Songwriters Ken Pomeroy and Loudon Wainwright III played at the James Thater for ICSF 2025. Seeing songwriters encouraging people to start and showing them how to begin is what makes art happen.
A celebration took place in Chicago this September. The 20th edition of Riot Fest has come and passed, and while still covered in a layer of dirt and sweat, next year’s edition can’t come soon enough.
Soldier Field finally had something to celebrate again, as the Chicago Bears snapped their eight-game losing streak to the New Orleans Saints with a 26-14 win. Powered by a dominant defense and resurgent run game, the Bears overcame offensive struggles to notch their fourth straight win and move to 4-2 on the season.
On October 1, 2025, I journeyed to Val Air Ballroom in Des Moines to see a performance from Father John Misty, and left with a disappointment most bitter and foul, great show though!
Iowa education’s system has embraced the arrival of artificial cal intelligence with no signs of slowing down. However, some have raised concerns that it may lead to its downfall while others see it as a successor to the internet and printing press.
This weekend, Las Vegas will host the fourth edition of When We Were Young. A festival celebrating the scene out in the desert holds more than you’ve bargained for as 53 bands take on 4 stages in 1 day. A whirlwind for every pair of vans and fishnets in the pit, it’s Christmas in October for many. Here is your stage by stage preview of When We Were Young 2025.
I have tried to write this a million times, but it still doesn’t feel right. Which I guess is the point.
Radiohead has released their first album since 2011, and I am internally screaming. Read about it all here.
Read about Twin Peaks’ newest album, “Down In Heaven” here.
Read about the real reason every art student at Iowa is sobbing right now.
Read my personal take on Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ newest album, “PersonA.”
Read about how many things can be classified as art and how this can create a new open-mindedness.
Read about how sometimes pissing people off is the best thing you can do.
Read about R&B/electronic artist, Gallant’s newest album “Ology” here.
Read about the difference between “artsy” and “artistic,” and why it is so important.
Read about the Mission Creek Festival’s Iowa City Expo for Comics & Real Eclectic Alt Media (or ICE CREAM) here.
