Wow, what a week it’s going to be. Between last night’s thrilling show with Daniel Francis Doyle at PS1 and tonight’s Warpaint show at the Blue Moose, I’m going to be worn out by the time Saddle Creek’s Mynabirds come to town tomorrow night for the Tuesday Night Social Club. The Mynabirds are the new [...]

The last time contemporary folk group Horse Feathers were in Iowa City, it happened to be a certain Tuesday night when Barack Obama was elected President. There was an amount of jubilation in the air that won’t be possible to match on Wednesday when they return with their new album, Thistled Spring. Regardless of the [...]

So, by now the word is fully out that rising rap star Wale has had to pull out of tonight’s SCOPE semester finale due to illness. However, in a sweet twist, indie rap luminary Talib Kweli has come on to take his place and join Girl Talk for this fantastic bill. Talib Kweli, if you [...]

Tonight, join one of our favorite bands from Iowa, the Poison Control Center, as they celebrate the release of their new album, Sad Sour Future. The record, their first since A Collage of Impressions in 2007, officially comes out on May 18, but they’ve been spending this weekend performing in Des Moines, Ames, and now [...]

On Monday night Ben and I sat down with prolific new-comers Cocoon in the KRUIstudios for another bout of discussion and live performance on Corn-Fed Music. The duo comprised of local concert fixture Ian MacMillian and Zach “Avery” Dowling (a/k/a Goldwater Marmalaid), has already put out a split, an ep, and contributed a new track [...]

Iowa City is a tough musical terrain. With a good portion of the young talent in the city only trolling our bars and venues because they’re also students at the University of Iowa, it becomes difficult to forge an attachment when artists, members and even full bands graduate and move on to “greener” pastures. But [...]

Dinosaur Feathers have undoubtedly put out one of this year’s big spring records. Having just self-released Fantasy Memorial on March 2, they are already receiving tremendous amount of hype. If you haven’t already hit the wall on the indie-fun madness, Mission Creek is a great opportunity to see them first rather than follow the trend [...]

Our intrepid contributor Brian Johannesen sat down with Dominic Rabalais to talk about his act, Coyote Slingshot and other assorted odds and ends as part of our continuing previews of the 2010 Mission Creek Festival. Coyote Slingshot is a name that has been thrown around the Iowa City music scene for a while now. The [...]

Few songs are as legendary as “Green Onions” by Booker T & the MG’s. Not just legendary as a soul song, but as a music phenomenon. (How many other all-instrumental songs have become so well-known in recent music history?) While only peaking at number 3 on Pop Charts, the song has been in over 20 [...]

My co-host, Ben, and I have culled together an hour of music from many of the finest musicians in Iowa City. They have more than location in common though: they’re all taking part in this year’s Mission Creek Festival. We broke you off with a preview of the mixtape this evening on our show, Corn-Fed [...]