Sam Locke Ward texted me a request to record this show, which was all the reason I needed. I don’t know if it’s even necessary to say that everyone involved in this show I consider a friend, and that beyond that, I’m a fan, and if that wasn’t enough, I’ve played with, or done audio […]
Iowa City live music
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Live Sets From Mission Creek: Mountains, Ex-Action-Model & More!
Venue hopping Wednesday Night during Mission Creek, I record some live sets and take a few pictures.
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Iowa City Weekender: April 14-17
More action than you can shake a very long stick at this weekend.
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Show Review: Cave Singers, Grand Tetons @ Blue Moose Tap House – 4/12/2011
You probably decided to spend Tuesday evening outside, enjoying the gorgeous spring weather on your porch or in your backyard, surrounded by friends and cool beverages. However, you should have come see the Cave Singers and Grand Tetons play some great front porch Americana music upstairs at the Blue Moose Taphouse.
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On the Beat: It's Raining Shows
In Langston Hughes’ 1921 poem “April Rain Song,” the thing that everyone hates about April–its big problem–is instead turned into a point of celebration, ending with the lines, “The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night / And I love the rain.” This point was totally lost on Billie Myers, who borrowed the phrase “Kiss the Rain” (taken from the poem’s first line) to create…
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Iowa City Weekender: April 7-9
Mission Creek is over. Try something new. A change might do you good.
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This Happened: A Mission Creek Memoir
Pretty sure I lost part of my brain back there, pinballing from The Blue Moose to The Yacht Club to Gabe’s and back again. I’ll recover that lost chunk, if begrudgingly. Because losing your head to music is worth the sacrifice.
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Show Preview: The Ragbirds, Yacht Club 4/2
The Ragbirds have toured 40 states to the tune of 150+ shows a year since 2006, but only first visited Iowa on December 1, 2010. How did they not know we’d love them here?
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Day Four: Video from the 2011 Mission Creek Festival
We’ve passed the midpoint of the 2011 Mission Creek Festival, so why not mark the occasion with an absurd amount of video from the festival’s Wednesday night performances? Below you’ll find video of Peter Wolf Crier, Utopia Park, Native and many more, so scroll, scroll, scroll. Go on and give that mouse wheel a workout. […]
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Show Review: Or, the Whale — Iowa City Yacht Club — 3/30/2011
There was country music in the Yacht Club last night, and it was glorious. Most of us know the Yacht Club as a funky basement with a heady smell, home to blistering jams and dance parties. However, last night’s show was full of twang from beginning to end. Dubuque’s Kerosene Circuit opened with their gritty roots rock, […]
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Photos: Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano; Das Racist on KRUI – 3/31
Since KRUI has hunkered down at Public Space One for the week, they have seen a myriad of performers trek through. On Thursday, I snuck down there just in time to catch Kim, Thurston and Chris chatting with our lovely KRUI djs.
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Little Village Live on KRUI: Santah 3/23/2011
Little Village Live airs Wednesdays from 5-6 PM on KRUI 89.7 FM. Santah joined us at Public Space One on March 23. Download and listen to their acoustic set of evocative, personal songs here.
