Mark Simmet
Senior Music ProducerExpertise: Music! Picking and presenting the music you've loved and will love, interviewing and supporting local bands and musicians, and researching and writing articles that dig into the music and musicians you know and love
Education: St. John’s University
Favorite Iowa Destination: Pikes Peak State Park
Experience:
- Has curated and hosted AAA programming and live performances on Studio One, bringing new artists and old favorites to Iowans' homes for over three decades
- Has interviewed musicians including Hozier, Ani DiFranco, Wayne Coyne (of Flaming Lips), Colin Blunstone (of The Zombies) and countless Iowa bands
- Received a 2024 first place PMJA Visual Storytelling award for All Access: IPR's Music Magazine
- Has listened to nearly every album in the Studio One library to know what to play on air
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Need some curated music advice? IPR's Mark Simmet recommends his five noteworthy new albums from the first quarter of 2023. -
Hinterland announced its 2023 lineup months earlier than usual. Sam Summers, owner of Hinterland's operator First Fleet Concerts, chatted with IPR Music host Mark Simmet about what to expect at this year's three-day music festival. -
Read what albums made Studio One Tracks and All Access hosts Mark Simmet, Tony Dehner, and Cece’s Mitchell’s top ten lists for 2022, as well as each host's "must-listen" Iowa album pick of the year. -
Mark Simmet, Tony Dehner and Cece Mitchell recently spoke with Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe about their favorite songs in alternative and indie music for 2021. -
Mark Simmet, Tony Dehner and Cece Mitchell of IPR's Studio One team join Charity Nebbe to discuss their top song selections of 2021. -
With musical influences that enhance original songs, the new Anthony Worden and the Illiterati album "How Could We Lose When We're So Sincere?" is prime fall listening for the musically literate and honest fan. -
Currently streaming on Netflix, the first season of "This Is Pop" is an incisive and wide-ranging look at many aspects of popular music, including the question of authenticity. -
Ani DiFranco, who is playing the venue's grand re-opening concert on Aug. 19, is all for it. -
In her 2020 book "Brother Robert," Robert Johnson's stepsister provides a portrait of the seminal blues music figure from a different perspective - out of the juke joints and away from the crossroads. -
These are the vinyl releases we're looking forward to hearing after they debut on Saturday, June 12, the first Record Store Day of 2021.
