I’ve been trying to cut down on the chattiness in my record reviews, as it doesn’t really take 700 words to describe an album thoroughly. To prove so, I will tell you about Midnight Remember, the first stateside release for Australians Little Red. There is nothing particularly fresh with regards to this record. I mean [...]

Twin Sister is a band that hails from Long Island. Much like every other band that comes out in the indie world, they were throw immediately into the hype machine on the strength of their two EPs from 2010 Color Your Life and Dreaming With Vampire Kids. While both of these EPs are quite good, [...]

In this newest installment, I want to talk about an album that has done more damage to my lifestyle than any other that I can think about. Gary Wilson’s 1977 album You Think You Really Know Me. Disturbing albums have been made throughout time (see: anything made by Slayer, DNA on DNA or “Frankie Teardrop” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Reptar is a band from the southern musical hotspot, which is responsible for bands like the eternal REM, the epic Pylon, and the ever-so-lovely B-52s. While I reference these bands, Reptar sounds very little like any of them. Instead, these four guys are working in the frame of the electro pop groups that are around [...]

Pursesnatchers is a four piece band hailing from Brooklyn, NY like so many other bands now. After I sorting through my initial thoughts about their debut album A Pattern Language and the fact that Annie Hart from Au Revoir Simone sings on it, I still don’t really know what I think about it at all. [...]

I’m going to avoid making some random introduction and get right into the review of this album. The first thing that I want to note is that this band’s name is a lie, but only in part. Only drummer/singer Robbie Guertin and guitarist Chris Diken, i.e. two-thirds of the band, are actually male and therefore [...]