Synth-pop artist and singer Sky Ferreira will be performing in the IMU Ballroom this Sunday, April 13, for a show co-presented by SCOPE Productions and the 10,000…
Iowa City live music
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Hip-hop heads get ready: Yelawolf returns to Blue Moose
Alabama rapper Yelawolf will be returning to the Blue Moose this Friday, April 11, with Chicago’s Tone Da Boss. After a killer show two years ago, also at Blue Moose, this is a show that should not be missed. Yelawolf has made a name for himself for his explicitly Southern style of hip-hop. Whether he’s using samples from classic rock or collaborating with Kid Rock, Yelawolf sticks to and celebrates his back-country upbringing. However, his tracks are most compelling when he, David Lynch-like, takes a peek at the darker underbelly of small-town life and shows us a gritty world of violence and methamphetamine addicts. Sure, he’s got songs with titles like “Let’s Roll” and “I Like to Party,” but he also delivers the equivalent of a 21st century murder ballad on a track like “Pop the Trunk.”
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This Wednesday: Julianna Barwick to play Danforth Chapel
Last year — like every year for the last four — I worked as a producer during the Mission Creek Festival (Full disclosure: I worked Mission Creek Festival this year). This gives me the opportunity to check out as many bands as possible. One of the major experimentalists that was brought in last year was William Basinski, who is best known for The Disintegration Loops. While I remember what he looked like — long white hair, leather blazer — I can’t really remember what he sounded like…
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Mission Creek Plan of Attack: Saturday and Sunday
Even though getting through today will require at minimum three disco naps (mostly just to mitigate the perpetual hangover I’ve had since Wednesday) it will be worth it. So, what will I be checking out this weekend? let’s start the insanity… 11 a.m. (ongoing) Presses and magazines from around the country will be at The […]
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Mission Creek plan of attack: Friday
I feel a bit like a Mission Creek failure today because I only managed to complete two thirds of Thursday’s plan. After the Little Village/Slow Collision Press reading at Trumpet Blossom last night, I found myself faced with three very tempting options: 1.) S. Cary at the Mill, 2.) Dessa at Gabes, or 3.) falling […]
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Mission Creek show report: April 1-2
Having a Mission Creek pass is like having a two pound box of chocolates. You can get sated early, but you keep eating because it’s just so good! My number one tip for Mission Creeksters is to pace yourself, and don’t try to see everything. Take your time and soak it all in.
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Interview: of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes discusses his new band and the influences behind his latest LP
With 12 studio albums in less than two decades, of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes could easily be named one of the hardest-working musicians in the…
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Mission Creek plan of attack: Thursday
“This is just easy listening for the jaded class.” Truer words have likely never been spoken during a Wolf Eyes set, which was simultaneously stimulating and energy depleting, like a body confusingly processing uppers and downers at the same time. However, being able to catch both Taser Island and Wolf Eyes was a welcomed and […]
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Tonight at Gabe’s: Two psych-folk legends team up for a night of beautiful weirdness
New Bums is a new project by two of the strangest, yet most talented, folk musicians to emerge in the past decade. Ben Chasny (best known for his…
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Mission Creek plan of attack: Wednesday
The first night of Mission Creek was no joke. It was full of Jenny Hval’s sweet sounds at The Mill, awkward and unnecessary hugs following the Laurie Anderson lecture at The Englert, and lines, lines, lines at Gabes to both get in for Warpaint and then — because I was too successful at staying hydrated […]
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Five reasons to see Jenny Hval tonight at The Mill
Sometimes fortune smiles upon you and there’s a Mission Creek show that seems perfectly catered to you. For this music nerd, that show is the Jenny Hval and Mark McGuire show tonight at The Mill. I think I’ve told no less than 50 people about my love for Jenny Hval, an experimental, art pop musician […]
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Along The Way: Mark McGuire shares the details of his journey to the here and now
The Mission Creek Festival kicks off tonight with an incredible set of opportunities to get social at FilmScene, get schooled by Laurie Anderson at the Englert…
