Episode 15 - Iowa Metal and Hard Rock

This is actually the second show to feature metal music. And I have more than enough material and suggestions to do another show. And I'm okay with that.

If other music sites willfully and thoughtlessly ignore a whole genre that has quite a big following, Iowa Music Showcase is ready to take up the slack.

That being said, if anyone is thinking about it, I highly recommend you start up a Iowa metal/hard rock podcast. The listeners are there. The last metal show I did is still my most listened to episode,

And as I said, I have plenty of metal and hard rock bands that want me to play their music!

So the supply and demand is both out there! And I'd be more than willing to lend a hand! So some intrepid metalhead, go show the world and internet what Iowa has on this front!

So, anyway, at least for another episode, here once again is some of Iowa's current crop of metal and hard rock.

For more information, click on the song or artist...

Opening - Iowa Music Showcase opening by Dylan Boyle
Song 1 - "Manufacturing Evil" by Green Death
Song 2 - "In Your Head" by Fetal Pig
Song 3 - "Blind Eyes" by Apathy Syndrome
Song 4 - "Glass Ghost" by Devil in the Details
Song 5 - "Motives" by Saul
Song 6 - "Patriot" by Dead Horse Trauma Closing - Iowa Music Showcase closing by Dylan Boyle

All rights reserved by the composers and performers. Used by their kind permission.

To download:
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode15/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2015_.mp3

Next episode: The last and final part of the Lipstick Homicide retrospective.

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Labels: Dead Horse Trauma, Devil in the Details, experimental, Green Death, hard rock, industrial metal, Iowa Metal and Hard Rock, metal (genre), metal music, podcast episodes, podcasts, progressive, thrash metal

IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE PODCAST - Episode 14: Lipstick Homicide Retrospective, Part 2 of 3

This is Part 2. You can find Part 1 here.

In part one, we covered Lipstick Homicide going from a high school band into a real, serious band. In part two, we see them begin to get some recognition. Go from a local band to one recognized and loved throughout the country, and even into Canada!

This episode mostly covers them, for the most part, in the years 2011 and 2012. This is when I started to get to know them.

I talked already about when I met them here and here.

And being entralled with them as I was, I invited them to play at the first and best show I ever put together, The Other T Party, a charity show for Des Moines' transgender support group, Transformations Iowa.

Unfortunately, I don't have any video or audio of this show.

But I was so excited and nervous. And they were so nice and under- standing. They gave me their "Isn't It Glorious" cd and one of their infamous pink taco t-shirts too.

And it was around this time, I learned and realized that they weren't just awesome musicians, but also really sweet and wonderful human beings.

And it seems almost everybody who knows them has nothing but nice things to say about them.

So I am quite happy to be able to present this retrospective as a way to pay back all the kindness they have shown me and their other fans.

To read more about each song and what others had to say about them, you can go here.

For more information, click on the song or artist...

Opening - Lipstick Homicide live in Iowa City
Song 1 - "Takin' It Back" by Lipstick Homicide
Song 2 - "End of Everything" by Sonador
Song 3 - "Kiki" by Kate Kane
Song 4 - "Yesterday I Was Talking to My Sister" by Joe Jack Talcum
Song 5 - "Fine Was the Night" by Samuel Locke Ward & The Boo Hoos
Song 6 - "Prom" by Lipstick Homicide
Song 7 - "Relentless" by Grism
Song 8 - "Calling In Dead" by Lipstick Homicide
Song 9 - "Wrong About Me" by Tuff Jerks
Song 10 - "The One For Me" by Big Bad Gina
Song 11 - "We'll Be Okay" by Lipstick Homicide
Song 12 - "Call It Art" by Lipstick Homicide
Closing - cat purring

All rights reserved by the composers and performers. Used by their kind permission.

To download:
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode14/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2014_.mp3

Epsiode 13: Iowa Folk and Acoustic Music

Iowa has had a long and strong folk scene, from its earliest days as a territory, up to the 21st century with the likes of Greg Brown among others.

Why does Iowa feel such a strong attraction to these laid-back musicians without the pounding and thumping of other aggressive genres? Is it because it reflects the laid-back, contemplative nature of the Iowan people? Heck! I don't know!

I do know that we Iowans like our folk musicians and have them playing in all sorts of coffeehouses, meeting halls, barns, and back yards throughout the state.

In this episode, Iowa Music Showcase becomes your virtual coffeehouse or meeting hall as we present 8 Iowa artists continuing our proud folk tradition.

For more information, click on the song or artist...

Opening - Iowa Music Showcase opening by Dylan Boyle
Song 1 - "Rotary Dial" by Patresa Hartman (feat The High Crest)
Song 2 - "The Thing About the Devil" by The High Crest
Song 3 - "Cockles and Mussels" by Orckes & Trolles
Song 4 - "Ocean Blue Live" by Red Comet
Song 5 - "Rio Grande" by The Lawn Chairs
Song 6 - "I Won't Be the One" by Lindgren & Lewis
Song 7 - "Johnny Fire" by Ryan Sheeler
Song 8 - "Too Late to Stay (live solo acoustic version)" by Nate Nelson
Closing - Iowa Music Showcase closing by Dylan Boyle

All rights reserved by the composers and performers. Used by their kind permission.

To download:
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode13/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2013_.mp3
Next episode: Part 2 of the retrospective on Iowa City's pop punk band, Lipstick Homicide!

Iowa Music Showcase can be listened to and/or downloaded on the following sites:
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Labels: 2010s, acoustic, folk (genre), folk music, High Crest (band), Lindgren & Lewis, Nate Nelson, Orckes & Trolles (band), Patresa Hartman, podcast episodes, podcasts, Red Comet (band), Ryan Sheeler, singer/songwriter

IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE PODCAST - Episode 12: Lipstick Homicide Retrospective, Part 1 of 3

"Lipstick Homicide, this is your life!"

Okay, most of you young'uns won't get that joke. And this isn't about their life so much as their music career. But I just couldn't past the chance to say that!

Seriously though, with Rachel leaving her hometown of Coralville for the bright lights of Minneapolis, it seem like a good time to look over the career of Lipstick Homicide.

So similiar to the show "This Is Your Life", this episode features friends and collaborators of Lipstick Homicide talking about the band. Part 1 featuring pretty much the work they did in 2009 and 2010. Just click here to see what the folks all said or on each song to see what they had to say there.

I hope you find a few surprises and treats you weren't expecting or didn't know about!

A big thanks to Trevor Treiber, long time friend of Rachel, Kate, and Luke, for all the help he gave me on getting this all together. Go check out his band, The Blendours!

Also, thanks to KRUI and Griffle TV for letting use their recordings of Lipstick Homicide live.

Finally, there will be a separate episode between each part of this retrospective. Not everyone is a fan of pop punk, and I want to still give them something to listen to. So Part 2 will be appearing around the end of July.

Episode 11: Guest Producer Bryon Dudley

Bryon Dudley got this opportunity because he won a contest, but now I've decided to open to anybody and anyone interested! If you would like to pick the music for an episode, feel free to send a list of 15-30 minutes worth of music by Iowa artists, of ANY genre or decade, to iowamusicshowcase@gmail.com.  And if I can get permission from the artists, I will play your list on a future episode!

If you haven't heard of Bryon Dudley, then you probably aren't very involved in the central Iowa, or at least Ames, music scene, Byron, usually along with his wife Rachel, is, and has been in numerous bands here.

But besides being a talented and prolific musician, Byron runs the record label, Nova Labs. He also runs a recording studio, The Spacement. And if that's not enough, he is also one of the co-owners of The Iowa Music Store!

So I feel it is both appropriate and an honor to have Bryon as my first, but hopefully not last, guest producer on my podcast!

Stong Like Bear home page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Strong-Like-Bear/42212906131

Nova Labs Records home page:
http://www.novalabs.info/

Iowa Music Store home page:
http://iowamusicstore.com/

For more information, click on the artist or song...

Opening - Iowa Music Showcase opening by Dylan Boyle
Song 1 - "Wake You in the Morning" by Ira Grace and The Bible Belt Prophets
Song 2 - "Fleshlike Material" by Mumford's
Song 3 - "The Fall" by Brooks Strause
Song 4 - "Machete" by Bleujack
Song 5 - "W(rest)le" by Pennyhawk
Song 6 - "Shut Up" by Strong Like Bear
Closing - Iowa Music Showcase closing by Dylan Boyle

All rights reserved by the composers and performers. Used by their kind permission.

To download:
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode11_201506/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2011.mp3
Next episode: A tribute to the members of Iowa's pop punk band, Lipstick Homicide!

Iowa Music Showcase can be listened to and/or downloaded on the following sites:
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Labels: acoustic, alternative music, blues (genre), Bryon Dudley, folk music, Guest Producers, Ira Grace and The Bible Belt Prophets, Mumford's, podcast episodes, podcasts, singer/songwriter, Strong Like Bear