You shouldn't need an excuse to play this week's tracks from the past, but because Valentine's Day is less than a week away, you should be bumping Marvin Gaye's 12th album, Let's Get It On, with the volume...

F*** Love. It's the sentiment heard throughout the world every Valentine's Day. A day that brings despair to those without a significant other and those with a significant other who has no idea what gifts...

Hailing from their home in Kansas, the members of Split Lip Rayfield will travel to Iowa City this weekend for a show in Iowa City. The group will play at 9 p.m. on Saturday at the Yacht Club, 13 S....

Mike and Joe is a Chicago-based cover band specializing in popular alternative tunes. The group will perform at the Blue Moose Tap House, 211 Iowa Ave., at 9 p.m. Friday; admission is $5. Formed more...

Following the most recent announcement, in mid-January, the leaders of the Mission Creek Music Festival announced an additional list of performing acts on Wednesday. Kimya Dawson, Caroline Smith &...

XV will stop in Iowa City on his "Midwest State of Mind" tour on Saturday, after creating new music in preparation for the release of his début album, The Kid with the Greenback. Donavan...

Naked flesh. And lots of it. That image comes to Nick Rees's mind as his most memorable moment while touring with the Second City comedy troupe. "I did a show where we got streaked by 25 students...

The classic wooden game Jenga stands in the middle of a back room of the University of Iowa Theatre Building, surrounded by multicolored fairy-wing costumes. In this Gallery Series production, two...

Matthew Santos was nominated for a Grammy award in 2009 for his collaboration with Lupe Fiasco on the song "Superstar," but Santos doesn't feel responsible for the song's success. The folk-rock...

Everyday life morphs into poetry for writer Cathy Wagner. "I'm very interested in poetic processes and finding ways to allow whatever is going on in my life to make poems," she said. "Then...

On an average day in the Bailiff household, the band members wake up to blaring Beatles' songs around noon and empty Domino's pizza containers in the kitchen. There is no heat in the band's rehearsal...