Fun. (New York, NY) and Andrew McMahon (California) January 23rd, 2013 Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St Paul, MN Full Gallery: Fun. and Andrew McMahon at Roy Wilkins The Twin cities have been electric with the buzz from Prince playing six performances at the Dakota Jazz Club last week. Many asked why The Purple One would(…)
Actual Wolf (Grand Rapids, MN), Bomba De Luz (St Paul, MN), The Chalice (Minneapolis, MN), Eleganza! (Minneapolis, MN), John Mark Nelson (Excelsior, MN), Strange Names (Minneapolis, MN) and Wiping Out Thousands (St Paul, MN) January 11th, 2013 First Avenue Main Room (Minneapolis, MN) Full Gallery: First Avenue’s Best New Bands 2012 On Friday night, First Avenue brought together(…)
Wiping out Thousands (Minneapolis, MN), sloslylove (Eau Claire, WI), and LaLiberte (Minneapolis, MN) November 2nd, 2012 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis, MN Wiping out Thousands took to the 7th Street Entry stage to celebrate the release of their first album, titled This Came First. The local duo brought a huge sound, splashy light show and a lot(…)
The Royal Concept (Sweden), Thee Rain Cats (CA) August 20th, 2012 The Constellation Room in Santa Ana, CA The Royal Concept is a glorious band hailing from Sweden consisting of four extremely well dressed and talented men: Filip Bekic (guitar), David Larson (vocals, guitar, and keys), Frans Povel (drums), and Magnus Robert (bass). They played(…)
Devil’s BeatDown (CA) August 11st, 2012 Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, CA They’re here folks, the new and improved Devil’s BeatDown -risen from the ashes that was Devil In A Black Dress. They played the Whisky A Go Go last Saturday to their biggest audience to date. Frontman, Frank Cassara was armed with t-shirts and(…)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (Oxford) August 9th, 2012 The Echoplex in Los Angeles, CA Catching Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs at The Echoplex will be an event I won’t ever forget. It was the loudest and most energy-filled show I’ve caught at The Echoplex to date. TEED brought out the most amazing crowd I have ever(…)
O’Brother (Atlanta, GA), Animals As Leaders (Washington D.C.), Thrice (Orange, CA) June 12th, 2012 The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, CA The Thrice Farewell Tour is a very sad thing. I don’t even know how to feel about it yet other than extreme gratitude for all the great music they gave us over the years.(…)
Art of Dying (Vancouver, BC) and Shinedown (Jacksonville, FL) May 15th, 2012 The Myth in Maplewood, MN I’ve been listening to Shinedown for a number of years now, but at some point I lost them in the shuffle of the piles of new music. With the release of Amaryllis, my attention was once again grabbed and brought(…)