Local Music and Art
Sister Species is orchestrated quirky indie pop music. Well mostly, there are some songs with more straightforward arrangements on their new album Heavy Things Do Move. It’s nice to get emotionally lost in songs, feeling like you belong there and fitting right in.
They are celebrating the release of their new album with a show at The Cedar Cultural Center along with the unique folky voice of Lena Elizabeth who is releasing her album Get It Right.
SISTER SPECIES and LENA ELIZABETH Double Album Release
Tickle Torture – whose new LP “Lovequake” is released today – have two massive Minneapolis shows on the immediate horizon: tonight’s record release at the Amsterdam with Lady Lark, The Trappestines, and DJ Psymun; and the opening night of the Memory Lanes Block Party, which the band will headline on Saturday May 26th. Upon arriving in town from L.A. earlier this week, frontman Elliott Kozel dropped by the Back to the City duplex for a long-form interview, delving into every track on the new LP as well as revisiting some staple songs and music videos from the Tickle Torture back catalog.
https://www.songkick.com/concerts/32707424-tickle-torture-at-amsterdam-bar-and-hall
“So the time has come for me to move on,” Hannah Von Der Hoff opens “Open Road,” one of three songs premiered live in-studio at the Minnehaha Recording Company on today’s episode of Back to the City.
“And you’re gonna find me somewhere on the open range.”
Earlier this month, it was not on the open range but at Tampa International Airport that “Back to the City” host and curator SimonCalder ran into his old friend and “Back to the City” veteran, Minneapolis-bred songwriter Hannah Von Der Hoff.
Von Der Hoff’s gofundme campaign for her forthcoming debut LP launched this week, Hannah and Simon took their serendipitous Florida meeting as a sign that a “Back to the City Session” and interview needed to happen immediately; now, here both of those things are.
We invite you to enjoy both Hannah’s exclusive performance of three previously-unavailable songs and our existential musings; to check out https://www.gofundme.com/hannahvonderhoffdebutlp for Hannah’s gofundme campaign.
By Simon Calder
“Your pupils dilate to allow you more light-sensitivity,” Tony the Scribe explains, discussing the title-track to his new EP “Mixed Messages” in this new series of interviews with “Back to the City: MPLS Music Conversation”: “that either means to adjust to see in the dark or to get more of an image of someone you’re attracted to or aroused by. The way that we gather information is by our eyes literally changing shape.”
“Back to the City” – which began in 2015 as a Minneapolis music conversation show on the now-much-missed independent radio station sianetradio.com – has always been about gathering information regarding and delving into the art of twin cities musical talent, with hundreds of past guests including Dessa, Har Mar Superstar, and – in its first episode alone – Mark Mallman, Fathom Lane’s Michael Ferrier and 2017 Picked to Click winner-to-be Thomas Abban.
As it prepares to host its first Back to the City showcase event at Mortimers bar on Thursday March 29th, and to release the twentieth weekly Back to the City Session – featuring video footage of three songs from Al Church’s forthcoming LP “Night Games,” performed, mixed and mastered at the Minnehaha Recording Company – “Back to the City” is also pleased to today return to its roots, working in collaboration with RIFT magazine to launch a series of long-form video interviews, incorporating material from recent Back to the City sessions and discussion with the artists of the new material performed in those sessions.
Today Back to the City and RIFT are pleased to share this video playlist of recent in-studio performances by local acts straya, wetter, and Lucid Vanguard, all of whom will perform at this month’s inaugural Back to the City showcase at Mortimers Bar on Thursday March 29th. Launching the playlist are a series of video interviews with Tony the Scribe, who will be the first act to perform at that inaugural Back to the City showcase. Watch out for the addition to this playlist of four further conversations with Tony the Scribe, as well as long-form interviews with straya, wetter and Lucid Vanguard ahead of their sets at the inaugural Mortimers showcase on the final Thursday of this month.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOt8qg80_A419X_Oh9D3AUX28QTKgmWsq
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