timeless Recording Studio's first [...]
The end of July brought the first official release from The Leanover, comprised of Ali Overing and Lou Seltz. Written over the course of several years, the 7-tracks on Portico were inspired by the idea of liminal spaces - whether physical, like a balcony or porch, or metaphorical, as in the space between privacy and publicity [...]
Oski Isaiah finished out a busy July with the release of his highly-anticipated new album, Fuck A Job. The 10-track LP features assists from Aziza Love on “Anytime,” Monty C. Benjamin on “Over” and Jus Clay on “Business.” Fuck A Job follows up Oski’s 2018 album, Adventure 2, and a compilation music video released just [...]
Pop/reggae outfit The Big Takeover premieres their retro music video for "Shy" today. In the Dino Davaros-directed clip, the New York-based band star as guests of a 70's late-night show, where they perform their latest single. The new video comes as the band hits the summer festival circuit in support of their forthcoming record, slated [...]
Cash Daniel has a lot to celebrate. AudioFemme caught up with the Ohio rapper at the listening party for his new project, Not Just Another Vacation Too, where he was celebrating his album, wedding anniversary, and birthday. Not Just Another Vacation Too is the second of its series, following up the original, which Cash dropped [...]
