In the crowded gallery of rising bands, few make as bold a splash as Iowa’s own prog pop-punks Spin Art, performing live at Lefty’s in Des Moines this weekend.
San Diego’s iconic blackgaze band, Deafheaven will be performing tonight at the Capitol Theater as part of their tour following the release of their most recent album, Lonely People With Power.
On Saturday October 4th, World’s Worst took the stage at Gabe’s. The band took some time after sound check to chat with me, discussing their latest record “American Muscle”, how they got started playing music, and The Real Housewives of SLC.
Jefferson Starship landed in Iowa City’s Englert Theater on Sunday the 21st of September for a spectacular show. As the show began, the projector took us through time, introducing the band’s long history and members that shaped their legacy, with pictures and videos eliciting our minds’ imagination to the past lives of the other 99% of the room. It. Was. AWESOME.
This Saturday, October 4th, Louisville rock group White Reaper will be performing with Lip Critic and World’s Worst at Gabe’s, presented by the Englert Theater’s Track Zero series. This show will be one of the band’s first since the release of their 5th studio album, Only Slightly Empty.
Father John Misty returns to Iowa tonight on October 1st at the Val Air Ballroom in Des Moines for the first time since performing at 80/35 festival in 2022, a show I was not only at, but also vaguely remember.
An inside look at ‘She Said’; the truthful retelling of The New York Times investigation of Harvey Weinstein. Image via Universal Pictures.
Flavors of Youth is a sensory filled journey though nostalgia. (Image via: Netflix)
Paterson offers a style of film as poetry that seeks to find beauty in the mundane details of everyday life. Image courtesy of theplaylist.com
Director, Tony Stone’s latest feature-length documentary, Peter and the Farm, is an exquisite character study of a small-time, organic farmer trying to navigate his present situation that is so deeply hindered by his past. Featured Image via Film Society of Lincoln Center
Read my rants on the RomCom Classic, 13 Going on 30.
How does 2016’s Summer movie season stack up? In one word, meh. Image courtesy of geektyrant.com
Southbound is a new horror anthology film from the creators of the V/H/S series (Photo via: SFWeekly.com).
Gaspar Noe’s newest 3-D film “Love” blurs the line between art film and pornography (Photo via: Telegraph.co.uk)
I’d rather not.
Robert Eggers’s debut film “The Witch” is both a chilling and refreshing entry into the horror genre (Photo via: HorrorFreakNews.com)
“There’s nothing hornier than a demon in Hell.”
