mission freak!

It’s darn cold outside so we’ve been inside putting together Mission Creek Festival 2009. There is still A LOT of work to do but we thought we’d share some of our early confirmed musical acts:
GZA/GENIUS (of WU-TANG CLAN) performing LIQUID SWORDS
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
JOHN VANDERSLICE
FRUIT BATS
BOWERBIRDS
THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH
HEADLIGHTS
SIMON JOYNER
GOLDEN BIRDS
ROOMMATE
EL PASO HOT BUTTON
PIETA BROWN
CALEB ENGSTROM
THE WESTERN FRONT
ESCAPE [...]

On Monday, January 26th The University of Iowa’s radio station, 89.7 FM KRUI, will have a brand new theme show: Corn Fed Music.  This hour-long program at 5 - 6 pm every Monday will be dedicated to Iowa musicians, artists formerly from Iowa, and bands coming into town.  As well as being a forum for [...]

There’s nothing I like more than a good mix tape, and longtime Mission Creek friend/library scientist/cool-last-name-having Sarah Dorpinghaus has gone and made us all one (actually, two as of now), via her new podcast, birthstones.  The monthly all-music mp3s lean toward the new and experimental, featuring labels like Siltbreeze and Slumberland, who both made huge [...]

Cell phone companies, airlines, noth side diners: here at Mission Creek, we tend to think that competiition is a good thing for the consumer.  That’s why I’m heading down right now for a cup of coffee at the Bluebird Diner and some handmade goods at the Craft & Fancy Craft Fair, going on at Home [...]

Well, it’s begun.  It was inevitable, after all.  But every year as fall begins to wain, we all secretly hope that somehow Winter will take a miss and we’ll jump right on into Spring.  Well, no such luck in 2008 (I think Obama used up all the good vibes 2008 had to offer).  However, life [...]

Last night was a hum-dinger in the notoriously liberal Iowa City.  There were young folks running through the streets whooping and hollering, full of champagne and HOPE; horns were honking, and the twenty McCain-Palin yard signs in town were quietly removed from lawns.
Maybe most noteworthy, Iowa City’s favorite caustic sunuvabitch (no, not me), Matt Grimm [...]

Late breaking arts news?  Yeah, I know: weird.  It doesn’t happen often, so when it does, all us arty kids get all crazy with the exclamation points!  (Now we know how real reporters feel.)
It was just announced early Friday morning that Chouser would once again be hosting a jam-packed house show this very evening.
So, what’s [...]

God speed and good luck to Mr. Jim James in his recovery.
Oh man, you think you’ve seen a lot in your day.  You think there are certain events (like say the ordeal with Oasis the other day), that you’ll never witness (and part of you doesn’t want to…but part of you, that part that really [...]

Did you survive last night?  I hope you had as much fun forgetting the financial woes as we did.  Thank heavens you have two more nights to stave off thoughts of the inevitable collapse of the entire American, hell, world economy.
We’ve got loads of MLB Playoff excitement (finally the Second City comes in first) to keep us going [...]

So yeah, sometimes Iowa City is deader’na door nail. However, finding two or three good shows a week usually isn’t a stretch, if you’re with it (and if you’re reading this, you’re probably with it). But tonight is completely different. Tonight, Iowa City is host to not one, not two, but THREE [...]