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Tonight in Columbus: WCRS Benefit, Relay Recording opening party

It’s at Carabar, so it’s free, but a portion of the bar revenue goes to community radio station WCRS (102.1/98.3). Music starts at 9:30.

Jon Fintel’s Relay Recording is also hosting a grand opening party for the new N. 6th st. location in the Discovery District (is that a real thing?). Eye, Ease the Medic, She Bears and Harboring Ghosts will perform a live set that will be recorded. Full press release:

“Columbus, OH, December 8, 2011: Relay Recording is excited to announce the grand opening of their new location on N. 6th Street in the Columbus Discovery District. The Studio will celebrate the opening of their new location with a free concert in the Studio Live Room on Friday January 6th, 2012, starting at 8pm., with performances by Eye, Ease The Medic, She Bears, and Harboring Ghosts. All four acts have recently worked on new recordings with Engineer and Owner, Jon Fintel.

Relay Recording is a state of the art music recording facility offering over thirty-eight hundred square feet of creative space. With the best in pro audio equipment and the some of the finest in vintage instruments available we are able to achieve sounds worthy of our client?s creativity. The downtown recording studio offers everything to take a project from start to finish including recording, mixing, and mastering.

Born in 2002, Relay Recording began as a small home recording studio in Bexley, OH. In a few short years with many successful records under their belt, including work with Our Lady Peace, John Legend, Willy Mason, and Ha Ha Tonka, the studio moved to a larger commercial space in downtown Columbus, OH. This location proved to be even more successful than the first but had one fatal flaw; it was located on property owned by State Auto and not seen as the valuable asset to the artistic community that it was. After six years of operation at this location the studio was torn down in 2010 and became a parking lot for State Auto employees. More than a year later, and with no small amount of hammered fingers in the interim, Jon Fintel has rebuilt Relay Recording in an even larger, more comprehensive facility, offering almost four thousand square feet of recording space in a convenient downtown location.

Relay Recording is excited to share its new space with the public at the Jan. 6 performance and looks forward to continuing its musical legacy at its Discovery District home. For more information, please contact Jon Fintel at 614-560-4540 or via email at jon@relayrecording.com.”

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Sunday: Maritime @ The Summit

Maritime – “It’s Casual” (from 2011′s Human Hearts)

One of the problems with being in a successful band is that once that band breaks up, you’ll forever have to answer the question, “When will the reunion happen?” Davey von Bohlen (singer/guitarist) and Dan Didier (drummer) have been asked that question probably hundreds of times since 2002 when the band that they made up half of – The Promise Ring – called it quits. Earlier this year, Didier mentioned that a reunion isn’t out of the question and that it could happen in 2012. In the meantime, however, von Bohlen and Didier are promoting the latest release by Maritime, the band they started after The Promise Ring’s demise nearly 10 years ago.

In hindsight, the final Promise Ring album, Wood/Water, seems like a precursor to the direction von Bohlen and Didier would head with Maritime. It was a much more subdued effort than fans of the band’s bouncy emo-pop were used to and that sound has carried through Martime’s four full-length efforts.

As we’ve all grown older and started having kids (the four Maritime members have 7 kids between them), priorities shift, long-term visions emerge and for many, that means giving up – or at least slowing down – on the hobbies and passions that propelled us through our late 20s and early 30s. What that means for Maritime is more cautious touring – no longer are they hoping in a van and doing 6 months worth of dates from coast-to-coast. They haven’t quite succumbed to being ‘weekend warriors’ (only playing shows Friday – Sunday in cities that are within a 4 or 5 hour drive) but have cut way back on the amount of road miles they see every year.

Fortunately, Maritime seems to have a fondness for Ohio, performing in Cincinnati in August and stopping in Columbus on Sunday night and in Toledo in November.

Catch Maritime, Harboring Ghosts, and She-Bears at The Summit on Sunday night. Doors open at 8 and the cover is $10.

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Win a pair of tickets to Blackoutfest in Athens, OH April 15-17

Cool lineup, eh? Blackoutfest returns for the 15th time to The Union in Athens, OH. Tickets at the door or at Haffa’s Records (15 W Union St, Athens) in advance — $10 per night, 3-day pass for $25. And we’ve got a pair of 3-day passes to give away, too. Send an email to contestdonewaiting@gmail.com with the subject BLACKOUTFEST to enter.

Full day-by-day schedule after the jump.

THURSDAY, the 15th (Doors open at 5 p.m.)

Tyvek (headliner, goes on around 12:30)
Wheels on Fire
Terrible Twos
Puffy Areolas
We March
Chickens
Hex Net/Dragline Bros
Seascapes
Holly Grahams
Bright Effs

FRIDAY, the 16th (Doors open at 5 p.m.)

Skeletonwitch (headliner, goes on around 12:30)
Buffalo Killers
Thomas Function
This Moment in Black History
Bass Drum of Death
Guinea Worms
Dropdead Sons
Saturn Missle Batteries
Spooktober
Wizzard Beasts

SATURDAY, the 17th (Doors open at 3 p.m.)

Dead Meadow (headliner, goes on around 12:30)
Greg Ashley Band
Brimstone Howl
The Makebelieves
Imaad Wasif (formerly of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
Grafton
Weird Science
Whale Zombie
Manor Animals
She Bears
Loaded Revulvas

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