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City Pages | Minneapolis Music, Concert and Reviews
3y ago
Look. It’s not going to be a normal Halloween. It may not even be a very good one. But do you know what is very good? This exquisitely awkward Halloween photo featuring the Minnesota Orchestra and violist Sam Bergman. It's not that the costume itself was so brilliant, it was more that NO ONE ELSE WORE ONE ..read more
City Pages | Minneapolis Music, Concert and Reviews
3y ago
How many 47-year-old rappers can you say are rhyming better than ever? Theoretically, rap is a craft that an MC can hone over the course of a lifetime. In practice, different skills are celebrated in different eras, and what sounds exhilarating one moment soon becomes mockably dated. This can have as much to ..read more
City Pages | Minneapolis Music, Concert and Reviews
3y ago
Winter is setting in. Live music is still on hiatus. A lot of us will be stuck indoors for months. But there’s one thing you can do at home alone by yourself that will always make you happy. No, not that, perv. I’m talking about reading. And First Avenue, which is seeking new revenue streams as COVID keeps ..read more
City Pages | Minneapolis Music, Concert and Reviews
3y ago
Sound Unseen is old enough to drink. The film and music festival announced the lineup for its 21st edition yesterday, which will run November 11-15. The opening film is Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal, which focuses on a drummer’s heroin recovery in a house for the deaf. Frank Marshall’s The Bee Gees: How ..read more
City Pages | Minneapolis Music, Concert and Reviews
3y ago
If you've been meaning to catch some live music, there's snow time like the present. Ongoing DJ Hampster Dance Free online dance parties every night of the week, with a featured artist mix every Thursday and themed dance parties on Friday and Saturday. When and where: 7-9 p.m. on Twitch. Thursday 10.21Hippo ..read more
City Pages | Minneapolis Music, Concert and Reviews
3y ago
Here are the individual ballots submitted for this year's Picked to Click, along with voter comments. Drew AilesMusician (Citric Dummies, the Spits, Erik Nervous, Liquids, Sick Thoughts, Buck Biloxi and the Fucks) 1. Killing Joke 2. Citric Dummies 3. The Spits 4. Liquids 5/ Erik Nervous Comments: Pandemic ..read more
City Pages | Minneapolis Music, Concert and Reviews
3y ago
Forgive yourself if you hear echoes of other bands in Harper’s Jar debut album, Thank You Ancestor Finger. On “When You’re Without Me,” Devin Ware stretches his vocals over the distortion in a way reminiscent of Kurt Cobain. “Buzzfeedamerica” is the kind of antisocial screed Sub Pop could’ve been ..read more
City Pages | Minneapolis Music, Concert and Reviews
3y ago
With their self-titled debut album, Muun Bato bring the psychedelic shoegaze sound of the U.K. to Minneapolis, their music as loose and expansive as you’d expect from a group born out of a jam session. Guitarist/vocalist Joe Werner (Driftwood Pyre/First Communion Afterparty/Bridge Club) and drummer Andy ..read more
City Pages | Minneapolis Music, Concert and Reviews
3y ago
Turn Turn Turn began with humble ambitions. Adam Levy, the singer-songwriter behind the Honeydogs, wanted to add another group to his already lengthy portfolio of side projects, one that channeled his love for the country, folk, and psychedelia of the ’60s and ’70s. He enlisted bassist Barb Brynstad, a ..read more
City Pages | Minneapolis Music, Concert and Reviews
3y ago
Musicians can be shy about citing their influences. Not Lynn Avery. After a half-hour phone chat with Avery, the creative mind behind the instrumental project Iceblink, I could compile a fully annotated bibliography of the sounds that inspired her January release, Carpet Cocoon. She tells me of the hours of ..read more