Nobody makes a Maid-Rite, they’ll tell you, like Taylor’s in Marshalltown. That “they” includes the director of Top Gun: Maverick, Joseph Kosinski, who hails from the home of the last best loose-meat sandwich.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
Album Review: Buz Owen — ‘Sleep’
There are 12 drawings on the cover of Buz Owen’s most recent album, Sleep. There’s a bunny-eared television. A crucifix. An elephant. The images make up a visual tracklist for the album’s songs, music that draws from backyard bluegrass, folk and even Uncle Tupelo-era alt-country.
Posted inCentral Iowa
Hunt for golden records in Marshalltown’s sprawling vinyl palace, Wax Xtatic
Wax Xtatic Record Audio Stereo Shop in Marshalltown holds easily one of the largest inventories of new vinyl in Central Iowa, as well as the cleanest used vinyl section I’ve ever seen. Owned, organized and operated by John Blaubaum, the Marshalltown staple survived a mid-pandemic move in 2021 to its new space on Main Street. […]
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Red earth, Ray Young Bear and the UFO
This all ends with myself, hallowedly stoned and hearing an endless note in the wind, and Ray Young Bear, one of our greatest poets, singing bird songs on the bank of the Iowa River. We’re at the spot where, in 1980, a UFO attempted to abduct Ray and his wife, Stella Lasley-Young Bear. Ray had […]
