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26 MINUTES WITH 26 BATS!: BAILEY COGAN ON THE 7/26 BTTC BENEFIT FOR LAUREN SMYTHE

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“As I rise, flames take my flesh and melt my eyes so I can’t see the ruins left behind.”

26 BATS! – “Phoenix”

In this special episode of Back to the City: MPLS Music Conversation, 26 BATS! front-person Bailey Cogan and Simon Calder discuss the band’s “Cave Cuts” LP as well as new material which 26 BATS! will be perform at a Benefit for Lauren Smythe, feat. DJ Rowsheen, MC Mark Mallman, Tacky Annie and more, on the final Thursday of this month, 7/26. Our conversation is all about taking flight, resilience, and cycles of renewal, all fitting topics as we prepare to raise funds for our mutual friend, songwriter Lauren Smythe, who is contending with diseases including scleroderma, with which she was diagnosed at age 10, and fibromyalgia, with which she was just diagnosed.

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VENUS DEMARS’ HAUNTING NEW COVER OF “HEROIN” KICKS OFF BACK TO THE CITY’S “ALL THE PRETTY HORSES” WEEK

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Back to the City: MPLS is honored to kick off a week of daily new content from Venus De Mars & All the Pretty Horses with the premiere of this haunting new string-laden cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Heroin,” performed by Venus as part of her recent Back to the City Session at the Minnehaha Recording Company.

Watch out for daily new ATPH content – including a reading from Venus’ forthcoming memoir, as well as a career-spanning long-form interview – on backtothecitympls.com over the course of the week, and be sure to catch All the Pretty Horses’ unofficial Pride set at Mortimer’s Bar this Thursday, June 28th, with Black Widows, gully boys, and Death of a Ladies’ Man: https://www.facebook.com/events/2199148430110170/

DWYNELL ROLAND DISCUSSES FINDING HIS CHANNEL ON NEW LP “YOUNG ROLAND”: BACK TO THE CITY VIDEO INTERVIEW

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Dwynell Roland was deemed one of the twin cities’ Top 5 “Picked to click” musical acts for 2018 by City Pages at the end of last year, and earlier this month the Star Tribune declared him one of “12 great new Minnesota bands to discover this summer.” Today, as part of RIFT magazine’s “365 Days of Local Music,” Dwynell joins Back to the City’s Simon Calder for an exclusive in-depth discussion of each song on his new LP, “Young Roland,” released last Friday, July 1st.

 

DWYNELL ROLAND DISCUSSES FINDING HIS CHANNEL ON NEW LP “YOUNG ROLAND”: BACK TO THE CITY VIDEO INTERVIEW

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Dwynell Roland was deemed one of the twin cities’ Top 5 “Picked to click” musical acts for 2018 by City Pages at the end of last year, and earlier this month the Star Tribune declared him one of “12 great new Minnesota bands to discover this summer.” Today, as part of RIFT magazine’s “365 Days of Local Music,” Dwynell joins Back to the City’s Simon Calder for an exclusive in-depth discussion of each song on his new LP, “Young Roland,” released last Friday, July 1st.

 

AL CHURCH SHIFTS GEARS WITH NEW LP “NIGHT GAMES”: BACK TO THE CITY VIDEO INTERVIEW

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In this, the first of fifty-two Monday morning episodes of “Back to the City” to be released by RIFT magazine during their 365 days of local music, Al Church joins host Simon Calder to discuss the LP, “Night Games,” which his band released three days ago. Before dropping by to discuss the childhood experiences that inform the record, Church brought his band over to the Minnehaha Recording Company for a “Back to the City Session,” two songs from which are also included in this video playlist.

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