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Couldn’t be better timing for Polite Sleeper to show up with a brand new RCRD LBL download for your ears. The Brooklyn trio, a self-described “folk mess” with a direct musical lineage to the Mountain Goats, will be appearing at Mission Creek as part of a Friday night Java House performance. “Three Easy Steps” is […]

Every one’s got it.  No, not that cold and flu stuff.  Well, okay, every one’s got that; but everyone also has Slumdog Fever.  All those who didn’t make it to the multi-plexes before the Oscars are on a quest to catch it while they can.  But if you’re like us: you’ve been there, done that, […]

For the better part of 15 years, Tim Kasher has been putting out drunk Midwestern anthems with either Cursive or the Good Life, and we’ve been pretty lucky to be along for most of that ride. Last we saw Tim, he was stumbling out of the Mill following Cursive’s sold out show at the Mill […]

So you got a little taste of that new Birth Rites on Monday and you want more, I know.  We got just what you’re looking for.  We’ve got one of those demos from the band’s upcoming debut, All Success Stories, on Mission Freak Records.  Just down there, yeah right there, we’ve got the Jaws-referencing cut, […]

It’s tough to keep the momentum going, you know? Back when this website started,  I was going to have a full-fledged column, and it was going to be called Justify My Love, and I was going to post 3 or so mp3s and talk about music I like and stuff.  That happened exactly once.  Luckily, […]

Awesome rock show alert: Wednesday night These Arms Are Snakes roll into town in support of their third album, Tail Swallower and Dove. The Seattle quartet released their new disc late last year via Suicide Squeeze after spending time on DC based Jade Tree for their first two releases. You can expect chunky riffs cutting […]

Oh, Internets, thank you.  From all of us who should be doing something better, or who need to pretend we’re doing something better, we thank you from the bottom of our empty hearts.  According to recent statistics, around 15 hours of video are uploaded on to Youtube.com every minute, so you’d better take this as […]

Tonight on Corn Fed Music, I’ll be sitting down with Birth Ritesbass player Jarrett Hothan for the second half hour of the show.  The Illinois transports handed me a six song demo a couple weeks ago, and we’ll be playing a few songs on the air and chatting with Hothan about the band’s upcoming release […]

William Elliott Whitmore‘s bringing it all back home this weekend.  Iowa’s native son has a new record out on ANTI-, Animals in the Dark, and he feels like celebrating.  And he’s upped the ante this time around.  Back in ’06, when Whitmore’s last record (Song of the Blackbird) hit shelves, the troubadour hit us with […]

Noisy. Atmospheric. Hooky. Dirty. Rocking. These are all words that can be used to describe No Age‘s sound. The Los Angeles band has enjoyed a mercurial rise to prominence in the last couple of years on the strength of two records, Wierdo Rippers, and the massively acclaimed Nouns (Pitchfork’s #3 album of the year.) The […]