If we ever decide to put together a time capsule that captures the true essence of Des Moines — something that will stand through the years as a declaration of, “Here, world: Here’s the best of us,”— you can bet there will be a Brother Trucker CD in there. Nobody
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Posted December 05, 2012in Sound Stage
Rae and the Honeybees are, in a word, delightful. Titular front-woman Rae Fehring is a nakedly honest storyteller and has a silky-smooth voice that’s more than capable of handling the emotional swings in her songs. Kicking off a show at Gas Lamp in front of two bands known for having
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Posted November 28, 2012in Sound Stage
Sometimes you just need to be loud. Few places do loud as well as House of Bricks, and few bands do it as masterfully as Dead Horse Trauma. And while DHT may have turned in the performance of the night, what made the evening really stand out for Des Moines’
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Posted November 21, 2012in Sound Stage
Nobody involved really says it aloud, but this year’s Little BIG Fest was a gamble. Moving from Hotel Fort Des Moines to three separate East Village venues was a decision that was both inspired and risky. Even though House of Bricks, Wooly’s and The Underground all sit on the same
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Posted November 14, 2012in Sound Stage
The cold, hard and unfortunate truth about local music is that there aren’t a lot of musicians out there making a regular living playing their own stuff night after night. While there are a couple of bands that make enough from shows and album sales for its members to call
Read More →If people ever try to say a single bad thing about It’s Complicated, you slap them right across their uncultured, slovenly and probably ugly face. Just a year old, Des Moines’ funk four-piece has quickly established itself as one of the best sounds in the city. Opening for the Flobots
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Posted October 31, 2012in Sound Stage
“You can’t go home again.” Thomas Wolfe said that eight decades ago. Since then, you wouldn’t exactly need an abacus to count the number of bands that have tasted the stratospheric heights of the Billboard Top 10, only to go away for the better part of a decade, then reclaim
Read More →This isn’t right. In a business populated by people you’d rather not know, the Beastie Boys’ MCA was one of the good guys. He’s not supposed to be dead, if only because he didn’t do any of the things that typically make rock stars die. If rock stars are going
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