The Wapsipinicon celebrated the release of their debut album San Geronimo with a CD Release Party at the Kitty Cat Klub Saturday night, and though I had heard the record and even seen the band perform live at least once in the past, I was unprepared for the energetic and powerful show I witnessed on...
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Those of us who regularly see both music and theater events in the Twin Cities know that the scenes overlap a lot more than people might suspect. Musical theater aside, as exemplified by the recent production of Rent which featuring Twin Cities Hip Hop and R&B artist Maria Isa and Far From Falling vocalist Harley Wood,...
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HowWasTheShow is proud to present Meredith Westin’s photo slide show from The SXSW Sendoff show at First Avenue on Saturday, March 6th, 2010. Photos in this set include Peter Wolf Crier, City on the Make, Jeremy Messersmith, Lookbook, The Pines, and Romantica.
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It was August of 2007 when I first stumbled across “Radio,” the obvious single from what was to become Ten Ton Bridge’s album Landfall, released February 27th with a CD Release Party at Sauce Spirits and Soundbar. “Radio” was so catchy it was still with me more than two years later when I finally...
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My screenplay-fixing bike-fixated friend Kraus said “Yeppers!” to close the evening on the way out the door and the next day I deconstructed a few pages of Derrida and felt karaoke (a lil’ bit a’ Lil’ Wayne) – it was what many of us would call a good old-fashioned American afternoon — but despite my...
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Theater Latté Da’s new musical, Violet – nicely suited to the Guthrie’s black box space, the Dowling Studio Theater – is a tight little ensemble piece that spins along like the bus carrying its title character on her literal and metaphorical journey. Weaving past and present into one (isn’t it all just one life...
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Deranged starlet Sheena Keener flees the Surf Awards (“All those eyes”), stumbles out of her limo, rolls down a bebrambled freeway embankment and now with a photogenic scrape on her pampered forehead pounds on the wobbly door of Loli’s cinderblock L.A. apartment. Loli has just been laid off and is down to her last $37. Still,...
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HowWasTheShow is proud to present Meredith Westin’s photos from The Electric Fetus Benefit at First Avenue on Friday, February 26th. Photos in this set include Cloud Cult, Peter Wolf Crier, Roma di Luna, Total Babe, Jeremy Messersmith, Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps, Ruby Isle, Trailer Trash and Unknown Prophets. Proceeds from the...
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As the haunting introduction of their classic “Beasts of Burden” provoked the mingling attendees to occupy a state somewhere between bewilderment and apprehension, Kill the Vultures‘ poet Crescent Moon and DJ Anatomy capped a wave of unbridled tension last Friday night from the stage of Gallery 8 during the Walker’s AfterHours opening for its...
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HowWasTheShow’s CD Review Podcast for February, 2010, recorded at Kings Wine Bar in South Minneapolis on Sunday, February 21st. The panel includes Andrea Swensson of the City Pages and Ben Clark. Hosted by HowWasTheShow’s David de Young. Solid Gold – “Matter of Time” – (http://www.myspace.com/solidgold) Wapsipinicon – “Vans on Dupont” – (http://www.myspace.com/thewapsipinicon) Dewi Sant –...
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