Old timey musical fun at the Fiddlers Picnic Sunday 9/18/2010 at the Johnson County Fairgrounds. Get yer bodran on!
Kent Williams
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Album Review: Hubcap Holmes: Just for Funstuff
This is a free CD I picked up at a Public Space One show. Hubcap Holmes is a solo project of Kurt Austin, one of the loose cohort of early-20s musicians currently making noise in Iowa City. The live performance (with Matt Fenner on bass) showed that Hubcap Holmes has a good grasp of pop songwriting; his songs had sing-along melodies, simple without being too simple.
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Album Review: Be Kind to Your Neighbor: Be Kind to Your Neighbor
Be Kind To Your Neighbor is Dan Davis and Ed Bornstein (The Occasionals), and since Ed moved away, they’re no longer playing together. But they did get together at Flat Black to record this CD. As with Dan’s other band, Weather Is Happening, the organizing principle is a titanic wall of guitar noise, pummelled drums and tortured, screamed vocals.
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Album Review: Wax Cannon: The Ankle Hour
SWax Cannon is two guys–David Murray and Jay Miller–who have been playing together for several years. They put out the titanic Someone in Madison is Praying for You (And it’s not me) four years ago, a double CD that was a tour de force of rock ‘n’ roll songwriting, their answer to Daydream Nation or Zen Arcade.
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Album Review: Sarah Cram & The Derelicts: Little Secrets
Most folks who bother to go out to hear live music in Eastern Iowa know that Sarah Cram has that voice–a dark, smooth alto with a jazzy vibrato at the end of sustained notes. As good as The Diplomats of Solid Sound are when they roll stag, with Sarah and her sister Diplomettes, they’re a whole other thing–elegant, sexy, and even funkier.
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School of Seven Bells @ Blue Moose Sep 20: Ticket Giveaway!!!
School of Seven Bells is playing the Blue Moose September 20th and we have two tickets to give away!
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Best in Sew
Most people became aware of Leslie Hall a few years back, when her YouTube videos went viral. People forward links to all their friends for, as they say, the LULZ. Laughing at the unselfconsciously ridiculous people on the internet always has a cruel edge to it, but Leslie was never oblivious to her ridiculosity. In fact, it’s been the unifying attribute of her public persona.
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Think Globally, Ink Locally
Sophia Aley wears hear heart on her sleeve for Iowa City.
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City Circle Acting Company's "Godspell" at the Englert July 23-25
Godspell at the Englert, courtesy of City Circle Acting Company of Coralville!
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Lonelyhearts Live @ The Mill 07/05/2010
The Lonelyhearts perform a free show at The Mill! Emotron runs a garage sale! Check out photos and an mp3 from the event after the jump.
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Why you should subscribe to the Press Citizen Local News RSS Feed
Instead of printing a dump of the raw police blotter, someone with a sense of humor at the PC is in charge articles about local arrests. You have to give credit where credit’s due.
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Even More Pride Photos
“Barefoot” Adrianne B. does it again with her lush Iowa City Pride Parade photos
