mission freak!

Yeah, I know, you’ve got a laundry list of reasons not to make the trek out to Rock Island tonight: a test/work in the morning, MCO, and the NCAA finals.

Okay, the show’s gonna start at 7 pm, this ain’t no Picador-stumbling-out-the-door-drunk-at-1:45 show, this is at Huckleberry’s Great Pizza, a restaurant which closes at a reasonable hour. So there, you’ll be home in time for Letterman, plenty of time to cram or rest up. And don’t even dare whine to me about getting too much Mission Creek, cause I probably got more than you, plus I had work. Take a nap before you hit the road. And as for that game, Memphis has got it in the bag. First off, they’ve got the momentum. But maybe most importantly, this March was almost completely devoid of upsets, I mean, four #1 seeds, how predictable, Memphis is gonna shake things up and win by 12.

Now that I’ve ruined the game for you, what better way to spend an evening than with a hearty slice of pizza and a hearty slice of “indie-roots” with Blitzen Trapper and Fleet Foxes? And let’s not forget, this show is brought to you by our friends (hell, everyone’s friends) at Daytrotter, and I challenge you to tell me when they’ve ever steered you wrong, that’s what I thought.

So get your ass in your car tonight, Google Maps says it’ll only take an hour and three minutes, and you know how conservative they always are and how fast you always drive.

Washington’s Fleet Foxes start things off with their lush, ethereal folk tunes, exactly what one would expect from the great Northwest. And their southern brothers from Oregon (that’s south for Washington), Blitzen Trapper, prove what most already assumed, the closer you get to the equator, the more stop and rock you pump into your tunes. The collective from Portland, brings the messy tin-can country band aesthetic and injects it with a touch of Neil Young Crazy Horseness and a life of listening to Portland indie music, did you get all that? Yeah, it’s pretty good.

Alright, I can’t be so uncompromising. I know, things are going down tonight, I can sympathize. Does Thursday work better for you? You can catch this same pairing in Grinnell on Thursday night at the College’s Gardner Lounge. There’s a Paglia’s Pizza in Grinnell (yeah, that Paglia’s), so you can get your ‘zza and your show on Thursday as well.