Coming up with songs for a 10th album after playing nearly two decades together might sound like a daunting task for many bands. For the Honeydogs, it took less than a week to put together an album full of worry, pain and hope.

On Thursday night, March 8, local musicians affiliated with the Last Triumph collective performed at a SXSW send-off party at the Cabooze in Minneapolis. Read the full story on the Last Triumph collective and their involvement with a new Minnesota-based musical video game project here. ALL PHOTOS BY BEN CLARK.

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It’s been a long wait for good news from the Slim Dunlap camp, as the songwriter, guitarist, former Replacement, and all-around kind soul has struggled to recover from a stroke he suffered last month. But this past week, the Slim Dunlap Fan Club received some uplifting news: Dunlap was moved out of the ICU and…

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