Spotlighting Twin Cities' Music from the Basement Up.
On March 4, 2023, a vast majority of the Minneapolis folk punk scene gathered at the Underground Music Cafe for an event called Folk Punks Re-Unite. I’ve been away from Minneapolis for school, but I’m so glad to be here for this. On my first day back in town, I got to catch a ton of my music friends in the folk-punk scene all in one place–at the Underground Music Venue in downtown Minneapolis. This was a night to remember, with 18 acts and 6 hours of music.
Read MoreMost people have already moved on, but we are taking one last look at 2022. There was far too much local music released to manage to listen to it all, but we did our best. This isn't a best of list, and these aren't in any order, these are simply our favorite projects released by Minnesota artists in 2022.
Read MoreBluntness. It’s the source of a great punk song’s power, when raw lyrics turn a straightforward chord progression into something transcendent. This ethos comes through in spades on Everyone is Sad, the latest EP from the Minneapolis folk-punk duo,
Read MoreSo here is the thing, I like a certain type of music, and though my musical taste has greatly expanded over the last year, These are my favorite albums and EPs of 2019. You’ll find albums no one else included on their year end lists, but you’ll also find albums that EVERYONE has already written about. Ask anyone else and they’ll give you a different list. it’s impossible to set my bias aside. It’s also impossible to include everyone on this list, there are a lot of truly amazing albums I feel bad for leaving off these lists. I listened to over two-hundred albums/EPs from 2019 and relistened to all of them again over the last couple months.All that said, here are my favorite albums and EPs of 2019. Tell me why I’m wrong and what I missed in the comments.
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