Posted May 22, 2013in The Sound
Little Ruckus — potentially the member of the Fairfield/Maximum Ames crowd that’s least known to Des Moines audiences — is nominally an electro-pop act. But what the 23-year-old really specializes in is a kind of avant garde-performance art that happens to have music attached. Much like Andrew W.K. (the man
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Posted May 15, 2013in The Sound
It’s easy to write-off the Insane Clown Posse. Really easy. I mean, just look at them. There’s the clown makeup, the clothes. Then there’s the whole “Juggalo” lifestyle and the songs about not knowing how magnets work. In short, it’s easy to understand why people would look at ICP as
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Posted May 08, 2013in The Sound
My first experiences playing in public were in nursing homes,” Erik Brown recalls while sitting in House of Bricks. “As a 12-year-old, I was petrified because it was just me, on my own, playing ‘Georgia on my Mind’ for a bunch of 90-year-olds. “(But) It was such a healing thing.
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Posted May 01, 2013in The Sound
It wasn’t even a year ago when Marc Bailey and Sara Williams released their first album as Ira Grace & The Bible Belt Prophets. Now, this week at Gas Lamp, they’re doing it again. It’s a very short turnaround for a local band without the financial backing of a label.
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Posted April 24, 2013in The Sound
Ten years is a lot of miles for a local band. That’s a lot of crappy shows in cheap bars, a lot of time in the van and a lot of partying. As North of Grand gets ready to celebrate its 10th birthday, the guys involved are proud of where
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Posted April 17, 2013in The Sound
There’re a lot of reasons to like Andy Fleming. A gifted songwriter and a musician with a reverential approach to his craft, the Brother Trucker front man is also one of the most humble and sincere people you’re likely to meet on God’s green earth. For Fleming, music’s more than
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Posted April 10, 2013in The Sound
The Des Moines Music Coalition’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Festival has come to mark the beginning of the music festival calendar in Des Moines. From now until November, there’s a different music festival in central Iowa seemingly every month, catering to musical tastes of all kinds. Traditionally held at the
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Posted April 03, 2013in The Sound
Sol Bales, Mark Reinking and Erich Tran have played together for more than a decade. While in its previous band, Only, the trio began to develop its own sound. “At the end of Only, we (three) were starting to get heavier, and everyone else wanted to go in a different
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Posted March 27, 2013in The Sound
“Sit back and do nothing if that’s what you want to do. That’s never been my style.” Corey Taylor has done a lot in his life. As the front man for both Slipknot and Stone Sour, he’s travelled the world, built a fortune and cemented a legacy. He could become
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Posted March 20, 2013in The Sound
When Roman generals returned home from military victories, they were welcomed back to Rome with great parades. But in the midst of the triumph, the conquering heroes were accompanied in their chariots by slaves, who would whisper in the generals’ ears the caveat that all glory is fleeting. Max Wellman’s
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