Songwriters Ken Pomeroy and Loudon Wainwright III played at the James Thater for ICSF 2025. Seeing songwriters encouraging people to start and showing them how to begin is what makes art happen.
A celebration took place in Chicago this September. The 20th edition of Riot Fest has come and passed, and while still covered in a layer of dirt and sweat, next year’s edition can’t come soon enough.
Soldier Field finally had something to celebrate again, as the Chicago Bears snapped their eight-game losing streak to the New Orleans Saints with a 26-14 win. Powered by a dominant defense and resurgent run game, the Bears overcame offensive struggles to notch their fourth straight win and move to 4-2 on the season.
On October 1, 2025, I journeyed to Val Air Ballroom in Des Moines to see a performance from Father John Misty, and left with a disappointment most bitter and foul, great show though!
Iowa education’s system has embraced the arrival of artificial cal intelligence with no signs of slowing down. However, some have raised concerns that it may lead to its downfall while others see it as a successor to the internet and printing press.
This weekend, Las Vegas will host the fourth edition of When We Were Young. A festival celebrating the scene out in the desert holds more than you’ve bargained for as 53 bands take on 4 stages in 1 day. A whirlwind for every pair of vans and fishnets in the pit, it’s Christmas in October for many. Here is your stage by stage preview of When We Were Young 2025.
See photos of Kurt Vile’s mesmerizing set at The Mill this Sunday, April 3rd.
Hopefully Mission Creek has gotten you excited for Iowa’s summer music festival, 80/35, because they just released the first round of their lineup today! Check it out here. The festival will take place July 2-3 in Des Moines.
Kurt Vile will be performing tonight, Sunday, April 3rd, at The Mill as part of the Mission Creek Music Festival. By Crystal Sherman This one goes out to all those that want the right to survive. – Vile on “Puppet To The Man”. Smoke Ring for My Halo, the fourth album from Philadelphia’s Kurt Vile, was released to reverent reviews from voices such as Pitchfork and Rolling Stone. It’s an aural massage. It’s a warm breeze with sparkly morphine-eyes behind dark sunglasses on a day that we have nowhere to be but where Kurt takes us. Jeff Zeiger still gets … Continued
DeVotchKa will perform tonight at First United Methodist Church along with The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir.
John Waters will present his one-man vaudeville show “This Filthy World” tonight at the Englert.
Das Racist, The Hood Internet, and Rich Rok are going to kill it tonight at the Yacht Club. This is one show you can’t miss!
Rubblebucket, Birds & Batteries, and The Wandering Bears played for an energetic crowd at Gabe’s this Monday, March 28 as part of KRUI’s 27th Birthday Bash.
Come celebrate KRUI’s 27th birthday, and help kick off this year’s Mission Creek Music Festival, with Rubblebucket, tonight at Gabe’s!!
