KRUI Staff Favorite Albums of 2024
2024 has left us with countless albums to be enjoyed. Some of our staffers at KRUI picked which of these albums were their favorites or held the most beauty in their eyes.
The student group Young Americans for Freedom once again were allowed by the university to host another transphobic speaker at the Iowa Memorial Union. The lecture was met with protests outside by students and those in the Iowa City community who showed up to support trans people.
A sample of the Valentine’s Day decorations at the KRUI station.
billy woods – Aethiopes On Aethiopes, billy woods reestablishes his strengths as a storyteller, with help from producer Preservation’s experimentally jazzy beats. By now, woods has cemented himself as one of hip hop’s greatest writers, and his brooding yet clever introspection sounds especially powerful over Preservation’s musical backdropping. Samples of pianos will twinkle across some tracks, and pound discordantly on others, while electric guitars ring and horns blow. By the time the harmonica enters the equation, the beats here are unparalleled. It is an enveloping atmosphere completed by excellent percussion, which moves between hand drums, full kits, and shuffling jangles … Continued
As 2019 turns to 2020, we here at KRUI 89.7 look back at our favorite albums and songs of the year.
This is a promo for Gordi’s performance at Mission Creek Music Festival in Iowa City (Image via Gordimusic)!
Missed out on Noname’s February concert at the IMU? Her upcoming show at the Englert will give show-goers a second chance to see this introspective and inventive rapper perform live in Iowa City. (image via nytimes.com)
Check out some smooth new jams from the master of the breathy, Ray LaMontagne. (photo via: telegraph.co.uk)
KRUI Director Joe McGuire shares his own unique opinions, thoughts, and experiences on the first night of Mission Creek.
Kansas City treated fans to a 9-8 win in the 12th inning in the team’s first playoff appearance since 1985 (Photo: Jill Toyoshiba/Kansas City Star)
A day in the life of a firefighting rescue diver
Tiger Slowinski (he/they) General Manager (tslowinski@krui.fm) Major: Electrical Engineering Year: 5th Year Undergraduate Origin: Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin What are you trying to do with KRUI this year? Identify ways to connect ourselves with the community that supports us so generously, and fulfill the everlasting goal of making KRUI a public service worthy of that generosity. Who are your favorite artists right now? Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Floating Points, David Bowie, Flying Lotus “Yes, you can kick it!” -Tiger John Glab (any/all) Editor-In-Chief (jglab@krui.fm) Major: Journalism and Creative Writing Year: Junior Origin: Dubuque, Iowa What are you trying to do with KRUI … Continued