Author: Zach Long
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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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INTERVIEW: Times New Viking
Times New Viking is one busy little band. Last week, they released their latest record entitled Dancer Equired on Merge Records. Contrary to what you may have heard, it’s the band’s strongest work to date—a logical evolution of the vociferous rock and roll the group has been pounding into our eardrums since their inception. A…
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16th Annual Blackoutfest Lineup Revealed
There’s a blackout in store for Athens just a few weeks from today, and fortunately it’s not the kind that will leave you reading by candle light. Rather, the 16th annual Blackoutfest will be taking place April 14-16, organized by the locally-based Blackout Booking and bringing bands from across the nation as well as regional…
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03/17/11 – Husband&wives + Kyle Sowashes + more (FREE SHOW) – Casa Cantina
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Times New Viking Get Back to Their Roots
In this latest promotional video for Times New Viking’s upcoming release Dancer Equired, the recent Merge Records signees traipse through the snow in their Ohio hometowns. The short film takes the viewer to the small towns of Troy, New Lebanon and Gahanna, Ohio—all the while being serenaded by cuts from TNV’s new record. If the…
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03/12/11 – Never President SXSW tour kickoff w/ She Bears + Ease the Medic + The Saturday Giant – The Union
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02/19/11 – Supermassive – Jackie O’s
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02/19/11 – Buffalo Killers + Chickenpussy +Hexnet + D-Rays (Aquabear & Blackout Booking Present) – The Union
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02/18/11 – Elemental Groove Theory – Jackie O’s
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Buffalo Killers + Chickenpussy + Hexnet + D-Rays at the Union 2/19
Perhaps you’ve heard, but Aquabear Legion and Blackout Booking have once again teamed up to present a jam-packed night of rock and roll at the Union this Saturday, February 19. Headlining the evening will be Cincinnati-based psychedelic blues-rockers Buffalo Killers, who last appeared in Athens this past October. Over the past year, the trio has…
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02/12/11 – The Werks – Jackie O’s
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02/11/11 – Athens Does Athens: Big Fundraiser for Athens County Humane Society – Donkey Coffee
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02/10/11 – Fox \’n\’ Hounds – Jackie O’s
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02/05/11 – The Honeycutters – Stuart’s Opera House
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02/05/11 – Black History Month Kick-off Party ft. Mojoflo – Jackie O’s
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02/05/11 – Bruce Dalzell + The Wayfaring Stringband – Donkey Coffee
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02/04/11 – \\\”Kind of Halfway\\\” to Nelsonville Music Festival Party w/ Duke Junior + Scubadog + Whale Zombie (FREE SHOW) – Casa Cantina
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02/04/11 – Weird Science + Wheels on Fire + Main St. Gospel + Goodnight – The Union
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02/04/11 – Jones for Revival + Romeo Champagne – Jackie O’s
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02/04/11 – The Fayble Family Band + Rachel Mousie – Donkey Coffee
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02/03/11 – Guinea Worms + 99c Dreamz + Mousetrap Breakfast Serial + Blithe Field – Smiling Skull Saloon
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Psychedelic Horseshit sign to FatCat
As if the recent glut of Ohio-centric record label signings wasn’t enough, you can add Columbus-based Psychedelic Horseshit to the list. FatCat Records, an independent English label most famous for its discovery of Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós, today signed the noisy Ohio collective fronted by the ever-opinionated Matt Whitehurst. Psychedelic Horseshit’s painfully lo-fi recordings—dubbed ‘shitgaze’…
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01/31/11 – Rattletrap Stringband (FREE SHOW) – Casa Cantina
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01/30/11 – Rumpke Mountain Boys + The Congress – Jackie O\’s
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01/29/11 – Terrapin Moon (Greatful Dead Tribute) – Jackie O’s