I’ve never been to an event at The Vogue that does not involve a DJ, glowsticks, and half-naked dancers on platforms until Hurt stopped by the popular Broad Ripple club this past Tuesday night. The Virginia-born rock band’s stop in Broad Ripple is part of their current U.S. tour promoting their new album, The Crux, …
It’s been three years since Hurt released their 5th studio album, Goodbye to the Machine, and after a slow process of writing and recording, the Virginia-native band released their 6th, The Crux, last week. I personally haven’t heard much from them since their 2006 and 2007 albums, Vol. I and Vol. II… I’m not sure …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.” …
