First Avenue's Annual Halloween Party & Costume Contest

First Avenue's Annual Halloween Party & Costume Contest

CHRIS CLOUD

☁ (CLOUD) knows how to fucking party. ☁ has been helping throw and promote dance parties for over ten years. In 2011, ☁ helped launch a 90s/00s dance party called...

GREENERY

One half of Beatsploitation: spinning disco, house, hip-hop, funk, dancehall, Miami bass and 80s/90s on VINYL.

DJ Espada

Espada (aka Damien Vasquez) has been a mainstay in the Twin Cities DJ community for more than two decades. In the early years, he came up alongside some of the...

Mike 2600

Mike 2600 is an award-winning, 20+ year veteran DJ, cuttin’ up full-figured funk and real raw raps, especially for you and yours. Mike has rocked at parties such as The...

DJ Smitty

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,...

Hosted by IAN RANS

Host of TV’s Drinking With Ian and the Dive Bar Mitzvah podcast. Local raconteur.

NESS NITE

Ness Nite is a non-binary, multi-racial, Minneapolis-based, vocalist, songwriter, and producer. Their sound calls upon synthesizers, infectious hooks, rap cadences, and future-r&b feel-good sadness, while their lyrics attempt to hide...

Holidae

Holidae is the new project from local R&B singer Ashley Gold and veteran synth savant Garrett Neal. Combining pop sensibilities with futuristic soundscapes and a strong visual element, Holidae will...

Nazeem & Spencer Joles

Nazeem Cunningham met Spencer Joles in middle school, and neither expected to be making music together almost a decade later. “I kind of just went up to him and started...

DJ sloslylove

When I met Feng Meng Vue, he mentioned that he had never found a real electronic music scene in Eau Claire. It’s possible that’s all about to change. Vue –...

su na

su na is the recording alias of Minneapolis-based musician and DJ, Alec Ness. Active since 2013, Ness heavily utilizes analog synthesizers and although born with amputated fingers plays several keyboard-based...

Shrimpnose

Minneapolis native, Los Angeles-based producer Riley Smithson aka Shrimpnose preps for his latest LP, As It Seems, due for release on October 27 via Friends of Friends Music. It’s a...

WNDRLND

Vante Jackson, also known as WNDRLND, creates textures through genre. Stringing together musical themes that transcend time. He reads the room and curates a whole vibe based on the surroundings....