Raising a Ruckus
Little Ruckus — potentially the member of the Fairfield/Maximum Ames crowd that’s least known to Des Moines audiences — is nominally an electro-pop act. But what the 23-year-old really specializes [...]
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Posted May 22, 2013in The Sound
Posted May 15, 2013in The Sound
The Insane Clown Posse, not your average ‘Juggalo’ Joe
It’s easy to write-off the Insane Clown Posse. Really easy. I mean, just look at them. There’s the clown makeup, the clothes. Then there’s the whole “Juggalo” lifestyle and the [...]
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Posted May 08, 2013in The Sound
Erik Brown, chameleon in brass
My first experiences playing in public were in nursing homes,” Erik Brown recalls while sitting in House of Bricks. “As a 12-year-old, I was petrified because it was just me, [...]
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Posted May 01, 2013in The Sound
A Debut Album, take two
It wasn’t even a year ago when Marc Bailey and Sara Williams released their first album as Ira Grace & The Bible Belt Prophets. Now, this week at Gas Lamp, [...]
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Posted April 24, 2013in The Sound
North of Grand: Doing The Right Thing
Ten years is a lot of miles for a local band. That’s a lot of crappy shows in cheap bars, a lot of time in the van and a lot [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in The Sound
Andrew Fleming, still truckin’
There’re a lot of reasons to like Andy Fleming. A gifted songwriter and a musician with a reverential approach to his craft, the Brother Trucker front man is also one [...]
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Posted April 10, 2013in The Sound
Gross Domestic Product: party for the people
The Des Moines Music Coalition’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Festival has come to mark the beginning of the music festival calendar in Des Moines. From now until November, there’s a [...]
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Posted April 03, 2013in The Sound
Green Death, evolution of a sound
Sol Bales, Mark Reinking and Erich Tran have played together for more than a decade. While in its previous band, Only, the trio began to develop its own sound. “At [...]
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Posted March 27, 2013in The Sound
The man who would be king
“Sit back and do nothing if that’s what you want to do. That’s never been my style.” Corey Taylor has done a lot in his life. As the front man [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in The Sound
Wellman’s road to success
When Roman generals returned home from military victories, they were welcomed back to Rome with great parades. But in the midst of the triumph, the conquering heroes were accompanied in [...]
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