University of Iowa graduate with BAs in English and Cinema Studies. John bides his time as a staff writer for www.missionfreak.com and with contributions to Little Village Magazine (littlevillagemag.com). John hosts an hour-long show on Monday's at 5 pm through the University of Iowa's radio station 89.7 FM KRUI (kruiradio.org) dedicated to Iowa music. "Corn Fed Music" is a showcase for Iowa artists, musicians formerly from Iowa, and acts visiting Iowa. This is a forum open for guest DJs, in studio performances, interviews, and new material offered to those who may not have access to larger media outlets. If you're interested in getting a song played, an interview, or performing a short set (20-45 min) in studio you can contact John at cornfed.dj@gmail.com

Our literary man on the street, Joe Tiefenthaler, sends us another head’s up. Get thee to Prairie Lights if you feelin’ literate. My memory’s troublesome, but what I remember of the last time I heard Peter Bognanni read in public, he set the stage for an honest religious experience…WWF style. I remember spandex onesie costuming. [...]

Below is a podcast of the worst interview I (or possibly anyone else) has ever conducted. On Monday, my co-host, Ben, and I never stood a chance. Once The Tanks walked into the KRUI studios, it was already doomed. We tried discussing the band’s new album (we played a few un-mastered tracks on air), their [...]

On Monday night Ben and I sat down with prolific new-comers Cocoon in the KRUIstudios for another bout of discussion and live performance on Corn-Fed Music. The duo comprised of local concert fixture Ian MacMillian and Zach “Avery” Dowling (a/k/a Goldwater Marmalaid), has already put out a split, an ep, and contributed a new track [...]

Iowa City is a tough musical terrain. With a good portion of the young talent in the city only trolling our bars and venues because they’re also students at the University of Iowa, it becomes difficult to forge an attachment when artists, members and even full bands graduate and move on to “greener” pastures. But [...]

One night down, five to go. Now that Mission Creek has stretched it’s skinny, hipster arms (like antenna…) all the way in to the beginning of the week, the countdown starts to feel more significant. Rather than numbering off a long (really long the last couple years) weekend, we’re marking off SIX frakking days for this [...]

Some times we can miss things. Arguably the biggest blind spot at Mission Creek is metal. Last year we totally spaced it and the year before we had an amazing bill fall into our laps. This year was a bit more pro-active. If you crave loud, really loud music, we got two fixes for you. [...]

Care of, once again, Brian Johannesen. It is upon us! This marvelous week of nonstop music and literature has arrived and while most of you have your sights set on shows early in the week, it can’t hurt to plan ahead. Saturday offers tons of killer shows to check out, and Camera Obscura will be [...]

Okay, boys and girls, it’s finally here. Mission Creek 2010 starts off with a bang tonight as Pocahaunted leads some fine noise makers into the fray at Gabe’s. Pocahaunted has seen some shake up in the last year. Founding member Bethany Cosentino left to concentrate on school and Best Coast, leaving the other original member, [...]

A missive from our literary liaison Joseph Tiefenthaler. Meet the very model of a modern music festival. Song and dance.  Check.  Costumes.  Check.  Crowd.  Check.  Dizzying array of events.  Double check.  Readings…??? In many ways the course of literature’s consumption over the past few years mimics that of music, online and on the display screen [...]

Our intrepid contributor Brian Johannesen sat down with Dominic Rabalais to talk about his act, Coyote Slingshot and other assorted odds and ends as part of our continuing previews of the 2010 Mission Creek Festival. Coyote Slingshot is a name that has been thrown around the Iowa City music scene for a while now. The [...]