When Mason Jennings was a kid, he used an old tape recorder to save the songs he wrote. He has since abandoned that practice and has released 11 professional studio albums since 1997 and toured the United...

The closest to thing to alpine terrain at the University of Iowa is walking up the hill from the IMU to the T. Anne Cleary Walkway. But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy this week's beer of the week —...

Kurt Cobain would probably hate me. When Nirvana's In Utero, this week's tracks from the past, was released in 1993, I was probably watching "Boy Meets World." That was almost a decade before...

Snowboarding in the Iowa mountains, skydiving, and meeting bands and stealing their drugs are just a few things Derrick Brown said he looks forward to about the 2012 Mission Creek Festival. "I've...

For Courtenay Bouvier, the food-program director for this year's Mission Creek Festival, getting people together to eat delicious food is one of the greatest gifts a person can give. For the first time,...

When Andre Perry arrived in Iowa City in the summer of 2005 from San Francisco, he wanted to be involved on the music scene in Iowa City. He met guitar player and native Iowan Tanner Illingworth. The two...

As part of this year's Mission Creek Festival, the Magnetic Fields performed at the Englert on Wednesday. And to continue the 80 Hours's Mission Creek theme this week, the Magnetic Fields' three volume...

This unseasonably warm weather has had me thinking about spring. And in my opinion, there's no better way to welcome a new season than with a tasty seasonal brew from a great brewery. That's why this...

Vocalist and guitarist Peter Silberman will not celebrate his 26th birthday with his family and friends in his home state of New York. Rather, he will spend it in Iowa City, performing with his band, the...

Seun Kuti is the youngest son of legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, the pioneer of the Afrobeat genre. He remembers his touring with his father and his first time onstage. "I had to face the...

Flat Black Studios is Misson Creek's partner for this year's Artist-in-Residence program, which was developed to give visiting musicians a more memorable experience of their time in Iowa City at the festival....

Literature lovers will crowd into packed venues in Iowa City, excited by the prospect of seeing many of the local and visiting writers present their work during the Mission Creek Festival's second Lit...