After the breakup of Trip Shakespeare, Minneapolis natives Dan Wilson and John Munson teamed up with drummer Jacob Slichter to form Semisonic in 1993. Trip Shakespeare had spent years amassing a loyal audience with artistic harmonies and unexpected guitar counterpoints, but bandleader Dan Wilson took Semisonic in an entirely different direction, embracing a tightly crafted sound that proved to be more appetizing to mainstream audiences. "Closing Time" was the band's biggest hit, dominating the airwaves in 1998 and picking up a Grammy nomination the following year.

To call Jeremy Messersmith a musician is half-truth: He’s also a storyteller, who has carefully crafted a trilogy of songs that narrate life. His first full-length release The Alcatraz Kid is a moving collection of acoustic-driven lullabies with titles like “Novocain” and “Beautiful Children” that innocently question the purpose of things to come. The integrity of these delicate songs immediately struck a cord with critics and fans alike, and captured the attention of Semisonic’s Dan Wilson, who offered to produce Messersmith’s follow-up album, The Silver City.

Hailing from the musical landmark town that gave us the post-punk of The Replacements and Soul Asylum and the glam-funk of Prince, Minneapolis snow angels The Hang Ups offer twelve glowy, pensive pop songs on their second full-length release, So We Go. "We wanted to make this a classic album," says guitarist/lead singer Brian Tighe. Well, they've succeeded. A year in the making, So We Go is song after song of enduring, genuine beauty - one of those rare "classic" albums that people want to listen to all the way through, over and over again.