Ivey Leighton: Is Ready to Be Heard
There is something misleading about the phrase debut single. It sounds like a beginning. For Ivey Leighton, “Good Girl” is anything but. It’s the first song the public gets to…
Jesse and Noah Open The Sunshine Shop with New Music Video
Jesse and Noah have officially opened The Sunshine Shop. No business hours, no coupons, and apparently no actual retail inventory, but there is a new music video. The brother duo…
‘Blackland Farmer’ Singer Frankie Miller Dies at 95
Country music has lost one of the artists who helped build the road long before most of us started traveling it. Frankie Miller, the Texas country singer-songwriter best remembered for…
Tom Rentz: Has Spent Nearly 30 Years Chasing the Perfect Shot
Three songs. That’s it. No second chances. No waiting until the end of the night to figure things out. No asking the artist to step back into the light and…
Archers Gate: Building Something Meant to Be Heard
There are bands that record songs and then figure out how to play them live. Archers Gate seems determined to do the opposite. Build the song. Build the sound. Build…
Five Finger Death Punch (Riverbend, Cincinnati, OH) 8/10/26
Hot doesn’t begin to describe it. When I left my house around 5 p.m. and headed toward Riverbend Music Center for Five Finger Death Punch, the temperature was pushing 100…
Life After This (Matthew Fritsch): Built a Community Before They Built a Following
By Jay Franze Some bands write songs. Others build movements. The difference isn’t always found in the music. Sometimes it’s found on a school bus full of fans headed to…
Blake Tyler (VOA Country Music Festival, west Chester, OH) 8/8/26
There are early shows, and then there are festival days. Saturday started for me around 11:00 a.m., when I left the house and headed toward West Chester for the third…
Chicago (Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH) 8/6/26
Some concerts are planned weeks in advance. Others come together with a simple phone call from a good friend. After spending most of the day in the recording studio, I…
Tequila Sunrise (Franklin Theatre, Franklin, TN) 8/5/26
Some concert reviews begin when the house lights go down. This one started somewhere around 7 a.m. in Kentucky, while I was still wiping the sleep from my eyes and…