Email Author Cyn Collins

2011 Stories by Cyn Collins

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  Jewbilee! takes over the Entry this Christmas Eve

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Jewbilee! is a highly entertaining holiday alternative to Christmas Eve for Jewish people and non-Jewish alike. This new "holiday" began seven years ago when local multi-faceted creative artist/musici... More >>

• Valet talk about this weekend's reunion show

  published Dec 14, 2011

  Local indie-rock band Valet were a venerable Twin Cities music scene fixture right from their start in 1998, and for nearly a decade after. Like so many bands that stand the test of time, they formed ... More >>

• Phantom Tails and Fort Wilson Riot release split EP

  published November 30, 2011

  This split vinyl was inevitable. Fort Wilson Riot and Phantom Tails have been fans of each others' bands, performed for each others' shows and... More >>

• Black Box Revelation with Machine 22 at the Entry, 11/14/11

  published Nov 16, 2011

  Black Box Revelation with Machine 22, Porcupine and DetourNovember 14, 20117th St. Entry, MinneapolisI arrived while Porcupines from LaCrosse, Wisconsin, were playing, one of my favorite bands I've re... More >>

• Picked to Click extended interview: blood&stuff

  published Oct 21, 2011

  blood&stuff is the new band of Ed Holmberg and Dylan Gouert. These ex-Economy Team members perform headbanging, mind-blowing rock shows. Holmberg sings powerful, classic-sounding vocals, while pla... More >>

• RockStar Motel recruits Paul Pirner to help with new social networking site for bands

  published Oct 18, 2011

  RockStar Motel has the light on for weary bands trying to make their way in the music world and are struggling with promotion, not to mention their friends and fans frustrated about getting word out a... More >>

• The Black Angels at the Fine Line, 10/17/11

  published Oct 18, 2011

  The Black Angels with Dead Meadow and SpindriftOctober 17, 2011Fine Line Music Cafe, MinneapolisIt was an eerie dream-like night of cinematic psychedelia as the Black Angels, Dead Meadow, and Spi... More >>

• Ex-Hole drummer Patty Schemel talks about her new documentary

  published Oct 13, 2011

  "How many famous women drummers do you knowr" Hit So Hard: The Life and Near-Death of Patty Schemel is a no-punches-pulled portrait of the life and times of hard-hitting drummer Patty Schemel. The fil... More >>

• Sound Unseen 12: From Sid & Nancy to Sigur Ros

  published October 12, 2011

  Between October 12 and 16, Sound Unseen 12 will screen 11 films on music at the Ritz Theater (a new location for this festival, in northeast... More >>

• The Goondas (EP-release)

  published September 21, 2011

  Finally we can take a piece of the Goondas home with us again. Chud is a fitting name for the new vinyl EP being released—whatever... More >>

• Sound Unseen screening no wave documentary Blank City tomorrow night at the TRYLON

  published Sep 13, 2011

  "If you could be anybody, who would you ber" "An outlaw, a film director, a rebel, a rock star!" yells a '70s gangster shooting a gun at the Super 8 camera, cutting to a rapid-fire Mars punk song over... More >>

• Richard Lloyd of Television kicks off week-long residency at Nick and Eddie tonight

  published Jul 27, 2011

  Richard Lloyd is a guitarist and the founding member of legendary post-punk band Television that formed in New York City in 1973. He was one of the few people hosting bands at CBGBs, where Television ... More >>

• Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears at the Cedar, 4/3/11

  published Apr 05, 2011

  Black Joe Lewis and the HoneybearsApril 3, 2011Cedar Cultural CenterIf I could only say one word about the Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears show, it would be "AWESOME." My faith in funk was restored... More >>

• Mr. Zero's Pop-Culture Heaven

  published February 9, 2011

  Mr. Zero's entertainment shop is stranger than fiction. As you approach the purple, '70s-font sign and stride past the window display with a... More >>

• First Avenue's Best New Bands of 2010

  published January 26, 2011

  Like the Goondas' Brenden Green, the best new bands of 2010 are all over the map. They range from wildly theatrical to mesmerizingly melancholic... More >>

• Ghostband's Jon Davis forges his own experimental path

  published January 26, 2011

  Little did Fat Kid Wednesdays and friends know that the amazing celebration that was their pre-New Year's Jazz Implosion would be the end of... More >>

• Savage Aural Hotbed invite us into their garage for a demonstration

  published Jan 21, 2011

  In advance of their CD-release show tomorrow night in the First Ave Mainroom, Mark Black, Bill Melton, Stuart Devaan, and Dean Hawthorne of Savage Aural Hotbed met up with Gimme Noise in their cool la... More >>

• Savage Aural Hotbed

  published January 19, 2011

  Sparks will fly once more as Savage Aural Hotbed take their power tools, oil drums, and other "found object" percussion instruments to the First... More >>