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Black Swamp Arts Festival

The Black Swamp Arts festival is a free three-day art and music festival in historic downtown Bowling Green, Ohio. Over 60,000 people attend to enjoy the art, music, and atmosphere. Downtown Main Street is lined with over 150 juried artist exhibits from across the country.

The first Black Swamp Arts Festival was held in Downtown Bowling Green in the Fall of 1993. It was organized by a group of Downtown Business Owners and members of the community who had an interest in spotlighting the arts in Bowling Green. Each year, the Festival has grown: increased number of members who plan and organize Festival details, increased number of fine artists who display and sell their artwork, increased number of performing artists who entertain with all genres of music and stage performances, and an increased number of participants, both local and from out-of-town, who come to enjoy and support the arts.

Check out this year’s acts here.

 

M. Geddes Gengras – Interior Architecture

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The latest from Los Angeles synthesis figurehead M. Geddes Gengras consolidates his entire arsenal of techniques and compositional tricks into a four-sided opus of immersive sound worship. Recorded and assembled across six years and far-flung geographies (California, Connecticut, The Netherlands), Interior Architecture was imagined as an “impossible object,” simultaneously stark and lush, sprawling and concise, analog and digital. Gengras’ array of processing modules allow for a near-infinite complexity of texture and movement: tones rise and morph and recede, inscrutable chords float in space, elements integrate and then refuse resolution.

Long-time associate Seth Kasselman guests on clarinet throughout Side C but otherwise “Architecture” is, as per usual, a solitary affair – the rogue alchemist alone at his mainframe, the laboratory thick with smoke. His is an ambiguous and experiential form of tactile psychedelia, electronic rorschach tests for the 21st century. Gengras’ own assessment is suitably consuming: “At its best it should feel like sinking into really warm quicksand or dying of hypothermia.”

 

Jon Camp — Stifled Hair-Trigger

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Jon Camp is a composer and guitarist from the Washington, DC region. He creates exploratory music with hooks. His first EP, Earwig, was released in September of 2014. In August 2016, he released his full-length follow-up, Stifled Hair-Trigger.

 

Courtney Granger — Beneath Still Waters

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Courtney Granger lives in Lafayette, Lousiana. A master fiddler and extraordinarily talented singer, Courtney hails from the Balfa family lineage, which is evident in his powerful vocals and heavily Balfa-influenced fiddling. While for the past 8 years Courtney has been playing and touring full time with Cajun groups the Pine Leaf Boys and Balfa Toujours, Courtney has always had a deep affinity for and knowledge of classic country music. Featuring a master group of musicians and production by the renowned Dirk Powell, the long-awaited Beneath Still Waters is Courtney’s solo country debut.

 

Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons — Homemade Vision

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Armed with electric guitars, swooning vocals, and songs that split the difference between rock & roll and dreamy psychedelia, Angela Perley & the Howlin’ Moons pack the biggest punch of their career with Homemade Vision.

Like the band’s debut, Hey Kid — an album whose kickoff track, “Athens,” earned Perley an International Songwriting Award in 2014 — Homemade Vision was recorded in the Howlin’ Moons’ hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Many of the songs were dreamt up somewhere along the highways and backroads that crisscross America, though, coaxed into life by a group of roots-rock road warriors who regularly play more than 100 shows a year. As a result, Homemade Vision is the sort of wide-ranging record that creates its own geography, building an imaginary place where the influences of David Gilmour, Tom Petty, Led Zeppelin, and Nebula all intersect.

It’s also the work of a genuine band. Chris Connor’s guitar playing — a flurry of fuzz, crunch, twang and bang — occupies just as large a role as Perley’s voice, while Billy Zehnal’s bass — coupled with cymbal crashes and snare hits from an arsenal of heavy-hitting drummers — glues the mix together. Inspired by love, heartbreak, and everything in between, Homemade Vision is a battle cry from a band that’s spent years fighting the good fight, carving out their own brand of atmospheric, aggressive Americana along the way.

 

Robert Pollard – Not In My Airforce (20th Anniversary Reissue)

This year marks the 20th Anniversary of Robert Pollard‘s first solo album, Not in My Airforce. On September 9th GBV Inc will be reissuing the album in the format the artist originally intended. The final six songs (Party, Did it Play?, Double Standards Inc, Punk Rock Gods and Good Luck Sailor) will be on a bonus 7 inch EP.

Originally released on Matador Records on September 10th, 1996, the album includes several classics that became GBV live staples through the years: “Psychic Pilot Clocks Out”, “Flat Beauty”, “Quicksilver”, “Maggie Turns To Flies” and “Get Under It”. This release was remastered from the original DAT and will be limited to 2000 copies worldwide. The LP is pressed on transparent yellow vinyl and the EP on black vinyl.  Available for pre-order from Rockathon now!

 

Coffin Problem — S/T

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Here it is from Dizzybird Records — the debut from Coffin Problem (Grand Rapids, MI). Comprised of 4 guys that give a shit about tone…this is a monster of an LP. Choose-your-own adventures in life, sure, but take warning, some things are inescapable! Taxes. Bubbles in a swimming pool. The inspired feelings one gets while immersed in the wall of guitars on this album. Death. All things inevitable.

Embrace Coffin Problem, and you get wave after blissful wave that will send your drone-loving hearts into space. You get slow-burning epics and avalanche-inducing, frenzied finales. You get the impression that the members of Coffin Problem have better pedals than you. You get big, cinematic, Midwestern rock ‘n’ roll that you won’t soon forget.

 

Major Progress Program — Life and Death In Pandora’s Box

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Once upon a time, two bright little boys from North Tonawanda, New York were selected to participate in an advanced educational program for fifth and sixth graders. The Major Progress Program, created by master teacher Norman Schoell in the late 1960’s, was designed to challenge high-performing, creative young minds and stretch the boundaries of conventional elementary school curricula. Students in MPP were immersed in a college-type atmosphere where expectations were high and where they were encouraged to push themselves to their academic and creative limits. It was in MPP that Gregory Opalinski and Paul Swisher first met as ten-year-old boys. The year was 1970 and it was the beginning of a decades-long friendship that continues today.

MPP is donating all proceeds from the sale of this triple album to a scholarship fund set up in memory of their drummer, Ted Reinhardt.  Ted was killed in a plane crash in March 2015 shortly after the tracks for this album were completed.  Ted was best known for his work with the world famous jazz ensemble Spyro Gyra as well as his Buffalo-based jazz-fusion project, Gamalon.  Please visit the MPP web site, majorprogressprogram.com for additional information.

 

iji – Bubble

iji (pronounced: ‘eehee’) is a West Coast pop group led by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zach Burba of Seattle, WA. A consistent 10 years of touring and spewing countless, lush, home-made records and tapes has cemented iji as a notable voice in the USA’s underground DIY music scene. In 2015 iji released the highway opus, “Whatever Will Happen”, the band’s first studio album and debut with Team Love Records. iji now offers a new studio album that named itself “Bubble”.

While out on tour in 2015, iji began collectively writing down and sharing all band member’s dreams in one journal. This new practice inspired Burba to write an album in dream language; An album which explores the abstract and absurd tendencies of a confused and distracted mind. Recorded in only 5 days, the record is more of a band effort than any previous release, pointing to a raw and wild, new energy. Lightly tipping the scales more towards the DB’s than Squeeze; More towards Orange Juice than Aztec Camera. The current iji band, which features members of Sick Sad World, Pill Wonder and Neighbors, believes in playing without reservation, without fear. Trusting whatever comes out, simply for the love of wild music.

 

Eric Bachmann & Jon Rauhouse

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Eric Bachmann and Jon Rauhouse are busy men. Bachmann (Crooked Fingers/Archers of Loaf/Neko Case) recently released a solo album on Merge Records and will be touring this spring, summer and fall to promote it. Jon Rauhouse (Neko Case/The Boxmasters/Iron and Wine and Ben Bridwell) also released an excellent new record earlier this year, The Jon Rauhouse Orchestra, Featuring Tommy Connell.  Both musicians also play in Neko Case’s band, who have been touring in support of her beautiful new 8 LP box set, TruckDriver, Gladiator, Mule.

Somehow during all of this traveling, performing and releasing of their own records, Jon and Eric found the time to collaborate; and on Friday, November 4th, 2016, they will release the beautiful results of this collaboration with their debut album. The recording will be available as a limited edition vinyl LP (only 1000 pressed), and as a digital download. Pre-order the vinyl here! Listen to a track from it here!

 

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