Sometimes, our cruel and dictitorial editor in cheif won’t permit us to go out for our traditional weekday 80s-style Three Martini Expense Account Lunch (we usually have the Savings and Loans Bailout Burger with Keating Fries - mmmmm) and we’re forced (unfairly) to order takeout and actually work.  Horsehockey!  So, today we’re starting a new series that we were supposed to get off the whiteboard and into the HTML months ago called LUNCH N’ LISTEN - It’s an opportunity for you to plug in the earphones for a few minutes and have a bit of a preview of a show coming up this evening.  It’s sort of like those online seminars your boss is always trying to convince you to take during your lunch period, except that there isn’t an interactive Q&A at the end.  Oh, and we’re not trying to sell you anythying.  Except this extra takeout

Corey Derden - I Have
Derden is a regular on the Saturday Secret Show and Notsuoh circuit, usually performing solo. The one man one instrument minimalism spirit carries through on the three guitar arrangement of “I Have,” with a sad hobo sunset on a dustbowl trail plodding away towards stars that will never be bright enough.

Listen Listen - Safe Home in Port
We were taken aback by their debut EP last year, with an invigorating folk Americana that droned forward almost like shoegaze. This track, from their forthcoming, shows them growing in arrangement, production, but most importantly - in songcraft. We find it almost impossible to talk about this track without sliding into a bowl of hot and sour platitude.

Listen Listen and Cory Derden are playing tonight at Boondocks. Free.