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Aquabear (all local) Pancake Breakfast at ARTS/West on Sunday, 1/29

January 15, 2012

It’s the beginning of a new year and that means… It’s Aquabear Legion Pancake Breakfast time! This year we host the best breakfast of the year at ARTS/West on Sunday, January 29th from 1pm-4pm. Last year’s event was so much fun and the food was great so we decided once again to go ALL LOCAL with the food, local food being used to support local music makes sense to us! This year will mark our SIXTH Pancake Breakfast. $5 will get you: • all-you-can-eat pancakes (made with Shagbark Mill spelt flour and Snowville milk) • Donkey Coffee • Snowville Chocolate Milk (while it lasts) • and special treats throughout the afternoon • Sticky Pete’s Maple Syrup and homemade butter and whipped cream from Snowville products (while it lasts) and for a bonus $1 upgrade donation (no limit, while supplies last) you can choose: • a Blockhead Donut (from Fluff Bakery) OR • a piece of delicious King Family Farms bacon Special thanks to ARTS/West, Snowville Creamery, Sticky Pete’s Maple Syrup, Donkey Coffee, Fluff Bakery & Catering, Shagbark Mill & Seed, King Family Farm, Athens Farmers Market, and everyone else who is helping out. This year we are raising money to help with costs for the...

Sometimes the Bear Eats You: Episode Six

January 13, 2012

By Kris Poland

“It’s time to ring in the new with yet another perfectly cromulent episode of Sometimes the Bear Eats You! Oh, what a year it will be. We’re bringing you all new podcast shenanigans like only Aquabearlegion.com can. Ohio-born music sensation Hutz bestows upon us a wonderful new theme song. Noah and Matthu watch a horror flick. Freddy murders some teens. Kris chats about Akron with multi-instrument powerhouse Sean Djuricic of Interfuse, Tight Whips and National Suicide Day. Noah highlights some of his favorite Akron haunts. Kris talks to everyone’s favorite Foreign Legionnaire about his space rock opera’s debut and plans for future performances. Then the episode is pretty much done. Suck it, 2011. You’re dead to me now. The songs featured in this episode are “Full Blown” by Hutz, ”I had to eat an entire joint because my wife is a horrible driver” by Concordia Discors, ”My… That’s a Very Nice Handbag” by Interfuse, ”Hessian Expressions” by The All Golden, “Song of Condemnation” by Rick Dodgson and ”waistdeep in the meltdown” by Kid Panda Hands.” Sometimes the Bear Eats You: Episode Six

Aquabear Legion New Years Live Music Guide

December 31, 2011

By Brian Koscho

Aquabear Legion New Years Live Music Guide

Aquabear Legion wishes you all a Happy New Year! We can’t wait for 2012 to get started (we have lots of great stuff planned) but you still have a chance to see great live music tonight to ring in 2012 no matter where you are in Ohio. Below are some of our picks… ATHENS: Casa Cantina – Sportfishing USA, Chickenpussy, Hex Net, The D-Rays, Weird Science | 10pm – $5 Jackie O’s – Duke Junior & The Smokey Boots and The Porters – food, music, more | 8:30pm – $15-$25 The Union – Elemental Groove Theory with the Paul Elisha Band | 10pm COLUMBUS: The Summit* – The Bygones, The Ferals, Space Aces, The End is Nigh* | 10pm Kobo – The George Elliot Underground, Cadaver Dogs, Karate Coyote, Dirty Girls, The Kraze | 8pm Ace of Cups – Envelope & DJ Detox, Freaky Franz & Cornelius Jackson, Sex Tide | 9pm – $5 Carabar – Struck by Lightning, Masakari, MF Gnar, Axe Bomber, Prosanctus Inferi | 9pm Rumba Cafe – The Spikedrivers | 10pm *lineup has changed a couple times, check venue for details CLEVELAND: Now That’s Class – 5th annual Now That’s Class NYE Party with Keelhaul and Uno Lady | food,...

nobrow.music.collective Brings Unsilent Night to Athens TONIGHT!

December 21, 2011

By Brian Koscho

nobrow.music.collective Brings Unsilent Night to Athens TONIGHT!

Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs and mp3s, and played through a roving swarm of boom-boxes carried through city streets every December. People bring their own boom-boxes and drift peacefully through a cloud of sound which is different from every listener’s perspective. Since 1992, this 45-minute work has grown into a worldwide annual communal event that has become an essential part of many winter holiday celebrations. Anyone can produce this–individuals, arts organizations, museums, universities, towns & cities have presented it. The nobrow.music.collective is presenting this year’s only Ohio performance of Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night! All you need to participate is a battery powered boom-box, a mp3 player with external speakers or an iphone/ipod touch/ipad. We’ll meet at 6pm on Wednesday, December 21st at Donkey Coffee (show up at least 15 minutes early if you need a tape/cd), then begin our 45-minute journey through uptown Athens. To download an mp3 to make your own tape/cd visit: http://unsilentnight.com/audio.html (click the “download your part” link). If you want to get the free app visit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/phil-klines-unsilent-night/id483509723?mt=8 This event is family friendly! Please let everyone you know about this! Even better than...

Aquabear X-Mas at Casa THIS FRIDAY!

December 15, 2011

By Brian Koscho

The holiday season is upon us. Aquabear Legion is hosting a special X-Mas show at Casa Cantina in Athens this Friday, December 16th starting at 10:30pm. Weird Science, Bonzai, State Park, and Weedghost will play music all night (in that reverse order with Weedghost kicking things off around 10:30pm) and we will have Aquabear Volume 4 compilations and new(ish) Aquabear t-shirts for those last minute gifts on your list. Plus we will be giving away stickers, buttons, and even a cd or two throughout the night… why not? It’s the holidays! Admission is $3 and all proceeds benefit the Aquabear Legion and specifically the 2012 Aquabear County Fair! Support some local music before the year is out and see some great bands.

The Moose Is Loose: Episode One

December 7, 2011

By Brian Koscho

Well, Brian decided it was finally time to make his own podcast and he is excited to present the results of the first episode of The Moose Is Loose! This podcast will focus on Ohio music and is named after the first ever compilation project he put together in 2003 (which you can download for FREE here). This episode showcases some of Brian’s favorite songs from the Aquabear online compilations and features music from The Franchise, The Makebelieves, Dragline Brothers, We March, Mike Elliott, Machine Go Boom, Washout Corporation, Neo Nothing, Casual Future, The Math Squad, Casiotone Orchestra, Men of Gentle Birth, Blackark, Matt Collander, and Small Object a. Not much talking in this one (Brian is still perfecting his smooth NPR voice) but you will get to hear our host babble a bit about his history with Ohio music. The first of many episodes to come. The Moose Is Loose: Episode One

Donewaiting Turns 9: Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments (reunion!), Bill Fox, Sundown, and more

December 5, 2011

By Brian Koscho

Donewaiting Turns 9: Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments (reunion!), Bill Fox, Sundown, and more

From Donewaiting: Columbus’ own donewaiting.com has been around for almost a decade, and that’s reason to celebrate. They are doing that by bringing three amazing bands, an emcee and a deejay to Ace of Cups on Feb. 3. Needless to say, you should go celebrate with them. Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments (whoa), Zero Star, Bill Fox, Sundown, and DJ Detox will all be there, sounds like an awesome lineup.