GARY LOURIS (of The Jayhawks), Har Mar Superstar, Grant Hart and more!

GARY LOURIS (of The Jayhawks)

OFFICIAL SITE  ::  MYSPACE  ::  FACEBOOK  ::  TWITTER  ::  THE JAYHAWKS Over the last three decades, singer, songwriter and guitarist Gary Louris has built a deeply compelling body of music...

Har Mar Superstar

Har Mar Superstar started as a solo, modern pop R & B side project for Sean Tillmann in 1999. Hailing from the Twin Cities, Tillmann quickly gained notoriety worldwide for...

Grant Hart

Hüsker Dü was founded by Grant Hart, Greg Norton and Bob Mould in 1979. Only 17, Grant Hart was nonetheless a veteran of a handful of previous bands and had...

The Mighty Mofos

When the Punk rock scene was in full force in Minneapolis, The Mofos came along & kicked in the door. Hard rocking and satisfying, as all players are excellent musicians,...

MATT WILSON & JOHN MUNSON

TWILIGHT HOURS  ::  OFFICIAL SITE  ::  FACEBOOK  ::  MYSPACE While Matt Wilson was an English concentrator at Harvard he met John Munson and Elaine Harris and formed the band Trip...

Heiruspecs

Heiruspecs is a legendary live band hip-hop group out of St. Paul. Formed in 1997 the group has toured with Cake, Ja Rule, Lyrics Born, and more. They even got...

the Hypstrz

Although barely considered worth a footnote today (cross-reference under “singleminded” and “energy OD”), the Hypstrz were nevertheless radical in their own special time and place, blasting through ’60s garagemania in...

SPIDER JOHN KOERNER & TONY GLOVER

OFFICIAL SITE  ::  MYSPACE  ::  FACEBOOK SPIDER JOHN KOERNER was born August 31, 1938, in Rochester, N.Y. At the age of 15, he was one of the youngest to ever...

Dessa

Dessa fell in love with language as a toddler—and she just never got over it. Coming up in Minneapolis, she collected favorite words to decorate the walls of her brain;...

Martin Devaney

With seven full length albums to date, Martin Devaney, “the unofficial mayor of St. Paul”, is one of the Twin Cities best known songwriters. A former member of Heiruspecs and current...

Sovietpanda

Peter Lansky (aka Sovietpanda) is a DJ, promoter and producer in Minneapolis who runs the Too Much Love party at First Avenue every Saturday night. After time spent as an early prominent...

JONATHAN ACKERMAN

“I think he might be the tallest DJ in town.”  [City Pages, December 2007]

DJ ESP Woody McBride

Credited with starting the underground techno scene in the Twin Cities, ESP is 4 million miles deep on his Delta Airlines frequent flyer miles. Producer, Promoter, DJ and Party Planner...

DJ Smitty

DJ Verb X

Bungalow’s DJ Verb X has been spinning music for more than a decade on the local scene and has won recognition from City Pages and other local publications. A Minnesota...

Roy Freedom

Roy Freid – one of First Av’s original DJs dating back to Uncle Sam’s – was the heart and soul of MF, guiding the night through its seven+ year run,...

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