So some more shows (Wild Nothing with Abe Vigoda! Poison Control Center! Das Racist!) have been added since my original winter concert preview. I think there may be some other good ones just about ready to be announced, too. In the meantime, just thought I'd do a quick update to point out a bunch that may be of interest:
February
The Nadas. Vaudeville Mews. Feb. 2 All Ages $10
Building Your Band's Online Presence Panel. Vaudeville Mews. Feb. 3 All Ages & Free
Resident Artists: It Might Get Loud: Johnny Scum, Golden Veins, Deep Sleep Waltzing and Brutus. Vaudeville Mews. Feb. 4 21+ $5
George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic. Club 504 (new Des Moines venue). Feb. 5 21+ $32 in advance, $36 at the door.
Javelin with Foody Pyramid. Grinnell College. Feb. 5 All Ages & Free
The Poison Control Center. Ames Progressive. Feb. 5 All Ages
La Strange CD release party with Bangups, Nuclear Rodeo. Vaudeville Mews. Feb. 5 All Ages $5
The Poison Control Center. Club 504. Feb. 10 21+
Cleo's Apartment with Wrestling With Wolves, Diamonds for Eyes, Mother Culture, New Bodies. Vaudeville Mews. Feb. 11 21+ $7
Seryn with Seedlings, Myself for You, Pocket Aristotle. Vaudeville Mews. Feb. 13 All Ages $5
The Love Language. Vaudeville Mews with Dustin Smith, Canyons. Feb. 14
Loretta Lynn. Hoyt Sherman Place Feb. 15 All Ages $52.50-$72.50
Nadas. Vaudeville Mews. Feb. 16 All Ages $10
Canby with Parlours, Crystal City. Vaudeville Mews. Feb. 18 21+ $5
Wild Nothing with Abe Vigoda. Grinnell College. Feb. 19 All Ages & Free
Sleeping in the Aviary with Mumfords, Derek Lambert & the Prairie Fires, the Chatty Cathys. Vaudeville Mews. Feb. 21 All Ages $5
Daymoths with Golden Veins. Vaudeville Mews. Feb. 27 21+ $5
March
Dropkick Murphys with Against Me!. Val Air Ballroom. March 4 All Ages $25
Hunter Valentine with Vanity Theft, Love Songs for Lonely Monsters, New Member Charles. Vaudeville Mews. March 4 21+ $7
The River Monks CD Release Party. with the Wandering Bears and Elizabeth Arynn. Vaudeville Mews. March 5 All Ages $5
Rural Alberta Advantage. M Shop (Ames). March 22 $6 students $10 public + $2 day-of-show increase
Rural Alberta Advantage. M Shop (Ames). March 22 $6 students $10 public + $2 day-of-show increase
The Poison Control Center with Brass Bed. Drake University. March 25.
Mission Creek Festival: Guided by Voices, Jeff Tweedy, John Waters, Das Racist, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore, The Poison Control Center, Skull Defekts with Daniel Higgs, more. March 28-April 4 (Iowa City)
April
Gross Domestic Product. Hotel Fort Des Moines. April 2 All Ages
My Chemical Romance. Val Air Ballroom. April 10 All Ages $30
I Was Totally Destroying It with Cashes Rivers, Parlours. Vaudeville Mews. April 14 21+ $7
Christopher the Conquered with Mumfords, Derek Lambert & the Prairie Fires, Pennyhawk. Vaudeville Mews. April 22 21+ $5