Polymath Barry Phipps is a former art school kid turned musician whose skill set steadily expanded to encompass photography, modular synthesizer experiments, DJing, audio engineering and, most recently, forays into filmmaking. When he enrolled at the Kansas Art Institute to pursue visual art back in 1986, he was primed to seize every creative opportunity that […]
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An early Velvet Underground ‘protégé,’ Jonathan Richman wrote his way into punk history while trying to troll the hippies
Jonathan Richman can still pinpoint how the Velvet Underground transformed his life with their collar-grabbing sound back in 1967. “It was on record and it was that drone! Oh my God! They changed everything!” As a teenager, he saw the band over 80 times and was a regular presence before and after gigs. “If the […]
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There are 52 quintillion versions of the ‘Eno’ documentary. Iowans will see two of them this week.
The new documentary about glam rocker, pop producer and non-musician Brian Eno has been dubbed the “first generative feature film.” No two viewings are ever one and the same.
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Follow-up: David Byrne on his trip to the Des Moines Social Club
Artist and former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne returned to Iowa last Saturday to deliver a keynote speech at The Des Moines Social Club’s grand opening…
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David Byrne journals about Iowa: “Beyond cool”
Following his visit for 80/35 alongside St. Vincent, David Byrne — one of the most celebrated artists of our time — has written a substantive reflection piece on his time spent in Des Moines. In it, he includes a bold proposition: …this is America as it’s suposed to be, or close to it. It’s imperfect, […]
