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Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Jacob Zlomke review Dear Herman's debut album, "Sincerely, Dorothy." Buy the album here: https://dearherman.bandcamp.com/album/sincerely-dorothy * * * Words by Jacob Zlomke With Sincerely, Dorothy, Lincoln folk-duo Dear Herman issues something of a critical challenge. It’s an 11-track narrative wherein characters are inseparable from the music that brings them to life. To listen only to the album’s music would be to somehow resist getting swept up in Crystal Davy’s rich characterization. Further, as developed in tandem with a full-scale theatrical production of that narrative, performed January 17 and 18 at the Haymarket Theatre in Lincoln, the task of looking at Sincerely, Dorothy on strictly its musical merits becomes even more convoluted. Davy and sister/bandmate Melissa Taylor are students of Allison Krauss and Emmylou Harris, developing an active woman narrator who tells her story through close harmonies and rich acoustic guitars. Where musically, Dear Herman takes cues fr

Audio review by Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Jacob Zlomke Buy the album here: https://orionwalsh.bandcamp.com/album/the-tale-of-a-broken-compass

podcast by Dan Scheuerman On this episode, Scheuerman talks to Califone's Tim Rutili about The Kinks's "Waterloo Sunset," vomiting an entire box of Franken Berry cereal, and writing music that strives to be animalistic. Califone plays Slowdown on Friday night with William Tyler. photo of Rutili by Dusdin Condren

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by Chance Solem-Pfeifer | courtesy photo Expressing yourself, confessional songwriting and art reflecting self. Jake Bellows has a two-word retort: “Who cares?” The longtime Omaha songwriter and former frontman of the now-defunct band Neva Dinova contradicts an entire dictionary of the romantic songwriting terminology with his first solo album New Ocean. Released on Saddle Creek in August 2013, the album postulates using music and art as tools for projecting a healthier, brighter future for humankind and the world, as opposed to a force that propagates one person’s human experience. While the conclusion may seem obvious to Bellows, he knows the execution of such songwriting is uncommon. “I think every artist thinks that, too,” he says. “They just haven’t considered what their art is for.” When Bellows returned to Nebraska in mid-January for a pair of solo performances, he reflected on the broader themes of New Ocean, a record for which his primary influences weren’t musical contemporaries of Neva Dino

Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Jacob Zlomke review Josh Hoyer and the Shadowboxers' self-titled debut. Buy it here: https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/joshhoyerandtheshadowbox

words by Chance Solem-Pfeifer | photos by Chris Dinan New Year’s Eve at Vega was the fifth time I’d been to a Universe Contest show in 2013. It’s a riot each time, with the vim undiminished by repetition. But in that it’s now a well-known hysteria, sometime after midnight, the mass of people, washed in green- and blue-lit baths, become an object of fascination as well. On this night, Universe Contest begins their set just after 11:30, so they can usher the crowd through the midnight countdown and play until around 1 a.m. The towering scaffold lighting they introduced at their Lincoln Calling set is in full effect and the October addition of dancers in tight clothing and strange masks was ramped up, too, with New Year’s Eve’s participation of the Resplendent Jezebel Burlesque. Once the band has doffed their sparkling tuxedo jackets and the burlesque dancers (men and women alike) are doing a racy version of “the monkey” from the tabletops behind us, I ask my friend if he thinks the band has anything to say

On this episode of Under the Influence, Dan McCarthy of McCarthy Trenching — an Omaha musician who's also played with Bright Eyes and the Mynabirds — talks androgyny, Murphy Brown, and joke songs with host Dan Scheuerman. Meanwhile, he plays a couple of tunes, including a version of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" with psychoanalytical commentary.

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by Chance Solem-Pfeifer | photo by Clay Lomneth Doug Van Sloun remembers the oddity of being on the phone with a potential client. The out-of-state artist was asking Van Sloun to master his next record. Only the musician had no idea that the Omaha-based mastering engineer was currently treating the album of the band with whom he was currently on tour. The bands were from different cities and neither was Omaha. “There was no connection at all between the three groups of us,” Van Sloun says. “That sort of stuff happens more frequently than one might think.” Coincidence, maybe. But Van Sloun is working on those odds all the time. The clients page on his website details more than a hundred artists, and it’s not even an exhaustive list of all the people who have trusted Van Sloun’s expertise on their albums the last 10 years. It’s not an exaggeration to say you’ll find the words “mastered by Doug Van Sloun” in the liner notes of the majority of well-produced Nebraska albums. From the bulk of Saddle Creek r

Jared Dietz, Tom Murnan and Jake Reisdorff of Funk Trek join us on Hear Nebraska FM for a feature interview and a listen through their new album "Purify."

Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Jacob Zlomke review See Through Dresses' self-titled debut. Buy it here: https://seethroughdresses.bandcamp.com/ 01:30 - Low-flying Guitars that Sing and Howl 03:28 - A Faithful '90s Throwback 04:34 - Looking Through Song Fabric 06:51 - See Through Dresses vs. Millions of Boys 09:15 - Boredom and Selfishness 10:50- Saying "I Love You" is Gross 12:35 - No Cash/Carter Duets Here

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Jacob Zlomke review "Episodes" by Luke Polipnick Group. Buy the record here: http://www.lukepolipnick.com/music/

Hear Nebraska's Jacob Zlomke and Chance Solem-Pfeifer review "Daddy Told Me" by Shawn Holt and The Teardrops.

Hear Nebraska's Jacob Zlomke and Chance Solem-Pfeifer review "Grown-Ups," the new EP from The Routine Escorts.

The concept is simple: One artist talks about one song that changed him or her. For the inaugural "Under the Influence," the new podcast from Hear Nebraska created and hosted by Dan Scheuerman, Dustin Wong discusses Terry Riley's "A Rainbow in Curved Air." Wong, the Chinese-American guitar and pedal virtuoso who cut his teeth in Baltimore and now lives in Japan, is on tour with the Japanese singer Takako Minekawa, playing songs from their collaborative album, Toropical Circle. They play at the Zoo Bar in Lincoln on Thursday. Scheuerman caught up with Wong on the phone, as he was riding north on the Pacific Coast Highway, driving from southern California to Portland. The wind and road noise you hear is the sound of a scenic coastal view. Cut it some slack, and enjoy Wong's thoughts on Terry Riley's "A Rainbow in Curved Air."