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Iowa Rock Concert Source News
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January 26, 2006
(Thursday) – One of our largest upcoming shows update ever has been added
to the list. Remember Aerosmith / Cheap Trick tickets go on sale on January 28, 2006
call 1-886-55Dahls
for tickets. The Bullet Boys will not be
appearing with Stephen Pearcy at Muddy Water’s
on February 10th. They
have been replaced with Pretty Boy Floyd.
All But Screaming has been announced as an opening band. $10 Cover. January 24, 2006
(Tuesday) – We’ve hopefully got all of the coding
issues corrected and there should no longer be any problems with the pictures
loading. New Venue rumored to be in the works in Lets
Dance in Cedar Rapids will be closing its doors
last night open in January 20th (Friday) Were going to the Freaklabel
show at 3rd Street Live in Cedar Rapids on
January 28th (Saturday) should be a good show Freaklabel will be recording this show for a Live Album so make sure to
show up. Appearing with Freaklabel is Lost Nation
and another act to be announced.
On February 10th (Friday) Stephen Pearcy former
vocals from RATT will be at Muddy Water’s in Cedar Rapids along with Bullet
Boys and Bang Tango. This should be a
good show and we’ll be checking this one out also tickets only $10. January 12, 2006 (Thursday - PM) – Forgot about several concert dates that we meant to add early
today for the River City Brewing Company in Clinton, IA so the need for a second update today. Make sure to check out our new Midwest Music Festivals page, that has had a few more updates since last Thursday. January 12, 2006 (Thursday - AM) – A ton of new concert dates added. We’ve moved our Midwest Music Festival Information to its own
page that can be found HERE. Our Music Resources page has
been updated with a couple of new links. We’ve also added a new section.
Since everybody is a fan of 80s metal we’ve added a upcoming show
section at the bottom of the center column just related to 80s Metal Bands
and their side projects. We’ll try to
focus on acts that are coming to the We’ve had several people ask when were going to get our Band
Page loaded, we’ve been working on it now for several months trying to make
sure we don’t miss anybody and spending to much time checking out their
websites to work on our own. We will
be spending some time on it next week and hopefully have a couple of hundred
bands listed with websites and contact info, so please be patient. December News and Updates has now been ARCHIVED. A couple of local venues are closing or potentially could be
closing. Quad
City Live in Lets
Dance in Cedar Rapids may be closing for
remodeling and a reopening with a new name and some format changes if a
pending sale is approved, if not Let’s Dance will be closing its doors
forever in mid January.
December 28, 2005 (Wednesday) – A couple of new show updates added to the upcoming shows
list. The LA Guns / Destrophy show at Muddy Waters on January 30th has been CANCELLED. So if you were really pumped about
catching LA Guns you can see them at the 7 Flags Event Center on January 31st
in We are also have put up a new featured band link; Skin
Kandy, from We’ve also added another general link to the site; IowaRock.Com holds shows throughout the year in and around central Rock 108
has PHOTOS available of the Fivespeed / Cold show
at Cool new show Alert: LA Guns will be at Muddy
Waters ( 101 Things you didn’t Know about Rock n’ Roll Today marks the one-year anniversary of Pantera / Damage Plan
Guitarist, Darrell “Dimebag” Abbot’s death at the hands of a deranged “fan”. Several new shows have been added. We will be going to the Drowning Pool show at In addition to the February 12, 2006 Nine Inch
Nails show at The Mark in Moline they have also announced a date at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines on
February 16, 2005 tickets are available through the box office or HERE, tickets not
available through ticketmaster. Nine inch
Nails has been announced to appear at The Mark in We’ve also finally
finished our overhaul of our Waterstock
Rock page that covers all the happenings at the
annual June Concert Event held at
November 30, 2005 (Thursday) – New show updates have been added. Check out the new featured band Skintight from Milan, IL and the new featured venue The Iowa City Yacht Club November 21, 2005 (Wednesday – Late) We just had to post this link to this video; it is one of the
funniest things we’ve seen in ages. Can’t…Stop…laughing!!!!! November 21, 2005 (Wednesday - Early) – We’ll be out of town on Thursday so this will be our regular
weekly update. October News and
Updates has now been archived. A ton of new show updates have also been added. November 17, 2005 (Thursday) – New Show
updates have been added. Since our camera didn’t work at the Naked Beggars show we didn’t
get any pics, but it turns out Steph (www.leppardfaniowa.com) was at the show and took a lot of great pictures that you can
see HERE along with a lot of
others. November 10, 2005 (Thursday) – New Show updates have been added. We went to the Naked Beggars show at Quad
City Live in Davenport on the 5th. They put on a really great show. Well be getting some pictures from the
show up this weekend so check back. November 3, 2005 (Thursday) – New Show
Updates have been added. One of our favorite comedians and host of Insomniac, Dave
Attell will be making three appearances in
Eastern Iowa at Live on Main (12/8)
in Dubuque, Iowa, Penguins Comedy Club (12/9) in Bettendorf, Iowa and Hancher Auditorium (12/7) in
Iowa City with Pauly Shore.
October 27, 2005 (Thursday) – New Show dates have been added. September news and updates have now
been archived. October 20, 2005 (Thursday) – New Show dates have been added. The first version of the Eastern Iowa Music Resources / Links page has finally been completed and
uploaded so check it out. October 18, 2005 (Tuesday) – New Show dates have been added. Naked Beggars
will be at the Quad City Live in Davenport, Iowa on November 5th.
Eric Brittignham and Jeff Lebar of Cinderella are part of this project.
Additional Naked Beggar dates can be found HERE. Destrophy from Iowa City has been added as
the new featured band link and Quad City Live
has been added as the
new feature venue link. Gabe’s Oasis in Iowa City is one of the busiest
venues in Eastern Iowa right now and we know we are not getting every show
posted so click HERE to get the full concert calendar
from pollstar. October 13, 2005 (Thursday) – New Show dates added. With Halloween coming quick here are
some links to Eastern Iowa Haunted Houses: Frightmare Forest
and Cedar Rapids Scare Lair Haunted
Attraction – Mount Pleasant Local Elections across the State of
Iowa are coming up this November.
Make sure to mark your calendars and vote. The voter registration deadline is Friday, October 28 contact
your County Auditor’s office for voter information. October 6, 2005 (Thursday) – Pics from the recent Silvertide show
at 3rd Street Live are available by clicking HERE. Many Eastern Iowa /
Illinois bands contacting us with their upcoming shows so were posting
them. Keep sending us your band /
venue info.
September 29, 2005 (Thursday) – Lots of new shows / Events added for
the months of October and November.
Most noticeably is the rumor of Anthrax appearing at Let’s Dance in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on November 5, 2005, more
information will be provided as it becomes available. The Upcoming shows section of this site
will be updated at a minimum of every Thursday night. Band, Venue and Resources pages will be updated at a minimum of once a month, so if
you send us your info give us a little time to get it put up, unfortunately
our real jobs keep us to busy to keep the whole site updated like we would
like. Of course we know we have to finish and upload some of those pages
first before we can ignore them again.
Band and Resource pages we hope will be wrapped up sometime this weekend
and uploaded next week some time. We also want to thank Stars
for Iowa – Central Iowa Rock Connection for adding a link from their site
to ours, so make sure you take some time and check out their site promoting
the rock / metal music in and around central Iowa. All new banners and buttons with the
site were created at cooltext.com a great site with a lot of
freebies. September 23, 2005 (Friday) – The Eastern Iowa Venues Page is now up with the first batch
of venues. If there are venues missing
that you feel should be included please contact us and let us know by
clicking HERE.
Still working on the Eastern Iowa Bands Page keep sending your links
to us by clicking HERE.
Lots of new shows added for the
month of October and a few new shows in November. Bon Jovi has announced a date at the
Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines for November 2, 2005 outside of Eastern Iowa,
but other big event at the new Event Center. Tickets are now available thru
the event center website. September 20, 2005 (Tuesday) – We’ve had a lot of hits the last
week as a result of some of our promotion efforts and have a lot of great
band and venue links that will be posted very soon. Our forum is now up and running we will be testing it out over the
next couple of days getting some of the kinks worked out. September 19, 2005 – KRNA will be holding the Rockin for Relief Show at Let’s
Dance in Cedar Rapids Iowa on Friday September 30, 2005. Live music starts late in the afternoon
and goes well into the night only $6 at the door and it goes directly to the
Red Cross aid effort. It’s an all
ages show until 7:00PM. September 12, 2005 – Still working on finalizing band and
venue If you would like your site listed here please contact us at shabbytrick@gmail.com and we will add you. Lots of new concert / events posted
today. September 9, 2005 – Got our first real contact through a
mass promotion of our site on myspace.com from Dakota of “Out of the Suffering” a metal band out of KC was the
first to get in touch with us. A side
note Dakota used to be part of the group Pillbox who was fronted by
one of our favorite vocalist Matt Burns (former ADAYAFTER, Downthesun,
Pillbox and II Gallon Red). Since Dakota has made some effort we’ll continue to post and promote
“Out of the Suffering” show / event dates regardless if
there in Iowa or not and encourage them to make their way up here. September 7, 2005 – New Updates upcoming shows in
Eastern Iowa. Most noticeably is the
Des Moines based band “On a Pale Horse” will be making a stop at Gabe’s
Oasis in Iowa City. On a Pale Horse
is making a huge name for themselves in the Midwest. September 6, 2005 – Brief Rock Never Stops Tour review
from Cedar Rapids available HERE. September 1, 2005 – TICKET ALERT!!! Slipknot
/ As I Lay Dying / Unearth at the Mark of the Quad Cities on Friday October
21. Tickets are $35 and on sale
Saturday September 10th at 10AM thru ticketmaster.
August 29, 2005 – Reviews to both the Clear Lake and
Cedar Rapids Rock Never Stops show will be posted here soon. Please check back. August 25, 2005 – The Rock Never
Stops tour
date at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa has been SOLD
OUT. Iowa’s own Slipknot will be
returning for to the area at The Mark in Moline, IL on Friday October 21,
2005 w/ As I Lay Dying and Unearthed in support. Ticket prices and on sale dates coming soon… As everyone should know by now
Ozzfest 2005 at the Float-Rite Park Amphitheatre in Somerset, WI on Saturday
September 10th has been CANCELLED. As we understand refunds are available at
point of original ticket purchase. August 24, 2005 – We apologize for the lack of updates
as vacation and our real jobs have kept us busy and not able to focus as much
attention as we would like to this site.
Weekly updates will be made at a minimum on Thursday of every week. Rock Never
Stops Tour
will be making their final tour stop this Sunday (August 28th) at
the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids.
Tickets are still available thru Ticketmaster. August 15, 2005 – Outside Eastern
Iowa – Billy
Idol will be making a tour stop at the Val-Air Ballroom in Des Moines on
September 20th Tuesday.
Queensryche will be at the Val-Air later that week on September 25th
(Sunday) August 8, 2005 – 2005 Rock Never Stops Tour will be coming to Cedar Rapids, Iowa
on Sunday August 28 at the U.S. Cellular Center.
July 28, 2005 – It looks like August 27th
music fans will have several opportunities to see a lot of great bands
depending on where they live and how far they want to travel. The 2005 Rock Never Stops Tour will make a stop at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa (Same place Buddy Holly died in a
plane crash following a concert). Jani
Lane and Vixen will be performing at the Ice Harbor in Dubuque and Skin Kandy will be at Center Point. Hopefully everyone will get out and support one of these
shows. We will be going to the Rock Never
Stops Concert
as it has been a few years since we’ve seen Cinderella perform. July 26, 2005 – The 2005 Rock Never Stops Tour featuring Cinderella, Quiet Riot, Ratt and Firehouse has
announced another Iowa Date at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake Iowa on Saturday August 27th. This is a smaller venue and we image
tickets will sell out fast so get yours as soon as possible. You can purchase tickets HERE. July 25, 2005 – Outside Eastern Iowa
- Not sure
what is going to happen with Z92’s annual Birthday Bash as we have
yet to get any great information about this year’s event. However they have announced the Z92 Free
Bash that will
be headlined by former Bad Company Lead Singer Brian Howe. Another outside Eastern Iowa Concert
Alert: One of our favorite bands Jackyl will be performing at Hawgstock in
Winterset Iowa on Friday August 26th with Des Moines favorite Cold Filtered opening.
June 28, 2005 – Rocktober Fest (Amana Colonies) has announced Blue Oyster
Cult as the
headliner with Rare Earth and local favorite Skin Kandy as openers.
Should be a great show as we have never seek Blue Oyster Cult before
and we all know that Skin Kandy puts on a great show. June 23, 2005 – Outside Eastern Iowa - Waiting for any announcements or
rumors regarding the 2005 Z92 Birthday Bash at Carter Lake Park in Omaha,
NE. Will be posting any information
as it becomes available. July 4, 2005 the 1st Annual Iowa Metalfest will be held at Sleepy Hollow Sports
Park in Des Moines Iowa. This all day
event will include over fourteen national and local metal acts. Check out the website for additional event
details. We’ll be posting a review
and pictures of the event as they become available. June 22, 2005 – Outside Eastern Iowa. Great White
has been confirmed to
appearing at Keysters in Urbandale Iowa on July 16, 2005
with local Des Moines favorite Cold Filtered opening. More
information will be provided next week.
We just caught Great White at a private party at Muddy’s in
Cedar Rapids on June 19th and I will tell you they were
unbelievable and Mark Kendell is one of the most underrated 80s metal
guitarists. Hopefully they have his
latest album “Mark Kendell 2.0” available for purchase, as it is a great rock
album with a heavy blues influence.
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