Four horn players, three backup singers, two keyboardists, two guitarists, three musicians in the rhythm section, and one lead singer — 15 Iowa City musicians make up the Steely Dan tribute band the...

When he was young, Chris Otepka was obsessed with the idea of a fictional movie theater staffed by animals. The goats were kept out front in a parking lot with helicopter blades strapped to their backs....

For more than 50 years, musicians Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady have performed together. As members of the rock band Jefferson Airplane, the pair performed at now legendary music festivals, including...

The St. Louis Brewery's seasonal, the Schafly Irish-Style Extra Stout, is this week's beer of the week. The brew is a fuller bodied Irish dry stout. It goes down smoothly despite its 8 percent alcohol...

The Ramones reintroduced hard, fast, and straight-forward rock 'n' roll to music fans of the 1970s with the album Ramones. During the '70s, much of the popular music was overproduced and flooded with...

On Wednesday evening during the Avett Brothers concert, SCOPE announced that it will partner with the 10,000 Hours Show to bring Grace Potter and the Nocturnals to perform in Iowa City. The group will...

Approxiamtely 5,000 miles separate Iowa City from Moscow, but on Friday, the two very different places will come together on the stage. Book Wings will take place at 10 a.m. on Friday in the Theatre...

Lúnasa comes to the Iowa City to get audiences in the Irish spirit in preparation for St. Patrick's Day festivities. The band will perform its famous Celtic songs at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Englert Theater,...

Bill Kanengiser's first performance was an impromptu solo show. When he was 4 or 5 years old, the now-professional guitarist played a rudimentary bass built by his father from a cigar box, a broom, and...

Pirouetting across the stage, dancers blur into a flurry of movement as they articulate the message of the piece through their bodies. A myriad of styles will be presented when the University of Iowa's...

Forty-five minutes before the rehearsal of Gigi is set to begin, there is chaos in the Englert Theatre. Musicians take their seats in the makeshift orchestra pit as they start to tune their instruments. During...

The play Sidewinders deals with how defining something can only get one so far and that acceptance is important. University of Iowa graduate student Basil Kreimendahl wrote the play, which follows the...