The Poison Control Center’s Patrick Tape Fleming: The Informer Interview
Patrick Tape Fleming is a longtime central Iowa musician best known as the frontman for indie rock band The Poison Control Center, which released...
The Separate World of Taco Trucks in Des Moines
Around lunch time on a mid-October day on Des Moines’ east side, just past the gleaming and gold domes of the state Capitol building,...
Urban Chicken Farming in Ames
Editor's note: This article was originally published in October 2009 in Volume 4 Issue 2 of the now-defunct Ames Progressive zine. Unlike in neighboring...
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,...
White WDM Couple Opening Hip Hop-Themed Cafe Serving Chicken and Waffles
Update, 7/20: In a Facebook post Wednesday, Me So Hungry announced it has changed its name to Eggs & Jam. "We have officially renamed...
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...
Cyclones Tight Ends Coach Sued for Allegedly Forcing Athlete at Former School to Play...
Alex Golesh, a tight ends coach for the Iowa State University football team, is one of seven defendants in a lawsuit filed Friday by...
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...
