Pitchfork feature about ’80s-era First Avenue

Mar
14
th
2016

Everybody Is a Star: How the Rock Club First Avenue Made Minneapolis the Center of Music in the ’80s | Pitchfork:

In its heyday, fabled Twin Cities venue First Avenue fostered the legend of everyone from from Prince to the Replacements to Hüsker Dü, becoming a mythic musical destination in the process.

Feature article by Michaelangelo Matos posted today to Pitchfork.


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