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State of Minnesota

This activity is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

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Minnesota radio parodied on SNL

Andrea Swensson • Mar 5, 2012

Fictional B108 station based in Shakopee

SXSW

First Avenue, Etix, Gimme Noise and The Current announce SXSW day party

Andrea Swensson • Mar 5, 2012

Five local acts will perform in Austin, Texas on March 16

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Friday Five: Dessa on the Daily Circuit, Retribution Gospel Choir’s free EP, and more

Andrea Swensson • Mar 2, 2012

Local music notes from the week of February 27-March 2

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Song of the Day: Erik Tasa

Jon Schober • Mar 2, 2012

Read about and download his new track "Sunny Miles"

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The Belfast Cowboys headlining benefit for Jack Jablonski

Andrea Swensson • Mar 1, 2012

Sunday's JabbyFest will also feature cameo by Laurie Lindeen

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A look at the Vita.mn Are You Local? contest’s 236 nominees

Andrea Swensson • Mar 1, 2012

I had really hoped to make this a trend piece. When I first surveyed the vast pool of entries for this year’s Are You Local? best-new-band contest over on Vita.mn’s site, I made a somewhat stubborn decision to listen to them all, track by track. At first there were 128 entries, and then, by the…

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Howler rolls out new ad campaign designed by local agency Mono

Andrea Swensson • Feb 29, 2012

One promo gives a shout out to The Current's own Mark Wheat

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Nona Marie of Dark Dark Dark talks about her new choir

Andrea Swensson • Feb 29, 2012

She says she's "attracted to songs that are a little more tragic"

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The Honeydogs perform in the Current studios

Andrea Swensson • Feb 29, 2012

Adam Levy and his band the Honeydogs came by this week to perform tracks off their new album, What Comes After, and chat about the record with Bill DeVille. Fans can catch the band performing live at the Electric Fetus tomorrow night, Thursday, March 1, and at their official CD-release show at First Avenue on Saturday,…

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A. Wolf & Her Claws shine at Hell’s Kitchen

Peter Valelly • Feb 28, 2012

Band debuted new material, played first encore