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…
Q&A with playwright Alan Berks about his new play, Music Lovers
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…
Photo set: SXSW Sendoff Party at First Avenue at First Avenue
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,…
Ten Ton Bridge at Sauce Spirits and Soundbar
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…
Song of Zarathustra at Triple Rock Social Club
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)Â — it was what…
Violet, a Theater Latté Da production at The Guthrie Theater
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…
Somebody/Nobody at Mixed Blood Theatre
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…
Photo set: Electric Fetus Benefit at First Avenue
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…
Kill The Vultures at Walker Art Center
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…
Podcast: HowWasTheShow CD Reviews for February 2010 at Kings Wine Bar
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…
Black Pearl Sings at Penumbra Theatre
Playwright Frank Higgins does two very smart things with his vivid Black Pearl Sings! (at Penumbra, 270 N. Kent Street, St. Paul, through March 14, penumbratheatre.org). First, he shoehorns an amazingly wide range of Depression-era America into his story: the humid…
Q&A with Red Pens’ Howard Hamilton
It’s been a fast year for Twin Cities upstarts the Red Pens. After dropping their first album, Reasons, last summer, Howard Hamilton and Laura Bennett won City Pages’ Picked to Click honors in September and, more recently, had the honor of…