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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

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

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

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