Who's the lead vox?

The Walker Art Center is once again hosting three nights of Music & Movies in Loring Park and wrapping up the series with a unique event on its own grounds, this time around with Brute Heart composing and performing an original score during a screening of the silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Other bands…

Local music notes from the week of May 7-11

I recently traveled to Duluth for the second half of the city’s eight-day-long Homegrown Music Festival, which showcases talent exclusively from the Twin Ports area. In addition to my impressions of the festival and community and my roundup of highlights, photographer Ben Clark has also assembled a collection of photos of the nearly 30 acts…

Album comes out July 17, with a show at First Avenue on July 20

Local bands that deserve must-hear status this week

Dave Pirner stops by The Current Wednesday to tease new record

Logistically, traveling from the Twin Cities to Duluth is a breeze. It’s a quick two-and-a-half-hour jaunt up I-35, barely enough time to work up the need to take a bathroom break much less stop to fill the gas tank, and the downtown strip is less than a half-mile off the highway. And yet, as Duluth’s…

As I mentioned in my overview of the Duluth Homegrown Music Festival and the Twin Ports scene, I had a chance to attend the last half of the eight-day-long local music bonanza and caught about 30 different acts. While the first night was centered around downtown Superior, the rest of the shows were primarily booked…

It’s been almost a year since we learned that Margaret Lane, lead singer of dark, shifting indie rock quartet Hildur Victoria, would be disbanding the group to focus on her solo material. In that project Lane’s vocal delivery was affected and almost theatrical, and it was clear that she was a talented and restless creative…