A lot of biodegradable soy ink has been spilled in the dissection and exegesis of “Attitude,” something Uranium Club has a ton of, mostly of the confrontational, transgressive kind. Attitude is …
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Album Review: Jeff Miguel – Perserverance
Saxophonist Jeff Miguel is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa jazz studies program, which has in recent years spawned bands like Euforquestra and Koplant No. Perserverance collects eight of Miguel’s own compositions, which is a gutsy move in the context of traditional jazz, a genre where musicians are still finding something new in standards from the last century…
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Album Review: Maiden Mars – The Other Side
Iowa City bands swap members, and the members swap instruments. Case in point: Maiden Mars, which boasts Lipstick Homicide guitarist Kate Kane on drums. In this band, Alex Skalla and Katie Rosenberger handle the songwriting…
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Album Review: Sweet Chariot – 1985
1985 by Sweet Chariot Sweet Chariot 1985 sweetchariotic.bandcamp.com Welcome to Iowa Meta-Rock City, home of Sweet Chariot, whose new album 1985—like Nigel Tufnel’s custom amplifiers in Spinal Tap—goes “one more” than Van Halen’s…
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Old Thrashers Reunion: When goodbye sounds like Oi! Oi! Oi!
Iowa City is of course a transient town, a place people in their teens find themselves while attending the University of Iowa…
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Celebrate 15 years of Solar Cathedral this Friday with DJ Matt Rissi and Berlin techno act Pan-Pot
Throughout the ‘90s, rave parties became a pop-culture phenomenon — including the infamous, laughable ‘rave’ shown in Beverly Hills 90210 — and a…
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Album Review: Coolzey and Soce the Elemental Wizard – Coolsay EP
Coolzey (aka Zack Lint) is a hip-hop all-arounder; he produces most of his own beats, he plays every rock instrument and does his own home studio recordings…
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Album Review: Gayla Drake – Aunt G and the Stone City Nephews
Gayla Drake is a veteran Iowa singer/songwriter who put out her first album 20 years ago. Her latest release, Aunt G and the Stone City Nephews, represents…
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Album Review: Angle – Definitive Bedtime Stories
It is gratifying to follow the music of someone like Angle over a long period. This writer has known him for 15 years and lost count of the albums and EPs of his that have been reviewed in Little Village. Angle (aka Jarid Catrenich) has always had a distinctive flow and powerful voice, but his writing has gotten deeper over the years.
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Album Review: Milk Duct Tape – Styrofoam Tombstone
KFMH (99 Plus!) out of Muscatine was the default radio station for a lot of Iowa blue-collar rockers back in the day; it was hippy-dippy enough for Deadheads, hard enough for headbangers and eclectic to a fault. Milk Duct Tape creates the kind of music that would have…
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Album Review: Cuticle – Mind Holding Pattern
Techno originated in Belleville, Mich., and was invented by middle-class black teenagers with ties to Detroit. Techno brought together the influences of disco, James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic and combined them with the paler European electronic styles of Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder, which embraced a dreamy futurism born out of comic books and science fiction paperbacks.
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Album Review: Unknown Component – Arbitrary Ambiguity
Keith Lynch (a.k.a. Unknown Component) doesn’t have a band—he produces his music at home and plays all the parts. He uses a group name, though it’s just him. And while he’s a guitar-playing singer-songwriter, his albums are full of electronic sounds.
