This week’s best show happens like, um, tomorrow. Tuesday is the new Awesome. F Yeah Fest rolls into the Mill at 8PM Tuesday night. It’s a festival all in one night, a huge explosion of indie rock, dance music, and comedy. The lineup is pretty incredible. We’ll break it down for ya…
Comedy: Funny men Hannibal Burress and Nick Flanagan will kick things off with something we don’t get too often in town: stand-up comedy. Buress is especially destructive with his entirely subdued deadpan delivery. Check out a clip here and another one there.
Music: First up are the down ‘n dirty Puritanicals pumping out minimalist garage rock anthems. Pitchfork adored Crystal Antlers step up next with a set. After that it’s the dancey punk stylings of Team Robespierre whose sound recalls the exciting antics of Matt and Kim. Monotonix rocks out last, with their legendary lives show that’ll have their lead singer diving from stage into crowd.
Dance Party: After the rock, Iowa City’s best DJ team, School of Flyentology will be throwing a good ole dance party for the people to get down with.
Get to the Mill at 8PM. That’s when everything gets fun and crazy.
Ho-hum, it’s been a slow week around here. I keep falling asleep all over myself. I was about to engage permanent hibernation until I realized — holy crap! — 
Mannix! plays at the Mill tonight in honor of bass player / tom-thumper Sarah Mannix’s birthday. She can’t be more than 18 but this party sure is gonna be adult. In fact it’s going to be a circus, a rock n’ roll circus. Remember way back in the ’60s when the Stones got all self-indulgent and tried to rock some star-studded circus antics via electric guitars? Well it’s back. Mannix!, some of Iowa City’s best garage-iest rockers, channel the raw energy of the Gossip. They share the stage with rock n’ roll heartbreakers and tasty songcrafters, the Puritanicals. Brooklyn hipsters, Renminbi, open up with their funky, almost mathy blend of indie rock. The party starts at 9PM. Bring costumes and wear your cred on your sleeves. Or just pump down some Jaeger shots with the bar staff. It’ll be good, for sure the best thing happening in Iowa City tonight, that is if you are into good times and rock n’ roll.
A quick one while he’s away: Crystal Antlers have just signed onto the romp that will be F Yeah Fest in Iowa City. Once again, this show will be going down on Tuesday, July 1st at the Mill and will start around 8PM. Other bands include: Monotonix (from Tel Aviv), Team Robespierre (Brooklyn), Puritanicals, and School of Flyentology. There will also be comedians and maybe even a few rounds of bingo. It’ll be a crazy time, the all-out party of the summer. As for Crystal Antlers, read up on them at 
OK Englert, stop rubbing it in all of our faces. What, one absurdly killer sold-out show wasn’t enough for the month of June? In case you haven’t been walking past the Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City, we’ll fill you in: after Iron & Wine comes to town this Thursday, on deck is an even bigger show: Lucinda Williams. We don’t know how they did it but we’re glad they did. Ms. Williams and her band roll into the Englert on Sunday, June 29th. The show starts at 8PM and 
Hey mates, down-under dweller and former Writers’ Workshop homeboy, Nam Le, returns to Iowa City tonight to read at Prairie Lights on the heels of his highly acclaimed book of short stories, The Boat (2008). While at the workshop Le defied the snotty stereotype one might conjure up of Northeastern, Ivy-adorned writers showing up in the IC and carpet-bagging the hell out of it while failing to spend time in places other than the Dey House and the Foxhead. By all accounts, mine included, Le was the coolest mofro to pass through the Workshop in many years. And on top of that, he is one of the best fiction writers to emerge from Iowa’s legendary literary halls in quite a long time. The Boat is just the beginning, we hope, of a killer career with words. We’d ramble on but the 