Feature Photo by Matt Jaskulski One orange balloon skips across the floor. Jazzy music stems from the front of the unfinished basement while holiday lights snake around the entire room. Empty beer bottles sit on top of the water heater. “Hey thanks for sticking around,” said the lead singer Nick ...
Hipster fans bop their heads up and down in a small, dimly-lit room at a house party off Walnut Street and watch local band Flower Mouth perform at the band’s signature venue. Flower Mouth has released two singles on the free music-sharing app SoundCloud, and they are set to release an 8-song EP. ...
Stand-up comic Tig Notaro’s latest book sits on a bookshelf in an office in downtown Bloomington, Indiana. The walls in the office are lined with gold records on the wall and young workers sit at their desks making phone calls and typing away on computers. On the bookshelf next to Tig Notaro’s ...
Pictured: Flower Mouth at their WIUX Live Sessions. Last week at Franklin Hall, I had the chance to interview Gus Gonzalez, the lead singer of Flower Mouth — a local band who frequently performs setlists at underground house shows throughout Bloomington. Recently, WIUX hosted an event at the band’s ...
People in the town of Bloomington, Indiana took to the streets Monday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as sporadic events took place all across the city, set-up by a variety of organizations. One of these activist groups by the name of CommUNITY Educators whose sole purpose includes social ...
[gallery size="medium" ids="13527,13524,13526,13555,13554,13535,13547,13549,13558,13551,13541,13552"] Most photographs taken by Autumn Van Overberghe, a sophomore biology student at IU. GRIFFY LAKE – By the rocks on a sunny, autumn afternoon, the sight of Griffy Lake fades in the distance. Tall, Indiana ...
[gallery columns="2" ids="13561,13563"] 5/7 Whether you choose to believe it or not, people generally judge albums by their covers. It’s an understood scientific fact. After swinging by the record-shop Landlocked Music in downtown Bloomington, Indiana, I stumbled upon Chain & the Gang’s new ...
Bernie Sanders ran a socialist campaign during this past election cycle, emphasizing issues like wealth and income inequality, especially concerning folks in the American middle class. Believe it or not, he is not the first ever presidential candidate to run on a socialist platform. You wouldn’t really ...
7/7 In the land of the sordid hipsters of America, a new sound was produced in a small bar in East Village, Manhattan. Television was a group started in New York City, a central pillar in early punk scene hosted by Hilly Kristal in his bar, CBGB. Originally intended for country, bluegrass and blues, ...
It’s 8:20am. You’ve overslept, and class starts in five minutes. You stumble out of bed and throw on a dirty pair of jeans and a wrinkly t-shirt. All the sudden, an idea hits you. You reach into your pocket for your phone. Never fear. Uber is here. Within minutes, your Uber driver arrives, and ...
