Local Music and Art
By James Fitzgerald
It was said a few years back that “Rock and Roll is alive, and it lives in Minneapolis”. The same can be said of funk in today’s City of Lakes, as the tradition of The Time and Prince continues with, among others, PHO. Not many cities in the Midwest can boast of having such a productive funk scene, but no other city can boast of the Purple Yoda and that dynamite ‘Minneapolis Sound’ as part of its history. [Read more…] about Review – PHO – Cash It
By Becca Martin-Marx
An eruption is happening onstage but the two women center front fixing their hair are oblivious. Their apathy is infuriating as his words hang in the air, but it is simply more fuel for the inferno that is Guante. His words torch the misogyny towards LBTG, the broken political status quo, the racial divide, sexism, rape culture, prejudice, the entitled 1% and equally important the other percentage that can close their eyes to it all in denial. [Read more…] about Review – Guante – A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry
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