ARE YOU LOCAL?

ARE YOU LOCAL?

Lookbook

Lookbook was formed in mid-2008 by Maggie Morrison (Digitata) and Grant Cutler (Passions, Tomhanks) in Minneapolis. Combining Cutler’s sparkling, synth-laden sounds and sparse guitar with Morrison’s Pat Benatar-meets-Chrissie Hynde vocals,...

The Pines

The Midwest is to The Pines what Monument Valley was to filmmaker John Ford. The flat, endless expanses of the band’s native Iowa are at once the settings of, characters...

PETER WOLF CRIER

These days, Peter lives in Toronto and Brian lives in Oakland, so we met up at the Moen family cabin in Minnesota for a week. Brian engineered the whole thing...

jeremy messersmith

jeremy messersmith is an indie pop singer-songwriter and one of Minnesota’s most recognized and celebrated artists, praised by The New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Paste Magazine, The Wall Street...

Romantica

At first glance the irony is thick on Romantica’s America. Penned by an immigrant Irishman who writes a fair bit about his homeland, and delivers his nostalgia in a lilting...

City on the Make

City on the Make is a band from South Minneapolis, Minnesota comprised of childhood friends Mischa Keegan (guitar, vocals), Mike Massey (vocals), Stephen Rowe (bass, vocals), and Colin Stumbras (drums)....