With the start of a new year I want to start something new to educate and promote blues music in Indiana with a focus on musicians, venues, and festivals from Indianapolis to the state’s borders. Blues is best known in Chicago, Memphis, and several other cities with variations of the genre known by it’s sound. Our earliest moments of blues in Indiana perhaps came from Gennett Records... 

This Friday June 24th in Broadripple head to the Vogue for the chance to see Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, in one of the only shows the band will have in Indiana for a while. M.N.S.S. originated in Indianapolis, now the band is three albums deep and tours as a full time band. In 2008 the band along with Epic records released two albums, Animal and not Animal.  Also in 2008 the band appeared... 

After I finished up at the ES Jungle and Piradical Producion’s alternative dance party Punk Rock Prom, I headed down to Broadripple proper to head to the main show (at least in my book) of the evening, Bad Manners at the Vogue, with local ska/soul fusion band the Green Room Rockers. Also, Tax Brandywine, but we’ll get into that later. Before heading to the club I met up with one of my friends and... 

It seems like more and more of the big name, almost classic ska acts are starting to find their way to Indianapolis. The Toasters have come through several times over the last several years, the English Beat have played Radio Radio twice in the last year and now Bad Manners will be playing the Vogue on May 13th. Bad Manners are the bad boy, crazily raucous act of the 2-Tone ska days. While ska music,... 

Cake has been going strong for nearly 20 years. The band started as an “antagonistic nature to grunge.” Cake’s innovative, strong opinionated, witty music has made a statement for years and only caused the band to grow stronger. In addition to writing, performing, producing and arranging their own music, Cake has taken things to the next level. Now the band has created a solar power studio where... 

Talib Kweli headlines at The Vogue on Sunday, April 17th. Fresh off of his 2011 SXSW concert appearance, it’s clear that Talib Kweli has come a long way since teaming up with Mos Def to form the alternative hip hop duo Black Star. In the late 1990s, Kweli helped define the alt hip-hop genre, along with artists like De La Soul, KRS-One, The Fugees and A Tribe Called Quest. Now, this native Brooklynite... 

After months of anticipation, planning, and promotion, Rock For Riley VII is right around the corner. And if the excitement of having Matt & Kim, DJ Action Jackson, and The Kemps perform to raise more money for Riley Hospital For Children isn’t enough already, the latest bit of news may be enough to put it over the top. For the past seven years, their mission has been simple: to “raise... 

It’s for the kids, so why not support it?  After all, is there anything better than a night of great music for an even greater cause? For nearly 90 years, Riley Hospital For Children has lived by one goal: “to provide the highest-quality medical care to all Indiana children, regardless of their family’s ability to pay.”  Of course, to continue their mission, they need... 

Jam band phenom Keller Williams performs at The Vogue on Thursday, March 17th.America’s favorite one-man jam band is coming to Indy’s The Vogue to throw a little eclectic funk on your St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Keller Williams, a veritable jack-of-all-musical-trades, takes the stage at the Broad Ripple landmark to showcase his motley mix of country, bluegrass, rock, reggae, jazz,... 

Josh Radin delighted fans from far and near on Tuesday, February 22nd at The Vogue. It was all about love, loss and life at The Vogue this past Tuesday night as Indy welcomed folk rock extraordinaire Joshua Radin to town. Despite the brisk 30-degree night air, indie music fans filled The Vogue and mellowed out like they’ve never mellowed before. First on the bill, the lovely Laura Jansen treated...