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Moonstone's Micah Mackert Unraveling Prog-Rock Prophecynew
If you're looking for the truth, you've come to the wrong band. In Moonstone, the five-piece band for which Reverend Micah Mackert is spiritual seer and sole spokesman, facts are made into trifles, replaced by layers of beguiling myth.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
David Hansen |
02-24-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Micah Mackert, Moonstone
Chickadee Mountain Martyrs' Kitchen-Sink Music Never Fails to Surprisenew
Luc Parker is the lead guitarist and principal lyricist of Chickadee Mountain Martyrs, and on University Avenue after a weekday Turf Club show, he treads this territory as cautiously as a mine diver, as if the slightest stumble in self-definition might blow his band to bits.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
David Hansen |
02-17-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Michael Jackson: A Eulogynew
Why and how Jackson became the most famous person the century ever knew is a matter for the anthropologists. For us, here and now, Jackson was elemental and impossible to ever fully understand; fearsome and heartbreakingly beautiful; at once mortal and deathless.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
David Hansen |
07-01-2009 |
Music
Minnesota Governor Cuts Healthcare for the Poornew
For over 30 years, General Assistance Medical Care has protected patients living far beneath the poverty line in Minnesota. But in the twilight of the legislative session, it became the victim of a line item veto from Gov. Tim Pawlenty's budget.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
David Hansen |
06-05-2009 |
Policy Issues
The Twins' Mike Redmond is Minnesota's Catcher in the Rawnew
A cutup and a flake, a gritty player seemingly impervious to injury, Redmond has survived on talent spiked with determinism. And while no one was looking, he emerged as one of the greatest backup catchers ever to play the game.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
David Hansen |
05-14-2009 |
Sports
Tom Mischke Still Pioneering Format-Free Radionew
The man behind radio's most unpredictable show says it's just real life.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
David Hansen |
11-05-2008 |
Media
As the RNC Descends, Local and National Musicians Arisenew
Even as unknowable thousands of protesters, press agents, and boosters arm themselves for occupation, a resistance force of musicians and bands, some local and some national but all alike in the boldness of their convictions, is racing to the Twin Cities' rescue on an interception course.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
David Hansen and Andrea Myers |
08-29-2008 |
Music
