Lucius Pham

The third iteration of Cedar Falls band Salt Fox's Lost Woods Music Festival on Sept. 27 brought thousands together for music, lights and a trip around the Ferris wheel.

Teddy Swims, That Mexican OT, Mavis Staples, Riff Raff and Christone "Kingfish" Ingram were the stars of Saturday In The Park in Sioux City July 5. The free music festival marked 35 years of grandeur this summer.

Lead singer Niko Kapetan talks about Friko's debut album, Where We’ve Been, how it works sharing drummer Bailey Minzenberger with three other bands, and how inspiration for their new song, "Hot Air Balloon," struck at 6 a.m. in a Cracker Barrel parking lot.

The Chicago-based rapper’s newest album Magic, Alive! is an abstract jazz tour de force — featuring Iowans Teller Bank$, Bank$'s kids and Elizabeth Moen.

Dua Saleh is a Sudanese-American musician and star of Seasons 3 and 4 of Netflix’s Sex Education. We caught up with the "Sugar Mama" singer at their first ever show in Iowa — inside a Grinnell dorm basement — to discuss the road to their 2024 full-length debut I SHOULD CALL THEM, telling music fans apart from TV fans and fusing Black metal and dance into ‘Black R&B.’

From rap and R&B to dance and lo-fi, here's a playlist of the best Iowa hip-hop of 2024. Consider this a catalogue of our favorite tracks of the year, from the albums and EPs you need to hear!

Artists shooting their own videos, DIY attitudes and two must-see projects from filmmaker Hannah Rosalie Wright defined a busy year in Iowa music videos. Here are some of our favorite videos of 2024!

Just this year, the spacey, beach town rock band flipturn performed at Hinterland, Austin City Limits and an NFL locker room, released a Tom Petty cover for a Vince Vaughn series, and contributed to the latest album from The Greeting Committee. Across two interviews with IPR’s Lucius Pham, the five-piece talked about their college days, what it's been like touring “the heck out of” their debut album Shadowglow and grabbing a "pint" with Two Door Cinema Club.

The free, one-day music festival returned to Grandview Park in Sioux City with its signature blend of genres split between two stages.

“We kind of became friends through this project, which is really cute.” April Artists of the Month Jarrett Purdy, a jazz pianist, and Lex Leto, a classical flutist, shared with IPR's Tony Dehner. The pair fused their distinct styles on their 2023 EP have you been the night?.