You probably decided to spend Tuesday evening outside, enjoying the gorgeous spring weather on your porch or in your backyard, surrounded by friends and cool beverages. However, you should have come see the Cave Singers and Grand Tetons play some great front porch Americana music upstairs at the Blue Moose Taphouse.
Tim Gavin
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Album Review – Dead Larry: …As The Radio
Do you remember that great band from high school? Those guys who played in basements, who knew how to have fun and knew the girls who wanted to party? The Iowa City band, Dead Larry, may be the best such band ever. Their second full-length album, …As the Radio, demonstrates that Dead Larry hasn’t lost […]
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Show Review: Wye Oak/Callers/Alexis Stevens – The Mill – 4/4/2011
Wye Oak’s return to Iowa City was a perfect finish to the 2011 Mission Creek Festival.
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Show Review – DeVotchKa – First United Methodist – 4/02/2011
Churches are significant cultural spaces for many reasons. They are built to both spiritual and practical aims: to focus reverence of the spirit and to reverberate the human voice. Unfortunately. most of us will never experience any given church. If you are a member of a church, you seldom visit others. If you’re not a member, you seldom […]
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Show Review: Eugene Kelley, Golden Birds – Revival – 4/01/2011
Friday’s show at Revival featured solo performances in a funky clothing shop. I didn’t get there in time to see Alexis Stevens open, but I did see Eugene Kelley play honest, workingman’s folk. His earnest voice has the right amount of gravel; not by pretense, but by raw emotion. Golden Birds’ Roger plays driving guitar but […]
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Show Review: Or, the Whale — Iowa City Yacht Club — 3/30/2011
There was country music in the Yacht Club last night, and it was glorious. Most of us know the Yacht Club as a funky basement with a heady smell, home to blistering jams and dance parties. However, last night’s show was full of twang from beginning to end. Dubuque’s Kerosene Circuit opened with their gritty roots rock, […]
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Show Review: Jeff Tweedy/Snowblink at Mission Creek – Englert Theatre – 3/30/2011
Photos by Bill Adams Last night, Snowblink and Jeff Tweedy utilized all the space of The Englert Theatre to glorious effect, filling it with warm, reverberating music. Daniela Gesundheit of Snowblink crafts a lonesome, ringing sound with her haunting voice, rife with echoes of Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris and a touch of Karen O. The band […]
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An Interview with Alex Robins of Or, The Whale
Or, the Whale is playing Wednesday, March 30, at the Iowa City Yacht Club (13 S. Linn St) at 9:00. I asked Alex Robins, lead vocalist and guitarist, some questions: I understand that your name, Or, The Whale, is also an alternate title for Melville’s Moby Dick. Why did you choose that name? Our name […]
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An Interview with Alex Toth of Rubblebucket
Rubblebucket is playing Monday, March 28 at Gabe’s (13 S. Linn St.). I asked Alex Toth, trumpeter for Rubblebucket, some questions.
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Wye Oak
w. Callers Monday April 4 – The Mill – $8 advance, $10 door Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner named the band Wye Oak in remembrance of the largest white oak in the U.S., which was destroyed by lightning in 2002. Like this majestic tree, the music of Wye Oak branches and spreads, surrounding listeners with […]
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Or, The Whale
w. Chamberlin, Kerosene Circuit Wednesday, Mar. 30 – Yacht Club This San Francisco septet takes its name from the alternate title of Melville’s Moby Dick. Like that fish story, Or, The Whale’s music is about glory, obsession, beauty and loss. Or, The Whale defy classification with their sepia-toned blend of vocal harmonies, slide guitars and […]
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Dark Dark Dark
w. Here We Go Magic, Pillars & Tongues, Skye Carrasco Friday, April 1 – The Mill – $10 advance, $12 door A mélange of musicians with disparate influences, Dark Dark Dark craft beautifully arranged, powerful yet vulnerable chamber pop. The group, which began as a collaboration between Nona Marie Invie and Marshall LaCount, layers haunting […]
