A Be Here Now festival honoring one of the bar's founders is returning this weekend for a third year with a full line up of bands. Squirrel Stock's namesake now lives in California but the bar's owner Whitney Lewis said the festival gives "Squirrel" a reason to return at least once a year.
Take a look at some of the bands that be playing this Friday and Saturday night.
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Dividing the Skyline
Seventeen-year-olds Westen Weiss, Nate Blasdell, Brent Martone along with 13-year-old Jake Watson may be the youngest performers at Squirrel Stock this year, but that doesn't mean that they're short on talent.
The band will be singing songs from its first indie-pop album, "Maybe Next Year," which was released in December 2011. Dividing the Skyline will also be singing songs from its newest album, which should be out sometime next year.
"A major influence on all of us is Andrew McMahon from Jack's Mannequin," Blasdell, the band's guitarist, said. "That guy is the bee's knees."
The band is keeping up a busy schedule. After its current tour is over, the band is starting a new one in August that is scheduled to go through Canada. Then they will be headed back to the studio to work on their second album, followed by a tour on the West Coast that is scheduled to start this winter.
This group of young men show that age is just a number when it comes to conquering what they want in life.
"Music has become an outlet for all of us," Blasdell said. "That outlet has become the dream; the dream we are living."
Fossil Generation
As former Ball State students, the members of Fossil Generation are no strangers to Squirrel Stock.
The band became regulars at "Be Here Now" in 2011 and this will be its second year at Squirrel Stock. However, this will be the first time it will be introduced as "Fossil Generation." It played under the current name during Muncie Gras this past March, but beforehand was known as "Bradley Thomas and Friends."
"We decided to change our name because we became more collaborative and it portrays our sound as well as our attitude," band member Seth Scales said.
Fossil Generation performs its own material and will be playing songs from its upcoming, full-length album, as well as a few songs that will be on its future album.
As veterans of "Be Here Now," the band knows that it will take away something special after every performance.
"We always have fun with bands we've never performed with before, and we love meeting people and making new friends," Scales said. "Almost every performance at Be Here Now has allowed us to befriend new people or bands and we hope to achieve that again at this year's festival."
Omnidroid
Electro-house, moombahton and electronic dance are just a few ways to describe the stylings of DJ Omni-FI and DJ Android.
The dynamic duo, known together as Omnidroid, will be spinning beats between acts on Friday.
During performances, the two DJs plan to spin tracks from other bands but still play some original moombahton tracks that they composed themselves.
Originally from Indianapolis, DJ Omni-FI started out at Indiana University studying music. However, he soon found out that his style didn't mesh too well with IU's music program standards.
"They aren't too keen on exclusively electronic composition at all ... I learned a lot there, but I didn't see finishing the program as benefiting who I wanted to be at all," he said.
DJ Android met DJ Omni-FI in high school. He then moved to Germany but came back to the U.S. a few years ago. The two have been DJing together ever since.
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Squirrel Stock
Where: Be Here Now
When: 8 p.m.-3 a.m. Friday and Saturday
Cost: $15 per night or $25 for both nights. Save $5 on individual night tickets by showing up before 9 p.m. to support the early acts.
Age: 18 and older
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Friday (music until 3 a.m.)
8 p.m. - Dividing the Skyline
9 p.m. - The Rise of the Broken
10 p.m. - Fossil Generation
11 p.m. - MC Sparkplug
Midnight - Fresh Hops
Between sets and late night - Omnidroid
Saturday (music until 3 a.m.)
9 p.m. - Mikial Robertson
10 p.m. - When, Not If
Midnight - Eumatik
Between sets and late night - Kaleidoscope Jukebox
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