DTCV announced Sunday that an unfortunate “deer encounter” has forced the group to cancel the rest of their US tour, including a scheduled performance on October 1 at The Mill in Iowa City. The collision totaled the group’s touring van, though DTCV’s update suggests that the tour’s cancellation is the result of injuries sustained in […]
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Chicken Little Reviews: The Mill
For the uninitiated, which I assume is none of you, The Mill is, according to a tweet from Menomena, “the most fun [you will have in a restaurant] in years, if not decades! great place, great peeps.” The “great peeps” during my Friday lunch at noon were just me and the waitress. She did not […]
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Show preview: Mary Gauthier and Ray Wylie Hubbard tonight at The Mill
Mary Gauthier and Ray Wylie Hubbard are scheduled to play the Mill tonight night at 8 p.m. Gauthier’s honest, heartfelt songwriting has garnered praise from legends like…
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Catching up with Serengeti, performing at the Mill on August 17
Through the skillful layering of references to various touchstones of Chicago culture, rapper Serengeti crafts a lyrical landscape in which his somewhat bizarre…
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Show preview: Bleeding Rainbow at the Mill
I would say that the upcoming Bleeding Rainbow show at the Mill would be a great show for a date, but the band might not appreciate that sentiment. The Philadelphia-based fuzz pop rockers previously known as Reading Rainbow recently changed their name to something that sounds more grown up and edgy.
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Tonight at The Mill: So Many Dynamos are onto something
When thinking of the nebulous indie-pop scene that spanned much of the ’00s, three things come to mind: Piercing tenors, square-rimmed glasses and countless young emo and indie-pop groups that utterly disappeared before getting a chance to bridge that awkward gap between adolescence and adulthood.
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The Other Side of Hip Hop: Louis Logic tonight at The Mill
Brooklyn rapper Louis Logic will be making a stop at the Mill tonight as part of the “Geordi la Forgery” tour, which is both a clever Star Trek reference and a fun line-up of indie hip-hop artists. The brainchild of the Geordi tour is 21-year-old Milo aka Rory Ferreira, a self-proclaimed art rapper who is vegetarian, tosses out pro wrestling references and reads Jacques Derrida in his spare time. Ion and Iowa City’s AWTHNTKTS will also be opening.
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At The Mill: Alex Bleeker and the Freaks with Sleepy Kitty, Lonelyhearts, Dewi Sant
For Iowa City, the chaos of a new semester may be knocking, but we don’t have to open the door quite yet. Some of your friends are back in town, and The Mill is offering the perfect opportunity to catch up with them over light beers and chilled-out indie rock. It’s 8:30 p.m. now, night […]
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Photos: No Coast plays penultimate show with Christopher The Conquered and H.D. Harmsen
No Coast played their second-to-last show at The Mill last night. They were joined by Christopher The Conquered and H.D. Harmsen, who are out on tour together…
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Interview: Christopher the Conquered talks current projects and upcoming Eastern Iowa shows
Central Iowa staple Chris Ford (a.k.a. Christopher the Conquered) has a couple of shows scheduled for Eastern Iowa in the next week, one this Sunday at The Mill…
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Your guide to the Firecracker 500 Festival
The Fourth of July is right around the corner, and that not only means grilling out, day drinking and illegally setting off fireworks in your yard, but also the return of the Firecracker 500 Festival. For the third consecutive year, Firecracker 500 will feature some of the coolest garage, psych and soul bands both from the midwest and beyond, including a ton of local favorites like The Ills, Lipstick Homicide, Good Habits and Autodramatics. Spanning four nights, the festival’s first half will take place at The Mill ($10 cover each night), but will move to Blue Moose Tap House for both Friday ($12) and Saturday ($15) evenings. Below are a few highlights that attempt to capture the diversity and awesomeness of this year’s line-up.
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The return of Tilly and the Wall
When Tilly and the Wall arrived on the national stage, the five-piece had already been plugging away quietly in Omaha for some time. Formed in 2001–due in part to the demise of several other Omaha-based bands around the same time, including Conor Oberst’s Park Ave.–their first show took place at an open mic event, and their first album was recorded in Oberst’s garage. That’s pretty indie rock, right?
