Music festivals are the perfect event for the ultimate outdoor live music lover. For the Iowa City area, Camp Euforia, however, forget the sweat, subtract the overwhelming crowds, and add a scenic country...

Listening to Wondervisons, Delicate Steve’s first album, you could at first be forgiven for thinking that you were overhearing a practice session. Many of the tracks start inconspicuously, seemingly...

Soldier’s Daughter is not performed on a stage. Instead, its actors lead the audience throughout a country farm — from the farmhouse to the pond and fields and even a pirate ship. And as the last...

Anna Laube went into the 105.5 Project M songwriting competition as a virtual unknown in Madison’s music scene. But after she reached the finals, Wisconsin disc jockey Pat Gallagher said, everything...

The beer of the week is perfect for anyone who, while sipping a wheat beer, thought, “Hey, a peach would really go well with this.” Brewed by O’fallon Brewery in Missouri, Wheach beer is exactly...

The Daily Iowan sat down with a few members of Iowa City band Techno-Lincoln and the Technicolor Union to discuss FOON, time travel, and their soul-rocking shows. The Daily Iowan: Tell us a little bit...

The New Testament didn’t mention that Mary Magdalene lived in Hollywood and Jesus was a disc jockey. Namely, because they didn’t. But Mary Magdalan and Gzus do. The 27-year-old’s constantly colored...

The Beer of the Week is Tommyknocker Brewery’s Hop Strike Black India Pale Ale. Brewed in Idaho Springs in the Colorado mountains, the heavily hopped brew is characterized by a dark, heavy body, spicy...

On the South Side of Iowa City, behind a little white house and through a thick door, Luke Tweedy sits in front of a screen of multicolored sliding bars. He’s in his editing room in early July, cleaning...

Matt Jagow plucks the banjo. Steve Bateman plays the harmonica. Caleb Horne — the mandolin. Yet the members of the Wisconsin-based Evergreen Grass Band, including Tim Listcher and Dan Turner, refuse...

The Get Up Kids has dealt with the label “emo band” since Day 1. “It’s a blessing and a curse,” said Matt Pryor, vocalist and guitar player. Now, 16 years later, the band members don’t care...

The lyrical themes of mechanical tyranny in Iconoclast mark a drastic shift from the fantasy epics the New Jersey metal quintet explored on past albums, most recently 2007’s Paradise Lost. Yet these...