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6 Bs and a P, Season 2: Pre-Season Special!
http://www.aquabearlegion.com/podcasts/6b1p-s02ep01.mp3 It’s that time of the year… almost Cleveland Browns football! Which means that Brian and company are back with the Cleveland Browns podcast 6 Bs and a P! For the kickoff (pun intended) episode of the second season, Brian is joined by Ian and Kris to cover everything from the Browns offseason to the…
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Sometimes The Bear Eats You Too: NMF13 Saturday
Two days down and two to go! That can only mean one thing. It’s time for the penultimate episode. STBEYtoo returns with highlight’s fromSaturday at this year’s Nelsonville Music Festival. We kick things off with songs from You Black Kettle, The Flying Clouds of South Caroline, Athens’ own Wheels on Fire, and Cotton Jones. This one…
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15th Annual Athens Community Music Festival is THIS SATURDAY!
The 15th Annual Athens Community Music Festival is slated for THIS Saturday August 10th in Athens, Ohio at Casa Cantina, Donkey Coffee, Jackie O’s (Public House and Brewery side), The Smiling Skull Saloon and The Union. This year’s festival features 36 diverse local acts on 6 stages all over town. Don’t miss it! $5 will get…
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We March and More Added to Aquabear County Fair: September 5-7
The 7th annual Aquabear County Fair will take place in beautiful Athens, Ohio on the weekend of September 5-7, 2013! And the Aquabear has another round of bands to announce for this ALL FREE weekend of Ohio music featuring (after about a year off) the Athens legendary punk rockers We March who will close out…
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Aquabear Teams with Misra to Release Spineriders Album from Jason Molina’s High School Band, Benefits MEMA, Pre-Order Now
The world of music lost one of the finest songwriters and human beings we had when Lorain, Ohio’s own Jason Molina passed away this March. As we mentioned back then, Jason had many close personal connections to Aquabear Legion, Aquabear co-founder Todd Jacops grew up with Jason and played in bands with him including the…
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Sometimes The Bear Eats You Too: NMF13 Friday
Highlights from Friday night of the 2013 Nelsonville Music Festival are here and ready for the listening! This episode features Catherine MacLellan, Leah Nairn, Michael Hurley, JD Hutchison, The Hiders, Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer, Nick Tolford & Company, William Tyler, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Adam Remnant, Endless Boogie, Screaming Females, and Reigning Sound. That’s a metric…
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Wussy to Headline 7th Annual Aquabear County Fair: September 5-7
The 7th annual Aquabear County Fair will take place September 5-7, 2013 in beautiful uptown Athens, Ohio! This year’s Fair will feature tons of great Ohio bands playing all throughout the weekend in Athens FOR FREE and will be headlined by Cincinnati’s acclaimed rock and roll legends Wussy on Saturday, September 7th at The Union. Joining…
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Sometimes the Bear Eats You Too: NMF13 Thursday
Sometimes The Bear Eats You Too returns with coverage of the 2013 Nelsonville Music Festival! Thursday focused heavily on Athens bands with performances by JJ Reed, Unmonumental, Chris Biester, Hex Net, Weedghost, D-Rays and Makebelieves! Out of towners Old Light and Los Hacheros join the fun as well. Check back soon for highlights from the…
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Matt Presutti & Weedghost
Last week, Matt Presutti (The Makebelieves, The Snails, Transmissions from Moonbase Alpha) earned his MFA in print making from the University of South Dakota in the lovely little town of Vermillion, SD. He kindly invited Aquabear Legionnaires Weedghost to provide musical accompaniment to his gallery opening entitled “Locus Nocturna: A History of Curiosity” at LumoStudios…
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Blackoutfest Turns 18 in Athens This Weekend!
Athens own Blackoutfest turns legal age this year, celebrating 18 years of Scott Winland bringing awesome underground rock and roll to Athens for a weekend each year for one big party of music. The 18th annual Blackoutfest will take place THIS WEEKEND (Thursday, April 11 – Saturday, April 13) at The Union in Athens, Ohio.…
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Jason Molina (1973-2013)
This weekend the world of music was saddened at the news of Jason Molina’s passing. Jason was an Ohioan (and fellow Lorainite) and was an amazing songwriter, musician, and human being making beautiful music throughout his life under his name along with the projects Magnolia Electric Co. and Songs:Ohia. Our thoughts are with his family…
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REVIEW: Founding Fathers “Rapid Transit”
Founding Fathers, “Rapid Transit” Snax, 2013 I’ve read a lot on the topic of increasingly non-geographical musical landscapes. Those days of 70’s, 80’s, or even 90’s scenes in cities across the country spawning great bands, venues, labels that shaped my own musical development have been replaced by an internet age where the concept of belonging…
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REVIEW: Connections “Private Airplane”
Connections, “Private Airplane” Anyway Records, 2013 Take a quick glance at the cover of Connections’ debut LP and you’ll surely notice a hot pink biplane soaring across an empty sky. It’s a seemingly calculated piece of iconography that links this record to Dayton, OH, the birthplace of aviation and the ancestral home of legendary Ohio…
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Aquabear Pancake Breakfast is Sunday, February 17 in Athens!
The best day of the whole year is almost upon us, Aquabear Legion Pancake Breakfast day! Sunday, February 17th at 1:00pm at UCM at 18 N. College St. in Athens, Ohio. Once again we are partnering with some great local food producers to make this meal ALL LOCAL including Shagbark Seed & Mill, Snowville Creamery,…
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Sometimes The Bear Eats You Too: Rockstar Pro Wrestling
Sometimes the Bear Eats You Too is back and better than ever! Â This time we’re focusing entirely on Dayton’s own independent professional wrestling promotion, Rockstar Pro Wrestling. I spoke with the man known simply as Michael and The Great American Beast in Rockstar Pro Arena at 1106 East 3rd Street in Dayton. We talked at…
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Best of Ohio 2012: Part Five
Aquabear is kicking off a brand new year-end tradition by asking some of the state’s best musicians and music related folks to share their favorite Ohio music finds and experiences of the year. Look for a whole bunch of these before the start of 2013! Here’s the fifth batch featuring Paul Maccarrone (Cleveland – Zombie…
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Best of Ohio 2012: Part Four
Aquabear is kicking off a brand new year-end tradition by asking some of the state’s best musicians and music related folks to share their favorite Ohio music finds and experiences of the year. Look for a whole bunch of these before the start of 2013! Here’s the second batch featuring Kyle Sowash (Columbus – The…
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Best of Ohio 2012: Part Three
Aquabear is kicking off a brand new year-end tradition by asking some of the state’s best musicians and music related folks to share their favorite Ohio music finds and experiences of the year. Look for a whole bunch of these before the start of 2013! Here’s the second batch featuring Nathan Moore (Yellow Springs/Athens –…
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6 Bs and a P: Episode Sixteen (Week 16)
6 Bs and a P: Episode Sixteen (Week 16) Sorry for the delay! The holiday season, traveling, and a bunch of fine folks coming to Athens to visit all made it hard to get this one up in time. It also probably would have helped had the Browns given any sort of reason to get…
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Best of Ohio 2012: Part Two
Aquabear is kicking off a brand new year-end tradition by asking some of the state’s best musicians and music related folks to share their favorite Ohio music finds and experiences of the year. Look for a whole bunch of these before the start of 2013! Here’s the second batch featuring David Obenour (Dayton – Ghettoblaster…
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Best of Ohio 2012: Part One
Aquabear is kicking off a brand new year-end tradition by asking some of the state’s best musicians and music related folks to share their favorite Ohio music finds and experiences of the year. Look for a whole bunch of these before the start of 2013! Here’s the first batch featuring Keith Hanlon (Columbus – The…
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Anyway Records Celebrates 20 Years at Ace of Cups
Anyway Records turns 20 this year and Bela Koe-Krompecher is throwing a big party over at Ace of Cups in Columbus to celebrate! Two nights of music (Friday and Saturday) featuring some of the best bands to come out of Ohio since the label’s beginning in 1992 including New Bomb Turks, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments,…
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A Very Special Aquabear Christmas at Casa on Saturday!
Aquabear Legion will host its A Very Special Aquabear Christmas at Casa Cantina in Athens, Ohio on Saturday, December 22 at 10:30pm. The night will feature music from three great Athens bands: Weird Science, Princess, and Elton Johnny. Admission is $3 and proceeds will benefit the 2013 Aquabear County Fair which will celebrates its 7th…
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6 Bs and a P: Episode Fifteen (Week 15)
6 Bs and a P: Episode Fifteen (Week 15) The Browns three game winning streak and slim playoff hopes come to end with a loss to the Washington Redskins in Week 15. Luckily, Brian got to go this game and even better yet he is joined by none other Brian Wiebe. The guys recorded this…
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Donkey Features Four Great Songwriters on Sunday
Lots of great shows happening here in Athens around the holidays, we’ll be talking about some of them in the next week here on Aquabear. Sunday, December 16 features four of the finest songwriters around all on one stage at Donkey Coffee: Matthew Milia (from Michigan’s Frontier Ruckus) and Michael Nau (from Maryland’s fantastic Cotton…