Th' Corn Gangg is an indie pop

Indie pop

Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s, with its roots in the Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early '80s, such as Orange Juice, Josef K and Aztec Camera, and the dominant UK independent band of the mid...

/hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 band from Montreal

Montreal

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, Canada

Canada

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. The band was founded by Jamie Thompson

Jamie Thompson

Jamie Thompson is a Canadian musician who has been the drummer for several Canadian bands, including Islands, and Th' Corn Gangg. Jamie joined The Unicorns in 2003 for the release of the band's first major album, Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?...

 and Nicholas Thorburn

Nicholas Thorburn

Nicholas Thorburn is a Canadian musician who has fronted The Unicorns, Th' Corn Gangg, Islands, Reefer, and Human Highway. He has gone by the stage name "Nick Diamonds."...

 as a direct off-shoot project of The Unicorns

The Unicorns

The Unicorns were a Lo-Fi/Indie Pop band from Montreal, Canada formed in December 2000 by Nicholas Thorburn and Alden Penner , who were later joined by Jamie Thompson in December 2003.-History:...

 several months prior to their December 2004 break-up, but prior to the formation of Islands

Islands (band)

Islands is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York.-Return to the Sea:In mid-2005 Islands recorded a debut album titled Return to the Sea, which was released in April 2006...

 by those same two musicians.

Th' Corn Gangg was involved with several projects with Subtitle

Subtitle (rapper)

Subtitle is a Los Angeles based rapper/producer who is known both for his solo work and his collaborations, both with other rappers and bands such as Islands and The Mars Volta.- Career :...

, Busdriver

Busdriver

Busdriver is a rapper from Los Angeles currently signed to Epitaph Records and Fake Four Inc-History:...

, and Vic Booz playing several shows and remixing songs such as the North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative's single, "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?", Islands' "Rough Gem" and Beck

Beck

Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...

's "Emergency Exit" featured on Guerolito

Guerolito

Guerolito is the first remix album by Beck, released in December 2005. It features all of the songs from regular edition of Guero in remixed forms by a variety of artists, with the addition of "Clap Hands", originally found on the special limited edition of Guero.Guerolito reached #191 on the...

, but has not yet recorded an album.

They are important as a curious bit of history between the end of the Unicorns time as a band and the beginning of Islands, the now functioning post Unicorns band. The time spent with Th' Corn Gangg can clearly be seen in Islands' brief foray into hip hop halfway through the song Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone, a song originally performed by Th' Corn Gangg.

Recent interviews have indicated that Th'Corn Gangg is still an active project.

Th' Corn Gangg songs

• Hurry Up, Run
• Knife In My Hand, Gun In My Cake
• Tuff Ghost, From The West Coast
• Spy vs Spy vs Spy vs Spy
• Ghost Mountain
• Abominable Snowman
• Flash
• Rough Gem
• Where There's A Will, There's A Whalebone
• Word
• Ready To Die

External

Live Show Photos by L.A. Record

L.A. Record

L.A. Record is an independent music magazine originally published weekly as a broadsheet poster. The poster usually depicts a local Los Angeles musicians and according to the magazine editors is meant to recreate an iconic album cover. In March 2008, it began publishing as a monthly magazine with a...