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Heads Up: Culture Shock 2025 Artist Profiles

Claire Kinderwater | April 7

Get excited, y’all – Culture Shock 2025 is less than a week away! From 12-9pm on Saturday, April 12th, the 37th annual WIUX music festival will take place on IU’s own Dunn Meadow. We have a lot to look forward to during this year’s Culture Shock, including a fun Americana theme, food trucks, a DIY merch table, free admission (as always!), and of course, sets from some phenomenal artists.

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“Motion Picture Soundtrack:" Nosferatu with Radiohead at IU Cinema

Claire Kinderwater | March 6

Whether from a place of nostalgia, historical appreciation, or rebellion, we young people love to love old media. IU Cinema’s March 4th screening of Nosferatu (1922) with a score by Radiohead was a perfect opportunity to engage with this act of finding the old in the new; discovering modern meanings in material from the past.

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A Journey through Hell with L’Inferno and Montopolis

Claire Kinderwater | November 13

On October 19th, I had the privilege of attending a performance over 700 years in the making. I don’t think anyone can fully prepare to see a medieval depiction of hell in a century-old film accompanied by a driving synth score.

Music

The Wall, The Fall, and "Evil Techno:" Berlin's Club Scene Since 1989

Claire Kinderwater and Emma Broach | October 8

A few weeks ago, one of my close friends introduced me to a musical genre he coined as “Evil Techno.” This genre was unlike anything I had heard before– dark, rapid, and charged, it sounded like something you’d hear while watching a movie scene of 20-somethings partying at a euphoric underground rave somewhere in Europe, clad in black clothes and moody makeup.

Claire Kinderwater

Heads Up: Culture Shock 2025 Artist Profiles

“Motion Picture Soundtrack:" Nosferatu with Radiohead at IU Cinema

A Journey through Hell with L’Inferno and Montopolis

The Wall, The Fall, and "Evil Techno:" Berlin's Club Scene Since 1989

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