Iowa punks BOOTCAMP record release show exemplified the huge impact that even small music communities can bring.
Amidst 2025’s exciting alternative rock scene, Irish trio NewDad released their second studio album on September 19, Altar. Expanding on punk and soft rock elements from their first studio album Madra, the band also pulls from shoegaze with the explosive, distorted guitars and airy vocals that build the new record’s atmosphere.
Bluff Street, a new band from Cedar Falls is bringing their heartfelt indie rock and to Iowa City, only at the James this Saturday.
Iona Zajac made her way across the pond from Glasgow with The Pogues to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their record “Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash”. We discussed touring with this historic band, the best music coming out of Ireland, and her debut album “Bang” releasing this November.
It is crucial to preface this article with a warning. Without fail, every single set that I saw during ICSF left me in tears. Both Sunny War and Courtney Andrews’ ability to be completely and wholly open in their art showed in every single second of their performances.
Cartels have increasingly looked to social media to move counterfeit medications made to resemble authentic prescriptions, often laced with deadly doses of fentanyl.
Read about The Bangles’ album All Over the Place here! (Image via Tidal)
Read about Marianne Faithfull’s album “Broken English” here! (Image via Wax Vinyl Records)
Read about Macy Gray and her album “On How Life Is” here! (Image via tidal.com)
Read about how bees are being threatened in Iowa and what we can do to save them here! (Image via BBC)
Read about Beach Fossils’ Witching Hour Festival performance here! (Image via Mary Mathis)
Read about Karen Meat’s Witching Hour Festival performance here! (Image via Mary Mathis)
Read about Emmylou Harris and her album “Wrecking Ball” here!
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Read about Joan Baez’s album “Diamonds and Rust” here! (Image via: fanart.tv)
Read about Selena’s “Amor Prohibido” and her impact on Latinx culture here! (Image via: amazon.com)
Read about ICE CREAM (Iowa City Expo for Comics and Real Eclectic Media), the raddest collection of art during Mission Creek, here! (Image via: publicspaceone.com)
