Jeff Tweedy was itchy last Wednesday night at the Englert Theatre. “This show is going to have an asterisk next to it,” he said. “Full disclosure: I’m ‘roided out.”
Avery Gregurich
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Leaning into the world with Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith
Taylor Goldsmith spent a week recently sitting in his Los Angeles house alone, practicing every song he’s ever released. For the lead songwriter, singer and guitarist of Dawes, that adds up to 63 songs over the last 10 years. The band plans to play every one of them over the course of this leg of their “An Evening with Dawes” tour, which comes to the Englert Theatre on Sunday, Jan. 27. Tickets are $40.
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Catching up with Zach Wahls, new state senator
“We tried to get all three of the Zachs in the front row next to each other, but they didn’t go for it,” Zach Wahls says with a laugh. Wahls […]
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Alt-country legends the Bottle Rockets come to Big Grove Brewery
For over 25 years, the Bottle Rockets have made music steeped in gas station coffee, weeknights at honkytonks and rearview mirror Midwestern miscellany. Singer Brian Henneman, John Horton on guitar, Mark Ortmann on drums and Keith Voegele on bass play Thursday, Nov. 15 at Big Grove Brewery & Taproom.
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Des Moines’ Lucca Soria brings the Cordovas to Big Grove
The Cordovas are a repository of American folk music who have spent countless nights on tour studying Grateful Dead soundboards and Doc Watson records equally, fusing and subverting them both into their own style of Americana music.
