Osees performed at The Englert Theater for the Mission Creek Festival. The seats were ignored as people turned the historic venue into one packed mosh pit.
Strangers of Necessity and Anthony Worden demonstrated the power of Midwest music on Friday night at Mission Creek.
L’Rain translates memory into music, bringing them into the present where we may confront and converse with our own pasts in tandem.
Indigo de Souza performed for Mission Creek charming festival goers with a trip to memory lane, on a path that further steers onward.
On “pack your bags the sun is growing” bedbug shows the remanence of the past linger with a person for eternity. Dylan Gamez Citron gives insight into their new album, along with their thoughts and feelings behind it.
KRUI celebrates its 40th Anniversary on Saturday with Blist Her and OHYUNG as part of Mission Creek Festival. Previews for other Saturday performances are also featured.
Tennyson rocked night one of Mission Creek with an enthusiastic set.
Alyx Rush wooed the audience with his silky, effortless vocals.
Tennyson’s musical journey makes him one to watch at this year’s Mission Creek festival. (Image via Arrival Artists.)
Soccer Mommy is coming to Iowa City Saturday, April 9th at the Englert Theater as part of Mission Creek Festival.
The Hawkeyes kept the offense rolling as they defeated the Nebraska Cornhuskers 98-75 this past Superbowl Sunday. Written by Kenna Roering.
KRUI Radio stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. (image via Nicole Baster on Unsplash)
This is a roundup of the worst and my favorite genre of music: male indie artists singing about their manic pixie dream girl of the month. AKA indie pop. (image via DIY Mag)
As a young artist at the beginning of her career with such success, Benee is one to watch in the years to come. (image via NicheMusic)
It’s hard to really describe the feeling of nostalgia. The dictionary definition recounts it as “a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.” Everyone has different triggers which throw them back into that universal sense of melancholia. You may hear a song and be swept into a brisk fall sunset in 2006. You laid in the grass watching the sunset with your childhood neighbors (but more importantly, best friends), as time stopped existing. Or maybe it was the summer after high school graduation. You were depressed and sneaked out … Continued
Wasteland, Baby! is full of references and asides to pop culture, politics and the spirit of survival. However you may choose to embrace or reject the void, there’s a track to speak to the contradictions of fear and hope, love and loneliness, anger and joy that buoy us from day to day. (Image via Pitchfork)
