The week has been cloudy and grey. The weekend will not. I will not allow it.
Gabe’s Iowa City
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Show Photos: "Name Crisis", Coyote Grace, Sam Knutson – 11/13
I joined some friends at Gabe’s for a show I didn’t really know much about and I learned to always trust these particular friends’ taste in music. This was a great show (as so many of them are). Name Crisis is called such because they haven’t yet picked a name, but they have certainly solidified […]
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Show Review: March Fourth Marching Band @ Gabe's – 11/8
All day yesterday I told people what an amazing show I had seen the previous evening at Gabe’s: the March Fourth Marching Band. “What were they like, Yale?” And that was the problem. I couldn’t say what they were “like” because they were so damn unique. I’d never seen anything “like” them ever before in […]
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Show Preview: Daphne Willis with Mike Droho and the Compass Rose, Gabe's, 10/22/2010
When she decided to pursue music, earnest, soulful, acoustic-strummin’ pop singer Daphne Willis didn’t waste any time. At twenty, she taught herself the basics, started playing shows and quickly recorded a demo. Her powerful voice, catchy song-crafting and lyrics beyond her years caught the attention of Nashville-based Vanguard Records, which offered her (now 23) a record deal.
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Show Preview: Thunder Power at Gabe’s 10/14/2010
Don’t let the name mislead you; there is little “thunder” in this ensemble’s repertoire. Rather, the Omaha band’s “power” lies more in their generous, cascading melodies and subtly shifting harmonies. Instead of complicating and cluttering these already compact pop songs with studio witchcraft, Thunder Power draw on the beguiling arrangements of Bacharach or, more recently, the early ’00 works of Sam Prekop.
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Iowa City Weekender: October 14-17
Greetings Weekenders, Can I get a Chi-Chi-Chi? Can I get a Le-Le-Le? How about a VIVA CHILE! Sorry, this might be yesterday’s news but the images and sounds of celebration are really getting to me this morning, tugging on the ol’ heart strings, making my eyes leaky, you know how it is sometimes. Okay, deep […]
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DVS1 @ Blue Moose Sat 10/9, Or Why You Should Care About Real Dance Music
REAL Dance Music touches down on Saturday night! There will be an evening of House and Techno dance music at the Blue Moose tomorrow, ending a drought in Iowa City of proper dance music events.
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Iowa City Weekender: October 7-10
It’s a beautiful world in Iowa City. Especially when we’re all doing our part to 1) Save the environment, and 2) Keep the art alive by going out to look at it, buy it, enjoy it and dance to it. Fortunately there are plenty of opportunities to do all of that this weekend. Here’s a checklist to help you make sure you have your fair share of the fun!
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On the Beat: October’s bag of tricks
Best known for Halloween, its costume-and-trickery grand finale, October leaves almost everything to the imagination. The theme of surprise and disguise has also been a trend this year in local music promotion. With the rapidly changing venue scene, including new owners/bookers/venues, a bunch of shows popped up that had people saying, “Really? That show is happening there?.
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Iowa City Weekender: September 30-October 2
Iowa City is pulling out all the stops to welcome visitors for homecoming weekend, so here are the things we are most looking forward to: THURSDAY The Poison Control Center w. Utopia Park, Mumfords | Gabe’s | 7:00 p.m. | $5, All Ages Some of the state’s most promising indie artists will be at Gabe’s […]
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Iowa City Weekender: Septemer 23-26
The Thursday Night Dance Party is alive and well downstairs at Gabe’s, the beer garden is waiting for you and upstairs: Some wicked live electronica. If you haven’t been to a Thursday night dance party in a while, tonight is the night for beats squared, upstairs and down, at 330 E Washington.
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Iowa City Weekender: August 19-21
If video content does not load correctly, please view original post here THURSDAY 9 Parts of Desire | Riverside Festival Stage at City Park | 8 p.m. | $8-12 Tonight is opening night for Dreamwell Theatre and Iowa City Community Theatre’s production of 9 Parts of Desire, a play by Heather Raffo that offers a […]
