Todd is a transplant from the East Coast who came to Iowa City to live life, love music, and enjoy cheap beer. In addition to working on Mission Freak and Mission Creek Festival, he writes semi-regularly for Tiny Mix Tapes and Daytrotter and books music and other events at local non-profit venue Public Space ONE.

Totally forgot to put this in as I’ve been totally hectic this week. Thanks to Heather McKeag for writing up this preview, her debut on Mission Freak. Look for more from her in coming weeks. Via Audio will be headlining a show at The Mill on Thursday, March 11th with opening acts Pattern is Movement [...]

I don’t know where February went, but it seems to have taken the shitty weather with it when it left. It’s March and quite wonderful out, which can only mean that I’ve been doing some outdoor running this week (gotta think about that beach bod, ya know?). It also means that we can sense the [...]

A really intriguing experimental show is taking place tomorrow night upstairs at the Blue Moose Taphouse. Once the domain largely of the Picador, shows like this - featuring avant garde music such as noise, ambient, drone, and electronic - are being forced into new domains as the venue where so many great shows like this [...]

Tonight, Minneapolis dance duo Lookbook play Public Space ONE, alongside local acts Beast Wars and School of Flyentology. To get you stoked for the affair, we’re offering up a new track from their recent album, Wild At Heart. Lookbook make bedroom-dance music, not entirely lo-fi but certainly a part of a growing group of self-produced [...]

Still awaiting official word on the saga of the Picador. What we know so far is this: the Picador has been sold, will undergo a management change, and revert to the name Gabe’s. According to Facebook, the Pic closes tonight with a bang, one last massive early metal/hardcore show and then a final Physical Challenge [...]

The Hood Internet are a 2000s curiosity, something that could only have gained “mainstream” recognition in that decade of piracy, mash-ups, and instant aquirability (matched with equal disposability). If you don’t know: the Hood Internet are a couple dudes from Chicago who have brains that play musical Tetris. They fit songs together so seamlessly, and [...]

For this preview of tonight’s show, we turn to regular contributor Brian Johannessen. It is hard for a musician to develop his or her own sound as the offspring of a revered musician. Take Sean Lennon for example. Dude has to live in the shadow of his parents. [Ed. note: Sean Lennon's last album, Friendly [...]

here are those that would detract from the NBA, saying that the regular season is pointless to watch and that the playoffs are all that matters. It is especially funny when baseball fans (I am a baseball fan, too) say this, as an aside. But for those who watch the NBA, today is a particularly [...]

In an ongoing series previewing 2010 Mission Creek performing artists, we turn to Brian Johannessen for a personal take on Headlights. I graduated from high school in 2006, while the vast majority of my high school friends graduated in 2005. Being from the western Chicago suburbs, many of my friends and classmates funneled into either [...]

Another Tuesday, another great free show at the Mill for those of you who haven’t got tickets to that other big show tomorrow night - or even for those that do, the Blue Moose is opening it’s doors early and you’ll be able to get over to the Mill after and catch most of this [...]