Posted January 02, 2013in The Sound
Founded in 1981, The Queers are one of the last holdovers of the east coast, melodic pop-punk sound typified by the Ramones. The Queers were heavily influenced by “da brudders,” a fact they saluted by releasing a song-for-song cover of the Ramones’ “Rocket to Russia” in 1994. When your stock-and-trade
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Posted December 26, 2012in The Sound
Bonita Crowe is exhausting. She sweeps into the GrapeVine one chilly morning toting a coffee large enough to drown a small dog, and from the moment she starts to talk, her passion and positive attitude are apparent. And infectious. “A lot of the artists that we book here, this is
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Posted December 19, 2012in The Sound
On Saturday, Dec. 22, 7 Flags Events Center and KGGO are doing their part to help some of Iowa’s underprivileged families via a Southern Fried Christmas concert. For central Iowa residents, the event will be a rare chance to catch southern rock icon Molly Hatchet, which has come to town
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Posted December 12, 2012in The Sound
The friendship between Rich Cantrell and Thor Moreno is one that stretches back to Des Moines’ hard rock halcyon days. “We’ve known each other since we were kids,” Cantrell said during an interview. “I played in a band called Redwing, and Thor used to be in a band also, back
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Posted December 05, 2012in The Sound
Viva Montesa hardly seems like a real band. There aren’t enough members, for one thing. And don’t come talking to me about the Black Keys or White Stripes. The Keys and Stripes are the exceptions that prove the rule: Get a bassist, hippies. Then there’s the whole persona. They aren’t
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Posted November 28, 2012in The Sound
It has not been an easy year for Lamb of God. The band released its seventh studio album, “Resolution,” in January of this year and was set to tour the U.S. in support of it this summer. Those plans were put on hold in June when front man Randy Blythe
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Posted November 21, 2012in The Sound
Samantha Knight wears a leather bracelet on each wrist. The Lazer 103.3 DJ wears one on her left wrist with “Rock Girl” written in braille. The one on her right says “Kingston.” “(Kingston) just turned 4,” she said. “He’s on a feeding tube forever. He has good days and bad
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Posted November 14, 2012in The Sound
The Des Moines Music Coalition’s (DMMC) annual, jam-band showcase, Little Big Fest, is spreading the love more than usual this year. Previously housed at the Hotel Fort Des Moines, this year’s festival will take place at three different East Village venues: Wooly’s, House of Bricks and The Underground. “We wanted
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Posted November 07, 2012in The Sound
The Goddamn Gallows are a bunch of itinerant gypsies — musical pirates, set adrift in a van for months at a time. Covering the length and breadth of the country, this gang of marauding ne’er-do-wells stops in a town just long enough to wreak musical havoc upon the populace and
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Posted October 31, 2012in The Sound
Zarrie Solum understands better than most what a pain in the ass zombies can be. “The second year I did (Zombie Prom), I tried to do a zombie pub crawl. The password to get our cheap drinks was ‘brains.’ It was a great idea, and it was awesome to see
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