Weekender

Established 2001 | Always free! Experts might call our recent weather a “false fall” but it’s real to us, dammit! Whatever it’s called, enjoy the cooler temps during the events in our Weekender. Jam band rockers Goose are at Hancher for a free outdoor concert tonight. Japanese art-rock trio TsuShiMaMiRe hit up two Iowa venues […]

Established 2001 | Always free! It’s the Weekender back to dispel the myth that there isn’t anything to do in our reader regions. “Team goilz,” a.k.a. Waterloo punk rock band the Rumours, hit up Octopus in Cedar Falls this Friday. They’re joined by 8 Foundead, Des Moines rockers Hazer and Guss Royall. Market After Dark, […]

Established 2001 | Always free! Today is the first day of the Alternating Currents festival in the Quad Cities, with events already underway this afternoon. On the festival schedule Friday night are the indie-rockers Hembree with Lauren Lovelle & The Midnight Spliffs. Monk’s in Dubuque has an album release for Dead Nerves, Numb Hands, the […]

Established 2001 | Always free! Not everything is all doom-and-gloom out there. Hinterland is healing, a Wisconsin bear that had his head stuck in a jar was freed, relocated and released and there are tons of events to check out in our Weekender. Joytrip, Joel Sires and One More Hour play Gabe’s in Iowa City […]

Established 2001 | Always free! The big destination this weekend is the Hinterland Festival in Saint Charles Iowa (let’s hope the temps of last years fest don’t return). If that’s not in your plans there are plenty of other music and arts events in our regions this weekend. QueertopIA, a celebration co-hosted by Dreamwell Theatre […]

Established 2001 | Always free! It’s been another weird week in a constant string of weird weeks. Coldplay’s Kiss Cam created a scandal, the QAnon Shaman flipped on Trump and two WWE Hall of Famers have died (one passing got us in the feels, the other not so much). Take a Weekender break with some of these stellar music […]

Established 2001 | Always free! This coming weekend is the last of the Cancer Zodiac season, which sees the crabs scurrying off to make way for the best star sign. (A Leo may or may not be writing today’s Weekender.) Whatever your astrological sign, there are lots of great events to check out in our […]

Established 2001 | Always free! Once again there are plenty of options for music fans of all types across our reader regions this weekend. The Joe Stamm Band stops by Wildwood in Iowa City to celebrate their latest album release. Ezra Furman brings her “orchestral emo” to Lefty’s in Des Moines. If you’re Dubuque and […]

Established 2001 | Always free! Drive right on by that roadside fireworks stand and take in some live music this weekend instead — your ears and eyebrows will thank you. The Iowa City Jazz Festival will host headliner Stefon Harris (called “one of the most important artists in jazz” by the Los Angeles Times) and his band Blackout. K-pop […]

Established 2001 | Always free! It’s a hot one this weekend, literally and metaphorically. AACTFest 2025 is just warming up in Des Moines, and Gabe’s in Iowa City is bringing the heat. The Cedar Basin Music Festival kicks off tomorrow in Cedar Falls, while Dubuque shreds on guitars and boards at OllieWoodStock 2025, a music […]

Established 2001 | Always free! Even though, after the holiday, this seems like the most Monday of Friday’s, we still have a slew of events to share in today’s Weekender. MC Animosity and an all-star University of Iowa music ensemble hit up Gabe’s in Iowa City. Soulcage celebrates their debut album release (which dropped today) […]

Established 2001 | Always free! It’s a swinging summer weekend in our reader regions; Rhythms at Riverfront Crossings hosts the P.T.A. Organ Trio in Iowa City, Des Moines Jazz Center Hall of Famer Gabriel Espinosa appears in Cedar Rapids for an exclusive performance, and Anthony Orji & Co. play Noce in Des Moines. Jazz not […]