JTrey are an Iowa Hip Hop Group that has been making CDs for some time, but the CD “Blue|Soul” is on a whole new level. They’ve progressed from an electronic beats + rhymes setup to a full band, and incorporated the amazing Jasmine as a third featured vocalist. I’ll save most of my praise for a full review in the next LV, but suffice it to say tonights CD release party is an event worth being a little sketchy tomorrow morning at work for.
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Show Photos – Sam Locke Ward, Paleo, Bob Bucko Jr, Douglas Nye @ the Mill, 1/18
Another lovely Tuesday Night Social Club at the Mill has come and gone. This week offered a lineup of great local singer-songwriters that I am sure you will have many opportunities to catch in the future. Maybe you should just start coming to Tuesday Night Social Club every week so you don’t miss anything good…ever. […]
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Show Preview: Henhouse Prowlers. Fri. 1/28 at the Iowa City Yacht Club
Probably the best dressed, most handsome, hardest touring, hardest playing and most toe-tappingly, leg-slappingly, butt shakingly get-up-out-of-your-chair-and DANCE Bluegrass act in the country right now, Chicago’s Henhouse Prowlers brings their own classic yet unique brand of bluegrass to Gabe’s this Friday night at 9:30 p.m.
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Video: Dead Larry Live at The Yacht Club
Topping off the Yacht Club’s day-long anniversary festivities was the ever-faithful Dead Larry. You know, your funky friends. The kind of friends that can plant a hook so deep in your musically-inclined subconscious, you’ll catch yourself singing the choruses for weeks.
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Video: Lick it Ticket live at The Yacht Club
The Yacht Club celebrated its eight year anniversary Saturday, and helping the venue celebrate were the gentlemen known as Lick it Ticket.
It just rolls right off the tongue, doesn’t it? Regardless, this experimental group from Cedar Falls took the stage just before Dead Larry capped off the day-long celebration. Check out video of their performance below, and stay tuned for the Dead Larry goods.
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Kris Wadsworth: Techno returns to Gabe's
Ain’t no party like a Detroit party at Gabe’s — Sophistifunk w/Kris Wadsworth.
DJ Jethro & DJ Uplift (Jeff Ryon & Brandon Richerson when the cops pull them over) are starting a new monthly dance event at Gabe’s they call Sophistifunk. Veteran DJs who’ve rocked the stage at Gabe’s back in the day many, many times, they’re bringing Kris Wadworth from Detroit to headline.
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First Announcements: Mission Creek Festival 2011
The first announcement about 2011 Mission Creek Festival dropped today. It should be obvious that the Little Village staff overlaps with the Mission Creek staff, and that we have been in the past and will be forever huge cheerleaders for the Mission Creek Festival. So full disclosure: we don’t pretend anything resembling objectivity here — we’re huge fans, we’re friends, we’ve held each other’s hair while we’ve puked.
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Mobb Deep: The Icaruses of Hardcore Hip-Hop
Mobb Deep tried to do large things, but they didn’t really succeed overall. They did at one moment, and that was The Infamous.
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Video: Rubblebucket Live at The Yacht Club
Rubblebucket dropped by The Yacht Club this weekend, and boy do we have some video to share with you.
The Brooklyn eight-piece is at its best when all guns are firing, though it’s hard not to single out Kalmia Traver’s ability to simultaneously shatter eardrums and melt hearts with her rock solid vocals. Check out the video below to see…
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On the Beat: January 2011
In 1953, a guy named Pat Best wrote a song for his band The Four Tunes, called “I Understand (Just How You Feel)” a Pop/R&B crossover that broke into the top 10 on both charts. The original recording is fine, if a bit basic, but soon the song was covered by a slew of pop groups–Elvis even did a demo of it at one point. My favorite version is by The G-Clefs, who, in one of the world’s greatest (and earliest?) mashups, combined the song with that traditional New Year’s jam, “Auld Lang Syne.”
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Caroline Smith & The Good Night Sleeps Sun. Jan 2 in Fairfield!
Caroline Smith & The Good Night Sleeps opened the Leslie & The Lys show at the Englert during the Mission Creek Festival, and while they were not as outre as Bitch or as goofy as Leslie Hall, they were some quality music. Caroline Smith has an unconventional voice, recalling Billy Holiday’s fragile, intimate delivery, but […]
