Owen Raefield covers the biggest performances and storylines from Iowa’s 55-0 beatdown of Northern Iowa on Saturday.
On a cool night, somewhere in between the last days of summer and first days of fall, the finale to the Hy-Vee Ampitheater’s inaugural season took place. Starring Arizona’s Gin Blossoms, hundreds turned out on their feet for the band in North Liberty’s newest venue.
Week two of college football gave us a pair of early Game of the Year candidates. Unfortunately for the Big Ten, those games came at their expense. This week, we’ll take a look at Iowa’s cathartic win over Iowa State, Oregon’s early-season struggles, and Ohio State’s meltdown against Texas.
The Chicago Bears and Carolina Panthers set Week 1 scoring records in a wild opening game of the 2026 season. Alex Izienicki details the 59-37 win for Chicago.
Owen Raefield breaks down the biggest players and plays from Iowa’s dramatic 16-13 victory in the Cy-Hawk series.
Week one of college football is in the rearview, but it feels like we’ve somehow already experienced a full season’s worth of drama. This week, we’ll dive into the (lack of) updates about Iowa’s quarterback battle, the “Bail Mary” in Ann Arbor, and the stakes of this weekend’s Ohio State-Texas game.
This is a roundup of the worst and my favorite genre of music: male indie artists singing about their manic pixie dream girl of the month. AKA indie pop. (image via DIY Mag)
Beatrice Thomas’s presentation on what the end of the world looks like, and what we are going to do about it
Ella Heckman reviews the new album “The Juice: Vol.I” by Emotional Oranges, the enigmatic R&B/pop duo.
Moor Mother’s music is subversive, but only if you haven’t been paying attention. (Image via The Vinyl Factory)
Descriptions of Noura Mint Seymali’s music show its incredible diversity and visionary blend of Moorish psychedelic rock, Saharan funk, and future pop. There is no better way of describing their music than to simply hear and feel it. (image via caramba.fr)
Wasteland, Baby! is full of references and asides to pop culture, politics and the spirit of survival. However you may choose to embrace or reject the void, there’s a track to speak to the contradictions of fear and hope, love and loneliness, anger and joy that buoy us from day to day. (Image via Pitchfork)
Regardless of whatever sticky tangle of emotions you find yourself in this heavily commercialized and commodified holiday, there’s always time to discover some new jams and reunite with some old musical flames!
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse is the much-needed franchise reboot for the new generation of kids that are sick of being told hang back and watch adults make the wrong calls. (Image via Sony)
Sam Fender is a force to reckon with, wrapping hard-hitting social commentary into a sleek garage rock sound.
Meet the genius behind indie legend Vampire Weekend (Image via Vimeo)
“Backlit by panels of frenetic lines and spinning vortexes, inverted skies and hypnotic suns, Mitski took center stage like a phantom in the sickly yellow light.” (Image via: author)
