Spotlighting Twin Cities' Music from the Basement Up.
It’s 2019 and NATL PARK SRVC has been incredibly busy putting out three fantastic EPs: “Oliver” (March), “Psychic Friends Fair” (August), and “The Future is Now” (November). Both “Psychic Friends Fair” and “The Future is Now” are impossibly hooky EPs, with riffs that will grab your attention and have vocal lines that will have you humming a week later.
Read MoreIn Katy Vernon’s new music video for “Home,” her daughter uses stop motion and a doll and it’s house to tell a short story of settling into a house and making it a home. The doll unpacks boxes and sets up furniture, makes some tea, and bakes a cake, before finally putting its feet up and enjoying its new home.
Read MoreOn Halloween we sent our photographer Jack Buckholz to Mortimer’s to cover their awesome show. Featuring Finesse, Buried Animals, and DJ Click Bait, the show was full of excellent tunes all night.
Read MoreTuesday we sent our photographer Jack Buckholz to Kitty Cat Klub to cover an early halloween party featuring an amazing line up of local talent. Student 1, Oknice, Ajani Abstrakt, JamesG, Bayo, and DJ Nanobyte all provided the excellent entertainment for the night.
Read MoreCycling through intimate introspective moments to fun and invigorating tracks, “Love, Again” shares pieces of Chase Vibes’ life and the steps he took to get where he is today. On the ten tracks spanning nearly 40 minutes, the Northside emcee brings together a multitude of features from five artists that help compliment Chase’ story throughout the Album. “Love, Again” is wrapped in good vibes and love.
Catchy hooks, clever phrasing, and complex emotions; Lunch Duchess’ album “Crying for Fun,” released in August, provides a melodramatically fun listen no matter what your mood. “Crying for Fun” contains super catchy vocal performances from Katharine Seggerman, especially on the back-to-back tracks of “Ride or Die” and “Better.”
Read MoreLast Wednesday we sent our new photographer Jack Buckholz to IceHouse to cover an incredibly stacked local line-up. Nur-D, Lazenlow, Just Wulf, Captive Agents, and Sissy Boyish all performed at an awesome show.
Read MoreBeautifully flawed and a party in every track; Walrus the Human’s project “Andretti” gives high energy, in-your-face instrumentals that are married with even higher energy and animated vocal performances from the B&E- based artist. Walrus the Human shows his vocal range in “Andretti” with not only having intense, fast-paced flows and stacked rhyme schemes, he also shows off his skills in harmonizing and singing deranged, but creamy bridges, choruses, and backing tracks throughout the album.
Read MoreBouncing between pop-punk, ska, and even a bit of reggae, “Sun’s Out, Strung Out!” is full of surf rock guitars, gang vocals, and big choruses, making it a perfect summer EP to take to the lake, blast in your car with the windows down, or to sound track your grill out by the pool. “Sun’s Out, Strung Out!” is a concept album about summer and the life cycle of a relationship, going from the nerve wracking moment of asking someone out to looking back and wondering what went wrong and who’s to blame.
Read MoreFormidable and full of raw, honest emotions, “Soak” is a six track journey through sadness that will lift you up and leave you feeling empowered. Kate Malanaphy’s latest project is brutally melancholic and awesomely expressive. Each song features Kate’s impressively emotive voice and piano creating an intimate and raw feeling to the recordings.
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