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LVTV | We The Ravine on Little Village Live! // 6/20/2012
We The Ravine from Iowa City, Iowa performing at Public Space One on June 20th, 2012. —- “Ulcers” “Handsome Tail” “(Uninspired Religious Story, or, Otherwise Untitled)” To hear more from We The Ravine, visit their soundcloud @ http://soundcloud.com/we_the_ravine Little […]
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William Elliott Whitmore at the Trumpet Blossom Cafe – 7/23
The Trumpet Blossom Café keeps adding to the reasons why they are one of Iowa City’s newest treasures. Vegans and omnivores alike are already buzzing about the delicious creations coming from the kitchen and bar. The added bonus is they cater to your sense of sound, as well as taste, with live performances. Yesterday I […]
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Dreaming Big: An interview with Big K.R.I.T.
Big K.R.I.T. with Casey Veggies, BIG SANT // Blue Moose Tap House // July 15, 2012 // 7:00 p.m. $16-18 And they said rap would never last. Thirty-one years after Blondie’s “Rapture” video first appeared on MTV featuring Fab 5 Freddy and Grandmaster Flash, the genre has taken on uncountable incarnations, from “golden era” hip-hop […]
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Show Photos – Firecracker 500 Festival @ Gabe’s – June 28th-30th
Even though firecrackers are technically illegal in Iowa, the Firecracker 500 Festival had no problem festively blowing up Gabe’s, uh, with music, that is. Twenty-three bands stomped and sweated across the stage over three days, and the audience stomped and sweated right along with them. It’s clear that the music scene in this town is hardcore […]
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Preview: Firecracker 500 Festival 2012 – June 28-30 at Gabe’s
This weekend at Gabe’s, the Firecracker 500 Festival is back! Twenty-five bands from Iowa City, Chicago, Tennessee, Alabama and other primarily midwestern spots will be creating enough noise to make your ears bleed for weeks. Beginning in 1997, the original Firecracker 500 featured The Exotics, The Delstars and Iowa City’s own The Bent Scepters (who […]
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Album Review: Lake Street Dive – Fun Machine
Fun Machine EP lakestreetdive.com Lake Street Dive is a four-piece birthed from Boston’s New England Conservatory Jazz program, mixologists of the perfect martini of soul, folk and jazz, shaken not stirred, and garnished with a sprig of indie-pop sensibility. This intoxicating formula is equal parts spare, precise percussion delivered by Philly native Mike Calabrese, brassy […]
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Iowa Opera House Project brings Old Venues Back to Life + Free Music Download
Iowa was a lonely place not that long ago. The 19th century saw its quiet prairie oceans replaced with cultivated fields as diligent settlers traipsed westward across the continent. Railroad companies would soon lay down steel tracks across the state, ushering in new waves of settlers looking to call Iowa their home. Farmers’ loneliness would […]
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Review: Moonface at the Mill – June 17, 2012
Moonface isn’t normally the kind of music that makes you want to get up and dance. But at their show on Sunday at the Mill, I found myself shuffling, nodding, swaying … riding a crescendo of sound that culminated in the closest approximation to “dancing” this non-dancer can manage. Yeah, it was that kind of […]
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Review: Destroyer & Sandro Perri at Blue Moose Tap House – June 11, 2012
In a column I wrote a couple months ago, I talked about taking a chance on live music and how more people should. For this particular concert, I took my own advice because I went to see Destroyer and Sandro Perri knowing only three things about both acts: they’re Canadian, both are internationally known, and […]
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Local Music Project comes to the ICPL
After loaning music for decades, the Iowa City Public Library has found an innovative way to support Iowa City’s music scene and stay abreast of the changing music climate. On June 7, the ICPL launched a new service called “The Local Music Project,” providing local music to residents at no cost. The project, pioneered by […]
