Goldendust Self-Titled Night-People Records It’s easy, in a scene as intimate as Iowa City’s, to see Goldendust as Wet Hair part two. While it’s true that Joe Heuermann walks that same line between crooning and caterwalling that Wet Hair vocalist Shawn Reed has been treading, like most of the commonalities between the two acts, similar […]
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Album Review: Wax Moth – Spiracle
Wax Moth Spiracle Mannequin Rein Recordings waxmoth.bandcamp.com The debut EP, Spiracle, from Iowa City metal outfit Wax Moth is nearly relentless. Starting with the feedback and initial kicks of “Colony Collapse” till the two-minute mark of the sixth and final cut, “Of Dust and Lung,” there’s barely a moment to breath during the pummeling this […]
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Album Review: Error – Self Titled
Error Error erroria.bandcamp.com/ The debut EP from Iowa City’s Error is ear-piercingly awesome. It’s doubtful there is a fifteen-minute experience your mom would hate more. The hardcore trio’s self-titled re- cording kicks off with a few ominous, dron- ing strums of a guitar, when the drum kit joins in, they ratchet up the speed and […]
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Album Review: Alexis Stevens – Self-titled
Alexis Stevens Self-titled alexisstevens.bandcamp.com Alexis Stevens’ sophomore album is almost endlessly poignant. Stevens’ self-titled album has turned my daily commute into a bittersweet epic whose only disappointment is when work comes into view and the dream of a road trip ends as I punch the clock. There’s a reason I smell the Atlantic Ocean during […]
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Album Review: Coolzey – Live from the Cave @ Dougman
Coolzey Live From the Cave @ Dougman (Public School Records) www.psrecords.net Zachary Lint, alias Coolzey, normally slings rhymes and crafts beats, however, last November he took a little break from hip hop to stomp out a set of raw tunes that he’s finally put out into the world. Live From the Cave @ Dougman is […]
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Album Review: The Tanks- Epic Loads
The Tanks Epic Loads thetanks.bandcamp.com The Tanks third long-player, Epic Loads, finds the noise-rock trio settling into a groove with a new drummer, Joe Ross, and refining the more assured approach of their previous album, The heart of Epic Loads’ lineup may be the strongest set of songs the trio’s ever committed to wax. It […]
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Album Review: We Shave – Cuts
We Shave Cuts (Sangre Libre Records) soundcloud.com/weshave We Shave make pretty pop for music nerds. Their latest EP, Cuts, was recorded in a time-space rift where blue-eyed soul, garage rock, kraut rock and hints of no-wave get along like old friends at the bar. But the real secret to We Shave isn’t the genre splicing. […]
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Album Review: Wet Hair – Spill Into Atmosphere
Wet Hair Spill Into Atmosphere De Stijl Records Wet Hair’s fourth LP, Spill Into Atmosphere, is the band’s most accessible to date—a claim I lavished on their third album, 2011’s In Vogue Spirit. The Iowa City trio soldiers along, refining their Krautrock infused ragga even further. Justin Thye (Goldendust) has joined Shawn Reed and Ryan […]
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Album Review: Aseethe – Reverent Burden
Aseethe Reverent Burden www.aseethecreation.com With its debut full-length, Reverent Burden, Iowa City drone metal outfit Aseethe finally has enough wax to stretch out and show their stuff. The album is comprised of two mysterious, side-long pieces on a vinyl, without track titles or even clearly marked a or b sides. Aseethe opens the longer of […]
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Album Review/Interview: Oberhofer – Time Capsules II
Brad Oberhofer| 7:00pm | Yacht C lub | $8 | 19+ Even though Brad Oberhofer makes sweeping swathes of ornate, indie-pop, he hardly comes off as the dramatic frontman–with heart stitched on sleeve–he presents on his debut LP, Time Capsules II. Oberhofer spoke fairly quietly, at a measured pace when we talked in mid February. The Novocaine from the […]
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Featured Artist: Oberhofer
Oberhofer w/ Mumfords, Sudden & Subtle, The Olympics Mar 29 | Yacht Club | 8PM $8 When Brad Oberhofer and his band, Oberhofer, play the Mission Creek Festival, Iowa City will have only had a couple days to soak up the lush, orchestral indie-pop of his debut LP, Time Capsules II. However, when the band […]
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Will Whitmore, Grand Tetons, Wet Hair announced for Mission Creek 2012
Today, the Mission Creek Festival announced some new confirmations, including local talents Will Whitmore, Grant Tetons and Wet Hair. William Elliott Whitmore cut his teeth strumming a banjo and opening for legendary Iowa City emo-core outfit Ten Grand. More than a decade later, Whitmore has five rough-hewn folk records to his name and sells out […]
