Breaking down the wall
Chris Jericho made his name in the squared circle of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). But from an early age, growing up in Winnipeg, Canada, Jericho wanted to be two things: [...]
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Posted June 24, 2015in The Sound
Posted June 23, 2015in The Sound
Guitarists Rodrigo y Gabriela set to dazzle Des Moines
Inspired by the most interesting variety of music around — nuevo flamenco, heavy metal and jazz, to name a few — international artists Rodrigo y Gabriela’s performance this Thursday at [...]
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Posted June 17, 2015in The Sound
The rise and fall (and rise) of Hugh Cornwell
In 1990, after nearly 20 years as frontman of seminal punk act The Stranglers, Hugh Cornwell walked away. The schisms within the band had been growing for years, and Cornwell [...]
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Posted June 10, 2015in The Sound
Michael Franti and the drive to be new
Michael Franti doesn’t believe that music — especially live music — is meant to be a passive thing. The 49-year-old musician and poet has made a point of stretching the [...]
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Posted June 03, 2015in The Sound
Organic hip-hop: Developing Grieves’ Sound
It is a double-edged sword when a local artist makes it big. Around these parts, veterans of the local music scene remember all too well when Slipknot first broke into [...]
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Posted May 27, 2015in The Sound
Royal Blood keeps cool
Royal Blood is tired of hearing about the rebirth of rock. With an apologetically amp-driven sound, the Manchester duo of Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher has been praised far and [...]
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Posted May 20, 2015in The Sound
No regrets
Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen has more than his fair share of faults, but you have to admit he is entertaining. Over the years, Jourgensen has claimed to have been visited [...]
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Posted May 13, 2015in The Sound
Hopeful anger
Ten years after they released the truly excellent “The Terror State,” the members of Anti-Flag are still pissed off. As the band gets ready to head out on tour in [...]
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Posted May 06, 2015in The Sound
Patterns in the chaos
Life falls into more or less predictable patterns. Put a person or group of people into any given situation, and, while it may seem like chaos reigns for a while, [...]
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Posted April 29, 2015in The Sound
Everything and nothing
It would be incorrect to say “Andrew W.K. is not who you think he is.” In point of fact, Andrew W.K. is exactly who everyone thinks he is. The fact [...]
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