Chicago has Lollapalooza, Indio has Coachella and Bloomington has Lotus. Every year, music fans migrate from local, national and international locations to experience world music.
For High Dive’s three musicians, life is a balance of work, friends and musical projects. They’ve performed their pop-punk tunes around Bloomington at house shows and in local venues. Now, they plan to record a full-length album in the first week of October. Shortly before they record, the band will perform at the WIUX fall kickoff show with Ivory Wave and Eric Ayotte. The free show begins at 9:30 p.m. Sept. 29 at The Bishop.
When the Spierers began to plan a concert for Lauren, Daniel Weber volunteered himself and Brice Fox to perform and suggested B-97 DJ Matt Thiel to co-host the event.
WFHB Community Radio will make a greater effort to collect local music and give airplay to local artists by sponsoring the Local Music Collection Drive. The collection will transform supporting local businesses into drop-off zones for musicians to submit their music for review and airtime consideration.
About an hour before the fan-proclaimed chillwave artist Toro y Moi’s concert began, doorman for the Bishop Kieran Blackwood announced to the crowd of young adults that the concert had sold out.Chill wave artist Toro y Moi performed Sept. 20 at the Bishop.
1989-2008: The years of Hello Kitty, Hellogoodbye and the Hello Panda trade biscuit. Hello Panda is a delicious brand of Japanese shortbread cookies manufactured by the Meiji Seika corporation. Each bite-size snack is a sugar cookie filled with either sweet milk cream, smooth strawberry spread or decadent chocolate filling; the chocolate is the most common variety. Printed on these delicate biscuits are cartoons of cuddly pandas, and printed on the cardboard package are pictures of smiling mammals. 2008: The HP cookie mysteriously degenerates into mainstream Koala Yummies.
The IU Opera Theater will open with W. A. Mozart’s “Cosí fan tutte,” a comedy about two couples and their quest for fidelity.
The Indiana Hoosierettes is a new pom-style dance team on campus. According to its official statement to the IU Athletic Department, the Hoosierettes formed in 2010 with its first group of girls coming together in the 2011 spring semester.
Nancy Yeite presented the lecture “Collecting the Third Reich: Hermann Goering and Nazi Art Looting” on Friday at Woodburn Hall.
Based on increasing ticket sales since his first appearance in Bloomington, Chazwick Bundick, better known by his stage name Toro Y Moi, has been growing as a musician and is performing at 8 p.m. today at the Bishop.
Almost a part of the landscape, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater’s marquee looms on the western horizon of Kirkwood Avenue. But it wasn’t always that way. Here’s the history behind the theater’s sign.
Neon is seen more around campus, many times in the form of grey-and-neon-striped shirts, and it certainly is an attention grabber.
Saturday marked Audio Scenery’s first concert of the semester, a free, all-day music festival filled with body-painting, hula hooping and sunbathing all to benefit the Middle Way House.
It is “Shoah,” and at 11:00 a.m. Sunday it will be shown in the IU Cinema, which may be the last chance to see it.
I have a riddle for you. What do the government, business majors and 70 percent of all straight males hate? Art.
The Owlery is an establishment that defines itself by the clear, orange handwriting on the door: ‘Vegetarian Restaurant.’
XRA-Fest began in much the same way as its label Crossroads of America Records — friends helped friends and produced good music together. This weekend the annual XRA-Fest returns to Bloomington for its fourth year. What started as a low-key barbecue is now a full-blown, two-day music festival.
The show, “It Still Bleeds,” is a bi-monthly variety show that features a mix of local and regional comedians and musicians. Now in its second season, “It Still Bleeds” was created by local comedian Mat Alano-Martin.
Ladies, remember your $100+ prom dress? The one hanging in the back of your closet at your parents’ house?Rent the Runway is a creative solution to this problem. Instead of paying a lot of money for a dress you’ll only wear once from a boutique, RTR allows a women to rent a dress for nearly half the price and return it after use.
The juxtaposition of amateur and professional jazz musicians will be at the heart of this year’s Indy Jazz Fest.
