Samuel Barker — These Lonesome Nights
Samuel Barker is both a gentleman and a scholar. I know this to be true for the first because I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my e-mail correspondence with him (and I owe him a follow-up) and for the second, he used to…
Rachel Cholst
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…