Singer-songwriter-turntable artist SA Martinez is a cog in the successful rock band 311 that started in Omaha 21 years ago and is still going strong today from its Southern Calif.-base. Recordings and national tours keep the group, whose founding members remain intact, a popular draw. While he’s reached musical heights, SA is not the first […]
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Movieha – Omaha’s Movie Podcast!
Technology sucks. You can pretend otherwise, but the reality is that it exists only to taunt us. Technology is Lucy, holding the football out to Charlie Brown, telling him “it’s okay, you can trust me.” And then WHAMMO. Kersplat. Technology will be the death of us all, and we know it, yet we continue to […]
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Standing Tall
When the history of Bo Pelini’s tenure as head football coach at Nebraska is written, the 2011 Penn State game will figure prominently. It will say Pelini never stood taller. Yes, the Huskers won the game, 17-14, on the road, against a Penn State team that had lost only once. But Pelini has coached many […]
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News: Gus & Call, MAHA, Capgun Coup, Cursive & The Replacements
Before we start plowing through the year-end minutia that will be inundating us for the next month and a half, here are some “newsy” items that have been dying to get squeezed into the column before they fall between the cracks. * * * Gus & Call (former members of Bear Country) announcing that they […]
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Kosha Dillz
Just when you thought there wasn’t any more white boy hip-hop (no offense), here comes Kosha DIllz, a New Jersey-bred emcee who says he’s “an artist who loves Jewish Israel zionistic hip-hop-esque, cool hipster-atious, bodacious moving beats and shows at cruddy bars with soon-to-be superstars.” Whatever that means, Kosha Dillz is on a mission to […]
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Touche Amore
Admit it, a lot of us are punk rock snobs. We consider The Clash, Exploited, The Sex Pistols and even Bad Religion the definition of punk, not these bubble gum pop-punk bands like Blink-182 or Green Day. Sadly, the younger generations are going to need one hell of an education to undo the damage MTV […]
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The Appleseed Cast
A few miles away in Lawrence, Kansas, there is a bubbling music scene–and there always has been. Since 1999, The Appleseed Cast has had a strong presence in Lawrence, planting their experimental brand of indie-rock firmly in the soil. Comprised of singer/guitarist Chris Crisci, guitarist Aaron Pillar, bassist Nathan Whitman and drummer John Momberg, the […]
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Dead German births new album
* Dead German had been the secret basement project of several Omaha garage punk kids, but now Dead Beat Records is pulling the project straight up from the bowels on the earth. The quartet of Parker Steele, Watching the Train Wreck’s Kevin Cline, Ben Allen and Peace of Shit’s Austin Ulmer worked on songs in […]
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An Evening With Corey Taylor
It can happen at any moment in life. You’re heading in one direction and all of a sudden you do a 180 degree turn. Most often, there is a defining moment where everything clearly changed. That moment for Slipknot’s Corey Taylor was when the band lost bassist Paul Gray to an accidental overdose. The Des […]
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Against The Current
In the seemingly never-ending mission to group bands into a myriad of categories, Split Lip Rayfield has been allotted the “thrash-grass” label, which can be described as aggressive acoustic music with elements of punk and bluegrass. They’ve influenced a slew of other like-minded artists, but are careful not to take sole credit. “I’ve […]