Mission Creek has built a solid reputation for curating some of the best musicians in niche genres, and for this year’s festival there… […]
Sir Richard Bishop headlines a night of experimental music at the Trumpet Blossom
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Noise rap act Moodie Black to play Yacht Club
Minneapolis based hip-hop duo Moodie Black will bring their noisy, experimental style of rap to the Yacht Club on Saturday. The brainchild of MC and producer of K. (Chris Martinez) and guitarist Sean Lindahl, Moodie Black have had their abrasive sound tagged with variety of experimental hip hop genre labels like noise rap, post rap, and rap-gaze. Moodie Black’s music is certainly harsh — the beats mixing industrial soundscapes with feedback, white noise, and sound experiments.
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King Cleveland: King Chip plays the Blue Moose Tap House
King Chip w/ Narada Sauti Blue Moose Tap house — Saturday, Jan. 31 at 6:30 p.m. It was inevitable that King Chip’s rap success, which includes high-profile collaborations with Freddie Gibbs and Big Sean, would eventually lead him out of […]
EDM fix: The Hi-Yahs, SwaggleRock and BeazyTymes play the Blue Moose Tap House this Friday
Electronic Dance Music (EDM) has become one of the most vital scenes in American music today. Easy access to the entire recorded history of music… […]
Rapper Lil Debbie treats Iowa City with a performance at the Blue Moose
Internet rap fixture Lil Debbie performs at the Blue Moose Tap House on Friday. The first place most of us probably saw Lil Debbie was… […]
Riff Raff comes to the Blue Moose Tap House to get weird
Riff Raff, a rapper who represents the avant-garde of white-boy rap or the greatest punchline that genre has ever produced (or maybe both), performs at the Blue Moose Tap House on Thursday, Dec 4. … […]
Hip Hop goes scary and psychedelic: Flatbush Zombies at the Blue Moose Tap House
Perhaps the most striking aspect of Flatbush Zombies music — both in terms of the lyrics and the beats — is their blatantly psychedelic outlook. … […]
Metal at its most transcendent: OM plays tonight at Gabe’s
Tonight’s OM show at Gabe’s is a chance to see just how far a metal act can evolve while still being completely true to the genre.
OM was started by members of legendary metal band Sleep, who are famous for recording Dopesmoker, arguably the best doom metal album of all time. The only track on the album is an […]
The Black Lips and the Almighty Defenders: Resurrecting rock and roll
This Tuesday, Sept. 16, The Black Lips and The King Khan & BBQ Show will perform at The Blue Moose Tap House. In 2009, the bands combined their… […]
