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What started as a couple of spirited jam sessions has evolved into one of the hottest up-and-coming acts in rock. Born in Athens, Ohio, jam/electronic/whatever-the-hell-you-want-to-call-them band Papadosio has seen their success skyrocket over the past two years. Comprised of former Ohio University and Hocking College students, the band, playing through the east coast as a part of their Awake Inside Tour, made a pit stop in Athens, Ohio, last month to play at The Union. Backdrop got an opportunity to talk to guitarist/vocalist Anthony Thogmartin about the band's journey, future projects, and what it feels like to return to the town where everything came together.
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In the 1990’s there existed a show of ecological good-doers called “Captain Planet and the Planeteers,” in which five youths were each given the power of one of the elements of nature to defend Earth from further destruction. That is what Ohio University junior JaVaughn Graves, known in the emcee world as CG, compares his rap group Yizzo to.
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Halloween in Athens has long passed, but that doesn’t mean the scary fun has to stop there. At least that’s how one man views it, sans booze. Nate Gastin, the lead investigator for Dark Night Investigators (DNI), a paranormal activity-searching group, lives for the thrill of ghosts and hauntings. His team is from Logan, Ohio, which is half an hour away from Athens. He has taken on dozens of paranormal cases, ranging from claims of haunted houses to paranormal activity in graveyards all over the state. He has never investigated Ohio University’s campus, one of the “Top-50 Haunted Places in the Country,” but he’d love the chance to some day. Unfortunately, it won’t be until the university is compliant with his standard practices of paranormal searching, but perhaps one day you might see Gastin and the rest of the DNI team around campus.
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The arrival of the “alternate to everything” Alternative album from Kid Cudi is here. After drifting further and further from Earth with each release, Cudi is finally seeing if the world is ready to truly embrace the Martian. Collaborating with producer Dot da Genius, Cudi finds himself making a whole record in a baritone croon accompanied by guitar noodling, slowly becoming hip-hop’s Lou Reed, and going under the moniker of WZRD. The experimental album slips at times, but mostly spellbinds as WRZD truly conjures up some magic.
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It’s about that time of year when seniors start thinking about their future, where they will be next winter and items they haven’t yet checked off their bucket lists. Ohio University senior Kendall Kidder-Goshhorn has decided to add the Athens Half-Marathon to hers. Her running experience from high school and inspiration from a fellow sorority sister’s participation in the Columbus Half Marathon pushed her to research several half-marathons. Athens’ half became her top pick because it worked perfectly with a 12-week training program that she had started winter quarter.
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Art lies scattered on the desk, floor and the walls. Somebody has been hard at work. The shared studio space has a high ceiling—a kind of room that can swallow you whole. Against the wall of the studio lies a plaster cast of a body, like the hallowed exoskeleton of cicada that molted to continue its evolution.
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With newfound mainstream acceptance, will indie-rockers fun. alienate older fans on their second album?
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Did you know that Broney’s serves wings? Me either.
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Big K.R.I.T. is on his way to making it big—but on his way up, he rocked OU’s annual Sibs Weekend.
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21-year-old Craig Myeroff played in Canada’s Central Hockey League, signing autographs and being worshipped as a player north of the border. However, he now resides in an OU freshman dorm, playing hockey on a much smaller level, but feeling just as content.
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Zac Sebo, one of the founders of KegFLY is back with a new business: Campus Shift. The way OU students live, spend and save is about to change again. Plus, a special 9Fest deal will kick off the brand new business on February 13.
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By Anna Chiodi & Nick Harley |
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With the release of their latest album, WatchOut!, Mind Fish hopes to break out of the Athens music scene with the help of multi-tasking, sexy sounds and cats.
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It’s officially winter in Athens and snow is on the ground, burying all motivation to work out beneath it. So here we are—cold and uninspired. However, despite winter’s gloomy forecast and the temptation it presents to sit in bed continually refreshing your Twitter timeline, beat the cold-weather blues by grabbing a friend and joining one of Ping’s free group fitness sessions.
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Athens has a notorious and well-earned reputation in the college-drinking realm. Why not? Ohio University is the number-one party school and this is in no small part because of its legendary bar scene. The catalysts of these establishments (outside of their unique and individualized atmospheres) are their signature drinks, encompassing any and all liquids to ensure fun times abound. Backdrop Magazine wants to profile Athens bars’ original drinks—each with a reputation all its own.
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Independent bookstores all over the country are closing because of large chains and online retailers. However, Athens’ Book Center and Little Professor are still thriving. How have they managed to buck the trend?
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On his latest album since 2008, Young Jeezy has decided to devolve from The Recession’s socio-conscious rhyming to make TM 103: Hustlerz Ambition a return to the drug-fueled corner stories that originally made him famous. On “Way Too Gone,” when Jeezy makes his proclamation to throw us into the Delorean and takes us all the way back to 2005, it’s almost enough to make the listener laugh, because this album is so 2005.
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