Wye Oak’s return to Iowa City was a perfect finish to the 2011 Mission Creek Festival.
April 2011
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Show Preview: Pieta Brown at The Mill with The Vagabonds, 4/9/11
Pieta is back home this weekend with a show at the Mill on Saturday night. At her side will be her constant companion Bo Ramsey who will be surrounding her homespun variety of folk, blues, rock and country with his harmony vocals and guitar atmospherics. Opening for Pieta will be local folky songbirds The Vagabonds.
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This Happened: A Mission Creek Memoir
Pretty sure I lost part of my brain back there, pinballing from The Blue Moose to The Yacht Club to Gabe’s and back again. I’ll recover that lost chunk, if begrudgingly. Because losing your head to music is worth the sacrifice.
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American Reason on KRUI: 4/3/11
This week on American Reason we have special guest Zach Wahls and discussed the class action gender discrimination lawsuit Wal-Mart v. Dukes.
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A John Waters Moment for Little Village
You may have noticed the awesome cover art for the March Little Village, which was embroidered and appliquéd by the talented and adorable Grace Locke Ward. Thanks to Mission Creek’s Andre Perry, Grace & I were able to attend the reception at Mark Moen’s amazing penthouse pied a terre, so that Grace could present him with the original cover work.
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Show Photos: Paleo, Lonelyhearts, Brooks Strause, Kurt Vile @ the Mill – 4/3
In general, I don’t drink – but I am certainly going to have a Mission Creek hangover. Despite my exhaustion, tinnitus and many hours spent looking over and over at images I captured, I made it to the Mill again tonight.
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Show Photos: Guided by Voices, Times New Viking @ Blue Moose – 4/2
I am a fairly new GBV fan, and while I understood the magnitude of their legacy, I had no idea what I was in for seeing them live. I heard the stories about how they play for hours and chain smoke despite microphones and guitar solo high kicks – how they are more energetic than I am on my best day – how they are one of the most serious rock shows I will ever see. All of this is absolutely true.
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Show Review – DeVotchKa – First United Methodist – 4/02/2011
Churches are significant cultural spaces for many reasons. They are built to both spiritual and practical aims: to focus reverence of the spirit and to reverberate the human voice. Unfortunately. most of us will never experience any given church. If you are a member of a church, you seldom visit others. If you’re not a member, you seldom […]
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Show Photos: Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Devotchka @ First Methodist – 4/2
Tonight was epic. Walking into First Methodist for a show was strange at first, bringing back memories of the time I spent in churches as a child. I couldn’t help but whisper, sit politely and try not swear…I was unsuccessful on all accounts. I was redeemed when the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir reminded us it […]
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Show Photos: Skye Carrasco @ PS1 – 4/1
Skye stopped in to the KRUI camp at Public Space One on Friday to give folks a taste of what they’d be getting at the Mill later that night. Surrounded by soft, glowing fluorescent hatchets, (part of the art exhibit presently on display) Skye wove a tapestry of sound with her violin and her stunning voice.
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Show Photos: Winter's Ruby, Slut River @ PS1 – 3/31
If you’re paying attention, all my blog posts have been chronological. Winter’s Ruby and Slut River closed out the night immediately after the Super Sonic Piss show (@ the Tobacco Bowl) I raved about in my last post. Â I was so exhausted at this point, but it was the right decision to prop my eyelids open and stick with it ’til the end.
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Tonight I bought a Maker's For Amber Tamblyn
Tonight I bought a Maker’s Mark For Amber Tamblyn
Not to celebrate drunkenness but to celebrate intoxication.
To celebrate how words can get you high
how the idea of being out of your mind
can take you out of your mind.
