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Exploring the visceral and diaristic music of Mykki Blanco
Photo by Julia Burlingham MCF: Mykki Blanco, with Flint Eastwood, Meka Jean Blue Moose Tap House — Thursday, April 6 at 9:30 p.m., $15-18 Mykki Blanco has gained prominence in the past few years as an...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Bridget Kearney — Won’t Let You Down
Bridget Kearney Won’t Let You Down bridgetkearney.bandcamp.com MCF: Bridget Kearney with Elizabeth Moen, Paul Cary The Mill — Wednesday, April 5 at 10 p.m., $12-15 Won't Let You Down by Bridget...
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‘Quite a little fight’— the Harris family’s move to Bever Avenue was an early...
The Harris Family Percy and Lileah Harris pictured in their Bever Avenue home with ten of their twelve children, 1968. Photo from ‘A Healing Presence in Our Community: the Percy G. Harris Story’. This...
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Album Review: The Fuss — The Fuss
The Fuss The Fuss whatthefuss.bandcamp.com The Fuss — a Des Moines-based rock band who have released a couple of EPs in recent years — make the kind of catchy pop rock music that reminds one of Tommy...
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Worden and MacMillan’s music will take you places
Music for Meditation Vol. 1 The Garden Club — Sunday. April 29 at 7 p.m. Detail from the poster for the Music for Meditation Vol. 1 event. A.J. Worden and Ian MacMillan are trying something different...
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Karen Meat’s musical circus
Dana T & Karen Meat Double Album Release Show with Ramona and the Sometimes, Mr. Jackson Gabe’s — Saturday, May 12 at 9 p.m. Iowa City’s own Karen Meat perform at the Englert Theatre as part of...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Precious — He Has Abandoned Us
Precious He Has Abandoned Us preciousiowa.bandcamp.com He Has Abandoned Us by Precious Precious is Cedar Falls’ Oliver Weilein, and He Has Abandoned Us is a concept album based around the story of a...
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Nevāda Nevada brings Kathryn Musilek home to Iowa City
Nevāda Nevada w/ the Port Authority, Havlin, Elly Hofmaier Trumpet Blossom Cafe — Sunday, June 3 at 7:30 p.m. Former Iowa Citian Kathryn Musilek fronts Nevāda Nevada. — video still Former Iowa...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Byrn Paul — Dual Wielder
Byrn Paul Dual Wielder byrndpaul.bandcamp.com/album/dual-wielder Dual Wielder by Byrn. D Paul If you are a fan of guitar virtuosity, don’t bother reading the rest of this review; just go buy this...
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Dead Rider’s Todd Rittman talks David Bowie, layered lyrics and Flat Black...
Dead Rider at Grey Area festival Grey Area Acreage in Lone Tree, Iowa — Saturday, Aug. 11 at 9 p.m. Todd Rittman blesses a fan at Gabe’s in 2017. — photo by Zak Neumann Dead Rider is a Chicago rock...
View ArticleAlbum Review: William Elliott Whitmore — Kilonova
William Elliott Whitmore Kilonova williamelliottwhitmore.bandcamp.com/album/kilonova Kilonova by William Elliott Whitmore Will Whitmore has been performing and making albums since the turn of the...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Anthony Worden — Slouching Towards Tomorrow
Anthony Worden Slouching Towards Tomorrow anthonyworden.bandcamp.com/album/slouching-towards-tomorrow Album Release Party: Anthony Worden and the Illiterati w/ American Cream Trumpet Blossom Cafe —...
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A Homecoming homecoming for Denver’s Iowa-rooted New Standards Men
Aseethe, New Standards Men, Bob Bucko Jr. Trumpet Blossom Cafe — Friday, Oct. 19 at 9:30 p.m. Colorado’s Iowa transplants New Standards Men head home for a show at the Trumpet Blossom. — via New...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Ben Driscoll — Earthly Remains
Ben Driscoll Earthly Remains bendriscoll.bandcamp.com/album/earthly-remains Earthly Remains by Ben Driscoll Doing due diligence on Ben Driscoll — whose name I know mostly from live performances on...
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Top Five 2018: A look back on Iowa music
Music reviewer Kent Williams offers his top Iowa albums of 2018. 2018 has been a trial, as we’ve watched the country succumb to the increasingly outlandish and horrible thrashing in the mud of...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Good Morning Midnight — Both Neither and Both
Both Neither And Both by Good Morning Midnight Good Morning Midnight is a band unafraid to wear its influences proudly. On Both Neither And Both, the song “Ballerina” has the low-slung slyness of...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Dryad — The Silurian Age
Mission Creek Festival: HIDE w/ Dryad, Peanut Ricky and the Fiends Iowa City Yacht Club — Friday, April 5 at 9:30 p.m. The Silurian Age by DRYAD The metal scene in Iowa City has always been a pocket...
View ArticleAlbum Review: 86plot — Identity Crisis
Identity Crisis by 86plot You know your hip-hop music has gone full-on meta when you use dialog from Six Characters in Search of an Author by Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. It fits that Bob...
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Album Review: Eric Paul — Killer EP
The first thing I notice about Eric Paul’s Killer EP is guitar tone. In particular, the opening track, “Paradise of Sin,” has a wide stereo guitar sound, subtly overdriven. It’s the kind of...
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Track premiere: Dana T’s “When I Trust The Written Word”
Dana T performs at Mission Creek 2018. — Zak Neumann/Little Village Dana Telsrow, who works as an engineer at Flat Black studios, has released several albums of his own songs as Dana T. He also records...
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