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2007 Stories by Sarah Askari

• Peer into the Ears of Dan Wilson and Al Franken

  published December 19, 2007

  Dan WilsonDixie Chicks Grammy-winning-song collaborator Dan Wilson released his first solo album this year, the Rick... More >>

• The Year in Music 2007

  published December 19, 2007

  The RIAA came to Minnesota for a major victory. Local radio suffered some minor setbacks. The underground scene lost its Church, and the 400... More >>

• Dance Dance Revolution

  published December 5, 2007

  Mash Notes Party people of Minneapolis, have I neglected you? Week after week, you channel the joyous life force of song, and you... More >>

• Aimee Mann's Second Annual Christmas Show

  published December 5, 2007

  Everybody talks about how no two snowflakes are alike, though most people never consider that fact must condemn snowflakes to a terribly lonely... More >>

• Dance Band CD-Release Show

  published December 5, 2007

  More than a year after landing on this little blue marble, the starship troopers from Planet Dance (or is it Planet Band?) are finally ready to... More >>

• Circuits Berzerkus

  published November 28, 2007

  BEATRIX*JAR Golden Fuzz Hypercreatives Mash Notes Jacob Roske and Bianca... More >>

• Film Highlight: Kurt Cobain: About a Son

  published November 28, 2007

  Kurt Cobain: About a Son Bell Museum Auditorium The songs on the soundtrack aren't... More >>

• Answer Me, Ackerson!

  published November 21, 2007

  Mash Notes ED ACKERSON Ed Ackerson Susstones Local music phenom Ed... More >>

• The Shouting's Over, Too

  published November 14, 2007

  THE REPLACEMENTS: ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTING: AN ORAL HISTORY More >>

• M.I.A.

  published November 14, 2007

  The Department of Homeland Security must be asleep at the wheel. How else to explain the infiltration of our nation's borders by the polyglot raps... More >>

• The Wild Shakes

  published November 7, 2007

  Mash NotesThe Blind Shake are a trio, two-thirds composed of Blaha DNA. Siblings Jim and Mike Blaha, the band's... More >>

• Flat Pipes and Firecrackers

  published October 24, 2007

  Mash NotesJoshua Stuckey's voice is no conventional beauty. It's flat as roadkill, nasal as Flonase, as prone to warping and... More >>

• Poised

  published October 17, 2007

  Mash NotesThey call themselves Sick of Sarah, and I'm trying not to take it too personally. I do write a weekly column,... More >>

• Free at Last

  published October 10, 2007

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• Give It Away Now

  published October 3, 2007

  Mash Notes by Sarah Askari Ozzy Dahlstrom does not, at first glance,... More >>

• Girl Talk; Dan Deacon

  published October 3, 2007

  Both Greg Gillis and Dan Deacon like to rub elbows (and headbands) with their sweaty, springing, gyrating fans, surrounding themselves with the... More >>

• Vicious Vicious: Parade

  published September 26, 2007

  Vicious ViciousParade self-released What is it about the... More >>

• Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

  published September 26, 2007

  Like a banquet where all who've looked up to Pete Seeger come to celebrate the man who reintroduced America to its folk music heritage,... More >>

• Picked to Click XVII

  published September 19, 2007

  WinnersMouthful of Bees More >>

• Leaving the Hive

  published September 19, 2007

  The grotesque figure in front of us is devouring something. It's hard to be sure what. It doesn't have the normal number of eyes or limbs,... More >>

• His Mischief Sing the Alphabet Song

  published September 19, 2007

  Airport—Drummer Jeff Brown fuels up jets, or so he tells me. I read in a previous City Pages article that part of his... More >>

• Lost

  published September 12, 2007

  Brenda WeilerEnd the RainSpeaker Phone Records End the Rain began with a... More >>

• Dinkyfest

  published September 12, 2007

  Dinkytown finally has a block party to call its own. While the season for cordoned-off street celebrations is drawing to a close, you can hardly... More >>

• Glad Pastures

  published August 29, 2007

  The Rural Pop and Android Fuzz of They the Down Low More >>

• Rain Man

  published August 22, 2007

  Who Is Tay Zonday, and Why Is He the Hottest Thing on the Internet? More >>