Photo Credit: Bill Adams
The Scene
There's nothing quite like the Mission Creek Festival which combines literature and music with community events in a number of unique venues across downtown Iowa City. The nearly week long event has a focus on quality, independent-minded sounds, words, and events and strongly believes that intimacy is key to the experience.
2012 Artist Lineup
- THE MAGNETIC FIELDS
- DAVID CROSS
- SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80
- THE ANTLERS
- JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
- BLACK MILK
- WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE
- SHARON VAN ETTEN
- TIM HECKER
- RHYS CHATHAM
- LESLIE & THE LY’S
- THE WAR ON DRUGS
- KIMYA DAWSON
- DIRTY BEACHES
- BOWERBIRDS
- JON BENJAMIN
- JON GLASER
- MIKE DOUGHTY
- WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS
- OBERHOFER
- ERASE ERRATA
- LITTLE SCREAM
- LIKE PIONEERS
- RENE HELL
- CAROLINE SMITH & THE GOODNIGHT SLEEPS
- LULACRUZA
- THE DAREDEVIL CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT
- GOLDEN BIRDS
- THE POISON CONTROL CENTER
- GARDENS & VILLA
- EL TEN ELEVEN
- THE PARLOUR SUITE
- AMBER TAMBLYN
- MISSION BEAT DANCE PARTY
- THE WHEELERS
- WET HAIR
- MUSCLE DRUM
- DENISON WITMER
- WEED WOLF
- GRAND TETONS
- CHRISTOPHER THE CONQUERED
- MUMFORDS
- THE OLYMPICS
- T’BONE
- THE LONELYHEARTS
- ALEXIS STEVENS
- THE SAVAGE YOUNG TATERBUG
- ION
- KELLY HOGAN
- RICH ROK
- SUPER SONIC PISS
- DOUG NYE
- DEATH SHIPS
- NORTH ENGLISH
- EMPERORS CLUB
- NATHAN WHEELER
- LADY ESPINA
- SLUT RIVER
- MARY LYNN RAJSKUB
- BEAU SIA
- DERRICK BROWN
- SLIP SILO
- SURGERY
- EX-ACTION MODEL
- SUDDEN AND SUBTLE
- TIRES
- BROOKS STRAUSE & THE GORY DETAILS
- BILLY HOWKE & THE HOAX
- MICHAELSARAH
- SOLID ATTITUDE
- CANDY BREAKS