Read about Wye Oak’s performance at the Englert for Mission Creek here. (image via buzzbands.la)
Innings Festival Recap
Logan Melia recaps his experience at Innings Festival at Tempe Beach Park from February 20-22
Logan Melia recaps his experience at Innings Festival at Tempe Beach Park from February 20-22
The Lemonheads return with their first album in 19 years to Chicago’s Thalia Hall, with support from Erin Rae.
Down at Tempe Beach Park, they’re throwing a party. From February 20th-22nd, a barrage of bands and baseball players will descend on the sunny banks of the Salt River. KRUI’s Logan Melia is there to cover it all.
KRUI sports broadcaster Ryan Paris channels his inner Kevin Harlan, calling both a baseball and basketball game on the same day last Tuesday.
After eight years of radio silence, rapper, producer, model and fashion designer ASAP Rocky finally released his latest studio album “Don’t be Dumb”. After a couple of listens, the album certainly demonstrated its charm and charisma. While it wasn’t quite up to par with his earlier records, it’s still a great listen on its own.
RGBdatamoshchaosinformercialblownouttattoocontentawaredistortpopupad band Lip Critic returns to Iowa City at Gabe’s this Thursday, February 19th, as part of The Englert’s Track Zero x SCOPE collaboration. They are supported by Iowa City’s Recess and Cincinatti metal Ascended Master.
Read about Wye Oak’s performance at the Englert for Mission Creek here. (image via buzzbands.la)
The American shoegaze bands of the late 80s and early 90s took the sound of their British and Irish progenitors and infused it with a creative energy that was entirely their own. (image via user Morganfitzp on commons.wikimedia.org)
Read about Beach Fossils’ Witching Hour Festival performance here! (Image via Mary Mathis)
I’ll never forget the first time I heard Of Monsters and Men. I was 14 and on the cusp of discovering my love for Alternative Rock music. It was the age that I ditched the empty, Top 40 Hits nonsense and finally acquired an actual music taste. I dove deep into the excitement of finding new bands, plucking them from obscurity and bringing them to life inside the purple walls of my childhood bedroom. I was on vacation with my family in Colorado, listening to Pandora in the twin bed of our rented condo. “Sloom” trickled through my earbuds and … Continued
We The Kings performed in Iowa City with openers She Is We and AJR on April 1st, 2016 at the Blue Moose Taphouse. (Picture via: bottomlounge.com)
The Joy Formidable had me rocking out with a cat at The Englert Theater. Confused? Well, me too.
Bloc Party embrace their love of dance and electronic music in their latest album Hymns (Photo via: NME.com)
Check out this week’s tune “Unsteady” by X Ambassadors
Check out this week’s track review from The 1975 and their their newest release, Love Me.
Let U.S. Elevator bring you to a new level of musical enjoyment with their self-titled rock album. (Picture via: uselevator.net)