This week marks the beginning of our 2021-2022 SCOPE Selects series! We will be introducing our incoming exec board with a personalized playlist every other Thursday. This week, our General Manager Joey O'Kelly starts the year off strong with a collection of many of his personal favorites.

By Jace Baker , Joey O'Kelly , Mandy Archer, and Myles Evangelista Trans and non-binary SCOPERs share some of their favorite genderqueer artists.

From self-released EPs to landing a booking for Coachella 2020, Chicago-based band Beach Bunny has proven to be a staple of modern indie-punk. Lead singer Lili Trifilio’s songwriting expresses every emotion from love to heartbreak in every way imaginable.

By Cassidy Beamer I put together a short list of the songs that have carried me through the past year as I’ve dealt with all the feelings one feels when coping with a global pandemic. I hope you enjoy listening and can find some comfort from these songs as well.

SCOPE’s Marketing Director, Maggie Odegaard, and Digital Marketing Director, Sid Peterson, had the incredible opportunity to sit down via Zoom with Bea Kristi, AKA beabadoobee before her virtual show on Friday, March 19th.

By Anna Nelson This piece is published as a collaboration between Fools Magazine and SCOPE Productions: Amplify. I started listening to Samia when she had two singles on Spotify, some time in high school. I fell in love instantly.

By Kristina Bozza The art group 99 Neighbors is a creative collective most well known for their music together.

By Dakota Kahler “Deep in the bottomless depths of the ocean, Empty bodies we sink.” No other lyrics can describe 2020 better than those of “Pompeji”, a personal favorite track on Deftones’ new album Ohms.

By Maggie Odegaard Every year, SCOPE Productions holds an annual Battle of the Bands. It’s been a SCOPE tradition for a long time. It kicks off the school year and our shows for the year. Usually, BOTB is outside on the IMU amphitheater. You would gather friends and head down there to watch some sweet bands play as the sun goes down. Then, at the end, one band would be crowned the winner of the Battle of the Bands. However, this year, things were obviously a little different.

By Ansel Bare A weekend stroll down any given street within a six-block radius of the University of Iowa would most probably entail hearing soft echoes of loud music and partying. Hip hop lyrics being chanted by a population of college students with a taste for domestic beer and Hawkeye vodka, the like of which might feel akin to a connoisseur of sports, music and hookups, among other finer things. Into the epicenter of student leisure, a passerby could observe a bumble of drunken and excited young adults hollering aloud the hooks of "God’s Plan" by Drake or hear the beat of Offset & Metro Boomin’s ”Ric Flair Drip" emanating from local bar fronts, the sounds of Ped Mall nightlife meshing into one.