Gov't Mule
February 9
@ Capital Theater in Davenport

Shinedown
Puddle of Mudd
Skillet
Friday - February 12
@ The Val Air Ballroom

Shawdows Fall
Monday Feb 15th
The Waiting Room - Omaha, NB

Trans-Siberian Orchestra
April 23rd
Des Moines Civic Center

Mayhem Festival Announces
Korn
Rob Zombie
Lamb of God
Five Finger death Pnch
Atreyu
Hatebreed
In this Momment
Shawdows Fall
Winds of Plague
3 inches of Blood
Full list Bands and Dates

Rust in Peace 20th Anniversary Tour
Megadeth
Testament
Exadus

Alice in Chains
February 21st
Midland Theatre - Kansas City
March 21st
Roy Wilkens Auditorium - Minneapolis, MN

Experience Hendrix
Joe Satriani, Jonny Lang, Eric Johnson,
Kenny Wayne Shepherd,
Brad Whitford (of Aerosmith),
Doyle Bramhall II, Ernie Isley, Living Colour,
Double Trouble's Chris Layton
along with bassist Billy Cox.
With Special Guest
Sacred Steel featuring Robert Randolph,
Susan Tedeschi and David Hidalgo
and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos
Tuesday March 16th
@ Uptown Theatre -Kansas Ciy MO

Return of A Rant of Sorts 

Destrophy - The Cedar Rapids based band has signs with Victory Records Worldwide Now on the road with OTEP & Type O Negitive .. Check put the new release. Perhaps ...All Hope is Not Gone for Iowa Metal Bands.


Ephriam Zenh thanks for the great music & times !
We will hope this isn't really a final farewell.


Calous is everywhere including the Iowa Speedway, The Whiskey Hotel , Backwoods Fest , Boulevard the Beach Bash - and even in Cheyanne, Wyoming with Anthrax : local dates including the Maingate on Fairs first Friday (with Niobium ) and Saturday ( with Hangover ). One of The hardest working men in band biz ...Joey the Ratt ..announces he won’t continue with the band as they continue the “Hellbent for Jagermister tour.. Joey the Ratts Last Ride with Calous will be in September. We wish Joey ALL the best in any pursuit ! He is a cornerstone of the Iowa Rock scene and we are sure he will continue to kick-ass as he choses .

Speaking of CD Releases- Des Moines favorites Roadshow (David Ellis, Bill King, Kelly Starret continue to finnish up there yet to be titled new CD project. Look to hear more originals from one of Des Moines longest running cover bands who are playing upcoming shows
at The Italian Festival Thursday July 30th, and the "Badride" August 15th. Bikers Against Diabetes—is a motorcycle fund-raising ride and family festival of the American Diabetes Association.


If you didn't catch it here already a kick - ass events scheduled to happen soon in central Iowa featuring Iowa's own bands :

The Boulevard Beach Bash, August 1st at Clearwater Beach details and bands are listed on this link - pre-pare for Sandblasting metal mayhem with some kick ass Iowa Bands !

The Backwoods Fest Aug.7,8,9th @ Hickory Hills State Park features sponsor /headliner Grinwire and tons of talented friends including Calous, Mindrite, Divided We Stand, Cirrus Mino, Odium, Nature Boy and many more ..see poster above..


U.F.O Plays Des Moines for the first time in years - The British hard rock band that influenced bands like Metallica , Megadeth and Iron Maiden will show you why they influenced Metal like few others. Playing hits like “Rock Bottom”, "Too Hot To Handle" and "Lights Out" U.F.O will Rock Des Moines on Sunday - October 18th ( Tickets at Iowa Tix ). ...Other show that Rock ...
(Hed) pe will returns to Des Moines on Aug 7th at Peoples Court .....

Rock Gone Wild on the Road ??
--- Turns into Rock Gone Under
“Rock Gone Wild “.

Still worth Checkin out Bumbefoots latest here.

Have a Need For new music fix Check out some myspace freebies from our Iowa Favorites

Divided We Stand and have a "Listen" .
Catch them live at Brickfest and Backwoods Fest.

Gaberiel Black The new Matt Lemons ( former Cassandra Disease front man) latest project is here .....give this a cranked up digital spin ..

Marcato recently posted "Miles Away" a new tune for your ear consumption.

World Under will be playing not only the Beach Bash and Backwoods Festival but is head to Rock the Ink in Providence Road Island - Local Iowans Destrophy also on the bill with Hedpe , OTEP, Gary Hoey
and Marky Ramone.

Indigo is a newer 3 piece act ( soon to be 4) fronted by Kyle Pals and has a new music out...check it

Maxx Menagerie recently revamped the line-up to include female vocalist Brady, and offers a lot of surprises for those whom haven’t seen them out recently. They will play The Edge Aug 14th with guest Smoking Blindfolded.

We recently caught up with Local band Shatter
who's live show is totally full of enthusiasm with a mix of originals and classic rock tunes with a rock jam feel that is getting them a lot of attention and gigs ..check their myspace schedule from the link above.

Another act to recently grab or attention is Siktikket
playing some Tool and other very tasty, more current covers, along with some blistering classic Alice in Chains.

In Free Fair Music 2010Black Stone Cherry
August 18th on AE Stage 8 pm

Calous @ The Maingate - Aug.14th & 15th
with Niobium the 14th & Hangover the 15th

Hairball August 19th & 20th on AE Stage

Gimikk August 2oth @ the Bud Tent

Jason Brown, Iowa State Fair on the Knapp Stage
.Aug 17th & 18th /19th

Redwing August 22nd @ The Bud Tent

Douglas Acres on the Knapp Stage August 14th and at the Bud Tent Aug.21st

Coolio 8pm on AE Stage

Josh Davis Band - Fat Andy and Bonnie Finken
on the AE Stage the 16th On the Oldies Budwieser Stage
(That's what the site says):

Firefall Aug. 13th & 14th -
Head East 15th & 16th -
Pure Prairie League Aug 17th /18th
Seven Hells continues to play lots of gigs check out there upcoming dates including a Hellofva New Years Eve Party already in the works with Havick.Not a lot of Noise out of the Hawgstock Camp
Scheduled to appear : Cold Filtered and FullThrottle..Speaking of Full Throttle Alumni ..keep your Eyes and ears open for “Whipping Junior”

Looking for a Road Trip
Check out ProgNation in Minnaplois on Aug.21st with Dreamtheater and Zappa Plays Zappa. Lollapalooza Aug 7-9 with Jane Addiction , Tool and the Killers . The Allman Brothers in Chicago September 2 & 3rd . Creed and Staind in Kansas City on October 10th. Milwaukee 's best includes Motorhead on Aug 29th and Slipknot -Anthrax and The Black Dahlia Murder at the Eagles Ballroom on September 5th

The other big names playing outside the Fair locally include :

Southern Rock Favorite Molly Hatchet will play Des Moines on Wednesday August 26th -
according to thier web site..

The David Mathews Band and Robert Randolph Family Band play Principal Park on September 25th.

AC/DC @ Wells Fargo Arena Saturday October 10th.

Hoyt Sherman Dates for Little Feat Aug 31st.
Dave Mason Sept.16 and Joe Bonamassa Oct 16th.

That's it for now,
For one of 10,000 bassist ... Peace

Donnie Steel Shreds .
Gotta here this .


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1. . So “Who” is in Junk Poet, where are you from? Jon “Fu” Fullerton vocals, Jay Lyon guitar and backing vox, Rich Lyon drums, Joel Grau bass. We’re from Ames and Des Moines 3 of us have lived both places. 2. How did it start and Why the Name? (JOEL) It started with a different band in 1994 called Bonegrind that brothers Jay and Rich Lyon were a part of. I joined after seeing an ad looking for a bass player on a bulletin board in Main Street Music. We parted ways with the original singer and added Jon Fullerton. The name came from Jon “Fu” after a song called Junk Poet we wrote and decided it was a cool band name. (JAY) Yeah with the new direction we took after half the band was replaced, the name didn't’t seem to fit so Fu proposed the new name and we became Junk Poet. 3. Various incarnations of the band? The original Junk Poet was as it is today, Jay and Rich Lyon, Joel Grau and Jon Fullerton. That was the lineup for the writing and recording of both the albums (1994-1996) but in the fall of 1996 Rich decided he didn't’t want to be in the band… or any band so he left and was replaced by Paul Thompson. We played with Paul for maybe a little less than a year before he went on to focus more on the Tyler Thompson Band, so we got Greg Stravers on the drums sometime in 1997. Eventually, in 1998 due to personal reasons, Fu and the band parted ways and Matt Biegger got the job. We played a few shows that summer including the Mancow Lazer Luau, but before the end of fall it was clear whatever was holding us together to start was no longer there and we broke up. 4. What triggered the Reunion /Reformation of the Band? (JAY) Well Rich and Joel had been in contact in 2007 and started hanging out. They started talking about making music again which Rich hadn't’t really done since he left back in 1996. I had been out of performing bands for a couple years at that point but Rich talked to me about starting playing again with Joel and I thought it would be cool, but the only right way to do it would be to have Fu on vocals so it was all original, with the core creative engine. CONTINUED HERE

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