The Sovines Reunite to Support Community Radio

Long-time Columbus “trucker country” band The Sovines are playing a special show at Cafe Bourbon Street, Thursday July 10 in support of community radio station WCRS. Joining them on the bill are Bee Humana and Closet Mix.

The Sovines formed in 1995 when a friend suggested to Bob Starker and Matthew Benz that they should form a band to play country truck driving songs and call themselves “the Sovines”, after famed country singer Red Sovine. It might have been said in jest, but Starker and Benz ran with it. With bass player Ed Mann and drummer Pete English (and later Gene Brodeur on drums), the Sovines took their revved-up take on truck-driving songs, punky rock n’ roll, country ballads and roots rock on the road and in the studio, through five albums and a lot of shows. This show will mark their first live appearance in over three years.

Bee Humana is an elegant, muddy, and thoroughly lichenized garage folk-rock trio. Singer-songwriter Bee sings in English and Spanish and plays non-classical guitar on a classical guitar. She is backed by Dave Holm (of Ugly Stick/Bigfoot) on bass and backup vocals; and Sam Brown (of the New Bomb Turks and Divine Fits) on drums. Their sound has been described as “Elis Regina and Carlos Jobim sitting in with The Dirty Three and Cat Stevens in a moonlit back-alley show, fully amped.” They’ve been playing around the Columbus area together for a couple of years now and are soon to release their first EP.

Closet Mix rounds out the bill. A quartet of local music veterans, Closet Mix is Paul Nini (Great Plains, Log) on bass and vocals, Chris Nini (Log) on keyboards, Dan Della Flora (Red Skylark, Van Echo) on drums, and Keith Novicki (Vena Cava) on guitar. Principal songwriter Paul Nini describes Closet Mix as stubborn local veterans that refuse to stop making their peculiar brand of indie-rock, which is steeped in the 80s college radio sound they all grew up with.

2025 Fourth of July in Columbus

There are a lot of Fourth of July events happening around the Central Ohio Area. Some things have already happened like the Westland Fourth of July Parade in Prairie Township last weekend, and fireworks in Powell and Pataskala, plus the Juneteenth Fireworks in the Discovery District.

COTA can get you to the Fireworks in Downtown Columbus, with ALL Fixed Route Local Lines running until Midnight on July 3, and the COTA Plus will run in the evening on July 4 for the Fireworks in Westerville (8PM to Midnight) and Grove City (7-11PM), ONLY for the Fireworks in Westerville and Grove City, respectively.

FIREWORKS:
Ashville - Ashville Community Park (July 4)
Bexley - Capital University (July 4)
Clintonville - Whetstone Park of Roses (July 4)
Columbus - Red, White & Boom! (July 3)
Delaware - Ohio Wesleyan University (July 4)
Dublin - Dublin Coffman High School (with Kansas & 38 Special) (July 4)
Gahanna - Gahanna Municipal Golf Course (July 3)
Groveport - Heritage Park (July 3)
Heath - Geller Park (July 2)
Hilliard - Freedom Fest at Roger A. Reynolds Municipal Park (July 4)
Lancaster - Fairfield County Fairgrounds (July 4)
New Albany - New Albany High School (July 4)
Newark - OSU Newark Martha Grace Amphitheatre (July 3)
Obetz - The Fortress (July 3)
Pickerington - Pickerington Central High School (July 3)
Reynoldsburg - Civic Park (July 3)
Sunbury - Big Walnut High School (July 4)
Upper Arlington - Northam Park (July 4)
Westerville - Westerville Veterans Plaza at Bike & Walk Soccer Fields (July 4)
Whitehall - Whitehall-Yearling High School (July 3)
Worthington - Thomas Worthington High School (July 4)

Select Parades:
Bexley - Starts at Maryland Elementary School (July 4) (Theme: "Bexley: It's A Blast!")
Columbus/Red, White & Boom! - Starts at Bicentennial Park (July 3)
Delaware - Starts at Delaware County Fairgrounds (July 4)
Dublin - Starts at Metro Place (July 4)
Gahanna - Starts at Clark Hall (July 4)

Twangtacular Ep. 47 - Contemporary Showcase 10!

Submitted by twangtacular on Sat, 06/28/2025 - 12:58pm
You can see a full track list and listen to this and every episode of Twangtacular on-demand at Mixcloud.com/Twangtacular and at WCRSFM.org. You can also follow the show on Instagram and you can also listen to it on the actual radio in Columbus Ohio on Saturdays at 3pm or Sundays at 4am on 92.7 and 98.3 FM. WCRS: Community Radio Columbus!

59:28 minutes (54.44 MB)

PLAYLIST

  1. Buckaroo - Buck Owens
  2. Heaven - Gilded Sun
  3. When I Die - Roberto Escamilla
  4. Hands Off the Wheel - Moe Reen
  5. Caffeine Patrol - Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West
  6. I Want A Cowboy - Kirstie Lynn & Galen Clark
  7. You Wanted a Cowboy (But You Got Me) - Johanna Wacker
  8. Hey Baby - The Cactus Blossoms
  9. Meanwhile Back at the Ranch - Don Rich
  10. Ramblin’ Soul - Melissa Carper
  11. Write Home About - Jackie Straw
  12. Blue Weather - Tar & Flowers featuring Serafia
  13. Sycamore - Creekbed Carter Hogan
  14. Wild Mountain Thyme - Buddy Emmons
  15. Wedding Dress - Nora Brown
  16. Slow Burn - The Resonant Rogues
  17. Moving to the High Country - The Eisenhauers
  18. Fort Worth Drag - Shot Jackson & Buddy Emmons
  19. Carlisle’s Haul - James McMurtry

Rising Up With Sonali: In the Streets From Pasadena to LA: No Kings, No ICE

Rising Up In the Streets From Pasadena to LA: No Kings, No ICE

https://dn721604.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-06-17-RUWS/2025_06_17_No_IC...

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Rising Up With Sonali's Coverage of Los Angeles Immigration Raids

Rising Up With Sonali's coverage of the ICE and Military Invasion of Los Angeles

https://ia600309.us.archive.org/9/items/2025-06-10-RUWS/2025_06_10_Pasad...

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Free Los Angeles

Our website didn't allow updates for awhile..

Greta Thunberg is Free

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/11/freedom_flotilla

Rumeysa Oztark is Free

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/12/headlines/rumeysa_ozturk_released...

Free Mahmoud Khalil

I'm sure there are several people who need freed after ICE and the military invaded Los Angeles.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/9/los_angeles_protests_immigration_i...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/12/congressmember_delia_ramirez_ice_...

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https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/13/ilhan_omar_trump_ice_authoritaria...

Democracy Now's Story About Ice Escalating Military Invasion of LA and Resulting Protests

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/10/los_angeles_protests_trump_milita...

JEAN GUERRERO - New York Times contributing opinion writer and author of Hatemonger: The White Nationalist Agenda:

"I want to be clear about what is happening here. The federal government is going into the diverse communities of Los Angeles to terrorize them. They are showing — ICE is showing up outside of schools, outside of Home Depots, outside of other workplaces. They’re snatching people off of the streets, off of their — outside of their homes, in front of their children, often without warrants.

But what’s happening in these protests is that people of all races and backgrounds are putting their bodies on the line to protect their friends, their neighbors, their family members from these arrests. And it is a beautiful thing to see. I was just at one of the protests yesterday, where I spoke to grandmothers, you know, white grandmothers, who are going out to protect people that they love and who they’re afraid could be picked up by ICE. I spoke to Latinas who are, you know, afraid of being racially profiled and arrested because of the indiscriminate nature of these arrests, but they are nevertheless putting their bodies on the line, because they’re citizens and they believe in using their privilege to defend the people that they care about."

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Twangtacular Ep. 46

Submitted by twangtacular on Tue, 06/10/2025 - 7:44pm
From studios in Columbus Ohio U-S-A, it’s TWANGTACULAR, a production of WCRS Community Radio featuring authentic Country, Western, Bluegrass, and Americana music of the past and present. I’m your host Boy Howdy and this is episode 46 of the show. I’m stopping at 50, folks, so spread the word about Twangtacular while you still can! You can see a full track list and listen to this and every episode of Twangtacular on-demand at Mixcloud.com/Twangtacular and at WCRSFM.org. You can also follow the show on Instagram and you can also listen to it on the actual radio in Columbus Ohio on Saturdays at 3pm or Sundays at 4am on 92.7 and 98.3 FM. WCRS: Community Radio Columbus!

1:01:17 minutes (56.11 MB)

PLAYLIST

  1. Buckaroo - Buck Owens
  2. I’ll Fly Away - The Kossoy Sisters
  3. Give Me Your Love and I’ll Give You Mine - Mother Maybelle Carter
  4. Here in California - Kate Wolf
  5. I Wish We Had Our Time Again - John Hartford
  6. Sadie - Doc & Merle Watson
  7. Like a Summer Thursday - Townes Van Zandt
  8. Love of the Mountains - Larry Sparks
  9. Don’t You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me - Ray Price
  10. Midnight - Red Foley
  11. I Can’t Stop Loving You - Kitty Wells
  12. Saturday Night Rag - Leon McAuliffe
  13. Going Up On the Mountain - Jody Stecher
  14. Turn Your Radio On - The Blue Sky Boys
  15. After the Sunrise - The Chuck Wagon Gang
  16. Fair and Tender Ladies - The Osborne Brothers
  17. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue - The Country Gentlemen
  18. The Last Roundup - Sons of the Pioneers
  19. Stoney Creek - Tony Rice
  20. Everybody’s Got a Girl But Me - Hawkshaw Hawkins
  21. Save It! Save It! - Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys
  22. I’ll Make Sweet Love to You - The Maddox Brothers & Rose
  23. The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde - The Buckaroos

Free Greta Thunberg + Freedom Flotilla

http://www.democracynow.org:

"Human rights groups around the world are condemning Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla ship called the Madleen.
They’re saying it’s a war crime. The ship was sailing to Gaza with vital humanitarian aid for Palestinians, who are being starved by Israel’s strict blockade since early March, with 11 activists and one journalist on board. Israeli soldiers in the early hours of Monday — they have not, the activists, been heard of or located since. Those detained include the renowned Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg..."

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/9/madleen_gaza_flotilla_israel_abduc...

https://risingupwithsonali.com/anti-genocide-activists-sail-to-gaza-agai...

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