This week, Little Village Live was pleased to host folk musician Rosi Golan. You can find video from her performance below with more available in our Youtube channel (alongside hundreds of other live performance videos). Be sure to join us at Public Space One this Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 5:00 p.m. for Milk & Eggs […]
September 2011
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Watch Sleepy Sun on Little Village Live
Last week on Little Village Live we played host to San Francisco’s hazy feel-good group Sleepy Sun. Check out the video below, and while you’re at it, give our Youtube channel a glance to find more video Sleepy Sun as well as hundreds of other musical performances filmed right here in Iowa City. Little Village […]
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Album Review – Milk & Eggs: Self Titled
Milk & Eggs is Jordan Sellergren, who has only been performing for a couple of years. But judging from the quality of her songs and the poised, yet vulnerable way she sings them, she’s been working on music in private for much longer. Her eponymous debut is deeply rooted in the acoustic folk tradition. Though […]
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Album Review – Pieta Brown: Mercury
The monochrome photo of Pieta Brown on the cover of her album Mercury (out Sept. 27 on Red House Records) carries a certain “Mona Lisa” inscrutability. The unusual lighting from beneath nearly washes out her face drawing you almost self-consciously to her gaze. While I usually don’t expect her album covers to directly represent the […]
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Album Review – Blizzard At Sea: Invariance
Blizzard At Sea claims to be a metal band. Sure, singer/guitarist Steven Douglas tortures his vocal chords with a classic Cookie Monster gargle, but something else is going on here. Before kicking into proggy start-stop riffing, “Island Of Stars” begins with an extended dreamy intro, anchored with oceanic bass, reminding me of the trancey minimalism […]
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Album Review – Idris Goodwin: Break Beat Bars
Hip hop was born as party music, constructed out of the raw materials available in the streets of the outer boroughs–funk & soul records and under-the-lamppost boasts. That it has persisted for 30-odd years is a testament to its contingency, constantly morphing to fit the now, spreading like a virus to every corner of the […]
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Talking Movies: The Future Is Now
Richard Wagner dreamt of a Gesamtkunstwerk, “a total artwork,” a theatrical production that puts the entire human imagination into play and expresses nothing short of the truth. Metropolis–Fritz Lang’s operatic, balletic, mythic, expressionistic, crazy, nightmarish, silent movie–is about as gesamt a Kunstwerk as there is, especially if you add to it the live music of the Alloy Orchestra, who will perform their great score to a screening of a restored Metropolis on Sept. 30 at the Englert Theatre.
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Classing Up Bohemia
New Bohemia is beginning to show signs of life. On the corner of 12th Street, there are the Parlor City Pub, Capone’s Restaurant and the Chrome Horse Saloon, making the neighborhood a livelier nighttime destination than moribund Downtown Cedar Rapids a mile to the north. With the renovation of the CSPS building, New Bohemia is becoming a new alternative cultural hub for Cedar Rapids.
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The Stage: The Month In Theatre
Megan Gogerty’s new solo show Feet First In The Water With A Baby In My Teeth runs Sept. 9 – Oct. 2 at Riverside Theatre Coralville Center for the Performing Arts Hairspray The Coralville Center for the Performing Arts celebrates its community spirit with homegrown acting company Circle City putting on the musical Hairspray. Once […]
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Hot Tin Roof: There Is Always Cake
It can be said that strawberries are undisputedly good. This is a truth universal in nature. Strawberries are good, and so is cake. Combine these two things. No one will argue. What you do when you can’t convince that boy you love with all the bite-size pieces of your heart to simply love you back? […]
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Next Stop: Britt, home of the annual Hobo Convention
In the Northwestern corner of the state, in Britt, Iowa, an annual summer festival just celebrated it’s 111th birthday. It celebrated the core values that are not just universal to summer, or to we as Iowans, but to us as Americans: our rights and our liberties, however we choose them. The 111th-Annual Hobo Convention celebrates a freedom that few will know outside of its tightly knit culture and the curious who hover close to its campfires.
