Last Monday, November 8, Kate Nash took Iowa City by storm starting with a great, live in-studio performance on Little Village Live, recorded at KRUI studios, hosted by Craig Eley. Please enjoy these videos and feel free to pass them around, but first, giving creds! Camera: Robert Nelson Interview: Craig Eley Engineer: Andrew Ingersoll Editing: […]
Iowa City live music
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Iowa City Weekender: November 11-15
A special long version of the Weekender. From Thursday to Monday.
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Iowa City Weekender: November 4-7
There’s so much good stuff this weekend that we’re giving you TWO options for each night, from Thursday to Saturday.
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Album Review: Katharine Ruestow – Self-titled
You might be familiar with Katharine Ruestow as one of the Diplomettes–the female vocal duo that fronts the Iowa City Soul and R&B group The Diplomats of Solid Sound–or as part of Iowa City band New Beat Society, which gigged around town in 2005 and 2006 and released one EP, Bare Essentials. Ruestow’s self-titled solo […]
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Iowa City Weekender: October 28-31
Halloween’s an important holiday. There are a lot of things to do. Here are some things that The Weekender thinks you’d be into.
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VIDEO: The Wandering Bears and Bo & The Locomotive
Last Tuesday Grand Tetons, Bo & The Locomotive and The Wandering Bears played The Mill’s Tuesday Night Social Club. Here are a couple of songs from the sets of Bo & The Locomotive and The Wandering Bears. Bo & The Locomotive Bo & The Locomotive The Wandering Bears
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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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Iowa City Weekender: October 21-23
THURSDAY
Phantogram w. Josiah Wolf | The Blue Moose Tap House | 6 p.m. | $12, all ages
Electronic/rock duo Phantogram is astounding. They’ve already gained notoriety in Iowa City for upstaging an Antlers headlining show at the Blue Moose Tap House. Now they return, as sure as ever, with their slick beats, lilting vocals, and sick guitar hooks to tear up Iowa City in their own right.
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VIDEO: Vagabonds live @ College Green Park
Last Saturday afternoon, local folk sweethearts The Vagabonds graced College Green Park with their presence and old-timey tunes. Here are just a couple of the tracks they performed. Sam Blickhan and Sarah Mannix, members of the Vagabonds, can be seen tonight at the Mill performing in another of their local music projects The Wandering Bears.
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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!
