A MUSICAL SALUTE TO BRUCE ALLEN
THE SUBURBS
The Suburbs, from Minneapolis, formed and began playing orginal material in the fall of 1977. Their sound is influenced musically by everyone from the Rolling Stones to Karlheinz Stockhausen - which is to say they're well educated but not needlessly eclectric or unfocused. Their lyrics are full of humor and empathy and their style is immediately rhythmic and balanced, yet subtle and challenging. http://www.twintone.com/suburbs.html
THE SUICIDE COMMANDOS
What Twin Cities band has the honor of being named both the best and the worst band by the City Pages in one issue? The Suicide Commandos formed in 1974 when guitarist Chris Osgood and drummer Dave Ahl asked bassist Steve Almaas to join their new band, thus becoming one of the very first punk rock groups of the era, one whose career roughly paralleled (rather than mimicked) the emergence of the Ramones in Queens, New York. The trio jump-started the Minneapolis punk scene with their arrival at the legendary Longhorn Bar in the spring of 1976.
