Wylde Nept The Mill — Saturday, July 23 at 9 p.m. It’s always a raucous party whenever Wylde Nept comes to town. This time, they’ll be at The Mill on Saturday, July 23 for a set kicking off at 9 p.m. Often, Nept’s revelries are associated with some special event, such as their legendary Halloween […]
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Support local radio! KICI hosts benefit featuring Cedar County Cobras and more
KICI Radio 105.3 FM Benefit and Donor Appreciation Concert Weather Dance Fountain Stage — Saturday, July 23 at 4 p.m. Local radio station KICI 105.3 will be hosting a concert on the Weather Dance…
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No boys aloud: The Coathangers headline all-women bill at Trumpet Blossom
The Coathangers The Trumpet Blossom Cafe — Wednesday, July 20 at 8 p.m. Mission Creek Festival hosts a night of punk, grunge and metal at the Trumpet Blossom Cafe tonight at 8 p.m. with three all-lady rock acts including Iowa City’s own Younger, L.A. Witch and Atlanta’s The Coathangers. The show is hot off the […]
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Traditional Indian chanting and sound healing workshop in Iowa City
The Healing Power of Sacred Sound The Conscious Living Center — Wednesday, July 20 at 7 p.m. The Conscious Living Center (2711 Muscatine Ave, Iowa City) welcomes Dr. Hariharan, a composer and music therapist based out of Pondicherry, India, back to Iowa City for a night of Kirtan singing and guided meditation on Wednesday, July […]
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Iowa City doom trio Aseethe signs with Thrill Jockey
Iowa City doom metal trio Aseethe have signed with Chicago-based record label Thrill Jockey to produce their upcoming 2017 record. Guitarist Brain Barr, bassist Danny Barr and drummer Eric Diercks have been cutting records and performing their ambient sludge metal in the Midwest for nearly ten years. This is a big deal right? From a […]
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Election season miracle? Insane Clown Posse to perform in Iowa City this fall
Yes. It’s happening. Insane Clown Posse will perform at Iowa City’s Blue Moose Tap House on Friday, Oct. 28 at 5:30 p.m. Tickets will go on sale July 8. The Detroit-based rappers are heading to Iowa City to round out the second leg of their Riddle Box Tour, the group announced today to throngs of […]
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James McCartney talks about his new album ‘The Blackberry Train’ and the therapeutic relief music gives him
James McCartney, although beginning his life surrounded by some of the most iconic music by virtue of familial ties, is not one to rely on this advantage. In fact, McCartney only began performing in his thirties the music he’d practiced for decades. In a deliberate shirking of what would otherwise be seen as inherited fame, […]
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The dual personae of the Jayhawks
The Jayhawks at the Book it to Iowa City Bash Main stage (Clinton Street and Iowa Avenue) — Friday, July 27 at 8:15 p.m. Note: This story was originally published before a 2016 Jayhawks performance at the Englert Theatre. 2016 marks 30 years since the release of the Jayhawks’ self-titled debut album. Formed in 1985, […]
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Track premiere: The Lonelyhearts, ‘A Meteorologist Suspects (Don’t Tread On Me)’
The Lonelyhearts, a duo made up of Fort Collins-based guitarist John Lindenbaum and Iowa City’s Andre Perry on keyboards, is releasing their fourth full-length album tomorrow, Apr. 22. A full review of Age of Man is available in Little Village 197, currently on stands. In advance of that release, they are premiering a track off […]
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Just announced: Little Village presents Laura Gibson with The Lonelyhearts and Alexis Stevens at the Englert
Little Village Presents: Laura Gibson with The Lonelyhearts and Alexis Stevens The Englert Theatre — Thursday, May 19 at 7:30 p.m. On May 19, the Englert Theatre, with presenting sponsor Little Village, welcomes songwriter Laura Gibson to the stage. The Portland, Ore. singer is currently based out of New York, and is touring in support […]
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Dan DiMonte and the Bad Assettes drop a new single and head back to The Mill
Dan DiMonte and the Bad Assettes, with Goose Town and Lewis Knudsen The Mill — Thursday, Apr. 14 at 9 p.m. Coming off the release of a new single, Iowa City-based jazz-infused rockers Dan DiMonte and the Bad Assettes return to The Mill tonight for a show with Goose Town, based out of Cedar Falls, […]
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Album Review: A432 – Broken
A432 (Iowa City’s Logan Stimmel) calls himself a sound artist, rather than a musician — which means that I have high confidence many Little Village readers will not like Broken. A432’s music sits in the general vicinity of the music of Autechre and Richard Devine. It is deliberately abstract, without being arbitrary. Any sounds that originated as acoustic vibrations in air (i.e., “normal” music or location recordings) have been digitally altered and treated to render them unrecognizable.
