Local Music and Art
Rift recently talked to Sean Fahey of Brooklyn-based punk psych band Acid Dad. The band has been garnering a lot of praise for their music and blisteringly energetic live act while gaining momentum touring the country with bands like White Reaper, Thee Oh Sees and Diarrhea Planet. [Read more…] about Interview – Sean Fahey of Acid Dad Drops by Home
Founded in 1977, The Suburbs are recognized worldwide as among the original heroes of the “Minneapolis Sound;” a historic music era that saw the emergence of other bands like The Suicide Commandos, Prince, The Replacements and Hüsker Dü. With Gramma’s Boyfriend, Shannon Blowtorch, and the winning band from Are You Local? 2017 Finalist Showcase. Presented by: Star Tribune.
First Avenue Mainroom. Friday, February 17, 2017. 7:00pm. $15.00 advance, $17.00 door. 18+.
See the finalists from the Star Tribune’s 2017 Are You Local? competition compete for best-new-band supremacy, and a slot in the upcoming Are You Local? First Avenue Mainroom show on February 17. The winning band will also receive $2,000 in cash and other prizes.
Turf Club. Monday, February 6, 2017. 7:00pm. $5.00 advance, $7.00 door. 21+.
Furnace marks a whole lot of firsts for the accomplished songwriter. It’s his first time putting his long-running, popular string band, Trampled by Turtles, on hiatus to focus all of his efforts on a more personal project. It’s his first time speaking so plainly and literally about something happening in his private life. And it’s his first time dedicating an entire record to a single topic — a topic so significant and intimate that he questioned whether or not he should even release it into the world.
With special guests The Pines and Erik Koskinen. First Avenue Mainroom. Friday, February 10, 2017. 7:00pm. $20.00. 18+.
Presented by: 89.3 The Current and City Pages.
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 start.
With special guest Spank Rock. First Avenue Mainroom. Saturday, February 11, 2017. 8:00pm. $25.00. 18+.
Presented by: 89.3 The Current.
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