Email Author Andrew Flanagan

2011 Stories by Andrew Flanagan

• Swans

  published September 14, 2011

  For roughly 15 years, beginning in 1982 and ending in 1997, Swans were an uncompromising corpus, a church of pernicious experiments, browbeating... More >>

• Mason Jennings' video for "Rudy," by Mason Jennings

  published Aug 25, 2011

  The semi-relaunched Paste Magazine is at the halfway point in their Mason Jennings-a-thon, premiering a video a week from the songwriter in advance of his ninth long player, Minnesota, releasing early... More >>

• Craig Finn gives a peek at his writing routine

  published Aug 25, 2011

  Songwriters On Process, originally just Writers, is a not-entirely-new site by a man named Benjamin Opipari which tries, much like the oft-employed photo spreads of work spaces and scans of marginalia... More >>

• 5 reunions more likely than the Replacements

  published Aug 23, 2011

  Yesterday and today, Rolling Stone rather epically trolled Replacements fans around the world with an article titled, cheekily, "Replacements Members Consider Reuniting." Unfortunately, we here at ... More >>

• Radiohead's full 'King of Limbs' session, From the Basement

  published Aug 18, 2011

  Back in February, Radiohead released King of Limbs to international befuddlement -- do we like thisr can wer I do! me too! -- that had zero effect on my neighbors' ability to play the record nonstop f... More >>

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  What are Bon Iver and James Blake going to do in Fall Creekr

  published Aug 18, 2011

  The [insert]sphere was alight with excitement yesterday at the news -- the tweet, really -- that Bon Iver and James Blake will be collaborating together within Justin Vernon's casual affair he calls t... More >>

• Cass McCombs talks drifting and trying not to care in advance of his Entry show tonight

  published Jul 27, 2011

  Cass McCombs could be considered the definition of Americana -- if continental influences, simultaneously channeled and undercut, could be called particularly American. Mistily folkish, reminiscent of... More >>

• The Blow at the 400 Bar, 7/22/11

  published Jul 25, 2011

  The Blow -- the music, voice, and body of Khaela Maricich, with lighting/sound collaborator and girlfriend Melissa Dyne -- gave the audience at the 400 Bar something resembling a rambling lesson on ho... More >>

• Best/Worst: Britney Spears' original video for "Gimme More"

  published Jul 20, 2011

  After showing this to a friend he asked: "Did she direct thatr" Oh, if only.No, the video was directed by a man named Jake Sarfaty (speculated to be an Alan Smithee nom de plume) who, judging from his... More >>

• Flyer of the Week: Brian David Downs for Empty's Tapes Presents

  published Jul 20, 2011

  It's been a while since we've done a Flyer of the Week, and this one was just too good to let pass by. The flyer, for an Empty's Tapes showcase this Saturday at Hell's Kitchen, was illustrated by Bria... More >>

• Radio K's recent in-studio performances

  published Jul 20, 2011

  Those whippersnappers at Radio K have a lovely habit of inviting some pretty great artists to their studio (among other things). Their output is constant, and since it has been a spell since we gave t... More >>

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  Remembering Alex Steinweiss, the creator of album art

  published Jul 20, 2011

  Before gatefolds and cut-outs and embossments and screen prints, the record was a drab little thing, wrapped in brown paper and presenting you a just-the-facts textual representation of the culture yo... More >>

• Meet SwagSec: they really like Lil B, and they hacked Amy Winehouse

  published Jul 01, 2011

  Right when the maliciously-intentioned hacker group LulzSec calls it quits -- ostensibly to pursue more politically-motivated uses of their talents -- the world is introduced to a new group with som... More >>

• Turntable.fm makes waves, but what is itr

  published Jun 30, 2011

  A good product idea is like a poem: less generally means more. Snap bracelets, Twitter, the George Foreman Grill, Netflix. And now, given its quick success in the digital music space, Turntable.fm. Hu... More >>

• Doomtree unveils new project: Wugazi

  published Jun 29, 2011

  Two artists (Fugazi & the Wu Tang Clan) near and dear in every way to millions of peoples' hearts and minds, smooshed together by the Cities' most-favoritest cadre of shape shiftersr We'll bite.... More >>

• Seated Heat Presents: Seawhores, Slapping Purses, Albert, and more tonight

  published Jun 27, 2011

  Sho Nikaido has consistently made Monday nights at Nick & Eddie worth a peek, but never more so than tonight. Seated Heat (Birthday Suits' Matthew Kazama's, Sho Nikaido, Joe Berns, Andy Fritz, Cha... More >>

• Bob Mould opens up with See a Little Light

  published June 15, 2011

  "See a Little Light" is a song Bob Mould poured out in 1988, during a burst of creative isolation at his home in Pine City,... More >>

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  Catching up with Steve Moore, the 'drummer at the wrong gig'

  published Jun 13, 2011

  A year ago, Steve Moore went viral. A video of his band, Rick K. & the Allnighters, had lain dormant on YouTube for years before an enterprising joker retitled it "this drummer is at the wrong gi... More >>

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  'Bon Iver, Bon Iver' leaked by iTunes: What happenedr

  published May 25, 2011

  Late last week, Reddit broke the news of Bon Iver's sophomore album, Bon Iver, Bon Iver, leaking (flooding) to the internet. A snafu somewhere along the many-linked chain of digital distribution ul... More >>

• Czeslaw's Loop: Permanent, Marijuana Deathsquads, and Playatta on the Mississippi River

  published May 23, 2011

  "What's happeningr What's happening, mommyr Mommy, what's happeningr"  It's a stormy sunset on the Mississippi River, and over a dozen artists, curators, and friends have been trying, drenched ... More >>

• Five reasons to welcome The Rapture

  published May 20, 2011

  As the world cowers in fear of the Great Retribution "about" to befall us, we have to wonder what we're so afraid of. Firstly: if everything is reduced to nothingness tomorrow, then our unexistence... More >>

• Watch Justin Vernon, Sharon Van Etten, and Megafaun play some gorgeous Americana

  published May 20, 2011

  Alan Lomax was the principal documentarian of of southern roots music, culminating in the release, fifty years ago, of Sounds of the South, a keystone in American musical history. Last fall, an imp... More >>

• Bob Dylan's 70th birthday celebrations start this weekend

  published May 18, 2011

  Next Tuesday, May 24, Minnesota's oldest enigma turns 70 years old. Not surprisingly, there are a few celebrations planned around town, and some reminiscences elsewhere as well. First and most corpo... More >>

• Jon Stewart dominates O'Reilly in debate over Common's White House appearance

  published May 17, 2011

  This past week, the White House "came under fire" - another word for the national conversation being dominated by our very loud conservative media, led by the Fox News machine - for inviting the world... More >>

• The Fiery Furnaces at the Cedar, 5/13/11

  published May 16, 2011

  The Fiery FurnacesMay 13, 2011Cedar Cultural Center, MinneapolisThe Cedar Cultural Center possesses a particular vibe, an approximation I'd place somewhere between a playhouse and a time-fragmented s... More >>