Brother Trucker
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, [...]
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Posted December 12, 2012in Sound Stage
Posted December 05, 2012in Sound Stage
Ladies of Rock
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 [...]
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Posted November 28, 2012in Sound Stage
Kingston’s Benefit
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 [...]
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Posted November 21, 2012in Sound Stage
Little BIG Fest
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 [...]
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Posted November 14, 2012in Sound Stage
James Biehn
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. [...]
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Posted November 07, 2012in Sound Stage
It’s Complicated/Come Unity/Flobots
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 [...]
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Posted October 31, 2012in Sound Stage
The Wallflowers
“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 [...]
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Posted September 19, 2012in Sound Stage
MCA was one of the good guys
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 [...]
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