Minnesota

Matisyahu at First Avenue, Minneapolis (06 Mar 2024)

Walking up to First Avenue on Wednesday, you can hear something loud going on in the area. At first, I thought it was coming from a bar next door, and thought the venue could use some sound-proofing. hen as I got closer, and started to see so many police officers, extra security, and the steel barricades… I realized there was a protest against Matisyahu.

Glitterer at Cloudland Theater (03-02-2024)

Cloudland Theater opened in October of 2023, a DIY project from former musicians of the band the Soviettes, they being Maren Macosko and Brad Lokkesmoe. It’s not really a theater nor is it a bar. It is a small music venue on Lake Street that still retains the vestiges of the former tenant, an architecture firm with the place being clean, airy, open with great sightlines to the cozy stage. The reason Macosko and Lokkesmoe built the venue is to give up-and-coming bands a place to play after COVID and the George Floyd riots laid claim to venues like Triple Rock and Hexagon.