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Mix Tape: Minnesota Music

Jul 2, 2009
Tony Nelson Captures the Mad Ripple's Milieu
Maggie Sandford

Maggie Sandford offers an engaging look into photographer Tony Nelson's new exhibition of work documenting the local artist community behind Jim Walsh's (aka The Mad Ripple) weekly Hootenanny nights.
Jun 25, 2009
Tilting at Windmills in St. Cloud
Jennifer Kohnhorst

Writer Jennifer Kohnhorst profiles an intriguing, talented musician in St. Cloud--a one-man creative dynamo whose audience size has yet to catch up to his talent. Read on for Ganderson's story and to lend your ears to his appealingly quirky take on pop.
Mar 25, 2009
Come On Up for Homegrown
Ann Klefstad

Duluth's Ann Klefstad makes a persuasive pitch for heading up to Duluth for Homegrown 11 at the end of April, and points you to a new CD, "Lindquist's Mix," which features a sampling of the "Duluth sound" in the line-up for this year's music festival.
Aug 18, 2008
MUSIC: Free One, A Serious Somali MC
Article by Justin Schell

Hip-hop expert Justin Schell profiles up-and-coming MC Free One, who's also part of the promising new hip-hop group Usual Suspects. This Somali-Minnesotan's path, from Mogadishu to Minneapolis, makes for a compelling story.
Aug 18, 2008
MUSIC: Bought Any Good Records Lately?
Article by Chris Godsey

Duluth music writer Chris Godsey investigates the quiet resurgence of vinyl among audiophiles and finds there may just be more to the trend than simple nostalgia.
Nov 29, 2007
Mix Tape: Joe Walsh and Joy Kills Sorrow
Chris Godsey

Chris Godsey explores the rich music of Joe Walsh, a young mandolin player who uses his dazzling skills and invention on traditional musics.
Oct 29, 2007
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Oct 22, 2007
How a Music-Business Graduate Became a Guitar Hero: A River Flowing Backward to the Sea
Tom Gadbois

Justin Roth, at 8, decided to refuse a spot in the St. Croix Valley Boy’s Choir; it would interfere with his Saturday cartoons. Justin has since decided to focus more on his music and less on the cartoons. Tom Gadbois fills us in on the results.
Oct 8, 2007
Mary Bue: Art Imitating Life?
Rich Horton

Rich Horton hears Mary Bue; she continues to evolve. Her work has developed more complexity and texture; she's moving beyond the singer/songwriter niche into music more broadly imagined.
Oct 1, 2007
Seeds of Change, Fruits of Labor: Zeitgeist and Wordless Music
Justin Schell

Justin Schell describes performances by our own Zeitgeist (doing their "Shape Shifting") and New York's Wordless Music, a year-old troupe wowing critics back East. More is coming up from both of these groups; watch the Calendar for announcements.
Jun 18, 2007
Two Nights with Brother Ali
Justin Schell

Justin Schell heard Brother Ali's concerts at First Avenue and at 7th Street Entry. Here's his take on them, and on the relation of hip hop to color and culture.
Jun 5, 2007
MUSIC: (Addendum) A Cheatsheet for Local DIY Music Media
Compiled by Paul Lundgren

From local ’zines to your computer screens (and a few things in between). Paul Lundgren gives a cheatsheet with quick links to a sampling of homegrown DIY music media offerings.
Jun 5, 2007
MUSIC: A Guide to Independent Music Media in Minnesota
By Paul Lundgren

Duluth writer and raconteur Paul Lundgren investigates the go-it-alone spunk that fuels MN's DIY music zine landscape
May 28, 2007
Mix Tape: Self-Evident Ghosts and Desdamona
Rich Horton

Rich Horton reviews some new recordings from Bribe the Ghost and Self Evident; he likes what he hears.
Apr 30, 2007
Homegrown in Duluth: A Guide to Pacing Yourself
Chris Godsey

Chris Godsey, official Homegrown Festival chronicler, provides a handy guide should you be lucky or smart enough to find yourself in Duluth for the latest incarnation of this biggest-and-best exposition of homegrown music: it's April 29 - May 6.
Apr 16, 2007
Mix Tape: Keston and Westdal: Like Little Lego Bricks
Rich Horton

Rich Horton spoke to John Keston and Nils Westdal, of the eponymous jazz group, about their fresh approach to recording technology.
Mar 12, 2007
Mix Tape: Surfactants and Ray the Wolf
Chris Godsey

Chris Godsey reviews recent releases from the north.
Mar 5, 2007
Mix Tape: Happy Musician: Oxymoron?
Chris Godsey

Chris Godsey talks to Dave Mehling, who's just released a much-anticipated CD, "How Do I Make You Lonesome?" Perplexingly, Mehling is incredibly sane.
Feb 26, 2007
Bands Across the Water: Quarter Acre Lifestyle
Rich Horton

Rich Horton writes on Quarter Acre Lifestyle, a New Zealand transplant with one foot still in the old country.
Dec 12, 2006
Mix Tape Review: Bill Isles's "The Shores of My Hometown"
Chris Godsey

Chris Godsey visits Bill Isles's "The Shores of My Home Town" and finds Isle's affectionate detail pleasant. Some of the playing on the disk is more than pleasant . . .
Dec 10, 2006
Mix Tape Review: Teague Alexy with the Feelin' Band
Chris Godsey

Chris Godsey finds "The New Folklore" inclusive and disarming.
Nov 2, 2006
Mix Tape: Circuit Bending with Beatrix Jar
Rich Horton

Rich Horton goes in search of sound that weaves itself into music, with Beatrix Jar, inventors of aural devices.
Oct 5, 2006
Mix Tape: Charlie Parr's "Backslider"
Chris Godsey

Chris Godsey reviews one of the northland's most original voices: Charlie Parr, on his new live album.
Oct 3, 2006
And the Heroine Screams Help!
Chris Godsey

Chris Godsey interviews Paul Connolly and Mat Milinkovich, musicians, music producers, and 'zine proprietors in Duluth, about their project "And the Heroine Screams Help!"
Aug 17, 2006
Mix Tape: Experimental Music?
Rich Horton

Rich Horton went looking for experiments and found the Acadia Cafe and the Cleophone.

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