Iowa Music Showcase Songs: North of Grand

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Sunday, December 31, 2017

PLAYLISTS: Happy New Year's - Iowa Style

Happy New Year, everyone! And at long last, Iowa Music Showcase presents a New Year's post.

We have a Spotify playlist featuring songs about years, starts, beginnings, and ends.- and, as always, from various artists and genres.

So sit back and let Iowa music bring in your new year!

Monday, December 21, 2015

IMSC Ep 23 - Song 7: "I Still Believe" by North of Grand

Thanks to North of Grand for letting me play this unreleased demo.

A Farewell To Rockets, the fifth album from Iowa’s North of Grand, marks the end of an era and the beginning of another. The band’s Brolester Records debut is a tribute of sorts to the Rocket Transfer Warehouse, the brick building NOG called home for a decade before being booted - so the structure in downtown Des Moines could be converted into condos. Rockets is also NOG’s first recording as a quartet. The addition of lead guitarist Matt Wellendorf has transformed the band from a somewhat simple, punk-pop trio into a fully-realized rock n roll machine...

Rockets displays North of Grand's knack for writing catchy, guitar-driven rock n roll, littered with powerful hooks and memorable lyrics. The nine songs, clocking in under 28 minutes, feature fist-in-the-air choruses, blistering solos and Thin Lizzyesque dualing guitars backed by a straight forward, hard-hitting rhythm section.
- from their Facebook page

IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE PODCAST - Episode 1: Iowa Pride

Well, this is the first podcast. As such, I thought it appropriate to show some Iowa pride! So here are a few songs about our beloved state from artists of our beloved state!

If you want to know about the song or the artist, just click on the name...

Intro - Iowa Music Showcase Opening - Dylan Boyle
Song 1 - "I-O-W-A" by Demigod
Song 2 - "We're So Lonely" by Christopher the Conquered
Song 3 - "Fairfield" by Jefferson County Green Band
Song 4 - "Des Moines River Conference" by North of Grand
Song 5 - "Des Moines" by Stuck with Arthur
Song 6 - "Iowa Waltz" by Greg Brown
Song 7 - "Iowa" by Joseph David Soukop
Closing - Iowa Music Showcase Closing - Dylan Boyle

To download: https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode1/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode1_vbr_mp3.zip

Here are some songs I considered putting on the podcast, but I wasn't able to get permission or just decided they didn't fit. But they're good songs and worth checking out! They're mostly rap songs because I was trying to get a rap song to put on the podcast!

"I.O.W.A. Nigga" by B-Rok
"Cedar Rapids (Won't Let You Down)" by Big Band DBT
"Hooray for Ames" by Smiling Stone Soup
"Hawkeye Yellow 1iA Remix" by Pzy feat Venomisc & Lexcano
"Middle of the Map (Iowa Cypher)" by The Teknitions
Comin Thru" by 816 Boyz feat Jake McDonough
"Vodka Sam" by Big Band DBT
"Iowa State Fair Rap" by Eva Anderson
"Iowa Majors Rap" by Paul Beckman

Added June 10, 2016...

Realized I could a YouTube playlist with most of these songs! So find it below!

And since I couldn't find B-Rok's "I.O.W.A. Nigga" on YouTube, I put up it's Spotify embed.

Also, I present with a video of "Hooray for Ames" that doesn't fit in with the hip hop!
http://videos.sapo.pt/E995A3WYMazet3ejVIFL

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Sunday, December 31, 2017

PLAYLISTS: Happy New Year's - Iowa Style

Monday, December 21, 2015

IMSC Ep 23 - Song 7: "I Still Believe" by North of Grand

Sunday, January 4, 2015

IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE PODCAST - Episode 1: Iowa Pride

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