JAZZMAN JOE VIDEOS - Kelly's Clan at Snus Hill Winery near Madrid on Mar 17, 2018

"Formed in 2005 and currently a favorite for Irish pub music at many festivals and pubs in Central Iowa.

"Kelly's Clan revels in the traditional melodies and acoustic instrumentation of the Celtic music genre. The fun-loving trio channels the communal feel of an Irish pub on raucous sing-alongs, and delivers the mellow richly beautiful ballads and stirring rebel songs of the 'auld sod.'

"With guitars/mandolin/percussion/horns the Clan's infectious tunes infuse roots/blues/world music influences, along with the jigs and reels of Ireland, into each performance.

"Based in the Des Moines area, Kelly's Clan is available to add a Celtic musical touch from Eire to inspire 'Ol, ceol agus craic' (a good pint, great music and wonderful entertainment) at any event."
- from their Facebook page

Jazzman Joe from the video's YouTube page: "IN CELEBRATION OF ST PATRICK'S DAY, SNUS HILL WINERY PRESENTED THE LOCAL IRISH GROUP, KELLY'S CLAN, TO ENTERTAIN THE PATRONS OF THIS POPULAR WINERY LOCATED JUST EAST OF MADRID, IOWA. LED BY ED KELLY, ON GUITAR & VOCALS, THE BAND INCLUDED JOHN MYERS, GUITAR & VOCALS, & JERRY PEOPLES, MULTI TALENTED MUSICIAN ON FLUTE, TENOR, SOPRANO SAX, BONGO'S & VOCALS."

IHEARIC PODCAST - Episode 15: WOMBAT (03/18/2018)

This is the first of our new series, the IHearIC podcast. We will feature a new episodes on Thursdays. And we present the previous episodes we have missed on Sundays until we catch up.

Tonight's show was very special. It was our first in-studio performance. Improvisation trio WOMBAT played for the entire hour. WOMBAT is:

Justin K Comer on saxophone (http://justinkcomer.com)
Carlos Cotallo Solares on electric guitar (https://soundcloud.com/carloscotallo)
Will Yager on double bass (https://soundcloud.com/will-yager / https://twitter.com/willyager)

Next week's radio show will be a preview of our March 30th concert and will air late as we'll be busy at a new music concert at Voxman during our regular airtime: https://uiowa.edu/cnm/concert-season-52/concert-15-0

IOWA BLOCK RADIO PODCAST - Episode 1

Unfortunately, this podcast is no longer available. If anybody has a copy of it or any of the other Iowa Block Radio podcast episodes, please let me know at iowamusicshowcase@gmail.com!



From Jan 11, 2016, to Nov 13, 2017, Iowa Block Radio produced 108 episodes (from 45 minutes to 3 hours of length) of a podcast featuring rap, hip-hop, and other music from our fair state. We present one of their podcast on the 20th of every month.

This episode features Queen Kenzie, SPLASHY G, GMB, LAME NATION, lil scoobee, FLEA DA GENIUS, and HOdge 3.

YOUR OWN PRIVATE IOWA - Episode 21: SpaceCamp

After a long strange 30 minutes of technical difficulties, SpaceCamp finally made it on the airwaves last thursday. It was one of the most interesting and downright fun shows I have had doing this podcast, its all about the Reuban.

This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm All Recordings done in the Studio at [88.5 KURE Ames Alternative]

YOUR OWN PRIVATE IOWA is a podcast produced and hosted by Richard Sutton. We feature any new episodes the Wednesday after they were recorded.

(This week's episode featured a band from Minneapolis, so it will NOT be on IOWA Music Showcase. But you can still listen to it on Your Own Private Iowa's Bandcamp page. So instead you get a previous episode with SpaceCamp.)

IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE PODCAST - Episode 61: Music of Sump Pump Records, Part 1 of 2

This month on the Iowa Music Showcase podcast, we present to you a sampling of some of the offerings you can find from Des Moines record label, Sump Pump Records.


This actually started with Chuck Hoffman of Sump Pump sending me a few submissions. So I suggested he send a few more and we could do an episode. He and one of his partners in crime at Sump Pump, Tom Reelitz, ended up sending me enough material for two episodes!

So, if any of you are involved in a record label based somewhere in our fair state, feel free to get a hold of me here at iowamusicshowcase@gmail.com! I'll be happy to promote any of your Iowa (or Omaha, Quad Cities, and Sioux Falls) artists!

Cover by Stutterin Jimmy

But back to Sump Pump Records!

"The story of Sump Pump Records officially begins in 1998 when Dan Hutchison and Bill Heard formed the label to release the debut 7" EP of Why Make Clocks, then a duo of Hutchison and Brian Wiksell. A second release, Chad O'Neal's Evolution No. 9 CD, followed in 2001 before the label went dormant as its proprietors focused on their bands.

"In 2013, Hutchison embarked on a project of his own devising to release a compilation of music from artists based in Des Moines recorded entirely on 4-track cassette. Recording the majority of the tracks himself in his own basement, Hutchison enlisted Wiksell and a few other trusted former members of Why Make Clocks to re-launch Sump Pump Records for its release.

"Since then, Sump Pump Records has produced an eclectic selection of vinyl releases, and amassed a distribution inventory of other releases, largely by artists based in, rooted in, or connected in some way with the label's home state of Iowa, all available through their online store at sumppumprecords.com."
- from an email sent to us

Ep 61 and 62 - Covers by Stutterin Jimmy

Most people know Stutterin Jimmy for the music he does with The Goosebumps. But Jimmy also does a lot of the flyers for his band. And since I, Dan OlderMusicGeek, liked his flyers, I asked him if he'd be interested in doing a cover for our podcasts. And he happily did both covers for our Sump Pump Records podcasts and has volunteered to do more. And we're happy to have him do so.

The original cover
before we stretched it out
to make it a square

Jimmy doesn't have any website for his artwork, but you can check out his music at the following sites...

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/StutterinJimmyandtheGoosebumps/

ReverbNation:

https://www.reverbnation.com/theGoosebumps

Labels: artwork, cover, covers, drawing, Ep 061, Ep 062, Stuttering Jimmy

Ep 61 - Song 1: "The Punchline" by Chad O'Neall

"Chad O'Neall (Left Is West/Radio Caroline) released this, his first solo, album in 2001. The album contains 2 programs of tracks. The first 9 songs recorded w/band to 8 track analog tape. The remaining 12 recorded by Chad solo onto 4 track cassette tape. These 21 well crafted songs are definitely worthy of your attention."
- from his page on the Sump Pump Records website

Credits:
Chad O'Neall - vocals, guitar

Recorded by Chad solo onto 4 track cassette tape

Chad O'Neal on Sump Pump Records:
http://sumppumprecords.com/albums/vinyl/chad-oneall-evolution-no-9

Left is West on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/leftiswest/

Left is West on ReverbNation:
https://www.reverbnation.com/leftiswest

To download the whole podcast, right click on the link below and hit "Save as...":
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode61/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2061_.mp3

Labels: 2000s, 2001, acoustic, Chad O'Neall, Des Moines, Des Moines area, Ep 061, Punchline (song),singer/songwriter, Sump Pump Records

IMSC Ep 61 - Song 2: "Wulf" by Goldblums

"Des Moines area shapeshifting reptilian overlords..."
- from their Facebook page

Credits:
Written by Goldblums

cover art by Jon Pearson
mastering & vinyl lacquers by Carl Saff
recording by Micah Sturdevant & Goldblums

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Goldblums/

Bandcamp:
https://goldblums.bandcamp.com/music

Sump Pump Records:
http://sumppumprecords.com/albums/vinyl/gnat-bones-by-goldblums

To download the whole podcast, right click on the link below and hit "Save as...":
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode61/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2061_.mp3

Labels: 2010s, 2015, alternative music, alternative pop, Brandon Paul Moses, Des Moines, Des Moines area,Ep 061, Goldblums (band), punk, punk rock, Sump Pump Records, Wulf (song)

IMSC Ep 61 - Song 3: "Crazy Days" by A is Jump

"Brad and Ryan started making tapes in their Iowa dorm rooms in 1996. They convinced Jessie to put viola parts on the tapes starting in 1998 or so. A little while after that, the sounds from Cory's room were just too much and he started putting his keyboard bits on the tapes. Somewhere in there the live shows began. The first ones were either very weird or very small performances in art galleries and coffeeshops. In 2000, the shows moved into the rock clubs. Jessie still played on tapes but mostly lived in Boulder. Kevin and Grant and Powell and Peter all played in the rhythm section for a time until Phil started playing drums and Steve started playing bass. That was the lineup for about 4 years.

"The band made an album called "My Ice-Fingered Ghost" in Chicago in 2003. It came out in 2004 on Future Appletree Records. They toured the midwest a couple of times and played with bands like Outrageous Cherry, The Frogs, The High Strung, Menomena, The Rosebuds, and Quasi.

"The band holed up in a house in Waterloo, Iowa with a bunch of recording gear in the hopes of recording their second album, but it never really panned out. In 2006, Brad and Ryan moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A while later, Cory moved to Saxapahaw, which isn't terribly far away. The three of them resumed playing, this time with a laptop, looper, and hand percussion as the rhythm section. Jessie was living in Baltimore by this point, which though not close isn't too bad for a weekend trip, so she said she'd start to play her viola parts in the band again. A is Jump is currently writing, recording, and rehearsing new and old material."
- from their entry on the Secret History of the Cedar Valley website

Credits:
Casey Averill
Brad Brandhorst
Ryan Creery
Cory Hamilton
Mary Jessica McGee
Philip Sterk

Recorded April 2006 - July 2014 in Chapel Hill, Durham, Hillsborough, and Saxapahaw, NC.
Engineered and Produced by A is Jump for The Hate Salon.
Mixed by Chris Wimberley and Brad Brandhorst at Nightsound Studios in Carrboro, NC.
Mix Assistants: Mark Oglesby, Meghan Puryear, Adrianna Villa, and Geneva Walata.
Mastered By Carl Saff

From their Facebook page:
"photo by Elaine,
used without permission."

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/A-is-Jump-124240155806/

Sump Pump Records:
http://sumppumprecords.com/distro/io88s18j0o4c7yyw71vpb50b56euu3

Bandcamp:
https://sumppumprecords.bandcamp.com/album/weird-nostalgia
https://sumppumprecords.bandcamp.com/album/my-ice-fingered-ghost-2

To download the whole podcast, right click on the link below and hit "Save as...":
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode61/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2061_.mp3

Labels: 2010s, 2015, A is Jump (band), Brad Brandhorst, Chapel Hill (North Carolina), cloud rock, Cory Hamilton, Crazy Days (song), Ep 061, rock music, Ryan Creery, Sump Pump Records, Waterloo/Cedar Falls area

Ep 61 - Song 4: "Dinosaur Park" by Skin of Earth

"Add 1-2 sentences to describe Skin of Earth to help people understand what you offer...

'skin of earth does not care for flap copy."
- from their Facebook page

Credits:
Joe Bourne - guitar
Trevor Powell -guitar
Rob Ogg - drums

Recorded and mixed live to 2 track by Eric Kennedy and Dan Hutchison at the Fremont, Des Moines, IA
Mastering and lacquers by: Carl Saff at SAFF Mastering.

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/skinofearthdsm/

Bandcamp:
https://skinofearth.bandcamp.com/

Sump Pump Records:
http://sumppumprecords.com/albums/vinyl/skin-of-earth-by-skin-of-earth

To download the whole podcast, right click on the link below and hit "Save as...":
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode61/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2061_.mp3

Labels: 2010s, 2015, Des Moines, Des Moines area, Dinosaur Park (song), Ep 061, hard rock, heavy metal, Joe Bourne, metal music, punk, Rob Ogg, Skin of Earth (band), Sump Pump Records, Trevor Powell

IMSC Ep 61 - Song 5: "Vermillion" by Annalibera

"inconsistent"
"that's some crazy pop music"
- from their Facebook page

IMSC Ep 61 - Song 6: "Rock On" by Broken Ones

"Click on and rock on! Broken Ones are a 3 piece punk rock 'n' roll band from Des Moines, Iowa."
- from their Bandcamp page

"Members of The Jitz, Traffic Death, and Rob Ogg, bitch"
- from their Facebook page

Credits:
Mike Feedback - Guitars, Lead Vocals
Brian Obivious - Drums, Back up Vocals
Rob Ogg - Bass, Back up Vocals

Recorded at The Drunk Tank Des Moines, Ia Winter 2017
Mastered by Greg at Rareform Mastering

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Brokenonesdm/

Bandcamp:
https://brokenones.bandcamp.com/

Sump Pump Records:
http://sumppumprecords.com/albums/vinyl/broken-ones-broken-ones

To download the whole podcast, right click on the link below and hit "Save as...":
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode61/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2061_.mp3

Labels: 2010s, 2017, Brian Obivious, Broken Ones (band), Des Moines, Des Moines area, Ep 061, Mike Feedback, punk, punk rock, Rob Ogg, rock and roll, rock music, Rock On (song), Sump Pump Records

IMSC Ep 61 - Song 7: "Dream of a Surface" by Druids

"Formed in 2008, Druids set out to be heavy and loud. As the years progressed, their sound became more focused. Influenced by classic metal and psychedelic rock, Druids found their groove in songwriting and released 'Cycles of Mobeum' in 2016, followed by several US tours.

"Druids have spent the majority of 2017 working to broaden their take on the horizons of metal. December 1st will be the release of the group's EP, 'Spirit Compass.'"
- from their Facebook page

Credits:
Luke Rauch - Vocals, Guitar
Keith Rich - Drums
Drew Rauch - Vocals, Bass

Recorded and Mixed by Phil Young at Wabi Sound in Des Moines, IA (June-December 2015)
Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering in Chicago, IL
Additional vocals by Nick Beard
All songs and lyrics written by Druids

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/druidsiowa/

Home page:
http://druidsiowa.com/

Sump Pump Records:
http://sumppumprecords.com/albums/vinyl/druids-cycles-of-mobeum

To download the whole podcast, right click on the link below and hit "Save as...":
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode61/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2061_.mp3

Labels: 2010s, 2016, Des Moines, Des Moines area, Dream of a Surface (song), Drew Rauch, Druids (band), Ep 061, heavy metal, Kansas City (Missouri), Keith Rich, Luke Rauch, metal music, stoner rock, Sump Pump Records

IMSC Ep 61 - Song 8: "I Made You a Card" by Karen Meat & The Computer

"Karen Meat is a pop rock project of Arin Eaton based between Des Moines and Iowa City. The band itself is a moody character, a sequined oversized sweater, crooning melodies and lyrics of a bored generation. She's Drunk Like The Rest Of Us, Karen Meat’s recent November 2016 tape release, steers away from her DSM band (Brad Turk, John Huffman) as Eaton collaborates with her business partner Dana Telsrow. Karen Meat glitters with memorable beats, 60s-girl-pop inspired vocals, guitar solos by Dana, and coordinated outfits. Full band Karen Meat includes releases such as On The Couch (2016), and self-titled Karen Meat & The Computer (2015) - grumpy rock n’ roll songs with a tinge of partying and omnicord, with titles like 'Who Cares?' and 'Pizza and Beer'. Realistically, pop songs should be fun AND sad. Karen Meat embraces the power of rejection and depression as themes for her music, and her upbeat tunes are gems of sarcasm and truth."
- from her home page