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Childers takes his upbringing of listening to the likes of Drive-By Truckers and deep Southern Gospel, plus details from his hardscrabble blue-collar young adulthood, and transforms them into a semi-autobiographical scrapbook of musical snapshots that describe his life from interior and exterior perspectives. With Purgatory, Childers doesn’t retreat to the viewpoint of a detached observer, preferring to wade into the first-person desperation of a young man spinning dangerously on the brink. All of this he accomplishes by utilizing a soundtrack that is weathered by Appalachian Country and Bluegrass tradition, sharpened to a knife’s edge by contemporary living, energized by the adrenaline of youth and informed by the hard-won wisdom of surviving youthful stupidity. And all of this occurs on Tyler Childers’ very first real album — where he might go next boggles the imagination. Childers is the Friday headliner at the popular Whispering Beard Folk Festival, where he has previously performed. Running Thursday through Sunday, the fest (now in its 10th year) is held in the small town of Friendship, Ind., about 50 miles west of Cincinnati. Visit whisperCom Truise PHOTO : Effix x ingbeard.com for the complete lineup, directions, ticket info and more. (Brian Baker)
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Wednesday 8/23 Burning Caravan 8-11
Thursday 8/24
Todd Hepburn & Friends 8-11
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Friday 8/25
8/24 QUeeN CITy STORyTelleRS: aDaM FlaIG (OF MaD aNTHONy), JaCOb TIPPey (OF THe FRaNKl PROJeCT), DaN MeCHeR (OF THe TURNbUll aC’S), THe lOVeRS, WIlDeR; SIReN SUIT, bReaKING GlaSS, beTSy ROSS
saTurday 8/26
8/25 PUNK ROCK NIGHT: THe UNDeaD (FeaT. bObby STeele OF THe MISFITS), TOMMy GRIT & THe PRICKS, THe leTDOWNS, 13PaGaN HOlIDay13; SUNDy beST, bROTHeR SMITH; Ky Myle
Kelsey Mira Band 8-12 Phil DeGreg Trio 8-12
8/26 OaK HOUSe, eaSTeR ISlaND, WISe WORDS 8/27 THe QUebe SISTeRS
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FUTURE SOUNDS BETTY WHO/GEOGRAPHER – Aug. 30, Woodward Theater TIM MCGRAW/FAITH HILL – Sept. 2, U.S. Bank Arena DADA – Sept. 6, Southgate House Revival YOUNG THE GIANT/COLD WAR KIDS – Sept. 7, PNC Pavilion at Riverbend CHRIS STAPLETON – Sept. 8, Riverbend Music Center HERE COME THE MUMMIES – Sept. 8, Bogart’s DEEP PURPLE/ALICE COOPER – Sept. 10, Riverbend Music Center PROTOMARTYR – Sept. 10, Northside Yacht Club SEU JORGE – Sept. 15, Taft Theatre BRANTLEY GILBERT – Sept. 15, Riverbend Music Center THE QUEERS/THE ATARIS – Sept. 16, Southgate House Revival MATCHBOX TWENTY/COUNTING CROWS – Sept. 21, Riverbend Music Center SYLVAN ESSO/HELADO NEGRO – Sept. 21, Bogart’s BOB SEGER – Sept. 21, U.S. Bank Arena
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Com Truise with Moonbeau and Black Signal Friday • Fountain Square For awhile, art director Seth Haley explored a different side of his creative personality by crafting Electronic/Synthwave music under a variety of pseudonymous identities, including SYSTM, Sarin Sunday, Airliner and Komputer Cast. After three years, Haley chose yet another new name for himself by inverting the initials of a certain movie star and recorded his first work under his new nom de synth, the Cyanide Sisters EP. Just before releasing Cyanide Sisters as a free download in 2010, Haley resigned from his job as an art director and turned his full attention to the Indie Electronic project he dubbed Com Truise. While it might have seemed like a gutsy (or even ill-advised) move seven years ago, Haley clearly understood his musical strengths and his audience; his Com Truise alter ego has become a force in the Electronic scene. On top of becoming a respected artist — eight months after Cyanide Sisters’ free release, he signed with
renowned Electronic label Ghostly International (which re-released the EP), for which he records to this day — Truise is also an in-demand DJ, producer and remixer. Since the rapturous reviews for Sister and its various single-track, EP and LP follow-ups — including the recently released album, Iteration — Truise has helmed the board for Little Boots and Oddience and remixed the likes of Maroon 5, Foster the People, Daft Punk, Tycho, Deftones and Deadmau5, among many others. Iteration is the first Com Truise full-length release that features all new material since his album debut, Galactic Melt, which came out six years ago. Utilizing many of the influences that have steered him in the past, including Boards of Canada, Neon Indian and ’80s Synth Pop, Truise also drew on the inspiration (and perhaps frustration) brought about by his recent move to Los Angeles. Although Truise began the process of writing Iteration two years ago, settling into his new environs altered his musical style and approach. Iteration bears the sonic fruit of that shift, including opening things up with a slightly more expansive canvas on which to create. Whether Com Truise is catering to the audience for Chillwave or creating it, he will continue to champion a compelling and singular vision of the sound. (BB)
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