Gannon Hanevold
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Dec. 13, 2023 I grew up in southern Nevada, and I still remember the view from my first bedroom: the Las Vegas strip roughly 20 miles away, with a beacon of light shooting straight from the center. In reality, the searchlight came from the top of the pyramidic Luxor
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Aug. 13, 2024 I’ve always had the belief that Ben Folds could have chased any career in music if he wanted to. A rockstar, a composer, a parody act. But on Tuesday night, the talented songwriter behind alt-rock band Ben Folds Five, 1997 hit “Brick” and many, many songs
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Aug. 11, 2024 The only arena rap show of 2024 in the Quad-Cities didn’t feel like an arena show at all. Saturday night’s Summer Jam ’24 — headlined by Cleveland rap collective Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Atlanta’s Yung Joc and former “Pimp My Ride” star Xzibit — had the feeling of
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Published in the Quad-City Times on July 6, 2024 At the John Deere Classic on Saturday, there was an obvious gap between the Counting Crows fans and the golf fans who were just there for a good time. But even that gap wasn’t quite as large as the one between the crowd and the stage.
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Sep. 21, 2024 Dierks Bentley has had the same tour bus since 2003. Its couches smell of worn-down leather. Their cushions sink like a sofa collecting dust in a Midwest garage, right next to the beer fridge. A bag of pickleball gear was propped against the arm rest. This
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Published in the Quad-City Times the week of Aug. 2, 2024 Hinterland Music Festival wrapped up last weekend in Saint Charles, Iowa, around 40 minutes south of Des Moines. The biggest music festival in Iowa has featured headliners like Zach Bryan, Bon Iver and Phoebe Bridgers in the past, with a typical tally of more
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Published in the Minnesota Star Tribune on July 15, 2023 Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds shared a moment with an 11-year-old first-time concertgoer on Saturday at Target Field. “You got a long road ahead of you,” he said, narrowing on the intimate moment and blocking the 27,000 attendees from his periphery. “Be good, and the
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Published in the Quad-City Times on July 8, 2024 Country music is always wrestling with authenticity. Real country and fake country have elusive definitions, but you know ’em when you see ’em. For the past decade, country’s radio identity crisis has played out over trap drumkits and bland vocalists selling Coors-branded coozies to frat guys.
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Aug. 2, 2024 T-Pain makes club songs. At first glance, the Mississippi Valley Fair Grandstand is nothing like a club. It smells like mulch. Its dance floor is a sloppy soup of mud and corn dog sticks. As the only rapper of the six Grandstand performers at this year’s,
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Aug. 24, 2024 I’ve got a bad habit of speaking in hyperbole when I get excited about something. After all, there are about 100 records that I regularly call “one of the best albums of all-time.” So I understand if you’re going to take this next claim with a
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