Album Review: Contakta EP
Contakta is a new Iowa group based in Des Moines, a project based on the singing and songs of Diana Weishaar, the featured singer...
Gloom Balloon: Drying the Eyes of the Goddess of Gloom Underneath the Stars and...
One of the things that Patrick Tape Fleming does perhaps better than anyone is to write confessional songs that are heartfelt, but not whiny,...
Album Review: TIRES, LP1
TIRES will always have a special place in Ames’ heart because the band started here at the tail-end of the legendary Liberty House era...
Album Reviews: Wisconsin Roundup
Brett Newski: Land Air Sea Garage (Make My Day Records)
Brett Newski is a singer/songwriter out of Milwaukee who’s toured large chunks of the world...
Goat: Requiem (Sub Pop) Review
This past summer, after poring over the first two albums by Swedish psychedelic Afrobeat revivalists Goat for the past four years or so, I...
The Workshy (Self-Titled) Review
Former Ames jam band The Workshy moved to Colorado a few years ago, and have been keeping busy playing gigs, teaching music lessons, learning...
7 Overlooked Albums of 2016
2016 has been a pretty incredible year for music, depending on what you’re into. We’ve had “surprise” albums from Beyonce and Radiohead, Guns ‘n...
Blues Pills: Lady in Gold (Nuclear Blast) Review
Blues Pills have an interesting history, in that their story began here in Iowa, with a couple of brothers, Zack Anderson and Cory Berry,...
The Claypool Lennon Delirium: Monolith of Phobos (ATO) Review
I was a big fan of Sean Lennon’s 1998 album, Into the Sun. There was a lot of whimsy, and a lot of relaxed...
Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool (XL) Review
The new Radiohead album came out today, after a long gap (King of Limbs, their last album, came out in 2011) and some...
