YellowBrick
February/March 2011
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The Envy Corps are free. Lead guitarist Brandon Darner remembers the exact moment of their emancipation. On Oct. 16, 2008, the Des Moines-based quartet was about to play Schubas, in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, when an e-mail came through on Darner’s smart phone: Universal subsidiary Vertigo Records was releasing the band from its major-label record deal. The guys high-fived each other.
