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- Dancing with Myself One woman's love/hate relationship with her ballyhooed doppelgänger (Music)
- And the Wind Cries Maya Even more galanging about M.I.A. (Music)
- The All M.I.A Edition (I'm in Love with That Song)
- The Midnight Evils: Breakin' It Down (CD Review)
- Slunt: Get a Load of This (CD Review)
- The Evens: The Evens (CD Review)
- The Mars Volta: Frances the Mute (CD Review)
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More In Da Club Articles
- La-La (Means I Love You) Coming alive with Ashlee Simpson, Brother and Sister, Soweto Gospel Choir (Mar 9, 2005)
- Jam Factory at Arnellia's Now that's what I call someone else's music! (Mar 2, 2005)
- Superdanger at the Dinkytowner Catchy indie-rock overcomes lame banter at EP-release show (Feb 23, 2005)
- White Iron Band at the Cabooze Hairy country-rock group rolls down the whiskey river (Feb 16, 2005)
- In Da Club: For the Love of Hip Hop at the Blue Nile (Feb 9, 2005)
- In Da Club: Ancestor Energy at The Dakota (Feb 2, 2005)
- Janis Figure at the Johnny Cash tribute show at the Cabooze Billy Bisson hawks a loogey in Minneapolis, just to watch it fly (Jan 26, 2005)
- In Da Club: The Owls at the Kitty Cat Pop foursome fights cold, floats into air (Jan 19, 2005)
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Every Other Tuesday showcase at Acadia Cafe
If conventional instruments can't render the sound in your head, trick 'em out and cut 'em up. The fruits of such tinkering could be heard March 15 at Acadia Cafe's Every Other Tuesday showcase of experimental music. Michael Yonkers debuted a "new sound" on his sliver of a 40-year-old Telecaster. His newest new sound is wordless, but eloquent with velvety cascades of Glenn Branca-like noise guided by an almost imperceptible blues pulse. Gamely summarizing this enormity, one patron said, "It was so...full." Yes.
Duluth's Tim Kaiser's mix of harsh abstractions, minimalist political statements, and ambient tapes still somehow evokes street musician Moondog's whimsy. His homemade instruments are fascinating: He puts a violin neck and strings on a Korean War minesweeper battery and covers an autoharp with the patterned aluminum that lines truck beds, giving the instrument an even steelier sound. To close the show, TVBC's Paul Metzger unfurled a percussive, propulsive raga on his banjo. Earlier, Metzger hotrodded a hand-painted acoustic guitar with a pair of music-box innards. As the boxes sped up and down on their wobbly paths, Metzger perfectly keyed a muscular, gypsy-tinged guitar meditation to their stops and starts. Hey, you gotta make your own fun out here on the prairie.
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From the Archive
- In Da Club: Ancestor Energy at The Dakota (In Da Club - Feb 2, 2005)
- Afternoon Delight Radio's 'Cosmic Slop' returns to earth. Are the '70s over? (News - Dec 15, 2004)
- Uprooted After 14 years, Root Cellar Records meets an untimely death (News - Dec 1, 2004)
- The Ex: Turn (CD Review - Oct 20, 2004)
- Ghost: Hypnotic Underworld , and Six Organs of Admittance: The Manifestation (CD Review - Sep 22, 2004)
- Harmonic Convergence Zebulon Pike and the fastidious art of kicking ass (Music - Jun 9, 2004)
- Judas Priest: Metalogy (CD Review - May 12, 2004)
- Get on the Bus One transit worker buckles up for a long, bumpy ride in her daily strike journal (News - Mar 17, 2004)
- More articles from the Cecile Cloutier Archive...
