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Led Zeppelin - Out of Control in the USA

1 week ago | loudersound.com | Steven Rosen

It's April 15, 1977. Tonight Led Zeppelin play the ninth date of the second leg of their eleventh American tour. I’m on board Caesar’s Chariot, the band’s customised Boeing 707 jet. Named after the conquering emperor who was ultimately doomed by an addiction to his own glory, this gleaming, luxuriously appointed flying fortress now carries an invading force of a different kind. Just hours earlier, Zeppelin had annihilated a sell-out audience of pagan revellers at the St Louis Blues Arena.
Led Zeppelin - Out of Control in the USA

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Steven Rosen

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Robert Plant: Michael Ochs Archives | Backstage pass: Prestor Pictures LLC / Alamy Stock PhotoIt's April 15, 1977. Tonight Led Zeppelin play the ninth date of the second leg of their eleventh American tour. I’m on board Caesar’s Chariot, the band’s customised Boeing 707 jet.
Stephin Merritt Plays Your 69 Favorite Magnetic Fields Songs

1 month ago | cincinnatimagazine.com | Steven Rosen

The rock band Magnetic Fields released its three-disc magnum opus, 69 Love Songs, back in 1999, and it was recognized immediately as a classic. The Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop Critics Poll, the most influential at the time, ranked it the year’s second-best album, while the poll’s creator, VV critic and author Robert Christgau, ranked it first.
Val Kilmer Gets His Time in May’s Indie Film Spotlight

1 month ago | cincinnatimagazine.com | Steven Rosen

Val Kilmer had both a thrilling acting career with many memorable hits and a tough luck one. He died on April 1 at age 65, officially from pneumonia, but the damage from the throat cancer first diagnosed in 2015 had left him struggling to speak. As Diane Janicki did after David Lynch’s and Gene Hackman’s recent deaths, she’s remembering Kilmer’s life with a film retrospective at the Esquire Theatre in May.
No Sundance, but Lots of Sundance-Like Films Are Coming in April

2 months ago | cincinnatimagazine.com | Steven Rosen

Just in time for the start of the Major League Baseball season, the Mariemont Theatre is showing a movie that should elicit joy from fans of that sport and, if the reviews are any indication, from those who like good indie movies as well. Perhaps this and other new-to-market indie films will help take the sting out of Sundance’s announcement to relocate to Boulder, Colorado, instead of Cincinnati.
The Over-the-Rhine Film Festival Returns With March Movie Highlights

Feb 28, 2025 | cincinnatimagazine.com | Steven Rosen

This year’s Over-the-Rhine Film Festival (March 6-8) features several major art/indie films you wouldn’t be surprised to see at a higher-profile international festival. Like Sundance, for instance. This upgrade represents an evolution for the event, which was once known as the Cincinnati ReelAbilities Film Festival because it was focused on films primarily about people with disabilities and their challenges.
The Shortest Month Offers a Jam-Packed Indie/Art Movie Calendar

Jan 31, 2025 | cincinnatimagazine.com | Steven Rosen

February is an extremely busy month on the Cincinnati (and regional) art/indie movie circuit, with excellent festivals, retrospective screenings, and arrivals of more Oscar-nominated titles. Personally, I don’t remember so much going on locally in the way of art/indie films since the days of The Movies and the Cincinnati Film Society at their 1980s peak.
Brilliant Movies for the Brutal Month of January

Jan 7, 2025 | cincinnatimagazine.com | Steven Rosen

January starts the best time of year for lovers of serious—and seriously good—art and indie films with the arrival of leading candidates for Academy Awards. While some strong candidates have already arrived here (A Real Pain, Anora, Flow, Queer), lots more are enroute.
A Freewheelin’ Appreciation of Bob Dylan in Cincinnati

Dec 16, 2024 | cincinnatimagazine.com | Steven Rosen

Of the many, many books written about rock icon Bob Dylan to date, it’s probable that none have made a connection between his rise to fame and a stenographer shortage in Cincinnati when he first performed here in 1965. None until now, that is. It’s a key point that Graley Herren, an English professor at Xavier University, makes early on in his book-in-progress, tentatively titled Dylan in Cincinnati. He’s detailing every local concert appearance by Dylan to date.
Film Fans Will Be Merry About December’s Indie/Art Movies

Nov 29, 2024 | cincinnatimagazine.com | Steven Rosen

Improbable as it may seem, John Waters has become a Cincinnati holiday tradition. A filmmaker, writer, artist, and sharp-witted comedian/social critic who delivers his often profane sarcasm with a warm smile, he began his seduction of Christmastime Cincinnati last year with a sold-out show at Clifton’s Ludlow Garage. He returns to the same venue for two shows this month, December 13 and 14. As of this story’s deadline, there still were some tickets left for the first show; the second is sold out.