Venue hopping Wednesday Night during Mission Creek, I record some live sets and take a few pictures.
Kent Williams
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Voxhaul Broadcast @ Blue Moose 4/16 Show Preview & Ticket Giveaway
Voxhaul Broadcast combines a great lead voice with vibrant guitars in service of impeccably arranged songs. What more could you want?
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Andre Perry: The Real Deal
We all think Iowa City is awesome, but could be even better if people would just focus on working together. Andre is someone who just gets down to the business of making that happen.
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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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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.
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Sycamore Mall: Stifling Dissent?
Sycamore Mall Management is apparently petrified of dissent, and shielded Bob Vander Plaats from anyone questioning his stance on marriage equality and the Iowa Courts, and they used the Iowa City Police to keep protesters away.
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The short, beautiful life of Alyssa Baye
We read the obits at our house, because we’re at the age where we find our friends and acquaintances featured there with increasing frequency. My wife asked me the other night “did you know Alyssa Baye? It says she was a music fan and liked that Dead Larry.” I didn’t know Alyssa personally. I have […]
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Interview: John Waters on ‘Pink Flamingos,’ the transformation of Divine and the changing face of indie cinema
Friday, April 1, 2011 | Englert | 6 p.m. Doors Everyone has their first time with John Waters. For me, it was the summer of 1976, when I took off from my Grandmother’s house in Provo Utah, after a weird, lonely, freshman year at BYU (don’t ask) and hitchhiked around the West. I ended up […]
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Unabridged: An interview with John Waters (From 2011)
Everyone has their first time with John Waters. For me, it was the summer of 1976, when I took off from my grandmother’s house in Provo, Utah, after a weird, lonely, freshman year at BYU (don’t ask) and hitchhiked around the west. I ended up, rather crazed after sleeping rough alongside Interstate 5, in Berkeley, […]
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Englert Live 3/19/2011 — Live Recordings
Last Saturday Night was another in the “Intimate At The Englert” performance series, and I was on hand to record the proceedings. Phil Ochs started the event with some solo electric guitar. His finger-picking was transmuted by pedals into a shimmering haze of guitar sound. As int the work of Rhys Chatham, the harmonics and […]
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Album Review – J Trey: BLUE I SOUL
JTrey have been around since 1999 on the Iowa hip-hop scene, but this new CD represents a big step up. Their sound has been enlarged with the addition of female vocalist Jasmine and a full band. Sure, there have been hip hop bands before–Black Eyed Peas and Bad Fathers come to mind. But the former […]
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Album Review – Mad Monks: Mad Monks
When bands strip it down to guitar, bass and drums, I get unstuck in time. People have been exploring that musical space since at least 1967. Mad Monks are definitely standing on the shoulders of giants–as they cite on their Facebook page: Jimi Hendrix, Captain Beefheart, King Crimson, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy. Interestingly, Hendrix influenced […]
