The official record release party for Twins’ new album, “Square America,” takes place at Vaudeville Mews on Friday, July 22 at 9:30 p.m. Check this issue for a review, [...]
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Posted July 20, 2016in Sound Check
Posted July 13, 2016in Sound Check
The Avett Brothers
“True Sadness” American Recordings “True Sadness” stands poised to be viewed as The Avett Brothers’ most polarizing album to date. Should the group now begin its fall into obscurity, [...]
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Posted July 06, 2016in Sound Check
The Maximum Ames Music Festival has announced its lineup for the 2016 festival, to be held Sept. 15-18. Headliners include pioneering gay country music artist Lavender Country, and Rock [...]
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Posted June 29, 2016in Sound Check
Iggy Azalea
“Digital Distortion” Def Jam Iggy Azalea has not collapsed into a black hole of her own suck just yet. After her first release, “The New Classic,” was certified platinum [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Sound Check
The Iowa Blues Challenge held its finals this past weekend at the downtown Mariott Hotel. This year’s winners were Bare Bones and the Jeff Banks Band. Both acts received [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Sound Check
New Member Charles
“Rock and Roll Alligator” Independent New Member Charles does the quirky, oddball indie thing properly. It is something that many bands in town attempt, but few manage to do [...]
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Posted June 08, 2016in Sound Check
This is the weekend for Pridefest, and there is plenty of music to be heard in Des Moines’ historic East Village neighborhood. In addition to headliners Tina She, DJ [...]
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Posted June 01, 2016in Sound Check
The Monkees
“Good Times!” Rhino Even in the best of times, back in its 1960s heyday, The Monkees were one of the most bubblegum acts ever assembled. The fact that the [...]
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Posted May 25, 2016in Sound Check
Bob Dylan
“Fallen Angels” Columbia When Bob Dylan released 2015’s “Shadows in the Night,” the idea of an iconoclast like Dylan covering Sinatra seemed ridiculous. But the resulting album proved [...]
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Posted May 11, 2016in Sound Check
CD REVIEWS
Beyonce “Lemonade” Parkwood “You ain’t married to no average bitch, boy.” Those words, taken from one of the more devastating tracks on “Lemonade,” should be enscribed on Jay-Z’s [...]
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