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Exciting news from the Mission Creek Festival: local sweetheart Alexis Stevens will be playing on Friday, April 1st at the clothing store Revival in the ped mall! She will be playing with a few artists that are to be announced soon. The show will be from 5-7 and will be FREE!!!

I hate to be the one to tell you, but you missed out. Last night Iowa City’s favorite, well, probably Iowa City’s favorite band, The Wandering Bears, played a secret show at the Hall Mall. The show was secret, probably just around 15 people jammed into a small room, most of whom had to watch [...]

Much like everything involving me and this organization, it started with a somewhat sketchy email from Andre. Tyler from HOTT, a local band of badasses, wanted to get the word out about an event. Being the person that I am, I will never stop anyone who wants to advertise an event called Old Thrashers IV. [...]

There are certain bands who have played the festival a number of times. These bands are invited back so frequently for a reason. In general, they make great music, put on a great live show, and, most importantly, they loved playing the festival. Among these acts are The Hood Internet, Wye Oak, and a plethora [...]

Watching that last video I posted of Birth Rites at the Blue Moose reminded me that the headliner of that show was Colour Revolt… who is also playing the festival!!! (Tuesday, March 29th @ The Mill–FREE!!!) How wonderful. Here’s a video from that set. I believe it cuts out a little early, but you get [...]

Okay, so I lied. I admit it. I am sorry but I feel a responsibility to you, my dear reader, to clear the air. Yesterday I said that I would preview only bands that you may not have heard of and today, I will preview a band that if you have been even remotely involved [...]

So the saying goes… In like a lion, out like a lamb. It seems that when these foolish English proverb-makers came up with this oh-so-clever slogan, they had not accounted for 2011. It would appear that this year’s March has come in rather lamb-like. The weather has been relatively acceptable since the 1st (it is [...]

In the second volume of this installment, I present to you, fair reader, a sampler of the various bands playing at the Mission Creek Festival this year. Featuring many of the lesser-known bands playing this year’s installment of the festival, it will provide you a solid hour of entertainment and probably more because you’ll want [...]

As you have probably been able to ascertain from all of the imagery on this blog, the new installment of the Mission Creek Festival is coming. In fact, it’s right around the corner, essentially. There is a lot of cool stuff coming to town, so the hope is to make you aware of some of [...]