Deer Tick has evolved and adapted over the years where similar indie-rock bands have faltered and burned out. While not without their share of a hard-partying and rock and roll lifestyle, their sincerity keeps their craft authentic and their fanbase steadily growing…
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Just announced: Lily & Madeleine at The Mill this May
Lily & Madeleine The Mill — Saturday, May 21 at 8 p.m. Folk duo Lily & Madeleine started out in music by uploading YouTube videos when they were in high school. Since then, the perilously youthful Jurkiewickz sisters (the younger, Lily, is still in her teens) have released three albums and cemented their place in […]
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Interview deep cut: Freakwater on the intricacies of recording and touring
Freakwater The Mill — Tue., Mar. 15 at 8 p.m. In this deep cut from Mike Roeder’s interview with Freakwater, parts of which were published in issue 194, Catherine Irwin and Janet Beveridge Bean talk about the record industry, their new album and touring with the band that built it. Freakwater plays tonight, Tuesday Mar. […]
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Just announced: Black Mountain at The Mill
Black Mountain The Mill — Wednesday, Jun. 15 at 8 p.m. Formed in 2004, Vancouver band Black Mountain has released three albums and half a dozen EPs in their 12 years together, most on the preeminent Jagjaguwar, their current label. On Apr. 1, they’re set to release their fourth studio album, the aptly titled IV. […]
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Freakwater hits the road with their first studio album in nearly a decade
Freakwater The Mill — Tue., Mar. 15 at 8 p.m. Janet Beveridge Bean and Catherine Irwin have been collaborating, writing and performing for over 30 years as Freakwater. Often saddled by media with the distinction of having pre-dated the insurgence of alternative country in the late ’80s and early ’90s, they will sarcastically attribute that […]
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Rapper Vince Staples returns to Iowa City
Vince Staples Blue Moose Tap House — Monday, Mar. 7 at 6:30 p.m. “What is the ‘little village?’ ” Vince Staples asks. We’ve only just begun our interview, and he’s beaten me out the gate with the first question. He seems a bit trepidatious and, once I’ve fumbled through an awkward answer about the song […]
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St. Louis’ Foxing heads to Iowa City
Foxing Gabe’s — Saturday, Mar. 5 at 6:30 p.m. “Foxing is a band,” the bio on the St. Louis-based group’s Bandcamp page asserts. “Someday Foxing won’t be a band.” This graceful impermanence permeates the band’s ethos — from their name (taken from a term for the way that brown spots appear on, and eventually obfuscate, […]
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Anchiskhati Ensemble bring ancient polyphonic harmonies to Iowa City
Anchiskhati Ensemble St. Raphael Orthodox Church — Thursday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. People in the nation of Georgia have been singing the same songs for a very long time. On Thursday, February 25 at 7:30 p.m., four members of the renowned Anchiskhati Ensemble of Tblisi will perform some of this remarkable music at St. […]
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Brooklyn’s Great Caesar bring their love of community and great music to Iowa City
Great Caesar The Mill — Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. Great Caesar, the six-piece, Brooklyn-based band that blends chamber rock and indie soul, will be playing at the Mill Tuesday, February 23 at 8 p.m., as part of what they are calling a brief but triumphant Midwest tour. After performing in Chicago over the […]
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The Maytags finally make it to Iowa City
Groovement, with The Maytags The Yacht Club — Friday, Feb. 12 at 10 p.m. The members of the Maytags — Dustin Smith, Andy Poppen, Tim Sanders, Nick Leo, Ben Chappell, Daniel Kreipke, Sam Mogerman — have been playing together off-and-on, in various iterations, for years, and you can tell. The tight, hot, soul-rock sounds on […]
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TWONK Di NATION Bus Tour swings through IC with a stop at the Blue Moose
Brillz TWONK Di NATION Tour Blue Moose Tap House — Tuesday, Feb. 1 at 9 p.m.
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Mission Creek Festival residency program brings Ian Svenonius to Iowa City
An Evening with Ian Svenonius Trumpet Blossom Café — Friday, Jan. 29 at 9 p.m. Acclaimed Washington, D.C.-based musician Ian Svenonius is headed to the chill midwest to take part in Mission Creek Festival’s artist-in-residence program. Best known for his work with bands Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up and Weird War, Svenonius’ residency here will […]
