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Flip through the official festival guide for Mission Creek Midwest, 2010 – included as an insert in our March issue.

There are few musicians whose music is as polarizing as Autechre. It would be one thing if they were resolutely in the experimental music camp. The avant-garde have their audience, who embrace abstraction and difficulty, and revel in sound only marginally less random than brownian motion. But Autechre occupies a strange middle ground [...]

Features: February 2010 – Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us: the season of love and kisses, of hearts and flowers, of infinite romantic possibility, right?
“Let’s face it,” says Angie Toomsen of Dreamwell Theater. “It’s a totally lame holiday that glosses over the true complexity of human relationships and makes people feel like crap if they’re [...]

CD Reviews: February 2010 – Mountains recorded it’s third release, Choral, in front of a live audience with minimal overdubs added later for effect or layering. And despite the trappings of their genre (ambient), the record feels live, not stately. The Brooklyn-based duo pays attention to the listener, quietly adding elements like a fog descending [...]

I hauled out the trusty Zoom H4 to the Mill last Saturday night, and recorded some good ol homegrown Iowa Rock & Roll. So Here it is, with no commercial interruption!
All pics (except the first) were taken by the person I know only as Barefoot Adrienne — see all her pictures from the night [...]

DMX was a non-stop growling and barking hit factory back in the nineties and into the new millennium. The fifth best-selling rapper of all time? Five back to back #1 albums on Billboard? When local promoters Amaza Show brought him to the Marriott in Coralville to head up a bill, I was excited.
Memories stirred of [...]

A hyperactive Jimmy Buffet breaks through the weed smoke and patchouli to win over fans of all ages – with gentle humor, loopy romanticism and mad skills on the gee-tar.

-Clarence Johnson’s narrative review of Yung Joc’s show at the Industry
-Next-day video wrap up with Clarence and the Tallboy
-Photos by Jared Harrison
-Video clips of all the openers

Swimming has mesmerized me since I was very little. It’s one of the main reasons I absolutely love summer. When the weather heats up, I can just hear the water calling my name, beckoning me to dive in.
The dichotomy of air and water fascinates me. In air we can move freely, but we’re still anchored to [...]

One morning in April, I went to take my dog outside before I had to leave for work. I stepped onto our porch on Iowa Avenue and saw a young skinny man standing still on the sidewalk across the street. A woman with a video camera stood at a distance from him. Moments later, the [...]