By John1390

August 1, 2009 3:26 PM | Link to this

Very nice site!

By Psych Threat

October 3, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Man, I’m glad Null & Void and his cohorts won’t be at the festival….buzzkill….rock on Bob Pollard, Rock On!!!!

By Derailed Hair Salon

September 19, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

The ONLY all-ages music venue that will be putting on a show during the same time as the Dayton Music Festival will be derailed hair salon, located at: 506 1/2 E. Fifth Street in the Oregon District. We are beyond excited to announce that making a very special Dayton appearance at derailed will be the internationally recognized and critically acclaimed Dayton music/art/literary juggernaut, drexel. Also on the bill will be Dayton’s very own Noize King, who will be making his debut performance. The fun will begin around 9, with drexel to hit the stage at 10 p.m., with a blistering set that is always, if nothing else, completely original beyond anything has seen in Dayton in decades. Besides the loyal D8N following for drexel, the band lists among it’s loyal fans such luminary intellectuals such as Penn Gillette. Just read what some of the country’s top music critics have said about drexel’s last recording, River of Chowder: “Dayton, Ohio’s Drexel is truly one of a kind. Tom Waits is the most reasonable touchstone, but there’s a severity to their whimsical flamboyance that makes Waits seem almost mundane in comparison.” Matthew Perpetua Spin Magazine, fluxblog.org “”Describing Drexel in a manner that sticks is like trying to pin a corsage on your epileptic girlfriend before the prom. Utilizing Sparks’ Fozzie Bear-meets-Chuck-Cleaver voice and Pelfrey’s airport lounge electric piano, the pair imagine a world where the first Tom Waits album is produced by Van D**e Parks, co-written by Laura Nyro and Carole King, hipped up by Burt Bacharach, and draped in the tiny unironic piano dramas of Randy Newman and the sophisticated hillbilly sheen of Jim James without a single self-conscious hesitation. Like caviar, scotch and stamp glue, the first taste might come as a bit of a shock but repeated exposure will surely elicit a grudging appreciation for Drexel’s quirky charm.” Brian Baker Amplifier Magazine “One guy you never heard of’s bereft, derelict, falsetto tales of southern Ohio over another’s rolling piano and whatever else comes to hand (“Big John’s House,” “Practicing Preachers”). Robert Christgau Senior Music Editor, Blender Magazine, recommends drexel’s River of Chowder as a recommended purchase in his June 2008 music consumer’s guide. This show is an all ages show, will have a grill for those wanting to bring some food to grill out, and is FREE, although donations will be taken to help establish The Cityhood Project, a non-profit arts project that drexel front man Dave Sparks is working toward getting off of the ground. For more information, call derailed hair salon at: 937.222.3910, or e-mail: info@derailedhairsalon.com

By Jeff

September 18, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

DMF is coming within a few weeks and still no poster or venue lineups…

By null and void

September 16, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Once again, the simple solution would be to change the name of the festival to the “Dayton Indie Rockers” festival. Then people wouldn’t be offended that the organizers are pretending to represent the whole of the city.

By Five Fingers

September 11, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

Wow…. is there no end… How about they didn’t include hip hop or latino because they didn’t feel like it. Private shows can be whatever they want…Why doesn’t Ludacris have Kid Rock on the bill? Huh y not y not…. CAUSE THIS IS AMERICA DAMN IT… We are free to say and do and love or hate whoever and whatever we want ! Stop thinking people need to include you and INCLUDE YOURSELF ! Make your own Latino festival Downtown…. This is a very hard thing to do successfully. Don’t expect someone else to do it for you! Man I just am sooo fed up with this pathetic “change the rules for me because of my genetic heritage” garbage. We like cold beer, smooth whiskey, hot girls and ROCK and ROLL ! So if you like the same thing come to the show. If not…then don’t. And on a side note…most of the counties surrounding Montgomery are more like 95-98 percent white. This Country/State is somewhere around 70 percent white… So why in world can’t we have a privately funded festival which is mostly white acts with out someone crying “RACISM”. I would suggest to you that the context of your entire complaint or “question” is in itself RACIST ! I mean I was born with only one hand and white… I assure you that most of these folks who use their ethnicity as an excuse or reason for why they are not successful or included or WHATEVER… they wouldn’t switch shoes with me. I’ll be black/latino you be white…But I get your right hand…you live as a white man without your right hand… The world is tough all over, but I am sure sick of hearing the whining and crying! GET OVER IT! Come see me play guitar with one hand October 31st at J Alan’s…sorry.. no HIP HOP….but it will Rock !

By tfn

September 11, 2008 7:19 AM | Link to this

You have a Bodog world finalist band in this group that you have not said much about. How about a little respect for After the Accident?

By MetroParksLovesMusic

September 10, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

Hey all - wanted to let you know that Five Rivers MetroParks is hosting it’s annual GearFest on Sat. Oct 4 at Eastwood MetroPark. This celebration of outdoor heads is featuring a ton of music this year - including the national Everlasting Sound Tour Stage and a WYSO Music Discovery Series Stage. For folks looking to pre-game before the Dayton Music Fest - it’s a great way to spend the afternoon. Check out the details: http://www. metroparks. org/gearfest/Music. aspx

By null and void

September 9, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

Well then Jobe, I stand corrected. It would be nice to just have the DMF change its name to the Dayton Rock Festival, and stop pretending to be representative of the Dayton music scene, which by its operators own admission, it isn’t.

By Jobe

September 6, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

Actually, Null and Void is wrong. Dayton is still majority White (53.4%), not Black (43.1%). And that’s not even counting the suburbs. http://www.hellodayton.com/Census.Cfm

By Andy

September 5, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

We’re musicians, not politicians.

By null and void

September 5, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

Your answer speaks volumes Andy.

By Andy

September 3, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this

The machine started rolling four years ago and we didn’t have the foresight to care too much about the name.

By null and void

September 3, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

Then why not just call it “The Dayton Rock Fest”? Problem solved.

By Andy

August 31, 2008 6:41 PM | Link to this

The Dayton Music Fest is a rock fest. We never pretended to be anything else. We did have ideas to include other genres in the second year but it never worked out cause rock is what we know. In the third year we decided to just stick with that cause trying to create an all-encompassing music fest would have been too much of a pain. But that was in no way a racist or classist decision. That’s an off-base judgment that I wish you wouldn’t make without any real details. Actually one of the other founders, Dan Clayton, also started the Bellbrook Jamboree this year to promote bluegrass music in the same way the DMF promotes rock/n/roll. The folk and world music fans already have City Folk and there is the Dayton Reggae Festival as well. So trying to include all genres would be a bit redundant. There is a lot of separation among the genres in Dayton. One of our original intents was to fight that. But we can only do so much. I do get bothered when anyone ever accuses the Dayton Music Fest of being cliquish. The founders, Dan, Shawn, and I are good friends. We have always been outsiders though in the Dayton music scene. And no one would really know without being there for some of our conversations how hard we’ve tried to be fair and objective as possible in selecting what we think are the best rock bands to include. We’ve invited the legends. We’ve given unknown bands a chance. We’ve even ignored past drama to try to include bands who spurned us in previous years, just to have the best of what is happening in Dayton. So this is far from being a festival of friends for friends. We never got invited to those parties. It is just meant to be a showcase to promote the quality music being created here to those in and outside of Dayton who have not discovered that yet. Finally, if you have those thoughts or fears, why don’t you contact the founders and say something constructive about your desire for variety or fear of racism? Dan and Shawn are very willing to listen. I think that would be a much more mature solution than complaining and threatening to boycott the Fest. When I was still a part of the Dayton Music Fest, we only wanted to do something good for Dayton. I am continually disappointed at the amount of flack and accusations that come against that.

By null and void

August 30, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

While I’m not trying to be a hater or anything, let’s call a spade a spade. The Dayton Music fest is certainly not representative of the Dayton music scene. This is a festival made for a small group of white indie rockers. Where is the R&B/Hip/Hop black music representation? Dayton has a majority population of African-Americans? Where is the Latino music representation? Dayton has a burgeoning Latino music scene. Where is the roots music representation? Dayton has a huge roots scene going back to the bluegrass pioneers who brought the sounds of Appalachia to this city. This is just an event created by friends to promote their friends. It is no way representative of what Dayton’s rich musical culture is all about. In fact, I would go as far as to say that the exclusion of so many for the inclusion of so few is overtly racist and classist. This year’s festival sounds just like last year’s. And it is for those reasons, I will not attend, and will urge my friends and cohorts to do the same.