AUDIBLE FARM - Episode 17: Cobey Murray

This is the first of a new feature we will be presenting on the Iowa Music Showcase website. It's an interview podcast where Peter Stockdale of Des Moines band, 3 Finger Betty, and Iowa band, Unity,  interviews a fellow musician.

Cobey Murray is the bassist in the Des Moines area punk band The Astro Bastards. He is also the show promoter for New Revolt Promotions. We sit down and talk about how he got started playing instruments, the formation of The Astro Bastards, tattoos, and more!

Favorites of 2017 (and the State of the Website speech and boring statistics)

Well, we entered the fifth year of the Iowa Music Showcase. Unfortunately, we were gone for over half of the previous year! Hopefully, things will go better this year!

We will include all the podcasts, videos, and articles we featured last year. We've also added the podcast, Audible Farm, an interview podcast from local musician Peter Stockdale of the Des Moines punk band, 3 Finger Betty, and Iowa metal band, Unity.

We also, on an irregular basis, will be featuring older articles, audio, and video, from sources like KRUI 89.7 FM in Iowa City, Des Moines Music Coalition, KURE radio in Ames, as well as older websites like Lock N Load from the Sioux Falls/Sioux City area, Des Noise, Des Moines is Not Boring, Iowaves, and Band Bombshell, among others.


I'm not doing any podcast of the favorite tunes from the Iowa Music Showcase podcast, because - 1) I haven't had the time, and 2) we only did four podcasts last year! But below I'll list all the boring top ten's I've listed on previous years.

Also, we may fewer Iowa Music Showcase podcasts, depending on how time and whatnot goes for me. But I will continue to feature playlists, compilation albums, videos, and other websites where you can find Iowa music.


But in the five months we were running last year, we did manage to do a showcase of Sump Pump Records. And if I can get the podcasts up and running again, I'd be happy to showcase other Iowa labels!


Okay, now it's time for all the math and list nerds! Here's some various top ten lists for our website for 2018!

THE MOST VIEWED POSTS ABOUT SONGS ON THE IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE PODCASTS 2018
10. Ep 61 - Song 2: "Wulf" by Goldblum
9. IMSC Ep 63 - Song 4: "Thrill" by Nicholas Buckton
8. Ep 62 - Song 6: "One Less Thing to Worry About" by Tom Armstrong
7. Ep 60 - Song 2: "In the Dragon’s Mouth" written and performed by Eric McIntyre
6. Ep 61 - Song 5: "Vermillion" by Annalibera
5. IMSC Ep 63 - Song 8: "Koyote Song" by Julie Gordon
4. Ep 61 - Song 8: "I Made You a Card" by Karen Meat & The Computer
3. Ep 61 - Song 6: "Rock On" by Broken Ones
2. Ep 61 - Song 1: "The Punchline" by Chad O'Neall
1. Ep 61 - Song 4: "Dinosaur Park" by Skin of Earth

THE MOST VIEWED POSTS FROM 2018
10. PLAYLISTS: The Uncertainty Music Festival 2018
9. IHEARIC VIDEOS - Some Prog Rock and a Guitar/Violin Duo
8. CULTURE MYTH - Day 5: A rest
7. IHEARIC PODCAST - Episode 20: More Guests Than Microphones (04/22/2018)
6. IHEARIC VIDEOS - Dana T, a Violinist, and a Chorus
5. PLAYLISTS - Vacation: Iowa Style
4. IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE PODCAST - Episode 62: Music of Sump Pump Records, Part 2 of 2
3. IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE PODCAST - Episode 61: Music of Sump Pump Records, Part 1 of 2
2. YOUR OWN PRIVATE IOWA - Episode 31: Halfloves
1. IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE PODCAST - Episode 60: Music from The Iowa Composers Forum

DES MOINES IS NOT BORING - The Vahnevants: Bum Out!

Starting today, we have a new irregular series we will feature from time to time. We will present some old articles from Dave Murphy's music column, Beats for the Soul, from the old website, Des Moines is not Boring. This particular piece is taken from Mar 19, 2015.

The last album I reviewed was the heartbreaking, ethereal, expertly-produced, full length debut from Annalibera, Nevermind I Love You. All those adjectives I used to describe it are absolutely correct and also will not be used to describe The Vahnevants’ Bum Out! That’s not a bad thing, but whereas Annalibera have floated out of the ether on a chariot made of dreams and driven by unicorns, The Vahnevants have sort of plowed their way onto the scene piloting a ’57 Chevy with mismatched doors and engine troubles. Both certainly make for memorable experiences.

IMSC is back!!!!

Howdy all!

Starting this week, Iowa Music Showcase is back!

Last of the Family Farms
by Kinsey
https://www.freeimages.com/photographer/Kinsey-52803

I took some time off to deal simultaneously deal with a divorce and unemployment. The div'Lorce is finalized and I'm ready to do temp work if I have to. So there's no excuse to get this thing back up and running.

We'll be featuring the same stuff as before, and when we can, try to play catch up with the stuff we missed while the site was down!

So I just want to say thanks to my dozen or so regular readers and followers! And if of you want to help me out, so I can keep this site going when I run into trouble, I would greatly appreciate it and you can write me at iowamusicshowcase@gmail.com.

So please let all your friends, neighbors, enemies, frenemies, people you meet on the streets, or whatever that we are back!

As a bonus, here's an updated Back playlist from another time we were gone for a while!

Still on hiatus

Hello everyone!

Sorry this website has been dead for so long.But I'm still job hunting and dealing with my divorce.

I promise soon as my life settles down, I start this baby up again. I've even had a few people offer to help, so hopefully we'll be able to keep this thing running.

But I'm still putting news and info on our Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Iowa-Music-Showcase/364796883703114 - and on our Twitter page - https://twitter.com/iamusicshowcase!

So until then, support local music!