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The Depot’s Sixth Annual Diamond Dog™ Eating Contest

Jul 4, 2015

First Avenue and City Pages are proud to present the sixth annual Diamond Dog™ Eating Contest on Saturday, July 4, 2015 at The Depot Tavern. The fast and furious competition of iron stomachs…

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Swimsuit Area

This Minneapolis party-ready five-piece brings together an unabashedly weird instrument setup by self-admitted weirdos. Swimsuit Area has postpunk pop sensibilities fused with industrial dissonance and no-wave abrasiveness fronted by Rebecca’s…

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The Suffers

There is a contagious and combustible energy every time the eight-piece wonder-band The Suffers steps on the scene. NPR’s Bob Boilen attributes the band’s allure to their “Soul, straight from…

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CHRISTOPHER ELLIS

Christopher Lamour Ellis was born the youngest male progeny to “The Godfather of Jamaican Rocksteady”, the late Alton Ellis. Talented in his own right, the soulful 28 year-old Roots Reggae,…

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Elvis Perkins

Songwriter and recording artist Elvis Perkins will release his latest album I Aubade on February 24, 2015. Perkins’ third full-length is set to come out on his own label, MIR. This…

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From Ashes to New

Lancaster, Pennsylvania is one of a hundred similar American towns; in fact, there are places just like it all over the world: post-industrial but still largely working class, and generally…

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Leon Bridges

Grammy Award-winning R&B recording artist and songwriter Leon Bridges will release his third studio album Gold-Diggers Sound on July 23, 2021. Gold-Diggers Sound, which Leon spent over two years conceptualizing,…

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the Mountain Goats

At last it can be told: the story of how, when the Mountain Goats got together in early March, 2020, it was to make not one album, but two. That’s…

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Chris Farren

Ask Chris Farren how he feels when he finishes an album and he won’t hesitate to respond with: “Miserable. Miserable. Miserable.” At least, that’s how it’s been over the years…

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Michael Yonkers

Originally recorded in 1968 and slated for release on Sire Records, Microminiature Love languished unreleased until last year [2002], when it was finally unearthed by De Stijl Records (who put…