Photos: Surly Darkness Day 2024
Rocket From The Crypt returned to town to headline the annual Darkness Day at Surly (10/5/24)
Category: Albums
Ambient/Electronic Synth Legend Alessandro Cortini Playing the Cedar MONDAY as Part of Drone Not Drones “Dronetober” (Stream His New Album)
We are longtime fans of the music, community created and social justice pursued by Drone Not Drones, the project of Minneapolis’ own Luke Heiken. For the past decade we’ve always made it a point...
Tape Tuesday: Cowboy Sadness Explore Ambient Americana on “Select Jambient Works Vol. 1” CS
I assume many people had a similar experience when seeing the name and title of the cassette invoked in this review, namely wondering whether it was all a put-on or some sort of ironic...
The Minneapolis Uranium Club Band Expand Their Sound With Infants Under the Bulb
Am I writing about new LP Infants Under the Bulb by The Minneapolis Uranium Club because I love the music and have been a longtime fan of the band? Or because I spent a...
Listen to Pat Keen’s Outstanding “I Saw A Bug” (Minneapolis Release Show TODAY)
Minneapolis songwriter Pat Keen’s I Saw a Bug is the kind of album that transports the listener to far away places, even ones you may never have even been to before. Lost highways at...
Listen to the fables, the enchanting LP from Kavyesh Kaviraj Quintet (Free Outdoor Show TONIGHT!)
Local piano player Kavyesh Kaviraj, with a crack group of local musicians, created one of the most joyous albums I’ve come across this year with the 8-song, nearly hourlong jazz opus Fables. The record...
Review: Jacob Pavek’s “NINA”
It’s been a few years since we last checked in on local artist Jacob Pavek when his record NOME topped my year-end list of best local releases in 2019. Pavek is back in my...
Introducing: The Genre-Bending Pop of Estuary (Release Show TONIGHT!)
Estuary is a Minneapolis based collective that crafted a whole album (“reverse engineered,” in their terms) around solo tracks crafted by band member Zack Baltich. Hearing the genre-bending eight-song LP, you wouldn’t know these...
