89.3 The Current presents REBEL, REBEL - ROCK FOR PUSSY VIII
A Tribute To David Bowie
Featuring John Eller, Ciaran Daly, Liám Pádraig Watkins, Chris Perricelli, Chris Pavlich, Reed Wilkerson, Jim Walsh, Venus DeMars, Sam Keenan, Lori Barbero, Laurie Lindeen, Matt Coffee, David Campbell, David J Russ, Janey Winterbauer, Christian Erickson, Orion Treon, Michelle Massey, Chris Koza, Dan Israel, Adam Levy and more
Proceeds benefit Feline Rescue
CIARAN DALY
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CHRIS PERRICELLI
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JIM WALSH
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VENUS DEMARS
Founder / leader of Venus DeMars and All The Pretty Horses
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SAM KEENAN
Sam Keenan the band has become a fluid concept; open to discriminating players and singers found gathering on stage. It may include some or all of Tim Lyles, Tony Guscetti, Sally Magraw, Craig Grossman, Kristof Marden, Pete Wannemacher, Jared Lukes, Jesse Lukes, Josiah Lukes (any other Lukes?), Rob Byers, Marc Sanchez, Justin Korhonen, Ben Foote, Sam Keenan and others. Their live shows are usually quite different from one another depending on what side of the proverbial hookah the material is being scraped.
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Sam Keenan has had a colorful and somewhat ill-fated underground musical existence. In the late 90’s his band Liquid Ernie never made a big splash, but they were influential to many artists and bands around them in the Minneapolis music scene. They released only one EP recorded with Matt Fink (Dr. Fink of Prince’s Revolution fame) called “Ghostwritten” and a collection of 17 demo tracks assembled and called “Spit and Polish”. When that band dissolved in 2001, Sam started performing solo and in various group incarnations made up of musicians from different corners of the Twin Cities scene.
Sam has been successfully completing songs for some time, recording and releasing many of them in a dreadfully unstructured manner over the last decade. He spends his time trying to blend the rich history of rock, hip-hop, folk and improvised music. Mostly, however, people say he just rips off Andy Partridge. Since he is an independent artist, he spends his days working for Minnesota Public Radio, and, as a recording engineer, he has worked with a long list of talented artists and groups, including Regina Spektor, Mercury Rev, Vinicius Cantuaria, Mike Doughty, M.I.A., Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Bob Mould, Ben Harper, Archer Prewitt, BR-549, Echo and the Bunnymen, Aqualung, Inara George, Michael Penn, A Whisper in the Noise, Citizen Cope, Cloud Cult, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and many more. Also, he is a co-founder of a non-profit net-radio station and local MN music supporting company called Misplaced Music, where he has served as the Program Director for the past two years.
LORI BARBERO
Lori Barbero was the drummer for the Minneapolis-based band Babes in Toyland. She subsequently played drums for the bands Eggtwist and Koalas. Before Babes in Toyland, Barbero dropped out of the University of Minnesota and worked as a waitress. She had never played any musical instrument before but had always wanted to learn to play drums and she did when Kat Bjelland asked her to start a band with her. She was also part owner of the now defunct Minneapolis label Spanish Fly Records, whose roster included Smut, Dumpster Juice, Milk, REO Speedealer, Sleep Capsule, and Likehell. In 2006, Lori was awarded with an Artist of Distinction award by Sound Unseen for her continuous contribution to the Minneapolis Rock and Roll scene.
LAURIE LINDEEN
I grew up (but didn't grow up) in Madison, Wisconsin. I was a high school cheerleader and choir jock but went off the party deep-end at the University of Wisconsin (as one is wont to do in Madison). Moving to Minneapolis in the mid-'80's, my girlfriends and I formed the band Zuzu's Petals. We sucked for three years or so (depending on who you ask), and got our act together around 1991 (vans, tours, recording contracts). I hooked up with musician Paul Westerberg and got the nesting urge in a major way. After the band, I went from songwriting to prose writing. A house, parenthood, and an MFA in Creative Writing followed. When not parenting or writing, I teach Memoir in local schools as a resident writer through a non-profit arts organization.
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MATT COFFEE
Matt Coffee is the lead singer and guitarist for the Minneapolis-based rock band Death to Our Enemies.
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DAVID CAMPBELL
David Campbell is host of "Radio Free Current," Saturdays 7-11 p.m. and "The Local Show," Sundays 6-8 p.m. Campbell is a long-time veteran of the Twin Cities scene. A fan, musician, record store clerk, record label staffer, and a 10-year staffer of KQRS and Drive 105's "Homegrown," Campbell's love for Minnesota music makes him a perfect fit for The Current.
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see also: The Electric Light Orchestra played by six hacks from Minneapolis
CHRISTIAN ERICKSON
Over the last 20 years I've done just about everything you can possibly do to avoid having a successful career in music including: backing out of shows at the last possible second, bringing tons and tons of gear to extremely small clubs, signing deals with people who are insane, not reading the fine print, talking about how drunk i am on stage, dating people i was in a band with, waiting 10 years between releases, kicking people out of bands only to invite them back in and have to kick them out a second time. you know... that kind of stuff.
CHRIS KOZA
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Chris Koza is a Minneapolis-based singer/songwriter, and has released three albums since 2004 -- Exit Pesce, Patterns, and A Friend of a Friend"(EP). Music critics have compared Chris sound to Wilco, Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Beck, and Ryan Adams, among others. He performs live with a band, which includes anywhere from 2-7 members.
Deep into autumn of 2004 Chris released his debut album Exit Pesce in an apartment. But it wasn't until early the following year when a little blurb by Rob van Alstyne of the Pulse Magazine was printed before anyone really took notice of the album, calling Exit Pesce "An under-the-radar-music-stunner-phenomenon"
In April 2006, Chris released Patterns, which went on to receive more acclaim, including a Minnesota Music Award for Best Pop Recording (Chris also won the Best Male Vocalist award).
At the end of 2006, Patterns was kindly included in some local best-of lists, coming in at 10 in the Star Tribune's annual Twin Cities Critics Tally, and at 1 in Chris Riemenschneider's (Star Tribune Music Critic) top ten local albums list.
DAN ISRAEL
Dan Israel’s not your average rock star. Or maybe he’s a little too average. Or maybe he’s not really a rock star at all. A lot of people just know him as that kid from St. Louis Park, Minnesota, who grew up to be a husband, parent of two, and state worker. He rarely goes out, doesn’t keep up on the latest trends, barely knows how to burn a CD on a computer, and is hardly on the cutting edge of anything. And yet, the dude can flat-out write a song. They certainly thought so in Austin, Texas, where he was named one of that music mecca’s Top 15 songwriters (along with heavyweights like Alejandro Escovedo) in 1995 during Israel’s brief tenure there. They certainly think so in his home state of Minnesota, where he was named Songwriter of the Year in the 2006 Minnesota Music Awards.
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Backed by his new band the Cultivators, Israel released a string of critically-acclaimed albums in the late ‘90s and ‘00’s, with 2000’s painfully-honest solo acoustic outing Dan Who? stirring up serious buzz after St. Paul Pioneer Press music critic Jim Walsh raved “Somebody buy a billboard, hire a blimp and give this guy his due already. His name is Dan Israel, one of the mad ones, one of the strugglers, and he just made the record of his life.”Drawing comparisons to Freedy Johnston, Tom Petty, Randy Newman, Elvis Costello, and Wilco, the songs and discs kept coming, and so did the praise, if not the sales. Lauded by national publications like No Depression, Paste, and Performing Songwriter, and even receiving a 4-star review in the UK’s Uncut, Israel continued to cement his reputation, as he garnered opening spots for the likes of Morrissey, the Tragically Hip, Loudon Wainwright III, Iris Dement, Todd Snider, Marshall Crenshaw, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and yes, Foghat, Rick Springfield, and Blue Oyster Cult (true!).
He has fans all over the world, gets airplay in 32 sovereign countries recognized by the United Nations, has toured the UK and all over the U.S. of A., has showcased numerous times at SXSW and other industry conferences, has members of the Jayhawks, Son Volt, the Honeydogs, and many other notable bands play on his albums, and yet Dan Israel is just, well, an ordinary guy. Sort of. But now this “ordinary guy” returns with his 11th album, Crosstown Traveler, which demonstrates once again why Dan Israel is anything but ordinary. The songs virtually bleed over with pain, joy, frustration, wonder, and heartache, all backed by shimmering roots-pop production and set to indelible melodies that set up shop in your subconscious and resist attempts at eviction. Featuring ten songs that range from joyous odes to his young daughter (“I’d Never Make it Through” and “Second to None”) to staring-through-the-looking-glass takes on depression and mortality (“Up to You” and “No Closer to Home”), “Crosstown Traveler” is alternately downbeat and uplifting, soaring and crashing, and finding Dan Israel to be, at the ripe old age of 40, just now finding his stride.
ADAM LEVY
Lead singer/songwriter of Minneapolis band THE HONEYDOGS
DJ JAKE RUDH of TRANSMISSION
Former Radio K, REV 105, NPR alum and present host on 89.3 the Current, Jake's been voted "best DJ" in the Twin Cities by the readers & critics of City Pages magazine ten years running (2003-2012) and one of Star Tribune's "Artists of the Year" (2012). His long-running "Transmission" dance night has been a weekly staple on the Minneapolis scene bringing a mixture of mod, glam & punk to post-punk, new wave, synth & indie rock for over a decade.
