Local Music and Art
This year’s Uke Fest has crossed the Mississippi to land squarely in Saint Paul at the Vieux Carré Jazz club. How fitting as 2016 is the “Year of Music” in our capital city! This is the festival’s fifth year, and the fourth year that finds local ukulele songstress Katy Vernon at its helm. [Read more…] about Event Preview – Uke Fest 2016 – Vieux Carre 10/14
Rebecca Marx Photo Credit Dan Corrigan
You know what they say: “A missed call is a missed opportunity”? Well, let’s just say that I’m really glad that Greg Norton is the kind of a guy who answers his phone. Had he not, I wouldn’t be writing about the iconically mustachioed musician. Most of you will be quite familiar with Norton who was the bassist for the influential punk rock trio out of Minneapolis–Hüsker Dü, but maybe less familiar with the band that he has just joined. [Read more…] about Interview – Greg Norton Takes the Call
Rebecca Marx
Ben Glaros is a master at collaboration. I won’t bother to list all of his credits because you’d lose interest. [Read more…] about Review – Ben Glaros – Celebrated Summerteeth EP
Rebecca Marx, Photo Credit Ben Madison
Just like you, my inbox is cause to many mixed feelings. In between the ads and the endless backlog of things that I admittedly may never get to, there hides gems. [Read more…] about Review – Sam Cassidy – Sam Cassidy and the Red Daughters Band EP
Desney Cody
Music to some is just noise; words put to a beat, or rhythm. Some have no real emotional connection or meaning to the music they are making, or listening to. Minneapolis’s very own Jake Jones is one of the rawest yet. Their latest album From Time to Time speaks of topics from bad relationships and depression, to drug and [Read more…] about Review – Jake Jones – From Time to Time
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