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St. Paul and the Broken Bones w/ John & Jacob at Varsity Theater, Minneapolis (01 June 2014) concert review

This wasn’t another Twin Cities-area border battle- Birmingham, Alabama soul upstarts, St. Paul and the Broken Bones hit town at the Varsity Theater earlier this week and all but literally blew the roof off the place.

Free Comic Book Day 2014: Minneapolis/St. Paul field report

Free Comic Book Day is alive and well in the Twin Cities! The nationwide event, now in its 12th year, was celebrated in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area by most comic book stores opening their doors to welcome readers with a huge array of free comic books and associated sales and promotions.

The Sword w/ Big Business and O’ Brother at Mill City Nights, Minneapolis (9 March 2014) concert review

Austin, TX bred The Sword headlined the evening with a 75 min. set of no-frills, so-called stoner doom metal… that inexplicably began with the intro music of Jay-Z’s ’99 Problems’. The four-piece is out in support of its fourth and latest effort, Apocryphon (Razor and Tie), with song titles not out of place in a Tolkien novel or as an episode name on Game of Thrones. While the newer songs embrace more of a classic hard rock sound (think early Sabbath), they fit seamlessly within the context of the older, darker material.

We Were Promised Jetpacks w/ Honeyblood, Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis (28 Feb 2014) concert review

Edinburgh’s We Were Promised Jetpacks is currently bringing their headlong, sonic wall of alt-rock back to the States, in promotion of their latest release, a live album entitled E Rey-Live in Philadelphia (FatCat Records), as well as is debuting new, untitled songs from their upcoming studio album.

James Blake w/ Nosaj Thing – First Avenue, Minneapolis (11/15/13) concert review

For UK electronic artist James Blake, less is always more. The 25-year old, in promotion for his second and latest full-length, Overgrown (Republic Records) has never felt the need to over-embellish his works or fill in un-necessary notes in the spaces in-between; and in a very sold-out 100 min. performance at Minneapolis’ First Avenue, we saw why he was this year’s recent winner of the coveted Mercury Music Prize.