Tramps Like Us

The Twin Cities music scene seems to be experiencing a resurgence of cover bands. Tramps Like Us is the best in town, covering all of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's biggest hits, complete with swaying saxophone player. While everyone in the group is a current or former member of a band like Gospel Gossip, Pony Trash, Poor Weather Club, Liftbridge, Yours Truly, and Black Thorns, groups that certainly had or continue to enjoy a strong local following, it takes singer Michael Anderson's spot-on rendition of "Dancing in the Dark" to motivate clubgoers to boogie like a young Courtney Cox. [City Pages' Best Cover Band 2012]