In general, I don’t drink – but I am certainly going to have a Mission Creek hangover. Despite my exhaustion, tinnitus and many hours spent looking over and over at images I captured, I made it to the Mill again tonight.
Mission Creek Festival
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Show Photos: Guided by Voices, Times New Viking @ Blue Moose – 4/2
I am a fairly new GBV fan, and while I understood the magnitude of their legacy, I had no idea what I was in for seeing them live. I heard the stories about how they play for hours and chain smoke despite microphones and guitar solo high kicks – how they are more energetic than I am on my best day – how they are one of the most serious rock shows I will ever see. All of this is absolutely true.
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Show Review – DeVotchKa – First United Methodist – 4/02/2011
Churches are significant cultural spaces for many reasons. They are built to both spiritual and practical aims: to focus reverence of the spirit and to reverberate the human voice. Unfortunately. most […]
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Show Photos: Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Devotchka @ First Methodist – 4/2
Tonight was epic. Walking into First Methodist for a show was strange at first, bringing back memories of the time I spent in churches as a child. I couldn’t help […]
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Show Photos: Skye Carrasco @ PS1 – 4/1
Skye stopped in to the KRUI camp at Public Space One on Friday to give folks a taste of what they’d be getting at the Mill later that night. Surrounded by soft, glowing fluorescent hatchets, (part of the art exhibit presently on display) Skye wove a tapestry of sound with her violin and her stunning voice.
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Show Photos: Winter's Ruby, Slut River @ PS1 – 3/31
If you’re paying attention, all my blog posts have been chronological. Winter’s Ruby and Slut River closed out the night immediately after the Super Sonic Piss show (@ the Tobacco Bowl) I raved about in my last post. I was so exhausted at this point, but it was the right decision to prop my eyelids open and stick with it ’til the end.
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Tonight I bought a Maker's For Amber Tamblyn
Tonight I bought a Maker’s Mark For Amber Tamblyn
Not to celebrate drunkenness but to celebrate intoxication.
To celebrate how words can get you high
how the idea of being out of your mind
can take you out of your mind.
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Show Photos: Stare Case, Mirror/Dash @ the Mill – 3/31
After a full day of lecture/q&a style appearances, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore and Chris Corsano took the stage at the Mill to make some pretty sweet noise. I enjoyed watching […]
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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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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 […]
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Show Photos: Railroad Earth @ Englert Theater – 3/29
Railroad Earth and Brighton, MA played at the Englert on Tuesday. Little did I know then, that show was at about hour 8 of my 34-hour stretch of insomnia. I […]
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Show Photos: Alex Body, Zomes, Skull Defekts with Dan Higgs
I unfortunately missed the first set at the Wherehouse last night, so the last three sets are all I have for you today. I caught local sound-charmer Alex Body, Zomes, […]
