HowWasTheShow/Minneapoliscast CD Reviews for December 2007 on 12/14/07

By: Stacy Schwartz, Pat O'Brien, Jon Behm, Andrea Myers, David de Young, Jen Paulson
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  This month we bring you a special holiday edition of the HowWasTheShow/Minneapoliscast CD Review show featuring 8 guests and 9 songs. Special guests this month include Jason Nagel, formerly of Cities 97’s Minnesota Music program and Mei Young, formerly of Drive 105 Homegrown. As well as selected writers from Reveille Magazine and HowWasTheShow.com. Hosted by David de Young of HowWasTheShow...

Gospel Gossip CD Release w/ Maps of Norway and MC/VL at 7th Street Entry on 12/13/07

By: David de Young
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Vicious Lee of MC/VL - Photo by Stacy Schwartz MC/VL Arriving to the Entry just shy of 10PM, we missed opening band Dragons Power Up, but we were in time for “the homeboys we came to see”, Mighty Clyde and Vicious Lee, better known as MC/VL. Though I hated these guys when I first heard them on the radio a couple years ago, thinking they were an amateurish and kitschy novelty act, my esteem for ...

Roma di Luna and A Night In The Box at Acadia Café on 12/1/07

By: Carl Atiya Swanson
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Roma di Luna - Photo from their MySpace It’s a pity that the Acadia Café on Nicollet and Franklin will be pulling up stakes and moving to the West Bank on January 1st, 2008. Its new location (kitty-corner from the 400 Bar in the old Riverview Café) will not have the separate theater area that made the Acadia so infuriatingly charming. The Nicollet space gets a bad rap; the sound mix...

Ed Ackerson Interview and Performance on 11/21/07

By: David de Young
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The cover of Ed Ackerson's self-titled solo album On Friday night, November 23rd at the Varsity Theater, Ed Ackerson (of 27 Various, The Dig and Polara) will release his debut self-titled solo album on his own Susstones record label. At the show Ed will be joined by a band featuring Peter Anderson (drums), Marc Perlman (bass), Tim Osseau (keyboards), and Eric Lovold of the Alarmist...

Ike Reilly, The Alarmists and the Falls at First Avenue on 11/21/07

By: Pat O'Brien
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Ike Reilly - Photo from his MySpace (will add photo credit upon request) It’s hard to explain what happened at this show if you weren’t there. Now, I’m not going to get all pretentious on you and say that I saw God or anything like that. But I did step out of my comfort zone a bit for this show and was rewarded for it. It felt good.   Let this be known: I don’t like rockabilly. A h...

Lunch Show 5 with STNNNG, Signal to Trust and FT (The Shadow Government) at 7th Street Entry on 11/17/07

By: Pat O'Brien
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STNNNG - photo from myspace.com/stnnng You don’t often see shows this early in the day. As I looked around the near full 7th Street Entry at the bleary-eyed masses and got in line to heap some much needed grub onto my plate, this much was clear: most everyone was in various stages of being hungover and pretending not to be—in any way, shape or form. It was noon. Yes, you re...

The Current Fakebook with John Waters at Fitzgerald Theater on 11/10/07

By: Jen Paulson
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John Waters - Photo by Jon Behm For inspiration, not like I really need it, I am listening to the compilation, A Date With John Waters, put out earlier this year. It might be one of the best mixes ever made. The perfect, eclectic mix of old-time sweetness, roadhouse rockers and many out-of-the-ordinary oldies are a great combination of Water’s counterculture sensibilities.  So it goes without saying t...

HowWasTheShow/Minneapoliscast CD Reviews for November, 2007 on 11/2/07

By: Bob Longmore, David de Young, Andrea Myers, Pat O'Brien
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  Members of the HowWasTheShow staff listen to and discuss some of the new notable music around town in their  monthly podcast for Minneapoliscast.com. Bob Longmore - The Evening Rig - “All The Stars” Pat O’Brien - The Glad Version - “Ambulance” Andrea Myers - The Owls - “Bury Your Mind” David de Young - Bec Smith - “Black” ...

Stook and Dan Israel CD Release Show at The Varsity Theater on 10/26/07

By: Bob Longmore
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Stook! - Photo by David de Young There’s always a lot of talk about the Twin Cities music scene. Is it as good as it was in the ‘80s? The ‘90s? Is the scene better than ever?  These are all impossible questions to answer because the truth is, most of the time, the scene is just an imagined scenario of success and notoriety. Having said all that, the closest I ha...

Bec Smith CD Release Party at Club Jäger on 10/20/07

By: David de Young
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   Bec Smith at Clubhouse Jäger at her CD Release show - Photo by David de Young In the parlance of the times, Bec Smith absolutely killed it at her CD Release Party at Clubhouse Jäger on Saturday night. I suppose one shouldn’t be too surprised after the time and effort she put into her new CD Blessing (Poet’s Corner Publishing, 2007.) With her new band, Edd...