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NB: I’ve been thinking about ways of diversifying the content outside of writing promo for other events and album reviews. This was the best one that I could come up with outside of doing hard hitting journalism. Let’s be real. Are you going to come to Mission Creek for your hard-hitting cultural pieces? Nope. You […]

I’m trying to solve some problems with the spamming on this blog. It’s gotten out of hand. Although I do need some cut rate Viagra, Vicodin, Xanax, and Valium, I don’t need eighty people telling me about it all of the time. I’ve had to cut off comments for the time being. If you want […]

As you may or may not know, many universities and colleges around the country have already started their fall sessions. The University of Iowa is no exception. I should know through my various frustrations at riding a bike through this town. The first week of the session generally tends to bring a lot of cultural […]

Confetti Reprise is an EP of unreleased tracks from the sessions that created Chicago-based A Lull’s 2011 release Confetti. When I got this in my email, I didn’t understand either half of this equation, so I backtracked and started with the Confetti record. I don’t want to spend a lot of time talking about this […]

Hailing from the musical hotbed of New Zealand, Cut Off Your Hands is, very much, cut from the lineage of other Kiwi bands like Look Blue Go Purple, The Chills, The Bats, and The Clean among others as they write memorable, simply complex songs featuring harmonies and emotions. For me, Hollow reminds me of two […]

This is a review from new Mission Creek contributor Bernayo. If you are in Iowa city, you may know him better as one of the members of the musical spaceship that is Dream Thieves. Here, he tackles the debut album of Nicolas Jaar, The Space is Only Noise. Nicolas Jaar – (2011) The Space is […]