10 Things To Do For $5 And Under In Louisville This Week (5/31)
TUESDAY, June 1 Movie Trivia with Greg! Planet of the Tapes No cover | 8-10 p.m. Please don’t whisper facts to your friends during movies; save your knowledge for Movie Trivia with Greg! Gather your six (or fewer) closest buds for a “fun and funny” trivia night about your filmic knowledge. The prizes are movie…
5 Things To Do This Memorial Day Weekend In Louisville (5/28)
FRIDAY, May 28 Social Justice Fair Jefferson Square Park Free | 11 a.m.-7 p.m. On May 28, it will have been one year since thousands of protesters took to Louisville’s streets demanding justice for Breonna Taylor. To commemorate the anniversary, the community is taking over Jefferson Square Park, or Injustice Square, again for two days…
Take Control of Your Financial Future
This article is sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co. A year into the pandemic, many people have experienced changes in how they manage their money. With different spending needs and, in some cases changes in income, balancing budgets, saving, and monitoring credit have become top of mind, as underscored by our recent Digital Banking Attitudes…
Slamdek, Kinko’s And Louisville Labels In 1991
I was 21 and running a Louisville record label called Slamdek in 1991. Some friends and I had named the label five years earlier by combining our initials. It wasn’t really going to be a record company, we just needed a label name to put on the cassette tape we were releasing by our synthesizer…
The 1991(ish) Music Issue: Louisville Punk And Hardcore Through The Camera Lens
Photos shared with LEO from Chris Higdon, Kayte Garcia, Sean Fawbush, Adam Colvin and Mike Bucayu This photo essay is a collection of photos both by and collected by Chris Higdon, Mike Bucayu, Kayte Garcia and Sean Fawbush. We hope you can see the photos and feel the energy of the era. One of the most…
Composed Production: 1991 In Pictures
In many ways, the Louisville of 30 years ago was much the same. A new generation had taken the reins of the city’s burgeoning punk and indie scene, carrying the torch during one of the most electric eras of artistic expression. Still, technology hadn’t developed to the point it has now, meaning that documenting the…
The 1991(ish) Music Issue: Local DJ And Scene “Kid” Deuce Digs Back To ‘80s/‘90s Local Music Network
Thinking back to the late-’80s early-’90s local music scene that occurred here in Louisville, I had to go check some official numbers. I just had to make sure my memory wasn’t playing tricks on me and making things appear larger than they really were. The official numbers confirm, this scene was something more than just…
The 1991(ish) Music Issue: The Venues
By 1991, there had been two or three waves of great bands that most Louisvillians never heard of. The influence of the punk movement, circa 1977, had inspired a scene that rivaled much bigger cities in terms of creativity and passion, even if the city at large found it easy to ignore and/or prosecute for…
The 1991(ish) Music Issue: Looking Back To Move Forward
Sometimes looking back helps light the way forward. So this issue is a little bit of that. How do you put Louisville punk and hardcore into 20 pages? You fucking don’t. You brush in broad strokes and hope that, in these few pages, people find fond memories, reconnect with folks they’ve lost or forgotten. You…
The 1991(ish) Music Issue: Bush League — Fetor
Nevermind that 1991 experienced Nirvana’s sophomore LP, which launched grunge (and ultimately punk) into the mainstream and that Metallica would release an album our parents would listen to. We didn’t need any of that. We had our own music scene in 1991 that brought us Slint’s Spiderland, Endpoint’s In a Time of Hate, Kinghorse’s eponymous…
The 1991(ish) Music Issue: The Birth Of Endpoint
One cold January night, we huddled around television sets at The Zodiac bar on Market Street, watching in disbelief as bombs began to streak the early morning skies in the gulf coast. What had begun as a night of friends playing music together, quickly turned into a night of discussion and tears. With those blurry…
The 1991(ish) Music Issue: Antietam — Everywhere Outside
Antietam was formed in Louisville in 1984. By the ’90s, they had moved to New York City. However, once a local band, always a local band. They released their album Everywhere Outside in 1991 after welcoming new member Josh Madell. They talked about how the album came together. Tara Key: Post-Burgoo, while deciding which zig…
The 1991(ish) Music Issue: Catherine Irwin Talks Freakwater’s Dancing Under Water
Freakwater seems an unlikely band to be popular in a town known for its hardcore and punk scene but with simple chord structures to their songs and the wide regional appeal of old country songs, band members Catherine Irwin, Janet Bean and David Gay managed to make it work. LEO caught up with Irwin to discuss…
The 1991(ish) Music Issue: Louisville Musicians From Multiple Eras Talk About Slint’s Spiderland
In the seven or so years I’ve been in town, I’ve been impressed by how local musicians of all ages seem to have an encyclopedic knowledge of Louisville music history. People who were in grade school or not alive in the early ‘90s will namedrop Louisville musicians from that era into causal conversations and in…
Savage Love: Both Barrels
Q: I need your advice. My partner of 27 years has been sleeping with my best friend. This has been going on for a year and a half. As far as I knew, we had a monogamous relationship, even if things had gotten stale between us in recent years. And my best friend is everything…
The 1991(ish) Music Issue: When Flyers Disappeared From Louisville’s Streets
Flyers were what drew Billy Hardison to his first punk shows in the ‘80s, an East End kid taken in by handmade posters with letters cut from magazines, ransom note style. Then, in 1991, when he became the booking agent for Tewligans on Bardstown Road, where Nirvana is now, flyers were how he would attract…
The 1991(ish) Music Issue: What It Was…
It was a feeling but also an observational ritual that was divorced of feeling— the feelings came in little waves crashing against a giant beach or huge waves crashing against a minuscule diorama of a beach. Playground sand. There was a game there, or something like a game, and the players seemed to have an…
