Monday, October 13, 2025

Interview on WVXU FM about the very subject this blog is an archive for...

Fun House: Cincinnati's underground music venues

Published October 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM EDT (by Selena Reder and others)

https://www.wvxu.org/show/cincinnati-edition/2025-10-13/cincinnati-underground-music-venues

"The air in the basement of the house on Rohs Street that winter was hot and dusty. That’s because the lead singer of the band performing that night was swinging from the ceiling duct when it gave way to his weight and broke, pumping heat into the crowd.

It was a basement show booked by some college kids who were clearly going to lose their security deposit on the house they were renting.

Call these shows underground, unconventional, maybe illegal. Surely a nuisance to neighbors.

Young people drift in out of these spaces. Memories of these shows drift in and out of our thoughts, but are never truly forgotten.

On Cincinnati Edition, we discuss the history of Cincinnati’s DIY venues.

Guests:

Faith Maynard ran the Warner House beginning in 1999
Robert Inhuman founder of Realicide Records
Holly Kadish ran the Electric Company on Vine Street"

Monday, June 27, 2022

Envenomed (Cincinnati 2000's crust)

ENVENOMED was crust punk/grind around from 2002-2006(07?). They had a self-released tape demo and a 7" on Torture Garden. Might have been on some compilations, too. Members included Diamond Doug (Saretsky) on guitar and vocals, Trevor Payne on drums, Isaac Rethy (original bassist), and Francis Pospisil (bass and vocals). A number of people (or maybe just me, hah!) discovered ANTI-CIMEX through their cover of "War Machine" (which was spot-on!!). The crust punk scene in Cincy was pretty small back then, unlike now.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2124362-Envenomed

Monday, August 30, 2021

Truly THE MOTHERLODE of live Cincinnati music footage...

George Forste of IDGF Productions has been videotaping local punk rock, hardcore, metal, indie, emo, and other bands for decades. His channel on youtube and the one on vimeo are INCREDIBLE!!!!!! There is, no joke, over a thousand videos. He has some of the only archival footage that exists for A LOT of bands... and even has me doing experimental noise too loud at a pizza place/bar/venue and getting kicked off the stage.

Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaF2Ouuo1efnfg2bd_Vkcwg

Vimeo channel:

https://vimeo.com/user998330/videos