“Which parking lot are we gonna live in now?” Charlie Vestal was a creature of parking lots, basements, DIY venues, skate parks, junk stores and late night song circles. His song “Night Motivation,” his parking lot paean, has stricken me deeply lately and I can’t see the nighttime locales of Ames, his haunts for the […]
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Take a trip: Maximum Ames Music Fest set for this weekend
The Maximum Ames Music Festival kicks off this Thursday, bringing the likes of Sage Francis, William Elliott Whitmore, Low and many more to Ames, Iowa for a four-day music blowout. Unfortunately, not all of us in Iowa City can drop what we’re doing and make the trek over to Ames to attend the four-day event. So if you can only make it out for one day, make it Sunday…
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Nova Labs puts out 26 releases in first year of operation
July marks the first anniversary of Nova Labs, a small, independent record label based out of Ames and founded by Bryon Dudley and Matt Dake. Their first year was a big one—with 26 releases from an all-Iowan artist roster—and the label shows no signs of slowing down. Focusing on avant-garde artists on the fringes of […]
