Ghost (Sweden) May 4th, 2013 Mill City Nights in Minneapolis, MN Full Photo Gallery: Ghost BC at Mill City Nights First spotted as an unknown opener for Opeth and Mastodon last year at Myth Live, Ghost blew me away. I fell in love with the Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath-like Heavy Metal combined with theatrics and(…)
Suicidal Tendencies (Venice, CA), D.R.I. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (Houston, TX), Waking The Dead (Los Angeles, CA), and In Defence (Minneapolis, MN) April 16th, 2013 Mill City Nights in Minneapolis, MN Full Gallery: Suicidal Tendencies, DRI and Wake The Dead The Slam City Tour made a stop in Minneapolis, much to the excitement of metal, punk and(…)
Garbage (Madison, WI) and IO ECHO (Los Angeles, CA) April 5th, 2013 Mill City Nights in Minneapolis, MN Full Gallery: Garbage and IO ECHO at Mill City Nights This may come as a surprise to no one reading this, but in the 90′s, I had a huge crush on Shirley Manson. But then again, most(…)
Audio Perm (Minneapolis, MN), Carroll (Minneapolis, MN), Bad Bad Hats (Minneapolis, MN), Solid Gold (Minneapolis, MN), Sims (Minneapolis, MN), L’Assassins (Minneapolis, MN) and Wiping Out Thousands (Saint Paul, MN) March 1st, 2013 Mill City Nights (Minneapolis, MN) For the Third Annual Vita.mn “Are You Local?” contest, local up and comers Audio Perm, Bad Bad Hats and(…)
Doomtree (Minneapolis, MN) December 16th, 2012 First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN Full Gallery: Doomtree Blowout 8 at First Avenue Stef Needs A New Kidney: Donate On a chilly December night, a very timely all-ages crowd made its way to First Avenue to take in local Hip Hop collective Doomtree. With one major player missing from the(…)
Love Like Birds (Ghent, Belgium) and Dark Dark Dark (Minneapolis, MN) December 2nd, 2012 La Maroquinerie in Paris, France Full Gallery: Dark Dark Dark at La Maroquinerie The past weekend was beautiful in Paris with the streets and Seine basking in much deserved, all-too-rare sunlight cast on tourists, students, workers and through stained glassed churches. Whenever(…)
David Bazan (Seattle, WA) November 6th, 2012 Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis, MN David Bazan is known for his unique and interactive performances, so it was no surprise when he paused halfway through playing Pedro the Lion’s album Control to ask if the nervous election day crowd had any questions. A guy standing to(…)
Passion Pit (Cambridge, MA) October 29th, 2012 First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN To the unfamiliar, it’s easy to write off Passion Pit as a trendy dance band best left to the barely legal and aging hipsters of the world to admire. However, those who know better recognize the depth, heaviness and sincerity woven through Passion Pit’s(…)