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DACO to Host Historic Masonry Program May 20
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An expert in the restoration of historic masonry, Larry Vance has been working on Lancaster’s Reese-Peters home for the past couple of weeks, carefully removing hard, modern mortar used in… Read More
Discussing the Act of Being Human with Parquet Courts’ Andrew Savage
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Since 1976, Rough Trade has been responsible for backing some of the most influential, arty, and cerebral pop music acts of the past half century. With names like The Smiths, James,… Read More
Not So Much a Woman Acting Like a Kid: Talking With Margaret Glaspy
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What do you conduct yourself according to? To emotions? To math? Or a sickly combination of the two? On Margaret Glaspy’s critically acclaimed 2016 full-length ATCO Records debut, Emotions and… Read More
Catching Lightning In a Bottle: ‘American Epic’ Explores American Recordings
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In the 1920s radio almost tanked the record business. Record companies knew they needed to capture a new market, and they did so in an ingenious fashion. “Record companies in… Read More
Peach Fork Studios Showcases Wildly Diverse Line Up May 13 at The Union
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It’s been said that once you listen to enough music, you can hear the difference between something that has been recorded analog versus a song recorded by digital means. Bernie… Read More
‘Occupants’ Delights Audience at May 11 Athena Screening
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May 11 marked the kick-off for the 2017 Ratha Con, Athens, OH’s pop culture convention, with a screening of the award-winning found footage thriller Occupants at the Athena Cinema. The… Read More
Born Singing ‘Superfly’: Talking with Twin Peaks’ Clay Frankel
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Chicago-based Twin Peaks effortlessly combine the visceral playfulness of The Rolling Stones circa Tattoo You and the wind-up punk rock sensibilities of Atlanta, GA’s Black Lips — crafting a sound both sonically… Read More
Regional Music Fuel for First Ever Undercurrent Music Festival May 13
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It was a deep-seated passion for the music of the Mid-Ohio Valley and West Virginia that inspired Michelle Waters to create Hold the Note Magazine, a weekly live music guide… Read More
WOUB-HD to Spotlight Flight of Groundbreaking Chefs
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Over the course of a summer abroad in Paris in the mid- ‘60s, social activist and chef Alice Waters was forever changed by the delicate simplicity of good bread, jam,… Read More
2017 Ratha Con Set For May 13 at Athens Community Center
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Whether it’s Star Trek, Star Wars, J.R.R. Tolkien’s works or various tabletop games, to celebrate one’s pop culture interests is a surefire way to connect with those with similar passions…. Read More
‘Plants Behaving Badly’ Back on WOUB-HD May 10
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Ohio University greenhouse manager Harold Blazier handles the green and crimson speckled, fleshy body of a pitcher plant’s signature pitfall trap on a humid afternoon in early May with a… Read More
Southeast Ohio History Center to Open Doors May 2
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April 15, 1917, Athens’ First Christian Church opened its doors. Exactly 100 years later, another institution, the Southeast Ohio History Center (SOHC), celebrated its grand opening on exactly the same… Read More
Vinton County National Bank Looks Back on a Historic 150 Years
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150 years ago banking was a very different business. Most people felt safer keeping their life savings in a mattress or under a creaky floorboard than with a group of… Read More
Gee It’s Great to Be Back Home: Bookends at Peoples Bank Theatre
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Simon and Garfunkel occupy a very specific place in the collective American pop culture consciousness. Do you remember the first time you heard “Mrs. Robinson”? How about the time-honored and… Read More
Talking Michael Hurley, Cockroaches, and Being Odd In Ohio With Dylan Baldi
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Sometime in 2009, a very young Dylan Baldi decided to make a few songs in his parent’s basement under the moniker Cloud Nothings. As an audio and music recording technology… Read More
OU’s Brick City Records Showcase Headed to The Union April 20
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Some years ago, Jack Hentosh was restocking La Croix cases at his hometown Marc’s, where he worked throughout high school. Hentosh admits that he has always struggled with naming things,… Read More
An Odd Happening In Gallipolis April 22
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April 22, something a little odd is coming to Gallipolis’ historic Ariel-Ann Carson Dater Performing Arts Centre. That Saturday marks yet another visit to the little town on the banks… Read More
Rivers Deeper Than Mountains: Coffee With John Paul White
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John Paul White is a veteran musician, formerly a part of award-winning country duo The Civil Wars, one of the founders of Single Lock Records (alongside Alabama Shakes member Ben Tanner… Read More
Playfully Dark and Incredibly Tuneful With The Jayhawks and Wesley Stace
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Wednesday nights aren’t typically known for rocking out, but rocking out — in only the most cerebral sense — was exactly what happened within the historic confines of Nelsonville’s Stuart’s… Read More
Bob Boilen to Bring Creative Professional Know-How to OU
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From making musical history in 1983 when he sampled wildlife sounds in a production of Whiz Bang, a History of Sound at Baltimore’s Impossible Theater to getting his foot in the… Read More
Being Here Now: Speaking With The Jayhawk’s Marc Perlman
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Marc Perlman is a founding member of midwestern America’s beloved Jayhawks. The group has been kicking for decades, birthed from the vivacious Twin Cities music scene of the ’80s and… Read More
‘Chosen’: Speaking With Abbie Reese About the Life of a Cloistered Nun
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This past weekend, Abbie Reese’s directorial debut, Chosen (Custody of the Eyes) was screened as a part of the 44th annual Athens International Film and Video Festival, only weeks after being… Read More
April 9 Mountain Stage with Larry Groce at Peoples Bank Theatre in Marietta
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Sunday, April 8 marks the first ever live recording of Mountain Stage with Larry Groce at the relatively recently renovated Peoples Bank Theatre in Marietta. The stunning line-up for the… Read More
Jake Eddy’s ‘Smart, Phone!’ and the Beauty of the Things in Our Pockets
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Did you know that your iPhone has the capability to record an entire multi-genre album? Perhaps you didn’t, but West-Virginia based teenager and accomplished musician Jake Eddy did. In fact,… Read More
Cosmic Like That: Chatting With Water Witches
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A pulsating, spastic guitar riff – one part Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison circa “White Light/White Heat,” and one part the Cramp’s weirdo guitar goddess Poison Ivy – thrums over… Read More
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