Ames Rock Lifers The Sundogs Set To Play 80/35
The Sundogs are one of the longest-running rock bands in Ames. Founded in 1988, they have survived through the decades, spreading their psychedelic style of reggae-inflected rock. This year they will...
View ArticleThe Beauty Shop Residency Program Celebrates Six Months of Solid Art!
The southeast Iowa town of Fairfield is a mysterious and beautiful little community with a dynamic arts scene. I was first exposed to Fairfield in 2009, when Mumford’s traveled there to play at the...
View ArticleSierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars and the Meaning of Home
About two years ago, shortly after getting home from a six-week-long national tour, I had a realization. I like being home. A lot. Home is where you know people, and where everything is just right,...
View ArticleSteering My Hustle Ship Through the Ocean of Consciousness: Week One as a...
Crossposted from peacetown, USA, a website celebrating the progressive community in Fairfield, Iowa, where Ames Progressive editor Nate Logsdon is participating in a monthlong residency program at DIY...
View ArticleAmes Bands Set To Rock 80/35
Ames is well-represented at 80/35 this year, a great affirmation of our music scene on the state level. This is the 5th anniversary of 80/35 and, in a way, its also the 5th anniversary of the current...
View Article80/35 Project Manager Amedeo Rossi Chats with Ames Prog’s Nate Logsdon
The Ames Progressive was at the 80/35 Music Festival last weekend and we’ve got some photos coming your way shortly, so stay tuned! In the meantime, check out this video of project manager Amedeo Rossi...
View ArticleCatching Up with Three Maximum Ames Artists at 80/35
Last weekend at 80/35, Ames Progressive photographer Tony Galloro tracked down some artists from the Maximum Ames Records label to pick their brains on the Des Moines music festival. Patrick Tape...
View ArticleJeff Mangum, Rockabilly Queen Wanda Jackson Headlining Maximum Ames Music...
The first lineup announcement for year two of the Maximum Ames Music Festival (September 20-23) has just been released, and as promised it does not disappoint. Cutting to the chase: Jeff Mangum: Best...
View ArticleRemembering The Olivia Tremor Control’s Bill Doss
http://inspireextraordinaryperformance.tumblr.com/ The Poison Control Center’s Patrick Tape Fleming, left, sings The Olivia Tremor Control song Jumping Fences with the late Bill Doss during a PCC tour...
View ArticleFairfield Artists Release Slew of New Videos and Material
There has been a lot of activity coming out of the Fairfield scene in the past two weeks, adding to an already thick catalog of fascinating music and videos from a crew of artists largely associated...
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