Going on vacation May 5-13! Don't expect much then!

Howdy all! Yours truly is taking a much overdue week off from Sat, May 5 to Sun, May 13! So during that week, don't expect much to appear on this website.

I'll just be skipping some of our regular features and others will be postponed for a while!

If you really need some Iowa Music Showcase posts, we have plenty of old ones you can check using tags and labels here - http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2017/11/just-what-heck-is-on-this-website.html

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IHEARIC PODCAST - Episode 20: More Guests Than Microphones (04/22/2018)

To celebrate our TWENTIETH radio show on KRUI, I invited a bunch of my friends to come in and party for a couple hours. We listened to recordings from the 4/20 iHearIC concert at High Ground Cafe, discussed things both relevant and irrelevant to the arts and music scenes in and around Iowa City, and enjoyed a live performance from Joe!

Full list of guests (in order of appearance):
Ashley Yotty
Joe Sorensen (https://www.joesorensenmusic.com / https://www.facebook.com/joesorensenmusic / https://twitter.com/jsorensenmusic / https://www.instagram.com/joesorensenmusic / https://soundcloud.com/joesorensen / https://www.youtube.com/joesorensenmusic / https://joesorensen.bandcamp.com)
David Clair (https://davidclair.bandcamp.com)
Gabi Vanek (https://foleysound.bandcamp.com)
Michele Guild (https://twitter.com/michelekguild / https://www.wearerhonda.com / https://www.facebook.com/WeAreRhondaPodcast / https://twitter.com/WeAreRhonda / https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/we-are-rhonda/id1342645567?mt=2 / https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Im56b54drzi45zcx7vy4emwxid4)
Addison Benzshawel
Stella Hart

Just one more iHearIC concert for the Spring 2018 season:
May 5, 2PM at Riverside Festival Stage in City Park! (rsvp here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/190222161704598)

Catch the New Music Collaborative Chamber Recital tomorrow night (4/23) at 7:30pm in the Opera Studio at Voxman, organized by Kenken Gorder and featuring iHearIC regulars Justin K Comer and Will Yager among many other excellent instrumentalists: https://www.facebook.com/events/143387889840322/

This episode features music by:
Wombat (http://justinkcomer.com / https://soundcloud.com/will-yager / https://soundcloud.com/carloscotallo)
Carlos Toro-Tobón (https://soundcloud.com/carlos-toro-33)
Gabi Vanek (look above)
Josh Levine (http://www.joshlevine-composer.com)

IHEARIC PODCAST - Episode 3 (11/05/2017)

Sorry, if you were expecting Your Own Private Iowa! I'm afraid there's still no new episodes yet, so we present an older episode of IHearIC.

Episode 3! Aired late on KRUI because Justin was out of town. Mostly a recap of our November 3rd concert, featuring music by:

Sarah Burgess (her show at Uptown Bill's)
Christian and Dave Cripe (facebook - performance at Mt. Vernon Porchfest)
Erik Whittaker (his band The Demon Possessed)
Ramin Roshandel (soundcloud)
Andrew Veit (website - "Tramp" composed by Justin K Comer)
Jonah Elrod (website)
and poetry by Laura Felleman (blog)

CULTURE MYTH - Day 5: A rest

Written by Chad Taylor. Originally appeared on the Culture Myth website on March 22, 2016.

Rae Davis booked Sara Routh's tour. All three legs of it, in fact. For this west coast swing, Davis focused on finding gigs close to friends houses, which allowed Routh and Davis to save a ton of money on lodging.

We've talked about it before, but one can not put too fine a line on it: indie artists know they aren't going to make money on their self-funded tours, so every expenditure becomes vital to track. Anywhere you can find to cut costs, and potentially extend your tour one more day, you do it. This is what most galled indie artists who read about Pomplamoose's horrendous debacle of a tour back in 2014.

IHEARIC VIDEOS - Some Prog Rock and a Guitar/Violin Duo

This week we present just two performances. One is from Iowa City band, The Main Sequence, with some ambient prog music. Then Boris and Natasha present some singer/songwriter music accompanied by violin.

IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE PODCAST - Episode 63: Iowa Country and Folk Music

We have featured both country music and folk music on this podcast before. But to be frank and honest, I have huge backlog of submissions. And by combining them, I can get a bunch finally out of you people, so you can hear them instead of just me!

So mosey on up to the porch, grab a rocking chair, lean back, lift up your poop-kickin boots up, and pull down your cowboy hat, and have a listen to these fine Iowa artists bringing some of that western flavour!

Original painting by Monique Booker
Stretched and trimmed to make into a square