By Alexa Squire It’s hard to imagine an album that starts out sounding like African pop, morphs into shredding psychedelic guitars, and passes by twangy Southern riffs before finally landing on a bright slide guitar solo, but Delicate Steve does so in their first single. This debut album from the New Jersey band is only 26 minutes long and completely instrumental. The guitar parts are both primitive and post-rock, the keyboard is fuzzy and the drums are loud and soulful. While comparisons have been made to the Dirty Projectors and RATATAT, the fact is Wondervisions is the product of a band … Continued
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Paperback Rhino, Iowa City’s longest running improv comedy troupe, entertain every Sunday from 5-6pm on their show Paperback Radio
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
By Blake Carlson-Joshua John Vanderslice’s new album, White Wilderness sets out on a different path than his previous releases. Known for his studio precision, Vanderslice changes things up in this album as he teams up with San Francisco-based conductor/ composer Minna Choi and her Magik Magik Orchestra. Unlike any of his previous work, Vanderslice was able to complete this album live and in merely three days by enlisting the help of Choi to deliver the heavy musical layers we’ve all come to know and love. The result is a wonderfully vivid set of music that will resonate with any Vanderslice … Continued
By Lars Headington Finally out of the bubble and playing out on a real field and under the sun for the first time since November, Iowa Hawkeye baseball was, perhaps predictably, working-out some kinks as they opened 2011 regular season play at the third annual Big Ten/Big East Challenge over the weekend. The event, held in the St. Petersburg/Clearwater, Florida area hosted eight teams from both conferences for three inter-conference games apiece.The Iowa Hawkeyes drew West Virginia, Pittsburgh and Seton Hall. The Hawks had lost to West Virginia in last year’s Challenge, but defeated Rutgers and Villanova to finish 2-1. This … Continued
By Kyle Hughes Name College Hgt. Lbs. Proj. Draft Von Miller Texas A&M 6’3 243 Top 15 Akeem Ayers UCLA 6’4 255 1st round Justin Houston Georgia 6’3 258 1st round Martez Wilson Illinois 6’4 250 2nd round K.J. Wright Miss. St. 6’4 250 2nd round Bruce Carter North Carolina 6’3 235 late 2nd-3rd Mason Foster Washington 6’2 242 late 2nd-3rd Mark Herzlich Boston College 6’4 238 3rd-4th round Brian Rolle Ohio State 5’11 218 3rd-4th round Jonas Mouton Michigan 6’2 240 3rd-4th round
By Kyle Hughes Name College Hgt. Lbs. Proj. Draft Greg Jones Mich St. 6’1 240 late 1st-2nd Kelvin Sheppard LSU 6’3 240 late 1st-2nd Nate Irving NC State 6’1 235 2nd-3rd round Colin McCarthy Miami 6’3 240 3rd round Josh Bynes Auburn 6’2 235 3rd round What do you think? Who’s the best MLB in the draft? Leave us a comment and get in on the conversation.
This is Animal Collective’s member Panda Bear’s new track from forthcoming album entitled Tomboy. The album is set to be released on April 12th on Paw Tracks. [audio:http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Panda%20Bear%20-%20Last%20Night%20At%20The%20Jetty.mp3]
Drew Ingersoll the Music Director for KRUI interviewed Dan Deacon prior to our website launch party on February 12th, 2011. This took place in the back seat of a car heading from the airport in Moline, IL to Iowa City, IA.
Another record has been broken at the Iowa Invite this past weekend. KRUI Sports Staffer Kylie Sebert has the latest track and field update.
