The Monday Mixtape: All Downhill From Here
This week’s Monday Mixtape tackles the question what bands peaked at the first song on their debut album?
This week’s Monday Mixtape tackles the question what bands peaked at the first song on their debut album?
You get the impression from local four piece L’Assassins that they create songs in order to serve their desire to make music videos, which runs counter to the usual process for most bands. Their...
Bad Bad Hats have been gaining some steam locally and beyond since their latest release, the full length Psychic Reader, came out a few months back on Afternoon Records. The focus of the trio’s...
Newish local four piece Technician say they are striving to pay tribute to post-hardcore groups like Quicksand and Jawbox, and from a small, one song sample size, they seem to be up to the...
Two constants about Minneapolis spoken word artist/MC Guante are that he always is willing to dive into subjects that need to be talked about that are too often ignored and that he continually finds...
Tim Hecker and William Basinski are luminaries in the ambient electronic world, which is like saying someone is “famous” in their scientific field. Despite being “luminaries” in a quite corner of the musical universe...
We here in the Twin Cities are lucky to have a handful of really outstanding independent record labels, one of whom is MJMJ Records, purveyors of quirky, off-kilter pop and electronic music (and, on...
Every summer Adult Swim releases new songs from a (usually) solid cast of artists, and this summer has lived up to expectations. Ranging from sludgy metal to alt rock, the series is always a...