Our first of a now bi-weekly column with the Battle Creek Enquirer ran in today’s paper. Battle Freaks, get to your nearest gas station or grocery store and pick up a copy.

NOISE! contributor Jeremy Martin — who, let’s face it, does a whole lot more than just write for us (but we like to claim him as one of our own) — penned the inaugural column on Brown Cow. These folk punk rockers, headed up by Mallory Cobb, have been around for a while, but are just now prepping for their first show in Battle Creek. But, they’ve been busy playing plenty in Kalamazoo and recording an album.

BROWN COW: A BAND BY ACCIDENT
Whether taking their name from a misprinted show flier or randomly finding its young drummer in a basement, it would seem that the majority of what Battle Creek’s Brown Cow does is simply by happy accident.

“I read a lot of books on Kurt Cobain. …He was in a band at one point called Brown Towel, but they misspelled it on one of the show flyers and put Brown Cow, so I just stole it I guess,” the group’s guitarist and songwriter Mallory Cobb said on how the band’s name came to be. [ READ THE FULL STORY HERE ]