I don’t see much country music swing through here. Sure, there’s always bluegrass and twangy folk to be had on a regular basis, but not straight up, foot-stompin’ country music. I walked outside my comfort zone and caught Porch Builder and Mountain Sprout at Gabe’s on Thursday. They all seemed to be having fun up […]
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2011 Mission Creek Festival Guide
The 2011 Mission Creek Festival is finally approaching. Keep tabs on the 2011 roster after the jump.
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Iowa City Weekender: February 24-27
The Academy Awards are so significant that the Weekender is four days long instead of three. Oh, and there’s some really cool stuff happening before those golden statues get fondled by hands of varying attractiveness.
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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: January 27-29
Read this and find some options for entertainment this weekend.
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Iowa City Weekender: January 20 – 22
This is a bit of a slow weekend in Iowa City. There are a lot of sports events this weekend, but that’s not the focus of this column. They don’t pay me in beer and chewing gum to talk about sports. They pay me in real (paper) money to talk about culture and the arts around this fair city of ours. Let’s do that!
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Kris Wadsworth: Techno returns to Gabe's
Ain’t no party like a Detroit party at Gabe’s — Sophistifunk w/Kris Wadsworth.
DJ Jethro & DJ Uplift (Jeff Ryon & Brandon Richerson when the cops pull them over) are starting a new monthly dance event at Gabe’s they call Sophistifunk. Veteran DJs who’ve rocked the stage at Gabe’s back in the day many, many times, they’re bringing Kris Wadworth from Detroit to headline.
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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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On the Beat: January 2011
In 1953, a guy named Pat Best wrote a song for his band The Four Tunes, called “I Understand (Just How You Feel)” a Pop/R&B crossover that broke into the top 10 on both charts. The original recording is fine, if a bit basic, but soon the song was covered by a slew of pop groups–Elvis even did a demo of it at one point. My favorite version is by The G-Clefs, who, in one of the world’s greatest (and earliest?) mashups, combined the song with that traditional New Year’s jam, “Auld Lang Syne.”
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Iowa City Weekender: New Year's Special
This is the only thing you will need to navigate New Year’s Eve in Iowa City.
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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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Show Photos: Olivia Rose Muzzy, Stephanie Rearick, Alex Body @ the Mill – 11/13
I managed to pull a double show night, hurrying my tail through the cold of the Ped Mall between sets to shoot this lovely show at the Mill, while simultaneously shooting a show at Gabe’s (Featuring Coyote Grace and Sam Knutson — see those photos here). Not to toot my own horn, but I didn’t […]
