Though artists Krista Franklin and Gloria Talamantes-Data (aka Gloe) both live in Chicago, they first met at Intermedia Arts’ B-Girl Be Festival.
Now the two will collaborate as featured...
When Jonathan Krentz returned from his six-year service in the National Guard band, he joined the first country band he could find.
When that band fell apart, he and bassist Drew Sherman started...
In the midst of the ’80s new wave craze, a group of Minneapolis teenagers took a stab at punk rock.
Soul Asylum was born.
“When Soul Asylum started out, we were a real punk rock...
Though they’re a heavy-hitting rock band, Treading North hasn’t made any inroads toward playing metal. While thrashing around seems at odds with the band’s genre-eluding sound, the seven-some...
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...
As a college freshman in 2007, Lee Henke tracked down the music resonating through his dorm’s hall and found guitarist Ryan Acker, his future bandmate.
The two have been playing music...
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...
