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Lunasa

Minneapolis: March 14, 2025

vusleeper February 14, 2025

Minneapolis: March 14, 2025 Pre-game your St Patrick’s Day with Irish traditional band Lúnasa at the Pantages Theatre, in Minneapolis, on March 14. The band now features guest artist award-winning fiddler Colin Farrell (from Manchester, England), bassist Trevor Hutchinson (former member of The Waterboys, piper and Riverdancer, Cillian Vallely, flutist Kevin Crawford, All-Ireland fiddle champion Sean Smyth (founding member of Donal Lunny’s Coolfin), and guitarist Ed Boyd (worked with with Flook and Kate Rusby.)

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Stuart Murdoch photo by Amy Timko

Write About Love, and Music, and California

Robin Lapid February 12, 2025

On a blustery, cold San Francisco night (cold for San Francisco, that is—a frigid 45 degrees), I walked to the end of a long line of well-dressed indie kids of all ages. We were queuing up on Valencia Street outside The Chapel music venue in San Francisco’s Mission District, the neighborhood that just happened to play a part in Nobody’s Empire, the debut novel by Stuart Murdoch, Scottish singer and mastermind behind the twee-pop wonderband Belle and Sebastian. Fans of the band, which dug its deep, pop hooks and its wispy rhymes into the hearts of twee music lovers from 1996 on, also know it as the name of one of their songs and the album it’s on. The book tour promos played to its audience: It was marketed as a night of “readings, songs, live Q&A, and book signing,” and it featured informal chats with moderators and hosts Mike Schulman and Nommi Alouf, the latter of whom figures in the novel as the college radio station DJ who invites the main character on her radio show.

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minnesota yacht club

Best of the Fest: Minnesota Yacht Club and Pitchfork

vusleeper January 30, 2025

No surprises here, but Minnesota Yacht Club Festival (MYC) returns to Minnesota. Presale (lowest priced-tickets) will be made available today, January 30 at 10am. Public on-sale to follow if tickets remain. If you want to go, I suggest getting a ticket now, because it’s likely to sell out, like last year.

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Frank Black

The Current’s 20th Anniversary Celebration, feat. Frank Black performing Teenager of the Year

Thaddeus-WHM January 25, 2025

Frank Black Setlist Czar Ten Percenter Whatever Happened to Pong? Thalassocracy (I Want to Live...

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