Bubblegum Necropolis EP by SLW + BBJR Iowa is beautiful: a land of verdant cornfields, ball diamonds, quaint small towns and Shire-like rolling hills. But the realities of life are grim: the mask of “Iowa nice” all too often hides a deep core of red-state intolerance. Those acres of corn are nurtured by chemicals that […]
Bob Bucko Jr.
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Album Reviews: Bob Bucko Jr. and Samuel Locke Ward — ‘Discount Sacrifice At The Altar Of Bargains’
Discount Sacrifice At The Altar Of Bargains by BBJR + SLW I can’t stop thinking about this album. When it dropped in December of last year, I’d kind of resigned myself to not writing about it, just given the way our coverage schedule usually falls out. Typically, I avoid running reviews of albums that dropped […]
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A Homecoming homecoming for Denver’s Iowa-rooted New Standards Men
Denver, Colorado-based band New Standards Men have strong ties to Iowa City’s fractally enmeshed music scene.
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Album Review: Bob Bucko Jr – I Did What I Could With What I Had
Unless you are a devotee of uninterrupted streaming, or 5-disc CD changers, you know that there’s an eerie silence that lingers after an album is over. It can shock you out of your reverie, demolish whatever translated worldview your music of choice has created for you. It’s how you realize that the world around you is lacking…
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Bob Bucko Jr. wants to share some music with you this Sunday at Gabe’s
Dubuque, Iowa’s strangest son, Bob Bucko JR, will be playing Gabe’s on Sunday, January 5 for a free show. Bohemian Ghost, All Dogs Invited, and William Danger…
