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Red Romero and Gabriel Reed
November 22nd, 2008
The Majestic, Madison, WI
Red Romero debuted their new album, “To: Love,” at their CD release party at the Majestic on Saturday.
Red Romero beams of the essence of Madison, WI like no other. They are a band all of their own. They sound the way...
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The Faint (with Baby Walrus and His Mischief)
November 14th, 2008
First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
It’s been four years since Wet from Birth, but I am happy to report that The Faint are alive, well, and cranking out selections off their new album, Fasciinatiion, with all the usual weird science and...
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O’Death (with Drakkar Sauna, and Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles)
November 10th, 2008
7th St. Entry, Minneapolis, MN O’Death started their set with a bang. Raw overdriven banjo cut the silence and sawed its way into a stomping breakdown that really got the crowd going. Their punky...
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Friday night the Music Builds tour brought four big-name Christian bands to Minneapolis. Jars of Clay Jars of Clay opened the night with an excruciating early set time of 6 p.m. Kicking off with “Flood,” the band’s 1995 breakthrough hit — of which an alternative version appears...
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Last night was Jeremy Messersmith’s CD release show for The Silver City at the Varsity Theater with The Owls and Rachel Ries. Below you can see Messersmith and company playing an acoustic gig for the crowd lined up outside. Now *that’s* a performer! Our friends Andrew and Mary went and took...
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Today’s Van’s Warped Tour 2008 Minneapolis stop was my fourth Warped Tour, and probably my most favorite — despite the fact there weren’t any major old school bands appearing this year, the entire festival is an advertisement, I didn’t bring the good SLR camera, and the...
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Valient Thorr (with Early Man & Architects)
July 18th, 2008
Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis, MN Valient Thorr are from Venus. They’re quite insistent upon this fact. I guess they must have a lot of early Megadeth albums on Venus because VT have those riffs in their bones. Somehow they...
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Raleigh’s experimental indie rock band Annuals took the Varsity Theater’s stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday night to a crowd of about 40 people who hopefully cared less about the Air Guitar Championships Regional Finals being held at that same venue later in the evening. Unfortunately, the “real...
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R.E.M. has been around for nearly 30 years. Maybe that explains all the Baby Boomers and gray hairs who packed the Xcel Energy Center last night for what proved to be a stirring, random and satisfying show. I didn’t discover R.E.M. until 1992’s Automatic For the People, loved the grungey...
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Minneapolis’ own The Hawaii Show led off the evening with a “set” of pre-recorded music set to skits. Or maybe it’s the other way around?
Led by Steve Dude (er, Barone, formerly of Lifter Puller), the rock comedy act “plays” inflatable guitars and features a keyboardist...
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Cloud Cult The Forms Recaps: City Pages, doodledee, Higher Than Highlights.
photos by Alison
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Grammy and Dove award-winning band Casting Crowns took the stage at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center Saturday night and rocked our innocent Christian souls.
Baytown, Texas group Leeland opened, showing off lead singer and child prodigy Leeland Mooring’s first tenor choirboy vocals and 3 of the...
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Modern prog rock legends The Mars Volta, took the stage at Saint Paul’s Roy Wilkins Auditorium Monday night knowing the venue wasn’t close to capacity.
Thought by some to be this generation’s King Crimson, TMV may be so far ahead of their time they simply can’t sell out a Monday...
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Theory of a Deadman occupies the space somewhere between Seether and 3 Doors Down. They’re a straight-ahead rock band, as they showed Sunday night at the Rock in Maplewood. Playing to a capacity crowd the BC foursome whipped through a quick set of short, pop-laden rock songs without too much aggro...
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Kansas, the heartland’s favorite classic prog-rock group, played a spirited 90 minutes at Mystic Lake Casino tonight to a near-sold out crowd.
It was my fourth time seeing the 38 year-old band in the last 10 years, and it was definitely one of their better performances.
First off, the new Mystic...