Rachael Marie

 

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper

Torres (Mackenzie Scott)

TORRES and Lady Lamb the Beekeeper taking over Iowa City

 

There really is nothing more gratifying than finding out the opener of Kaki King who blew your mind with her quirkiness and overall awesomeness is COMING BACK TO IOWA CITY June 26th! Time to stay as normal and find out Spaltro's food allergies because this girl is dreaming of buying her a cupcake out of dream b.f.f.'ness as well as TORRES.

TORRES (another psuedonym-wrapped lady Mackenzie Scott) is a folk rock dream that could very well be Sharon van Etten's unapologetically adorkable cereal-eating little sister. Cereal-eating? Yeah, cereal-eating. (Just watch the video...) Look forward to videos and perhaps one... or two pictures with these amazing gals with guitars.

 

 

 

 

Sherlock and Mr. Cumberbatch Happened to Me.

 

And that's mostly it. Well wait...

 

 



Now that's it.

 

 

Madison Dances!

 

Madison dances the Madison! *insert God-awful journalistic puns here* Remember film class where they had you watch mind-numbing Godard? It's kind of like that... actually it's exactly like that as Madison with friends Dimi Pallis and Chavo Killingsworth recreate the famous scene in Godard's 1964 Bande a Part for Madison's second (only second??!!!) music video for Speakeasy.

 

 

Best Pictures from Tilly and the Wall

@ The Mill, May 31st

 

 

Like I have headlined in A Very Squeakable V-Spot , it's almost Mission Creek season! It's a magical time of year when every night from April 2-7th is full of music, Public Space One becomes the student radio station's it-hang out spot anytime of the day, and there's free swag if you know where to look! I look forward to Mission Creek as I look forward to Halloween or Christmas, it is a staple in my world. So if money was no object and I was planning a few concerts during this blessed time of year; well, let's just say I would never recover!

...the Acoustic Concert
feat. Milk and Eggs, Awful Purdies, Charlotte Martin, Erin and Her Cello, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper

One concert just for the girls, ranging from my favorite local lady musicians (Milk and Eggs, Awful Purdies) to my everlasting love to some of the greatest underrated female lyricists on this planet (Charlotte Martin, Erin and her Cello) and of course, my dream b.f.f. rounding out the night with some bitching acoustic sounds, promoting her album that's coming out February 19th!! Of course all of them in one night is too much to handle but I simply couldn't break them apart.

...the Hipstery Rock Concert 
feat. Christopher the Conquered, Stars, Mother Mother

Because I want one solid night of my favorite lyrics of all time, for Ames's Christopher Ford and his band (with or without the brass section, they're badass either way!) blow my brain every time I see him/them. Stars is self explanatory because they are just simply one of the greatest modern rock bands, including Mother Mother with their all-over-the-map genre but lyrics that remain prolific and at times, a little nutty.

...the Hipstery Lo-Fi Rock Concert
feat. Hey Rosetta!, Ramona Falls, Helio Sequence

Already haven seen Ramona Falls and Helio Sequence go back-to-back at the Mill a few months ago, I want to recreate that awesome "let the music encompass you in the least pot-influence possible" and Hey Rosetta!'s strings and piano driven music when intelligent lyrics would fit in perfectly -- preferably at the Mill so I can eat myself into a cheesy portal to hell.

...the concert Anyone who is Anyone has to be at
feat. Dressy Bessy and Dum Dum Girls

Wanting Dressy Bessy back in town is purely selfish reasoning, having seen them back in '08 when I fell madly in love with Tammy Ealom. And paring them off with one of the noisiest yet amazing girl bands on this planet... OK that's selfish too because I would love for Dee Dee to sign my "He Gets Me High" EP.

Juno Temple

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Culture is starting to mount, so you know where to find me....

...Underneath a gigantic pile of massive -gasm attacks.

....Oooh yeah.....

Iowa City Song Project

I have sung praises of The Iowa City Song Project both in spirit through ushering at the Historic Englert Theater downtown, and bodily with hanging out at the release parties this weekend with visual evidence... oh yeah and my article on KRUI.fm as a show preview. Allow some of my favorite mashmallow peeps to explain... 

So Friday night was my Englert ushering duty, and in my quirkiest usher costume yet with the respect to not take pictures while "on the job", I experienced Christopher the Conquered in rare and magical form, finally saw this Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps and Pieta Brown everyone talks about, and the magically indie Chasing Shade.

But it was The Mill show that had to be my night for great picture-taking and beautiful women on strings. Sky Carrasco (as I sit in the place where she used to barista), that gorgeous cello player friend of hers, and the cute girl in The Emperor's Club. It was a good good night, in the least Black Eye Peas way possible.

We Shave

Sky Carrasco

Emperor's Club

Tallgrass

Now I just need to get my paypal hooked up and I am soooooo getting this digitally! (There's additional music in the digital copy!) Would you believe Iowa City is a musical epicenter?

NEW LES MISERABLES POSTERS EEEEEK!

There. are. no. words. NONE!

(except, airbrush much?)

Jack White Battles Himself 

Like I said when I posted this video on facebook: can I haz the cute 60s goth go-go girl? Please?

MADISON IS BACK!

While Madison may have always been around mixing and DJ-ing it up all around New York, she finally has a new song out and even an EP out next February! Granted the future pop Goddess (oh yeah Madonna fans, I went there) has told Nylon Magazine in a prior interview to this one (with free download of Sweet Life) that sometimes a song comes to her naturally and it may take awhile to get music from her, but when one does, oh Goddess is it worth it! It is worth it, download and love amorously! 

Experience The Haunted Man

Hipster alert! Now you can stream my fashion and quirk Goddess, Natasha Khan or better known as Bat for Lashes's new album on NPR! Now with a cute banged bob and a more orchestral approach to her music ("Winter Fields" is a song you just want to fold yourself up in) she's breaching into Kate Bush territory -- or so the reviewers are saying. Natasha Khan is Natasha Khan. Who else can come up with the line "skitty rabbits make good paper ghosts?"

An Open Letter: Aly Spaltro, Walk With Me!

Have you ever experienced a supporting act that blew your mind into kibble with their music and in between songs you realize you want to be her best friend? Aly Spaltro, or better known as Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, is that for me. And dear Goddess, not only does she have a magnificent voice but she has a quirktastic presence and loves Iowa City as much as I do! That's it, Aly, come back and play at The Mill, and I will buy you cheese bread, then go out after for frozen yogurt. Iowa City the bar scene? Pft. Fro yo, bitch! (Yeah, OK, there's a little bit of a crush there too...)