The world is supposed to be over this Saturday. Don’t you want to go out in style or at least having hula hooping fun?
Yacht Club Iowa City
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More Mission Creek Videos & Photos: Mirror/Dash, Ana Sia, Devotchka, Poison Control Center & Dennis McMurrin
Finally got some time to sift through the hundreds of photos and handful of videos I collected at this year’s Mission Creek. Better late than never is what I always say!
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On the Beat: F’n A, It’s May!
On May 1, 1965, at an annual celebration in Prague, Allen Ginsberg was crowned the King of May. The tradition of May Day and its royalty was founded back in who-knows-when for reasons of who-knows-what (pagans or something), but on this particular May Day, ’60s counterculture and communist oppression met head-on. After Ginsberg was paraded […]
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Show Photos: Pete Balestrieri, MichaelSarah, the Boxknifes, SLW Vs Manhorse @ the Yacht Club – 4/13
I’ve been mostly laying low since I threw myself head-first into the Mission Creek madness. I promised myself a hiatus after the music-related exhaustion I experienced, but I haven’t been able to give up the music scene completely. I made my first post-MC exception to my ‘stay home rule’ to catch this show.
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Yacht Club 4/13 Raw Punk Power & The Easter Parade: Full Sets To Download!
Sam Locke Ward texted me a request to record this show, which was all the reason I needed. I don’t know if it’s even necessary to say that everyone involved in this show I consider a friend, and that beyond that, I’m a fan, and if that wasn’t enough, I’ve played with, or done audio […]
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Live Sets From Mission Creek: Mountains, Ex-Action-Model & More!
Venue hopping Wednesday Night during Mission Creek, I record some live sets and take a few pictures.
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On the Beat: It's Raining Shows
In Langston Hughes’ 1921 poem “April Rain Song,” the thing that everyone hates about April–its big problem–is instead turned into a point of celebration, ending with the lines, “The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night / And I love the rain.” This point was totally lost on Billie Myers, who borrowed the phrase “Kiss the Rain” (taken from the poem’s first line) to create…
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Iowa City Weekender: April 7-9
Mission Creek is over. Try something new. A change might do you good.
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This Happened: A Mission Creek Memoir
Pretty sure I lost part of my brain back there, pinballing from The Blue Moose to The Yacht Club to Gabe’s and back again. I’ll recover that lost chunk, if begrudgingly. Because losing your head to music is worth the sacrifice.
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Show Preview: The Ragbirds, Yacht Club 4/2
The Ragbirds have toured 40 states to the tune of 150+ shows a year since 2006, but only first visited Iowa on December 1, 2010. How did they not know we’d love them here?
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Show Review: Or, the Whale — Iowa City Yacht Club — 3/30/2011
There was country music in the Yacht Club last night, and it was glorious. Most of us know the Yacht Club as a funky basement with a heady smell, home to blistering jams and dance parties. However, last night’s show was full of twang from beginning to end. Dubuque’s Kerosene Circuit opened with their gritty roots rock, […]
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Photos: Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano; Das Racist on KRUI – 3/31
Since KRUI has hunkered down at Public Space One for the week, they have seen a myriad of performers trek through. On Thursday, I snuck down there just in time to catch Kim, Thurston and Chris chatting with our lovely KRUI djs.
