Lucius Pham

Dec 16, 2024 | iowapublicradio.org | Cece Mitchell |Sean McClain |Lucius Pham |Anthony Scanga |Tony Dehner |Mark Simmet

In case you don’t have all your presents wrapped or haven't built your holiday playlist yet, don't stress. We’ve done the research for you. Here’s our (play)list of the top albums of 2024, perfect for you and the music lovers in your life! Recommended by Cece MitchellThe Last Dinner Party’s debut record Prelude to Ecstasyis a brilliantly crafted introduction to the British band’s unique brand of baroque pop.

Jun 10, 2024 | iowapublicradio.org | Lucius Pham

Lex Leto and Jarrett Purdy get experimental Towards the bottom of the 2022 Mission Creek announcement poster, beneath a stacked list of names including Beach Bunny, Kassa Overall and Son Lux, were two friends who didn’t even know each other yet. “I think the first time that I actually met you was at Mission Creek 2022, after your set,” Jarrett Purdy said, to his now-friend Lex Leto.

Apr 9, 2024 | iowapublicradio.org | Lindsey Moon |Tony Dehner |Lucius Pham |Maddy King |Cece Mitchell

Mission Creek is its own kind of festival, perhaps one of the most unique in the country: it's a hidden gem that happens in some of the state's longest-running, independent music venues. The booking is some of the most thoughtful and introspective of our state's music events, and the entire weekend feels like an exercise in deep, intentional listening — with the party of the Iowa City Ped-mall thrown in the mix. We get introduced to the most new music of the year at Mission Creek.

Dec 14, 2023 | iowapublicradio.org | Lucius Pham

We doubled, no, tripled down on hip-hop coverage at IPR this year, not just to celebrate the genre’s 50th anniversary, but also to highlight the artists that will drive hip-hop into its hundredth year. The words of Biggie Smalls were bouncing around my brain for months following my fistbump with GZA in The Englert green room (I never thought that hip-hop would take me that far)... not to mention when I nerded out with McKinley Dixon about his work with Sean Price, Guilty Simpson and Pink Siifu.

Sep 29, 2023 | iowapublicradio.org | Lucius Pham

spill tab keeps it copacetic Rising ‘bedroom pop’ star spotted outdoorsWearing an orange baseball cap and large, earthy green sweatshirt with the hoodie up, Claire Chicha snuck into the early Friday evening pit at Hinterland Music Festival undetected. Scheduled to perform in Saint Charles on Sunday at 1 p.m. with bassist Caleb Buchanan and drummer Gabe Stout, Chicha, better known as spill tab, bounced along with festivalgoers to the electronic stylings of North Carolina pop duo Sylvan Esso.