w. Land of Blood and Sunshine, Mumfords, Birth Rites – $6 Friday, April 1 – Blue Moose Tap House One part Pavement indie-rock enthusiasts and one part Elephant Six psych-pop geniuses, The Poison Control Center is one of the best rock and roll bands in the state of Iowa. Sad Sour Future, their 2010 album, […]
Blue Moose Tap House
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Guided By Voices
Saturday, April 2 – Blue Moose Tap House – $30 advance, $35 door Guided By Voices frontman and its only constant member, Robert Pollard, ended the group’s 18-year tenure in 2003. While Pollard retreated to his four-track recorder in Ohio, a torrent of bands like Times New Viking, No Age and The Vivian Girls would […]
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Iowa City Weekender: February 17-19
Since Watson beat Ken Jennings, it means that our computers will soon kill us. You should read this, so you can have some fun before they do.
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Iowa City Weekender: February 10-12
Next week starts with the tragic/lovely holiday that is Valentine’s Day. While this is nice, I don’t really care too much. More important to me is the fact that a computer is about to play some Jeopardy!. I’m personally thrilled about this. I can’t wait to see what happens.
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Iowa City Weekender: February 3-5
Bob Marley would be older if he weren’t dead. His legacy still lives on with us. We celebrate it and other events this weekend in Iowa City. Maybe it’ll help keep the mind away from all the snow removal.
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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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Iowa City Weekender: January 13-15
This weekend is eve of MLK Day weekend. Is that a real thing? Probably not, so get out on the town with your young ones and friends, maybe even at the same time.
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Show Photos: Langhorne Slim, Brooks Strause & the Gory Details, Ryan Lauder @ the Blue Moose – 12/10
My blogging catch up frenzy continues…this time with a show from last week instead of digging back into last month. Bear with me, as I am obsessively posting things before the sun has begun to rise. These three acts were well worth venturing out into a spitting wintery evening to get to the Blue Moose. […]
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On the Beat: Hometown sound
In Everything But The Girl’s “25th December” (one of those great non-Christmas Christmas songs that end up on “indie xmas” mix tapes), Ben Watt sings about the quintessential winter feeling: regret. “I’m thirty and I don’t know nothing no more,” he whines in the way that only British people can whine, thinking about old friends, […]
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Show Preview: Kathryn Musilek @ Blue Moose Tap 11.26.2010!
Formerly of Iowa City, now kicking ass and naming names in NYC, Kathryn Musilek is back to play a show the day after Thanksgiving at the Blue Moose!
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Show Photos: Mumford's/Sam Locke Ward and the Boo Hoos 7" release party 11/12
I have a bunch of photos to crank out, so I have to go skimpy on my write-ups for now. I rarely photograph shows that I think won’t be very good, so you can bet that all of these bands are worth checking out, if you’re not already familiar with them. I am counting on […]
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Iowa City Weekender: November 18-21
Bundle up and get to these events. You can shake your groove thing, laugh, hear beautiful songs, see amazing things, or remember how hard it was to be 10. All of these are better ideas that sitting in your house this weekend.
