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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Pieta Brown brings Americana home

April 9, 2017

By Claire Dietz [email protected] Pieta Brown is a familiar name to Iowa City and the Mission Creek Festival. As an American singer/songwriter with a penchant for poetry and music in her...

IC band Port Authority shines in Mission Creek début

IC band Port Authority shines in Mission Creek début

April 8, 2017

By Brett Shaw [email protected] A band created in the dorms of the University of Iowa by the name of Port Authority was excited to perform in the famous Iowa City festival that they have attended...

Artist photo (contributed)

Tennis, with love, set to play Mission Creek

April 7, 2017

By Austin Henderson [email protected] Indie-rock darlings Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley performed as Tennis at 7 p.m. April 7th at the classic Iowa City venue Gabe’s alongside rising...

Mykki Blanco lights up the Blue Moose

Mykki Blanco lights up the Blue Moose

April 7, 2017

By Brett Shaw [email protected] Hanging from the rafters, throwing trash cans, whipping a tutu in the face of her fans, Mykki Blanco’s performance at Blue Moose on April 6 was anything but...

Mission Creek Review: Ghostface Killah

Mission Creek Review: Ghostface Killah

April 6, 2017

By Brett Shaw [email protected] It has been a long while since the Wu-Tang Clan has released music; however, as audience members threw up the iconic ‘W’ and chanted along to verses, it was...

From Sarah Louise's bandcamp

Sarah Louise re-imagined folk arrives at Mission Creek

April 6, 2017

By Lily Goodman [email protected] When asked to describe the kind of music she composes, the singer-songwriter Sarah Louise grew hesitant. It became clear that was a question she wasn’t too...

Elizabeth Moen plays guitar while performing inside Shorts Burger & Shine on Clinton Street on Sunday, July 31, 2016. Moen frequently plays an indie folkrock soul set at Shorts on Sunday nights. (The Daily Iowan/Joseph Cress)

Songbirds arrive at the Mill

Claire Dietz, [email protected] April 6, 2017

Elizabeth Moen has come a long way in a little more than a year. A soulful voice that took her to countries across Europe. Now the songbird has returned back to Iowa City. Now with a few new songs, Moen's...

Electronica takes Mission Creek

Electronica takes Mission Creek

April 6, 2017

By Brett Shaw [email protected] Standing still, an appropriate distance between one another, gazes locked on the performers and moving images before them, the audience at Gabe’s on Tuesday...

Daily Iowan Q&A with Grammy Award-winning artist Esperanza Spalding

Daily Iowan Q&A with Grammy Award-winning artist Esperanza Spalding

October 25, 2016

By Tessa Solomon [email protected]   When Esperanza Spalding’s self-titled 2008 debut was released to the public, they embraced it with delight. Her jazz -- a dizzying, tri-lingual...

Honky-tonking into Iowa from the Texas dance halls

Honky-tonking into Iowa from the Texas dance halls

August 3, 2016

By Claire Dietz [email protected] Texas-based band Mike and the Moonpies may be used to performing in the dance halls of the Lone Star State, not the bars of Iowa, but with a performance scheduled...

Photo by Sarah Hess

Twin City’s indie darlings make their way to Iowa City

June 16, 2016

By Tessa Solomon [email protected]   After high-school graduation in 2013, four teenagers from St. Paul, Minnesota, left their hometown, not for college, but for the stage. Three...

photo by Jordan Gale/The Daily Iowan

Disorderly House: Notes, literally, from Underground

April 14, 2016

This project, "Disorderly House," takes a look into the underground punk-music scene hidden in Iowa City basements. To view all the photos, click here. By Jordan Gale | [email protected] | @gordanjale Hissing...