New video of Gabe Cordova singing at the last Indie Potluck, watch here

Caught Electro-rockers, Paper Route after their mesmerizing set at 80/35 this weekend. Zach Harper led the interview as we filmed.

Paper Route Myspace

If you weren’t at the Indie Potluck, then you missed the majestic Raise High The Roof Beam in their full glory. But before your day is full of bemoaning and such, we got a video …

The second lineup announcement for the 2009 80/35 Music Festival was just announced live over video webcast.
New additions include:
Canada’s indie collective Broken Social Scene and warpainted Man Man are the big names.
Followed up by indie …

A Midwestern Sound
A Mini-documentary starring She Swings She Sways
In the humble town of Ottuwma, IA, a small but loyal music community thrives. In the thick of it, we caught country-fried pop band She Swings, She …

Bro and Sis duo, This Frontier Needs Heroes, entertain riders on our new trolley. Soulful folk emanates from these Brooklynites as well as Italian heritage and sibling rivarlry come out as we scoop the loop.
TFNH …

Off a recent tour with The Arcade Fire and recently featured in Spin, Wildlight is climbing into stardom. We caught them after their set with Tapes N Tapes to talk about their big secret, their …

80/35 vets Colourmusic returned to the capital city for a show at the Mews, but not before having cookies and coffee with the Rock iowa crew. The experiences of an outsider band coming to Des …

In excitement for the upcoming videos of She Swings She Sways we shot awhile back, we’re releasing a song from a band SSSS recommended, Wrestling With Wolves. Longtime musician in the Ottuwma scene, songwriter Danny …

It was a nice holiday season, we hope all was well with you this Christmas. Anyways, we still have plenty of things going on behind RockIowa. We are excited to see some of it come …

So you might have seen Micah and Will in our Oh Possum videos, but this time, its not horror rock but simple acoustic folk songs.  Dan Bosman of Scented Vinyl interviews Wet Chemistry at Mars …

The intimate nature of Scented Vinyl makes bands whose sound is harder and louder really re-invent themselves. It’s a great venue to see a different side of an artist. So obviously pyscho-billy blues freaks Ski …