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KRUI’s Riot Fest 2025 Recap

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.

Sports
Chicago Bears Extend Win Streak to Four with 26-14 Victory Over Saints

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.

Music
When We Were Young in Las Vegas, 2025 Festival Preview

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.

We’re excited to announce the first-ever KRUI Halloween Bash! The show will start at 8 PM on Halloween night (Wednesday, October 31st) at the Iowa City Yacht Club, featuring Zeta June, Das Thunderfoot, Gone South, Velcro Moxie and Mirror Coat! It’s so good it’s scary.

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SCOPE Productions is proud to announce that Matt & Kim and Grand Funk Railroad will be co-headlining the 2012 University of Iowa Homecoming concert. The show will take place at the Pentacrest Lawn on Friday, September 28th immediately following the Homecoming parade. This event is free and open to the public. Rousing audiences into mass dance parties with only drums and a keyboard, New York City indie poppers Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino have catapulted from humble Brooklyn beginnings to hard-earned international stardom. Their spunky, groove-heavy aesthetic, vividly demonstrated on hits like “Cameras” and “Daylight,” is as infectiously danceable as … Continued

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The Mission Creek Music Festival is back! KRUI will be hosting two shows at Mission Creek this year. Come Celebrate KRUI’s Birthday at Gabes on Monday March 28th: Rubblebucket – From Brooklyn, NY with a new record coming out in the Spring, “Rubblebucket sounds like a kaleidoscope looks — a continually changing pattern of ebullient drum beats, harmonies and horn exclamations, led by the buoyant vocals and saxophone of Kalmia Traver and the hyperkinetic energy of trumpet player Alex Toth.” via Facebook Birds and Batteries – You should know them by now. We’ve hosted them several times here in Iowa … Continued

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March 3rd – Cotton Jones @ Blue Moose Tap House March 6th – Menomena @ The Mill March 17th – Bitch @ The Mill March 18th – Cory Chisel @ The Mill March 28th – British Sea Power @ Blue Moose Tap House March 29th – Colour Revolt, Caroline Smith & The Goodnight Sleeps @ The Mill March 30th – Nathaniel Rateliff, Christopher The Conquered @ The Mill March 30th – Or, The Whale @ Yacht Club March 30th – Jeff Tweedy @ The Englert March 31st – Das Racist @ Yacht Club March 31st – An Evening With Thurston … Continued

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