As a young boy, Cadillac Kolstad’s father snuck him into bars on the West Bank of Minneapolis to give him his first exposure to live music.
Now an established musician, Kolstad brings...
A table of five men in skinny jeans and pin-embellished jackets bickered because one band member arranged to meet at a tavern they’d never been to.
A couple of baseball teams sat nearby, and...
When Andy Fritz isn’t laboring away in the library for his computer engineering degree at the University of Minnesota, he plays in the electronic duo Tender Meat with Jon Coe.
Fritz...
Despite embodying three distinct sounds and genres, ethereal atmospherics define the sonic palettes of Victoire’s contemporary classical styling, Glasser’s synth-pop and Noveller’s ambient...
The Gear Daddies seized the hearts of Minnesotans in the 1980s.
The Austin-based country-rock band, which features Randy Broughten, Nick Ciola, Billy Dankert and Martin Zellar, parted ways...
After one of Gramma’s Boyfriend’s first shows, a man in the audience approached the punk band’s frontwoman, Haley Bonar, with a puzzling observation of the performance.
“This...
The band France Camp didn’t get much done during its first recording sessions at the Old Blackberry Way studio.
They got too drunk one night.
On another, they got too high.
“James...
Whether it’s helping each other with parallel parking or taking turns fronting the band, Minneapolis band Web of Sunsets maintains a team player attitude.
Sara Bischoff, Chris Rose and...
Like the five unlikely students who formed “The Breakfast Club,” five musicians with very different backgrounds make up the Ronnie Buxtons.
The group includes a Jeopardy contestant,...
If Krill had a motto, it would be “No Sleep Till Brooklyn,” since two-thirds of the sleep aficionados moved to Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood this past year.
“It ranges...