This week on Teenage Kicks, we’re celebrating the legendary bar where the Minneapolis indie rock and punk rock music scene was born — the Longhorn. When Jay's Longhorn opened on June 1, 1977, it was the only venue in Minnesota that regularly featured original punk rock, new wave, and indie rock. Almost overnight, the Longhorn became the go-to stage for national bands like Blondie, Talking Heads, B-52's, Elvis Costello, and the Police — and the home stage for emerging local bands like Flamingo, Fingerprints, Curtis Almstead, Thumps Up, Hypstrz — and later bands like Hüsker Dü, Suicide Commandos, the Replacements, the Suburbs, and the Wallets. We’ll take a trip back to an incredibly important era in Minnesota music.

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