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Yons is using his studio to build a? new generation of Louisville hip-hop
Situated on Colonial Park Drive, just across the river in Jeffersonville, lies Yons’ studio, an impressive and capable DIY rig. It’s cozy, with keyboards — his favored instrument — looming mightily over the other gear in the room. There’s a lone snare drum standing in the corner, while a vintage-looking bass is propped casually against…
LEO Podcast #64: Antiques Roadshow at Churchill Downs
LEO’s Jo Anne Triplett and Eric Clark attended the taping of Antiques Roadshow in Louisville, then recorded a podcast about their experiences.
A Q&A with glass artist John King
Glass artist John King (louisvilleisforlovers.culturearchivist.com) is the current artist-in-residence at the Louisville Free Public Library. Read on about King’s experience. LEO: What type of artist are you? John King: When it comes to visual art, I primarily work in glass. Both of my parents worked in the glass industry — my father was a…
10 under $5 – What To Do This Week In Louisville (5/28)
MONDAY Rosewater, Dead Country Gentlemen, The Kids Born Wrong Mag Bar Free | 8 p.m. Happy Memorial Day! If you don’t already have plans to drink beer and eat at a cookout, head to Mag Bar for a rock show. Performing bands include alternative rock band Rosewater, heavy rock band Dead Country Gentleman and self-described…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (5/25)
FRIDAY 2018 Kentucky Reggae Festival (May 25–27) Water Tower Park $10-$30 | Times vary Forget to plan a Memorial Day vacation? Let the Kentucky Reggae Festival transport you to a world of steel drums and Caribbean food on the waterfront. The Jamaican Association of Louisville will provide the authentic, delicious dishes; in the Caribbean Market…
Tim Northern Comedy Festival presents The Roast of Darryl Isaacs
By day, comedian Greg Simms fights the good fight as a local civil rights attorney. By night, you’ll often find him onstage at one of your favorite spots for local comedy. This week. Simms and 70 other comedians will be performing in venues across the city as part of the Tim Northern Comedy Festival. One…
Unique, favorite instruments of five Louisville musicians
All kinds of styles and personalities make up Louisville’s music scene, which is mirrored through an array of instrument and gear choices. We asked five local musicians to each choose an important piece of equipment and explain how they use it to accomplish their sound. Aaron West Magnetic Tape Aaron West, who you might recognize…
10 concerts in Louisville to plan your summer
Wednesday, May 30 J. Roddy Walston Waterfront Wednesday | Big Four Lawn | wfpk.org | Free | 6 p.m. For this month’s installment of Waterfront Wednesday, 91.9 WFPK brings in the roots-heavy, classic rock-leaning band J. Roddy and the Business, as well as Brooklyn-based indie kids that explore the lines of doom-metal with Sunflower Bean…
Arm Wrestling As Theater? And ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’
Louisville actor and director Gracie Taylor is unaccustomed to being booed and hissed on stage. Modern theater audiences, after all, are an inhibited lot. Just getting them to laugh at an obvious punchline often requires the acting equivalent of a standing ovation. Booing is simply out of the question. Besides, the moral universe of modern…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best, & Most Absurd (5/23)
Red Stain On The Bluegrass | Thorn Why is it that Kentucky’s influence seems to eclipse its size? Another infamous resident goes on to gain more power: The U.S. Senate installed Gina Haspel, a UofL graduate, Ashland native and enabler of torture, as director of the CIA. She joins another Trump administration stain, environment destroyer…
The band Brenda has finished a new album, meanwhile, its brainchildren are California dreaming
Brenda is a band that’s trying to make it work. But retaining a healthy project isn’t just about devoting time to writing, recording and performing. It’s gotta involve some risk. For drummer/singer Brenda Mahler and singer/guitarist Matt Horne, that came with a change of scenery. Three months ago, the husband-and-wife core of the band relocated…
Dr. Dundiff shows no signs of slowing down
Roman Aprile is busy trying to get his recording equipment up and running, but he’s not getting frustrated despite repeated mysterious failures. Currently, Aprile, who makes music under the moniker Dr. Dundiff, is more concerned about my comfort in his recording studio, a converted room in his Highlands apartment — he doesn’t want it to…
Anne Gauthier will take over Kevin Ratterman’s La La Land Studio as head engineer/producer
Through a bright and inviting kitchen, and past the living area with a juke box that looks like it was pulled out of a 1950s diner, Anne Gauthier stands at a large control board in La La Land studio. She’s peering through a small window at Torey Meagher, who’s hunched over a sampler, punching in…
10 of our favorite Louisville albums released in 2018 so far
There’s never a shortage of new, local music coming from this city, and we’re going pause to remember some of our favorite records of the year so far. We’re roughly six months into 2018, so, below, our staff takes a look at new albums from scene staples (Joan Shelly, Touch AC x Dr. Dundiff) and…
LEO’s local music festivals and concert series guide
We’ve shed the dim light of our particularly cold winter, and the summer has never seemed more welcome. And with those warm temperatures and Kentucky humidity comes the hum of music festival season, which brings great musicians to Louisville, while highlighting the exemplary talent that we have homegrown right here. Whether it’s pop or metal,…
Savage Love: Pissy
Q: I like watersports, and I heard about a guy in a rural area who holds piss parties in his backyard. I found a mailing list for those interested in piss play, and it wasn’t long before he posted about one of these parties. People on the list talk a big game, but no one…
‘The personal is political’: LGBTQ community is on the cutting edge of local punk
Wy Lynn Rose, frontwoman of Louisville hardcore band Transgression, was leaning on a wall at the downtown Spinelli’s Pizza, explaining to me how the political messages in her music have changed. At first, the songs were didactic anthems, calling attention to politics, screamed at top volume. But as she wrote more music, that began to…
With calls for more diversity in music festivals,? is Forecastle doing enough?
A nationwide conversation about the lack of diversity of the artists performing at the biggest music festivals is sweeping through the circuit, which includes the one in our backyard, Forecastle. This year, the mid-July festival once again has a line-up stacked primarily with white male acts, especially toward the top of the bill. Forecastle organizers…
Spinsters Union of Louisville: new group raises visibility of female, nonbinary DJs
The view atop the 800 Tower City Club Apartments, just south of Broadway in downtown Louisville was stunning, yet completely overshadowed by the gathering that took place on a Sunday afternoon in March. Sunlight bounced through the top floor meeting room as 13 women and gender-nonconforming members gathered for the third meeting of the Spinsters…
Jecorey ‘1200’ Arthur on why musical outreach is vital
Hi, I’m Mr. Arthur. I taught music at Hite Elementary from May 2015 to May 2017. We had approximately 500 students, mostly from The East End. I resigned in September 2017 to acquire a larger outreach, and Louisville Public Media granted this. I’m now the music education manager at 90.5 WUOL Classical Louisville. This position…
