Straight outta flatbush
As far as the rap persona goes, Flatbush Zombies are a bit of an outlier. The idea of getting high is nothing new to hip-hop. But while the Zombies still [...]
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Posted April 06, 2016in The Sound
Posted April 01, 2016in The Sound
Wooly’s sold to Kum & Go
This week brought some of the most surprising news to hit downtown Des Moines in years, as Sam Summers, founder of the Hinterland Music Festival and owner of First [...]
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Posted March 23, 2016in The Sound
Killswitch Engage continues to get creative
Everything old is new again. In 2012, nearly a decade after he originally left the band, Killswitch Engage reunited with founding lead singer Jesse Leach. “There was definitely a learning [...]
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Posted March 16, 2016in The Sound
Stories of Yesterday and Today
For more than four decades, Y&T has been plying its trade, peddling its specific brand of guitar-driven rock and roll across the country. The band that takes the stage now [...]
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Posted March 09, 2016in The Sound
R5: from YouTube to Disney to a town near you
R5 offers perhaps the clearest look into the construction of pop music in the modern age. Virtually nothing about the band conforms to the preconceived notions most of us have [...]
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Posted March 02, 2016in The Sound
Celebrate innovation with Thomas Dolby
In 1982, Thomas Dolby released the one thing many people know him for: synthpop hit “She Blinded Me With Science.” For many people, that was it. Not much else of [...]
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Posted February 24, 2016in The Sound
From Omaha to the world
Matt Whipkey is a product of the Omaha sound. Growing up in the city, Whipkey cut his teeth on music from other Omaha guys like Conor Oberst. Then, when he [...]
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Posted February 17, 2016in The Sound
Dilana: ‘I want to be there every step of the way’
Nobody with a voice like the South African-born Dilana should have this hard of a time getting heard. Her first album, “Wonderfool,” was released on Dutch label Red Bullet in [...]
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Posted February 10, 2016in The Sound
Still naughty after all these years
In the vast, sprawling world of hip-hop, Naughty By Nature has been playing the game longer than most. As the group gets ready to embark upon a 25th anniversary tour [...]
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Posted February 03, 2016in The Sound
Carson McHone: ‘Texas is my hometown’
Carson McHone has a sound that has been shaped not only by the city of Austin, Texas, but by the musical traditions of the entire Lone Star State. “I’ve been [...]
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