Last week I stopped by the Summer Camp Battle of the Bands at the Yacht Club and was reminded that, every now and then, you just need to be in a sweaty basement full of smiling hippies on drugs. High fives, hugs… they are good for the soul. And funk music, predictable tho it may […]
live music
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Knight Time
Features, March 2010 – Sure, an open mic is like a box of chocolates, but Monday night at the Mill is my favorite lime cream-centered, caramel pecan toffee of a weekly free music night in Iowa City. Since 1981, Open Mic with J. Knight has been an Iowa City institution, a place where up-and-coming talent […]
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Blue Moose Rising: Iowa City Weekender, March 4-7
Welcome to a special ‘Blue Moose Rising’ edition of the Weekender. For the last couple of months the newest venue downtown has been making a pretty big splash booking acts like Saint Vincent, Hyper Crush, Motion City Soundtrack and of course Iowa City’s prodigal son William Elliott Whitmore (just to name a few). This weekend […]
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Wet Hair on Little Village Live – Java House – 2/19/10
Wet Hair http://www.myspace.com/wethairgoldsounds
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Annie Palmer on Little Village Live – 2/9/10
Milwaukee pt 2 Won’t You Let Me Carolina
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Opinion: The Picador
The little club that everyone loves to gossip about was back on blast for the last few weeks, thanks to at least four events: 1, the place being put up for sale; 2, some slightly disparaging comments made by another LV writer, which in turn sparked an internet mini-flame war; 3, the fact that the […]
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The Boo Hoos, Lipstick Homicide, Hott, and Old Panther Live 1-23!
I hauled out the trusty Zoom H4 to the Mill last Saturday night, and recorded some good ol homegrown Iowa Rock & Roll. So Here it is, with no commercial interruption! All pics (except the first) were taken by the person I know only as Barefoot Adrienne — see all her pictures from the night […]
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Iowa City Weekender: January 28-February 1
This week’s Weekender is brought to you by the ICPL eAudio collection Greetings, Weekenders! Thank you to all who tuned in last night for Little Village Live, our weekly radio show over at KRUI, and a huge thank you to special guest Ben Schmidt for the wonderful live in-studio performance. Accompanied by the terrific Larry […]
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SHOW REVIEW: DMX at The Coralville Marriott, 12/11/2009
DMX was a non-stop growling and barking hit factory back in the nineties and into the new millennium. The fifth best-selling rapper of all time? Five back to back #1 albums on Billboard? When local promoters Amaza Show brought him to the Marriott in Coralville to head up a bill, I was excited. Memories stirred […]
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Iowa City Weekender: December 10-13
Who needs shopping malls when you’ve got more art per square inch than any other town on the planet!
– Graduate Painting open house this Friday
– Get all yer holiday shopping done this weekend at W.A.L.O.C. 6 and Eastside Artists
– Oh, and live music? Warm up your weekend with the Caribbean funk of Jumbies, for free at the Yacht Club tonight, then curl up with Cuddle Magic this Saturday at the Mill
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Iowa City Weekender: December 3-5
This Weekender is sponsored by UI Fine Arts Council… Aaaaahh. Nothing like the smell of newsprint in the morning. The fresh ink on crisp pages, not yet dogeared and smudged with love. That’s right folks, a brand new Little Village – December’s Holi-D.I.Y. special, the insider’s guide to the hippest holidays around – is hittin’ […]
