Local Music and Art
If the opening moments of POLIÇA’s latest album, United Crushers (2016), leave you feeling unsettled, then Channy Leaneagh has done her job. With her voice pitch-shifted down into an ominous, nearly unrecognizable register, she sings of a post-industrial urban landscape littered with broken promises, a land of poverty and violence that’s been rigged against us from the […]
“It feels like a resurrection,” frontman/songwriter Ben Kyle says of Shadowlands, Romantica’s fourth album and first new release in seven years. Shadowlands will be released on Last Chance Records in the US and At The Helm Records in The UK on February 10th, 2017. Indeed, the emotion-charged set marks a creative rebirth for the sprawling […]
Friday night’s (Jan. 27) First Avenue lineup includes Kenyan-born, Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter Jay Smart Music, local Afrobeat 12-piece band Black Market Brass, folk-rocker Strand of Oaks, Portland-based folk trio Joseph and local indie-pop singer-songwriter jeremy messersmith. Tickets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/3354097/the-currents-12th-birthday-party-ftjeremy-messersmithjosephstrand-of-oaksblack-market-brassand-jay-smart-minneapolis-first-avenue?cobrand=first-avenue
