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Interview: Eve 6 at Innings Festival

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Logan Melia sits down with Eve 6 at Innings Festival in Tempe, Arizona. Eve 6 took some time after their slot to discuss their early days playing gigs at small cafes all the way to a racetrack.

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Feeling the BPM with underscores’ third studio album “U”

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On a regular Thursday in March, I discovered underscores while scrolling on Tiktok. I worked my way through her discography and eventually fell down a rabbit hole of hyperpop. Her take on electronic and pop music is deeply refreshing and her captivating sound is definitely one to pay attention to.

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Top 30: 10/10/11

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Rank Artist Recording Label 1 WILD FLAG Wild Flag Merge 2 MEGAFAUN Megafaun Hometapes 3 GIRLS Father, Son, Holy Ghost True Panther 4 CAROLINE SMITH AND THE GOOD NIGHT SLEEPS Little Wind Self-Released 5 PIETA BROWN Mercury Red House 6 HALLOWEEN, ALASKA All Night The Calls Came In Amble Down 7 MALE BONDING Endless Now Sub Pop 8 ZOLA JESUS Conatus Sacred Bones 9 WILCO The Whole Love Anti 10 DRUMS Portamento Frenchkiss 11 BLITZEN TRAPPER American Goldwing Sub Pop 12 STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Mirror Traffic Matador 13 DOM Family Of Love Astral Werks 14 TY SEGALL Goodbye … Continued

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Top 30: 10/3/11

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Rank Artist Recording Label 1 GIRLS Father, Son, Holy Ghost True Panther 2 CAROLINE SMITH AND THE GOOD NIGHT SLEEPS Little Wind Self-Released 3 DOM Family Of Love Astral Werks 4 MIKAL CRONIN Mikal Cronin Trouble In Mind 5 BLITZEN TRAPPER American Goldwing Sub Pop 6 MEGAFAUN Megafaun Hometapes 7 DUM DUM GIRLS Only In Dreams Sub Pop 8 TY SEGALL Goodbye Bread Drag City 9 MATES OF STATE Mountaintops Barsuk 10 WILCO The Whole Love Anti 11 PIETA BROWN Mercury Red House 12 MOBY Destroyed Mute 13 MALE BONDING Endless Now Sub Pop 14 WILD FLAG Wild Flag Merge … Continued

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Review: Creatures Of An Hour — Still Corners

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Disclaimer: This album review contains content unsuitable for minors, work situations, and the faint of heart. The opinions and views within this review belong solely to the author, and not KRUI or the University of Iowa. Read at your own discretion. By Vaibhav Sutrave I don’t buy escapism in music. I don’t buy escapism in anything. Ultimately, books, or philosophy, or physics, or comics, or food, or MUSIC MUST relate to and enrich REAL LIFE. To “make us drink more avidly of life,” like m’boy Hank Miller said. It needs some immediacy. But how to tell? Fortunately, I have devised … Continued

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Track of the Week: “Goodbye Bread” — Ty Segall

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By Max Johnson Ty Segall has a gift, but I don’t know what for. On his last album, Melted, Segall was brash and subversive, embodying the dirtiest garage-rock bands, an Iggy Pop we could call our own. His latest offering, this summer’s Goodbye Bread, is more indebted to Dylan’s Basement Tapes or to John Lennon’s solo work. On the title-track opener, it seems he’s moved his 4-track from a filthy garage down to a dingy basement. Which seems like a small-scale change, but it might be big enough to throw some old fans for a loop. “Goodbye Bread” holds on … Continued

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Brass Bed — 9/26/11

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Click here to see pictures and listen to Brass Bed discuss French music, their recent performance at the Maximum Ames Music Festival, and band names that start with the letter “B.”

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