This August, as festivalgoers streamed into the new grounds of Hinterland Music Festival, the question wasn’t just whether the music would be good, it was whether organizers could recapture the magic that made Hinterland among the biggest and best music festivals in the Midwest over the past decade.
Brian Morelli
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Hinterland 2024 had the hottest lineup yet. But has Iowa’s largest music festival gotten too big?
Live music was once the center of my young adult life. Road tripping from venue-to-venue. Mountains, gorges or rolling hills backdropping stages. Foggy memories of great music, and artists I’d forgotten by the time their sets ended.
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Grateful, not dead yet: The music keeps playing at rural Iowa bar Byron’s despite threat of condemnation
Byron’s Bar is one of those places where the tale of the tape doesn’t measure up: a Grateful Dead haunt in a tiny rural town in western Iowa. I had to check it out, especially now that its future is in doubt. More on that later. The dive sits on a mostly abandoned, rundown Main […]
