AltWeeklies Wire
Jayhawks Flocking Together Once Againnew
Founding members Mark Olson and Gary Louris rekindle their musical partnership.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Swensson |
02-18-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Radiohead Cover Band Seeks to Unlock Thom Yorke's Geniusnew
What's That? recreate some of modern rock's most complex songs.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Bradley Campbell |
02-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Minneapolis's Aby Wolf Delivers Album of Mesmerizing Folknew
Wolf talks about her songwriting on Sweet Prudence.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Swensson |
01-21-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Doomtree, Solid Gold, and Vampire Hands Deftly Dot the Twin Cities' 2008 Music Timelinenew
Crack open our Twin Cities Local Music Yearbook and reminisce on an effed-up year.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Swensson |
12-17-2008 |
Music
Minneapolis Hip-Hop Heavies Heiruspecs End Their Hiatusnew
Just four years ago, riding high on the national release of A Tiger Dancing, Heiruspecs were on the fast track to being the biggest band to come out of Minneapolis in the new millennium. By the end of 2005, however, it all came crashing down -- literally.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Swensson |
12-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Absent Arch Loves That Dirty Basement Soundnew
The band's new album combines polished folk and lo-fi charm.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Swensson |
11-19-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Bill Mike Band Reaches Across Party Lines to Find a New Sense of Unitynew
The band's new album, Truce, is really all about searching for Obamatopia.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Swensson |
11-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Bill Mike Band, Truce
Screaming Mechanical Brain Isn't Afraid to Piss Off Your Grandmanew
Over the past few years the electro-metal locals have carved out a place for themselves nationally, and they inform me matter-of-factly that their CDs and merchandise are now sold through Hot Topic, another development they can't quite explain.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Swensson |
10-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Twin Cities Musicians Kick Off a Week of RNC Protestsnew
With the convention days away, the Turf Club rocks for change.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Myers |
09-04-2008 |
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
Jeff Hanson Moves Forward with Third Albumnew
The low-profile Minnesotan is prepared to make a splash nationally.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Myers |
08-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Paul Westerberg Releases a New Online-only Concept Albumnew
The songs themselves—or the segments of the track that could be divvied up as songs, given that nothing on 49:00 is separated or labeled—are, for the most part, straightforward and representative of Westerberg's songwriting style.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Myers |
08-13-2008 |
Reviews
Folk Artist Matt Jennings is Singing a Different Tune From His Big-time Sibling Masonnew
The brothers Jennings grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and learned how to write songs together at a young age. With Matt writing guitar riffs and Mason composing lyrics, the two would record their songs onto an old Radio Shack tape recorder.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Myers |
08-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
With the Velvet Lapelles, Lucy Michelle Brings Heavenly Ukelele Music to the Twin Citiesnew
With a sound that combines dashes of old-fashioned country, folk, and polka with otherworldly tinges of Gypsy and flamenco, Michelle's music appeals just as much to the NPR crowd as it does to those of the rock-club persuasion.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Myers |
07-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Adam Svec Searches for the Music Insidenew
The Glad Version songwriter's new solo album is stripped-down and personal.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Meyers |
07-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
