Mexico’s counter-culture movement during the 1960’s fostered some amazing, though not very well known in the U.S., psychedelic and garage rock bands. As anyone familiar with the likes of Los Dug Dugs, Los Shakes or The Spiders can attest, these bands knew how to combine American rock and roll with a raw energy and weirdness that was all their own. Following in this tradition comes Mexico City’s The Risin’ Sun, performing at the Yacht Club on August 20.
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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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An interview with the Kinsey Sicks
The Kinsey Sicks have been delighting fans with their poignant brand of political satire since rising out of San Francisco’s Castro District in the early ’90s. Billing themselves as a Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet, the group formed on a lark after a few friends showed up to a Bette Midler concert in drag and quickly…
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Old Capitol City Roller Girls and FilmScene partner up for first ever double-header Saturday
The Old Capitol City Roller Girls (OCCRG) are hosting two bouts this Saturday at the Marriott in Coralville. In addition to being their fall home-opener, this will be…
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Tonight at the Yacht Club: John June Year
Cedar Falls indie-rock group John June Year is scheduled to play the Yacht Club today at 10:00 p.m. Since forming just over a year ago, they’ve released an EP titled […]
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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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Show Preview: Mickey Hart at the Englert Theatre
You may know Mickey Hart as having been a percussionist for the Grateful Dead for over 30 years, but don’t expect his show at the Englert Thursday to be a series of Dead covers. Hart has spent his long career traveling the world and learning different cultures’ musical styles, and this global influence is very apparent in the music the Mickey Hart Band plays.
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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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So Many Dynamos, El Ten Eleven and Bleeding Rainbow this month in Iowa City
There are few things more enjoyable in the summer than putting on a pop album, rolling the windows down and going for a cruise—even if you aren’t going…
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Revisiting Nirvana at Gabe’s July 5, 1989
After filtering through the plastic, MTV-generated hype and the tabloid exposure of Courtney Love, you could tell from listening to Nirvana’s records and watching them onstage (although not all the […]
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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, […]
