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Terry Junior – It’s Been Too Long (Republic Hymn)
Posted in Art, Culture, Local Love, mainstream, Media, Music, Music News, News, Politics with tags accoustic, America, Americans, Art, Folk, guitar, millennial, Music, new, Rock, song, Songs, sound, trending, USA on Saturday, February 15, 2020 by TSNConcert Photo Recap: Cocaine @ the 400 Bar
Posted in Concert Reviews with tags blues, classic rock, cocaine, concert, guitar, hard rock, live, local, minneapolis, minnesota, photographs, pictures on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 by Ryan BuegeOn Saturday, Minneapolis’s hardest rocking, hardest partying, and (perhaps) hardest working band Cocaine continued their streak of high energy local live performances (while they spend their off-time working on the band’s new album) with a tight show that quickly won over a crowd who never ceased to cheer them on throughout the night. Photos from the band’s set continue after the jump… Continue reading
Album Review: Power of 2, Power of 2
Posted in Music Reviews with tags album review, cd review, distorted, DRUMS!, guitar, minneapolis, minnesota, power of 2, prog, Rock on Thursday, June 4, 2009 by Ryan BuegeFrom my point of view, there are only two reasons why any instrumental rock band would choose to remain vox-less these days: 1) they are frightened that vocals would destroy the aesthetic they’ve developed, or 2) they don’t have time for a fucking vocalist! ¶ Power of 2, a Minneapolis based prog-rock band featuring Max Becker on drums and Joe Clark on guitar, clearly falls into the latter school, as evidenced by the new self-titled album of driving, explosive, ball-bustin’ rock ‘n’ roller coaster rides they’ve nailed down for release on Friday. It’s a guitar centric album (vocals finally make an extremely brief appearance on the final track, “Eight Chupacabras”) that simply has no room for a third wheel to disrupt the charging energy that pulses between the two, one jperson seemingly acting as a anode and the other as a cathode . Continue reading
NPR listening session to Neko Case’s Middle Cyclone this week
Posted in Audio with tags alternative, blues, calexico, country, female vocals, Folk, garth hudson, giant sand, guitar, los lobos, M. Ward, middle cyclone, neko case, piano, sarah harmer, the lilys, the sadies, visqueen on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 by Ryan BuegeMany have been waiting and the moment is finally here! You can now listen to what is sure to be (and deserves to be) the most prominent release from Neko Case yet, via NPR. Middle Cyclone will officially see a release on March 3rd, and this stream will be available until then!
Only a voice this seductive could’ve lured me to investigate more modern country music… I’ll have my review of Middle Cyclone coming next week!
LISTEN: Middle Cyclone (available in stores on March 3rd)