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From my pal Chris over at Culture Bully:
CultureBully.com is teaming with DonorsChoose.org for a three day fundraising campaign supporting music development and literacy within local Twin Cities schools. Beginning at 10:00am (Central) on Monday, October 20 Culture Bully will be posting exclusive content...
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Here’s the event calendar: Tons of information about Sound Unseen film, music, art events here.
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Minneapolis female power punk quintet Sick Of Sarah’s hard-edged, beat-driven single, “I’m Not Listening,” has been selected as the new theme song for “Brunch with Bridget,” starring Bridget McManus which will be airing on Logo, as well as on AfterEllen.com. Sick Of...
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Tenebrism is a group work first performed at the Artery24 Performance Art Festival at the Soap Factory this July. Twin Cities Theatre Company Lamb Lays with Lion is re-mounting this work that “runs the gamut from Caravaggio to Jesus and Joy Division to beer,” along with other short works...
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City Pages’ annual Picked to Click poll features the top 10 bands local music personalities feel will break out in the next year, and yours truly had the opportunity to weigh in…
Results were announced today (there were 13 this year b/c of ties): Lucy Michelle & the Velvet Lapelles ...
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Local Minneapolis group and Ian Anderson project One for the Team celebrate their sophomore album, Build It Up, out today on The Militia Group. Stream tracks at their MySpace. Here’s a live one from their recent stop in my old stomping grounds… One of the Team has all-ages and 21+ CD release...
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The first “official” record by the entire Doomtree crew — a self-titled monster boasting 21 tracks and featuring all nine members of Minneapolis’ own hip-hop collective — comes out July 29. The CD Release Party is set for Friday, August 1 with I Self Devine and Kill the...
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Just got a press release that Saint Paul’s Eclipse Records is hosting a special early-evening in-store performance from Illinois indie-pop band Headlights on June 24th. That’s great and all, but there’s a catch…
What makes this show a first is its Age Restriction; only people...
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Heliotrope, Flaneur Productions’ annual three-day exhibition of contemporary underground music, is back for its fifth year this May 15-17 (yes, it’s Art-A-Whirl weekend) at the Ritz Theater in Northeast Minneapolis. I don’t typically cross-post with Metroblogging Minneapolis, but this is...
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The Stone Arch Festival of the Arts is now taking band applications for their outdoor festival June 14/15, 2008.
Over 100,000 people attended last year’s festival, and this year features five (5!) performance stages showcasing local and regional acts. Definitely a key venue for your band to get...
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Duluth, Minn. band Batteries are fully charged and ready to rock.
The group’s debut, That Great Grandsuck of the Sea, is finally here for your approval.
We got our hands on the single, “Childproof.” It’s a bouncy stomper with a touch of sax and healthy dose of Dave Frankenfeld’s...
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Minneapolis melodic pop rock band Love in October’s debut CD, Pontus, The Devil, And Me, hits stores today. In addition to love from CMJ, Alternative Press, and Spin.com, the group was just reviewed in Kerrang!, who called the album a “sparkling debut.”
Preview the album here. The band...