2024 has left us with countless albums to be enjoyed. Some of our staffers at KRUI picked which of these albums were their favorites or held the most beauty in their eyes.
With the end of 2024, some of the KRUI staff made a playlist of their favorite songs released in the past year. Here are the tracks they picked along with why these songs were their favorite.
Origami Angel’s most recent album “Feeling Not Found” affirms their chops as emo, pop-punk stars and offers some jams for the internet age.
Chicago band Any Two Words’ debut album “Double Vision” tugs at the main themes of the genre of Midwest Emo. Its’ 13 song run is a mass of casual poetry.
Based on Rachel Yoder’s book of the same name, “Nightbitch” has been making its rounds at film festivals ahead of its December 2024 theatrical release.
The student group Young Americans for Freedom once again were allowed by the university to host another transphobic speaker at the Iowa Memorial Union. The lecture was met with protests outside by students and those in the Iowa City community who showed up to support trans people.
Mark Weisman had a season high 145 rushing yards as Iowa downed Illinois 30-14. (Photo: Michael Hickey/Getty Images).
Dylan Anderson recaps Iowa’s victory over Indiana on Homecoming.(Photo: Matthew Holst/Getty Images)
At this point, everybody knows about the crazy week that took place in Iowa City. All Big Ten left tackle Brandon Scherff had his knee scoped, and defensive end Drew Ott was involved in a scooter accident. All week there were question in the air whether these two key contributors would be able to play against the Iowa State Cyclones, if at all for the Hawkeyes. At 2:40 pm Saturday, when the 70,858 fans in attendance at Kinnick Stadium saw those two take the field to Back in Black, that crazy week tuned into optimism. The Hawkeye offense lead by … Continued
Dylan Anderson takes a look at the annual Cy-Hawk game in Iowa City this weekend. (Photo: Reese Strickland/USA TODAY Sports)
All of a sudden, Iowa is in position to possibly win the Legends Division. Matt Cozzi gives his take. (Photo Credit- Al Goldis/AP Photo)
How often have we seen it over the last few years? Our beloved Hawkeyes are in one of their patented down-to-the-wire games only to come up short in the end.
The Hawkeyes got off to a better-than-believed start to conference play by defeating Minnesota, 31-13, on Saturday in Kinnick Stadium. Maybe the sky isn’t falling on Iowa after all.
Iowa got its sputtering offense running with the help of a military man, a home crowd, and a sense of desperation in a 27-16 win over Northern Iowa on Saturday at Kinnick Stadium.
