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Local Minneapolis folk/rock trio The Danny Jack Fiasco may have started their musical career hooked on Nirvana, but as they’ve matured, they’ve borrowed notes from Dave Matthews, Jason Mraz and I even hear a pinch of Arcade Fire in tracks like “Scared Crow.” The Danny Jack Fiasco...
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The Get-Rites are a Minneapolis trio who write some of the most authentic, moving americana gospel I’ve ever heard. Group leader Tom Feldman has a heart for his savior, and the group’s musicianship would make both Johnny Cash and John Lee Hooker proud.
Here’s the band playing 10,000...
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Local Minneapolis band The New Monarchs release their album, Blueprints, tomorrow on Soup Bowl Records. Produced by Scott Colburn (Animal Collective, Arcade Fire), Blueprints is 10 tracks of up tempo beats and screaming guitar riffs perfect for the velvet rope club or even better — the 100 mph...
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Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles release their debut LP, “Orange Peels and Rattlesnakes,” tonight at Bedlam Theatre. [via]
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Local metallic rock band Jagged Spiral are gearing up for the release of their debut album, Days From Evil.
With creeping guitar riffs, crunchy bass and haunting vocals that whisper fear into your soul, this album pretty much gives me piss-myself nightmares.
Jagged Spiral : “Forced Entry”...
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Today local postmodern indie rock band Aviette release their second full-length album, The Way We Met, on Draw Fire Records. Working with Minneapolis-based producer Darren Jackson (Tapes n’ Tapes, Kid Dakota, The Hopefuls) helped the group make some lofty steps on their sophomore offering, and early...
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Plagiarists are a five piece indie/alt-rock outfit that formed in the fall of 2004.
While attending St. Olaf College in their hometown of Northfield, Minnesota, members Eric Wilson and Davis Wille (vocals/guitar and lead guitar) met fellow student Mikael Witte (bass guitar). The three found that they...
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Sick of all the trip-hop, dance tracks and happy-go-lucky crap I’ve been posting lately? Then check out some punk rock from North Dakota courtesy of a little band I like to call Dingus.
Yep, Dingus.
Last December, Soup Bowl Records released the band’s second full-length album, Please Stand...
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After nearly a decade jamming together, today Minneapolis seven-piece folk/rock band Capitol Jay released their full-length debut, Strangers In My House on Limerick Records. And while I typically don’t sample songs about my cats, it turns out these tracks aren’t about those kind of strangers...
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Minneapolis songwriter Sam Keenan’s new album, All the Dark Colored Markers Went Dry, is just as colorful and varied as a 64 count Crayola Box.
Favorite tracks include the soft pop “Miracle” and electronic non-trip track “BoomBoomBoom.”
Here are a few tracks to see what...
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The Get-Rites
Pedal Steel Heaven EP
Label: Magnolia Recording Company
I’m a big Get-Rites fan. The new disc pics up where 2007’s Sideshow Revival left off — country-bluesified spirituals about life, heaven, finding your savior, and on the new EP, Pedal Steel Heaven, even a track about...
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You may remember our interview with Minneapolis musician Andrew Jansen from A Paper Cup Band when he mentioned he was working on “a basement sort of cassette tape under my alias Webby Moore.”
Well, it’s here, and it’s called Thinking Season. And if you dig the stylings of Malkmus...