By Pat Fleming on July 4, 2010
Well a light mist never hurt anyone, or even rain in general! Everyone seems totally fine with the light mist this early afternoon at 80/35! Lots of great music to be seen, Avi Buffalo is going to be rocking the main stage soon! Great little band im stoked to see live!
By Jill Haverkamp on July 4, 2010
Yesterday during Yo La Tengo’s set they called upon a fan from the crowd to play drums during on of their songs. Pat Curtis from Radio Iowa interviewed the lucky drummer. Click here to watch the video.
By Pat Fleming on July 4, 2010
I’m at Devin’s from PCC’s house and his parents were like hey I think you are on the front page of the Des Moines Register! Yep, I am you can see my first pumping in the air to YO LA TENGO.. Its a great article by my buddy Joe Lawler and its nice to hear [...]
By Pat Fleming on July 4, 2010
Man last night was incredible! SPOON had one of the best sounding fun sets I have ever seen at a music festival! The sound was amazing! And they played everything anyone would want to hear from a shortened Festival set! I loved the show! I was back hanging out with LADD A. From the Vaud [...]
By Andrew Duffelmeyer on July 4, 2010
Attendees of 80/35 witnessed yet another Des Moines first last night. After Yo La Tengo earlier in the day played Des Moines for the first time in the group’s more than 25-year history, Spoon played Iowa’s capital city for the first time in their 17 years together. Spoon stuck mostly to songs from their new [...]
By Aeon Grey on July 4, 2010
It’s a rough morning. After finding out that none of my posts from yesterday actually posted from my phone, I have decided to simply introduce myself, write a recap of what I did day 1, and decide how I am going to handle day 2. My name is Luke aka Aeon Grey, local hip hop [...]
By John Pemble on July 4, 2010
By Pat Fleming on July 3, 2010
Well I was getting pretty wiped from going to stage to stage and having brews so I just treated myself to a MASSAGE at 80/35.. Yes they have it all here! And dang the massage was really awesome! the Massage tent was located right in between the sounds of Earl Greyhound and Slightly Stooped so [...]
By Pat Fleming on July 3, 2010
Man how often does one of your top ten all time bands play in your back yard! Well it seems like every 80/35.. 2 years ago we had the Flaming Lips, last year it was MALKMUS and now the band who i consider the GREATEST INDIE ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME….. YO LA TENGO… Man [...]
By Andrew Duffelmeyer on July 3, 2010
Indie veterans Yo La Tengo have broken into the Des Moines music scene (they also said they’ve been playing music longer than most of the people in the audience have been alive). The trio busted out some raw and mesmerizing cuts tonight, and even brought a member of the audience on stage to play drums [...]
