Sound Check
“Grand Ave Ruckus” Grand Ave Ruckus Independent This isn’t a mediocre high school brass section; it’s Grand Ave Ruckus melting faces with serious grooves on its debut album. The nine [...]
Read More →“Grand Ave Ruckus” Grand Ave Ruckus Independent This isn’t a mediocre high school brass section; it’s Grand Ave Ruckus melting faces with serious grooves on its debut album. The nine [...]
Read More →“The E.P.” Lily DeTaeye Station One Records Lily DeTaeye’s debut with Station One Records is every bit as commanding and thoughtful as I thought it would be. I expected nothing [...]
Read More →“In Tongues” Joji 88 Rising Music/EMPIRE Joji’s thoughtful music is the polar opposite of his abrasive YouTube character Filthy Frank. Where the two do converge is a DIY aesthetic, and [...]
Read More →“Colors” Beck Capitol Records It’s been a long road to “Colors,” Beck’s 13th album. The first single, “Dreams,” was released more than two years ago, and the singer has teased [...]
Read More →Gloom Balloon “Drying the Eyes of the Goddess of Gloom, Underneath the Stars and the Moon” Maximum Ames Records Probably the most polarizing Des Moines act of the last half [...]
Read More →The Sleepover “No Sleep” Independent I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect on first listen to Des Moines band The Sleepover’s debut LP, “No Sleep.” Two-thirds of The Sleepover is [...]
Read More →“The Fuss” The Fuss Independent Over the last two years, The Fuss has evolved from a solo project for singer Joey Lyons to a full-fledged band with the addition of [...]
Read More →“Pure Torture” Green Death EMP Label Group Two years after “Manufacturing Evil,” and a year after the departure of founding guitarist Erich Tran, Des Moines metal band Green Death returns [...]
Read More →“Bad Decision” Roxi Copland Independent It can be easy to take local musicians for granted when they’re performing regularly around town. Sometimes it takes them moving on to make you [...]
Read More →“Whiteout Conditions” The New Pornographers Concord The New Pornographers seems like a band that should have imploded a decade ago. It’s made up of enough successful individuals (A.C. Newman, Neko [...]
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