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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)

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...

Rising Up With Sonali's 92.7 / 98.3 WCRSFM.org

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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_...

Democracy Now via WCRSFM.org Columbus Community 92.7/ 98.3 :
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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."

Democracy Now via WCRSFM.org Columbus Community 92.7/ 98.3 :
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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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Rising Up With Sonali via 92.7 / 98.3 WCRSfm.org

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Wes Flexner's interview With Fearless Vampire Killers Author Glen Friedman

wesflexner's rocknroll show
7pm Wednesdays
92.7. / 98.3 wcrsfm.org

Listen: https://anonrocknroll.com/2025/05/14/glen-friedman-fearless-vampire-kill...

One of my favorite sections of an afternoon. I'm eating lunch in my living room while reading a new book: Fearless Vampire Killers….Bad Brains Photographs by Akashic Books———> By Glen E. Friedman.

I now am using a Flex Capacitor. Now, I'm at A7 in the 1980’s New York looking at Bad Brains perform in a space the size of either Skylab or the Legion of Doom. I'm looking at PMA inspiring cultural evolution in the context of rejection of our fascist government.

In Fearless Vampire Killers, Friedman follows Bad Brains from A7 into the L.A. Sunset Strip. A7 is a small NY punk venue. L.A. is where Bad Brains sneak Black Flag on stage because Black Flag was banned because of punk riots. Fearless Vampire Killers is Glen E. Friedman in a moment working for skateboard media while participating in hardcore punk. Punk, and Hip Hop unleashed Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Public Enemy, BDP, Beastie Boys etc. Friedman took iconic flicks of all of these icons.

Punk and Hip Hop REJECTED 80s fascism until Hip Hop and grunge changed all of society. Friedman is legendary for documenting our culture’s icons – Dischord, Def Jam, and of course BAD BRAINS.

Friedman included 90 black and white photos from 81-82. Bad Brains Daryl Jennifer, and HR add commentary into Fearless Vampire’s Killers. We witness Friedman's relationship of being a skateboard punk kid at a show and then having his work document legendary moments.

Friedman’s photos inspired organic cultural evolution with the visuals of Bad Brains and later Public Enemy.

"Do you think Hip Hop, punk and skating will defeat fascism again in 2025 via cultural evolution?”

Listen: https://anonrocknroll.com/2025/05/14/glen-friedman-fearless-vampire-kill...

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