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About Rock Candy
A blog about music in all its forms, Rock Candy is the work of Kevin Coffey, the music critic and reporter for the Omaha World-Herald.
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Omaha, NE 68105-1811Kevin can be reached by phone at 402-444-1557.
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Category Archives: Little Brazil
Live Review: Little Brazil plays with new drummer, debut of The Brigadiers
Thursday night was a busy one. If you wanted to catch local music, you couldn’t have done much better than the shows going on at the Waiting Room and Slowdown. Journalist and fine man, Andrew Nelson, and I stopped for … Continue reading
Posted in Little Brazil, live review, The Brigadiers, The Sons of, The Waiting Room
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Go see these shows: Little Brazil, Jake Bellows Band, Dan McCarthy plays piano and more
Man, there’s some cool local shows going on tonight. It may necessitate me stopping at some or all of them as the night goes on. I recommend you do the same. » Dan McCarthy’s going to play piano at Pageturners between 7:30 p.m. … Continue reading
Posted in Jake Bellows, Little Brazil, McCarthy Trenching
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Rock Candy Interview: Denver Dalley of Desaparecidos
Ten years ago, Desaparecidos disbanded. Frontman Conor Oberst went on and did some Bright Eyes albums and tours. Other members focused on projects including Statistics and Little Brazil. Then two years ago, band members got a call from Oberst: “Would … Continue reading
Posted in Bright Eyes, Concert For Equality, Conor Oberst, Denver Dalley, Desaparecidos, interview, Little Brazil, Maha Music Festival, Statistics
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Introducing Guest List (this week featuring Little Brazil)
Today, I’d like to introduce you to Guest List, a new music video series that we’re debuting. Our first episode features local rock stars Little Brazil performing three songs. We’re excited to join the local music video community that’s already … Continue reading
Posted in Guest List, Little Brazil
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Live Candy: Several great shows this week
A lot of good live shows are coming this week in Omaha, starting tonight. Portland, Ore., indie punks The Thermals play tonight at The Waiting Room with Kentucky band Morning Teleportation and local favorites (now with keyboards!) Little Brazil. Should … Continue reading
Posted in Bright Eyes, Con Dios, Little Brazil, SXSW
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Little Brazil live review; Bear Country calling it quits
If you were anywhere but The Sydney last Friday, you missed out on a good show. OK, yeah… there were probably other fun things going on. But I found myself amid a mob of folks packed into that little Benson … Continue reading
Posted in Bear Country, HearNebraska.org, Ideal Cleaners, Little Brazil, The Fucking Party, The Sydney
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Column: Driver picks the music, and other road rules
Everyone has rules on a road trip. But when your road trip lasts for weeks or even months, the rules become more specific. Add in the pressure of performing every night, and it becomes time to lay down the law. … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaire, Little Brazil, Tim Wildsmith, tour rules
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Little Brazil Guest Blog: Summing up the SXSW experience
During SXSW, the kind folks in Little Brazil did some blogging for me from an artist perspective. All the entries are great stuff.Read them at those links if you get a chance. Anyway, after sleeping Austin off, Greg Edds chimed … Continue reading
Posted in Little Brazil, SXSW
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SXSW: Video from Austin
I took some video from a few things while I was in Austin. A couple of them are interviews of local bands and the others were shots I took from shows. Enjoy… 1. Lucero live at Club DeVille (performing “Nights … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Leather, Little Brazil, SXSW
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SXSW Little Brazil guest blog: Final day at South By
It’s a rough Saturday morning and I’m currently looking over my Friday notes trying to make sense of the craziness that was our final day in Austin. As an artist, checking into the festival is one of the hardest things … Continue reading
Posted in Little Brazil, SXSW
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