For many young bands, making music is a booze-fueled rush of late nights in bars, and even longer nights on the road, all spent in the name of making art or, more likely, just rock 'n' roll. But for the old souls in Dial-Up, a still-young band who play an eclectic brand of indie rock, music is a means of conjuring something deep and meaningful — to put down roots. Ironically, their seeds of inspiration weren't sown in their native south Minneapolis, but in the streets of Paris, Berlin, and Copenhagen, and the hallways of European art squats — vacant buildings that get taken over by dozens, sometimes hundreds, of artists, all living and working together. The band's vision has taken shape in the form of Forever House, the house where singer and chief songwriter Andrew Jansen lives with his bandmates, Aila O'Loughlin (who's also his fiancée)... More >>>