On this week’s Lit Show, Justin Torres, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a current Stegner Fellow at Stanford, discusses his debut We the Animals: A novel. Listen to the full interview over at The Lit Show. Torres is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and he’s currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. His fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, Tin House, and elsewhere.
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By Alexa Squire In early fall 2009, Lady Gaga hadn’t released The Fame Monster yet, Katy Perry was only known for kissing a girl, and “chillwave” was a completely new word for a new genre of music. Washed Out and Toro y Moi, two of the most well-known chillwave artists, had just released Life of Leisure and Causers of This, and bloggers were using the term to describe their lo-fi, blippy, danceable beats that relied heavily on reverb and looping. When Alan Palomo (the man behind Neon Indian) released Psychic Chasms that winter, his songs fit the definition and it … Continued
Rank Artist Recording Label 1 Male Bonding Endless Now Sub Pop 2 Jonathan Wilson Gentle Spirit Bella Union 3 Blitzen Trapper American Goldwing Sub Pop 4 Mates of State Mountaintops Barksuk 5 Wild Flag Wild Flag Merge 6 Abstract Artimus Rite of Passage Dire Life 7 Pepper Rabbit Red Velvet Snowball Kanine 8 Toro Y Moi Freaking Out [EP] Carpark 9 Collections of Colonies of Bees Giving Hometapes 10 Dom Family of Love Astralwerks 11 Fucked Up David Comes to Life Matador 12 Can’t Dreams Come True Terrible 13 Portugal. The Man In the Mounts In The Cloud Approaching AIRballoons-Atlantic … Continued
This week, KRUI added Caroline Smith & The Goodnight Sleeps’ second full-length album Little Wind to the library. This follow-up to their 2008 release Backyard Tent Set finds Caroline and her band older and wiser. You can hear the miles traveled in Caroline’s voice, and in the distinct bite of her lyrics. Her newfound honesty, at times, gets garbled by lo-fi vocals—like on KRUI’s Track of the Week, “Tanktop.” Yet, at Smith’s most childish and nostalgic moments, her vulnerable thoughts still ring through; on tracks like “Eagle’s Nest” her sound is abundantly crisp and clear, and it cuts like a … Continued
Sports Staffer, Taylor Axelson interviews Emily Moran.
By L.C. Graf-Juarez If Zebrahead and Dethklok were to have a baby, it would be the punk garage rock band, Cerebral Ballzy. Bringing back the true meaning of punk, Cerebral Ballzy’s self-tilted debut album is all about rebellion and having fun. At times, they can be completely repetitive, especially when the same riff is used in “You’re Idle” and “Don’t Look My Way.” But, Cerebral is clearly looking for a good time. It truly takes a certain type of person to be able to listen to them. And Cerebral Ballzy is partially called “Ballzy” because they couldn’t care less about … Continued
Washington D.C. based indie rock quartet Deleted Scenes visited KRUI on September 17, 2011 before playing later that night at The Mill. Check out their exclusive performance of “Ordination Day,” live in the KRUI Studio.
Iowa City’s Night-People Records dominate our ninth installment of the Low Frequency Series… and it’s FREE!
Jayson Gegner, host of “Hey! Listen!” on the Lab, shares his top picks for video game releases this September. Check it out here, and be sure to tune into “Hey! Listen!” on Fridays from 3-4 PM.
