welp, i finally received my new upright a couple of weeks ago and it is everything a fella could ever want, if you’re into it that is. for those of you who care, you can check out some nice pics of thee ole boy here. next week, i begin studying under Liz Draper, who is…

This week is another dream-week of music here in Minitropolis and at first glance [below] they look so much alike you’d think it’s two pictures of the same dude [with full beard, stocking cap, light facial hair, beret, respectively]. welp, it is indeed two distinct pictures of two distinctively talented artists who [while they share…

Our dear pal, Buddy Wakefield, started something while we were living in Seattle. Indeed, he was the first person i ever knew who went earnestly into the void, chasing a dream. When i knew him then, he’d recently recorded his first album “A Stretch of Presence“, won the Seattle Slam and went on to become…

Jack White does not have to play at being a rockstar. He was built to be the juggernaut that he is who shakes and wakes the spirit right up in the crowd while the sonic wail shakes the plaque off their teeth. White is forbiddingly private when it comes to his personal life, and is…

Lo-fi and amateurish, this is the speck Happy Chief will make on the skillet of rock and roll’s breakfast. Ingredients: yours truly, upright and fretless electric basses, wineglass, guiro, four-string slide guitar, steel drum, drumkit, piano, harmonica, shaker and dog barks. All made on a four-track cassette recorder and no computers [if you know what…

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From CityPages.com… The man who once sang, “Anyone can play guitar” often chooses not to on his solo debut. Instead, Thom Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich build The Eraser on the same surround-sound circuitry that bolstered the last few Radiohead albums. The solo project is hardly a sign that the singer will abandon his mates…

The Gnarls Barkley collaboration didn’t bring producer Danger Mouse to the top of the British charts for the first time, but it did mark his debut as the pilot of a hit record. Mouse, born Brian Burton, first gained the ears of discriminating listeners when he concocted The Grey Album, a bootleg that mashed the…

you love it, it’s yer favorite, it’s the friendliest, best-sounding venue in Minni IMHO, especially for a movin’ punk show like A and i checked out last night! if you likey, check out some slow-shutter-speed snappies of the Two Minute Tantrum show. also playing were Menace to Sobriety and a couple other bands, but we…

These boys are coming to the State Theater August 1st. Get tickets while you can (if you care). Will we be there? You know we will. = c

Band prepares to book larger venues as they draw huge, mad-dancing crowds into theaters night after night with such style and wit you just can’t resist. – c

For those of us fed up with commercial radio, commercial music and the general lack of imagination that currently makes up the majority of the “artistic world”, there is relief: click the logo to check out the Minnewiki! Explore articles about Minnesota music – many are waiting for you to add what you know about:…

from the City Pages: “it sucks to be you if you’re in a band and that band is not called the White Stripes.” he may want to call himself by new names and write jingles for Coca-Cola but the White Stripes still kick fucking ass. want proof? watch this. (be patient, tho, it’s a rather…

we love you – c

Trampled by Turtles is an original, non-traditional bluegrass band from Duluth, Minnesota. Their energetic live performances and two well-received albums (Songs From a Ghost Town, 2004 and Blue Sky and the Devil, 2005) have gained them a large and loyal fan base throughout the Midwest and beyond. “Duluth’s finest Jameson swigging lads, Trampled by Turtles,…

by Steve King On this day in 1980 Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon outside his New York City apartment building. There are two books by him (In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works), and many about him, but the book which will forever be associated with Lennon is The Catcher in…