Once more into the breech with West Branch’s finest blue collar shit-kicking band. They don’t play a single lick I’ve never heard before and yet I want to hear them play them over and over. Can’t Be Trusted seems to be more overtly country than their last CD, but it’s the mean, unvarnished kind of […]
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John Waters
This Filthy World Friday, April 1 – Englert Theatre John Waters first became famous–or infamous–for a series of movies that plumbed the depths of depravity and bad taste. Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living were about murder, rape, cannibalism, sexual fetishes and an unhealthy affection for eggs. They were also wickedly, deliriously funny. He […]
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Kurt Vile
w. Brooks Strause, The Lonelyhearts, Paleo Sunday, April 3 – The Mill Kurt Vile’s music seems like the perfect distillation of his parent’s record collection. While he might seem to be channelling Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen and Marc Bolan, his originality arises from channelling them all at the same time. His early albums, Childish Prodigy, […]
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Kent Williams (AKA Chaircrusher) 2011-02-12 KRUI Show
Hi this is me, Kent Williams, your A&E Editor for your Little Village, shamelessly self-promoting. I help out on Vince Woolums long-running (since the mid 1990s!) KRUI show Noise Radio, while Vince is off coaching Debate for City High. This set was driven by a trip to Dave’s Records in Chicago, where I crouched on […]
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Live Sets Pete Balestrieri, Tim Krein, Doug Nye 2-8-11 @ The Mill
Tuesday Night Social Club, Kids! Pete Balestrieri, him of the Ghostly Trio, Violent Femmes and Horns of the Dilemma, Iowa City’s favorite saxaphonist, plays a solo set of popular songs. Tim Krein, the 3 chord genius behind The Rusty Buckets, goes straight for the roots. Doug Nye, up and coming Iowa City songwriter has a […]
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Album Review: Eugene Kelley – Las Animas
This CD came our way when someone left it in the Little Village distribution box in front of New Pioneer Co-op, so never let it be said we’re not on the lookout for new music. The cover–handmade and held together with scotch tape–features a stylized logo of an eye with a tear falling out of […]
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Album Review: CaseTheJoint – Stalking To Myself
There aren’t many musical pursuits harder than making hip-hop. You have to write rhymes, you have to memorize them, you have to find or make beats. You have to deliver your rhymes in dingy clubs with crap sound and sell yourself to the pickiest audiences in the world–the people who added a new definition to […]
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JTrey CD Release Tonight 1/31 @ Gabes
JTrey are an Iowa Hip Hop Group that has been making CDs for some time, but the CD “Blue|Soul” is on a whole new level. They’ve progressed from an electronic beats + rhymes setup to a full band, and incorporated the amazing Jasmine as a third featured vocalist. I’ll save most of my praise for a full review in the next LV, but suffice it to say tonights CD release party is an event worth being a little sketchy tomorrow morning at work for.
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Kris Wadsworth: Techno returns to Gabe's
Ain’t no party like a Detroit party at Gabe’s — Sophistifunk w/Kris Wadsworth.
DJ Jethro & DJ Uplift (Jeff Ryon & Brandon Richerson when the cops pull them over) are starting a new monthly dance event at Gabe’s they call Sophistifunk. Veteran DJs who’ve rocked the stage at Gabe’s back in the day many, many times, they’re bringing Kris Wadworth from Detroit to headline.
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First Announcements: Mission Creek Festival 2011
The first announcement about 2011 Mission Creek Festival dropped today. It should be obvious that the Little Village staff overlaps with the Mission Creek staff, and that we have been in the past and will be forever huge cheerleaders for the Mission Creek Festival. So full disclosure: we don’t pretend anything resembling objectivity here — we’re huge fans, we’re friends, we’ve held each other’s hair while we’ve puked.
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Album Review: Fake Babies – We Started Blues
Fake Babies We Started Blues Safety Meeting Records myspace.com/fakebabiesmusic If you Google “Fake Babies” you find very little about the band, and a lot about a subculture I was unaware of: people who collect and play with creepily realistic life-size newborn baby dolls. Fake Babies (the band) has nothing to do with those, and We […]
