Tag: Ohio Music

  • The Western Reserve – Best of Ohio Music 2019 – Episode 033

    The Western Reserve – Best of Ohio Music 2019 – Episode 033

    Happy New Year! We join in on all the year-end, list-making fun here at The Western Reserve and set you up with just over an hour of some of our favorite music from Ohio this past year. Everything from The Kyle Sowashes to Matthew J. Rolin to no stars to Tiger Village. Enjoy! Kneeling in…

  • The Western Reserve – Colemine Records – Episode 031

    The Western Reserve – Colemine Records – Episode 031

    New episode of The Western Reserve is ALL-Colemine Records this time. We curate an hour or so from the catalog of this Loveland, Ohio based label featuring music from Ohio and elsewhere. From the label’s website: “Colemine Records was founded in late 2007 with the simple idea of putting out raw, authentic SOUL music on…

  • The Western Reserve – Old 3C Records (part 2) – Episode 15

    The Western Reserve – Old 3C Records (part 2) – Episode 15

    The Western Reserve rolls on for part two of our interview with Old 3c Label Group’s Paul Nini who talks about the label, his bands (Great Plains, Log, Closet Mix, and more), and plans for the future.  All while playing some awesome music. Part 1 (out 14th episode) can be found here and also has…

  • The Western Reserve – An Ohio Christmas – Episode 5

    The Western Reserve – An Ohio Christmas – Episode 5

    Happy non-denominational holidays from The Western Reserve! This episode is perfect for that drive to see family on Christmas, just over an hour of all-Ohio holiday music. Everything from Buffalo Killers to Bone Thugs and Harmony. I am joined by my wife Sherri to discuss our own Christmas memories (including several about video games) and play…

  • The Western Reserve – Episode 1

    The Western Reserve – Episode 1

    http://aquabearlegion.com/podcasts/Western-Reserve-001.mp3 Aquabear has a brand new podcast! The Western Reserve focuses on all things Ohio music: past, present, and future. Mostly music but also some talk and eventually some interviews, guests, special event coverage, and more. Hosted by Brian Koscho and Produced by Brian along with Todd Jacops who helps with some engineering too. Enjoy this…

  • Aquabear presents Andrew Bryant, The Gunshy, + Mike Elliott at Donkey This Friday!

    Aquabear presents Andrew Bryant, The Gunshy, + Mike Elliott at Donkey This Friday!

    Aquabear is putting on a great show this Friday, April 17th at Donkey Coffee at 17 W. Washington St. in Athens, Ohio! Oxford, Mississippi’s Andrew Bryant (of the amazing Water Liars) comes to town to play songs from his brand new album This is the Life and is joined by Chicago’s The Gunshy and Athens,…

  • Aquabear 2LP Track List, Support and Pre-Order Now

    To celebrate our 10th birthday the Aquabear decided to release a double LP featuring 24 Ohio bands and set up an Indiegogo page to collect pre-orders and support to help make it happen. The Aquabear is thrilled to be at 56% of our goal with 34 days remaining and a total of $2801 of $5000…

  • Are You in the Aquabear 125? Support & Pre-Order a Double LP of 24 Ohio Bands

    Are You in the Aquabear 125? Support & Pre-Order a Double LP of 24 Ohio Bands

    To celebrate our 10th birthday Aquabear Legion wanted to release a double LP vinyl compilation of 24 Ohio bands, but we need your support. To fund the release of this compilation Aquabear has set up an Indiegogo page where you can pre-order your copy of the double LP release along with a lot of awesome…

  • Aquabear Will Release Double LP Compilation in 2015, Pre-order on Indiegogo Now

    Aquabear Will Release Double LP Compilation in 2015, Pre-order on Indiegogo Now

    Since 2004, Aquabear has worked with over 200 bands and dozens of visual artists and filmmakers. And in that time produced 10 releases including compilations of Ohio music both physical and for free on aquabearlegion.com. But we REALLY want to put out some vinyl. And since we just celebrated our 10th birthday it seemed like a…

  • An Update From the Bear

    An Update From the Bear

    Hey Aquabears! Sorry for the lack of non 6 Bs and a P content on the website, life got busy (as it does). Aquabear has a lot of fun things in store though as we had into our 10th year in 2014. Look for a few new FREE online compilations from the archives along with…

  • Aquabear Teams with Misra to Release Spineriders Album from Jason Molina’s High School Band, Benefits MEMA, Pre-Order Now

    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…

  • Wussy to Headline 7th Annual Aquabear County Fair: September 5-7

    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…

  • 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…

  • Ohio’s Best: Minimum Tillage Farming

    Aquabear is kicking off a brand new series of posts we have named “Ohio’s Best” (at least for now until we come up with something better or this name sticks -ed.) that will highlight all sorts of different things we love about the Buckeye State past, present, and future. This could include websites, venues, record…

  • Aquabear Reader #3! Submissions and Advertisers Needed!

    The Athens-based Ohio music, art, and film collective Aquabear Legion is starting to get ready for the third issue of our FREE magazine The Aquabear Reader and we need your help! The Aquabear Reader needs writers, photographers and anyone who wants to help to contact us. This is a 2,000 hard copy circulation magazine made…

  • Free Aquabear Show on Friday, 10/17 and Aquabear Night @ The Union on 10/24

    The Aquabear Legion is honored to have our monthly concert at ARTS/West be part of this year’s ART/oberfest. ART/oberfest is a community arts celebration here in Athens complete with all kinds of visual art, music, workshops, vendors, and more. We are helping kick the weekend off: Aquabear Live @ ART/oberfest Friday, October 17th ARTS/West 132…

  • Compilation Release Show: Sat. 7/26 @ Casa

    The Aquabear Legion is celebrating the release of yet another compilation (Volume 3!, our 5th overall..) on Saturday, July 26th at Casa Cantina here in Athens. The compilation features music from: We March, Southeast Engine, Machine Go Boom, Casual Future, Silo Circuit, Russenorsk, The Makebelieves, The Hiders, Woody Pines and The Lonesome Two, The X…