State of Country: Wimmen and Queers
A quick note to my regular readers (which, according to my stats, is only about 13 of you) — if you’ve been keeping track at home you’ll have noticed that I’ve only been averaging about 3 updates a week since…
Quiet Hollers — Quiet Hollers
Quiet Hollers were one of the first bands I wrote about on here. Of the thousands of songs I’ve listened to since for the sake of the blog, there are several from their debut album, I Am the Morning, that…
Nervous Breakthroughs Split EP
Lest you decry the infiltration of synthesizers in all walks of music, it appears that punk is not dead in the Twin Cities. Nervous Breakthroughs is four songs by four different bands, and each offers a fresh take on a…
The Quaildogs AND Harvester
The Quaildogs bring something special to the table, that’s for sure. They seamlessly blend the gently earnest tone and harmonies of today’s hipster folk with the casual, back-handed irony of ’90s alt-rock. The end result is deliciously sharp. The Getting…
The Rizzos — Worse Things
I have spent most of my 20s railing against hipsters but I think the time has come to make a painful admission: by virtue of being an urban 20-something who wears Warby Parker glasses I, too, am one of them.…
VIDEO: Stephen Chopek — “Systematic Collapse”
You may remember Stephen Chopek’s Things Moving on Their Own Together. Here’s the video for one of the harder-driving songs on the album, “Systematic Collapse.” Stephen Chopek — Facebook, Twitter
MUSIC VIDEO: Homer Marrs & The Excellent Adventure — “It’s Amazing”
Not much to say about this one… I mean, who doesn’t love a good drag queen mosh pit? Homer Marrs & The Excellent Adventure — Facebook, Bandcamp
State Champion — Fantasy Error
If a science experiment is all about getting the same result after reproducing the experimental conditions a number of times, then I have scientifically proven that State Champion is best listened to at 2 AM when you’re sobering up on…