From poets and directors to comedians and dancers, the Twin Cities are teeming with creativity
New Lowertown Line series takes a closer look at live local music
Not only did the guys in Solid Gold recently sit down with us for a feature piece on the band ahead of their big record release show for Eat Your Young at First Avenue tonight, but the guys also dropped by TPT Studio A in St. Paul to record a couple of performances for an upcoming MN Original episod ... More >>
As the Twin Cities music scene grows, more and more artists are creating music that demands our attention. Combine the music with talented filmmakers locally and beyond, and you have a fruitful mix of distinct skills that generates more locally connected music videos than ever before. While it's im ... More >>
As the Twin Cities music scene grows, more and more artists are creating music that demands our attention. Combine the music with talented filmmakers locally and beyond, and you have a fruitful mix of distinct skills that generates more locally connected music videos than ever before. While it's im ... More >>
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Courtesy Big QuartersMinnesota artists are releasing music videos at such a fast clip these days that we can barely keep up with posting the best ones. Just yesterday, three separate videos from Twin Cities artists were lighting up our Twitter feeds and Facebook pages, and one was even debuted by ... More >>
After repeatedly catching the attention of Twin Cities music fans with their striking live performance videos that we've regularly featured here on Gimme Noise, the talented folks at MPLS.TV and accomplished director Dan Huiting are now taking their lovely videos to a wider, national audience. Pi ... More >>
In a hard blow to the kitschy dance-rock scene, the Onion's A.V. Club is reporting that funk-fueled electro band Chelsea Boys are going their separate ways so bandmate Josh Atwood can focus on being a dad. Remaining members Hunter Morley and Jacque Clark are planning to continue working together ... More >>
This past weekend, the 80/35 Music Festival brought headlining acts like Girl Talk, Yelawolf, and Okkervil River to Des Moines, Iowa for two days of fun in the sun. If you missed the fest, we have photos of some of the headliners along with locals Pink Mink in our 80/35 slideshow, and today we are a ... More >>
Photo by Brad OgbonnaWhile Dan Huiting and MPLS.TV have certainly featured national acts in their City of Music series before, this week's stars might be their biggest yet. The latest video, which you can watch first right here, features French electro-pop band Yelle, who were in town last month ... More >>
Photos by Brad OgbonnaThough City of Music videos are usually centered around musicians from the Twin Cities, producer Dan Huiting and his crew at MPLS.TV have been working to add more national acts to their collection, and their latest video was quite the score: They met up with French dance ban ... More >>
For the next installment of City of Music, which debuts Monday morning on Gimme Noise, director Dan Huiting caught up with touring act the Hounds Below for a video shoot. Huiting tells us how he found out about the band:
For next week's City of Music video, MPLS.TV and Dan Huiting opted to feature a very different side of Haley Bonar's musical persona by filming a song with her punk rock side project Gramma's Boyfriend. Dan Huiting tells us how it went down:
Dan Huiting of MPLS.TV has been on a tear lately, and he's already getting ready to drop the next video in his City of Music series. This coming Monday, Huiting will premiere a City of Music video featuring hip-hop trio No Bird Sing, and he sent over a little sneak peek about how the taping went ... More >>
Wednesday was the first night for a lot of SXSW attendees, including our intrepid video team led by Dan Huiting and his cohorts Andre Durand and Chris Hadland. Our videographers spent a large portion of the evening at Doomtree's official showcase at the Flamingo Cantina, which featured solo sets ... More >>
We've got a real treat for you this week -- as part of our ongoing City of Music series, we're stoked to debut one of the more experimental and artistic music videos we've seen from the MPLS.TV camp. For this week's video, producer Dan Huiting rounded up a whopping 15 cameras to film the seven co ... More >>
Photos by Brad OgbonnaLet's not beat around the bush, here--we're pretty damn psyched to debut next week's City of Music video featuring Marijuana Deathsquads. Remember a couple of months back when we couldn't believe that City of Music producer Dan Huiting rounded up 10 cameramen for his shoot w ... More >>
Photo by Tony NelsonOn Wednesday night, seven new Twin Cities bands (and one remote participant, Hastings 3000), gathered in the First Avenue Mainroom for the annual Best New Bands showcase. Dan Huiting (who produces the weekly City of Music series) was on the scene with his camera and created a ... More >>
Photos by Dajana BartulovicThe hard-working team over at MPLS.TV is already slaving away on the next installment of our City of Music video series, and they sent over a few teaser shots to get us ready for Monday's video featuring our Picked to Click 2009 winners Red Pens.
Photos by Dajana BartulovicDamn, is it hump day already? That means we're almost halfway to another City of Music video, which premiers every Monday courtesy of our friends at MPLS.TV. Next week's video stars one of this year's Picked to Click finalists, Is/Is, and producer Dan Huiting sent over ... More >>
Is it just us, or does MPLS.TV seem to up the ante a little more each week with its City of Music series? This week's video is an intense collaboration between lightning punk duo Birthday Suits and visual artists HMH, VSNQST, and Playatta, and the result is a total assault on the senses and the ... More >>
Over the weekend, I was chatting with City of Music producer Dan Huiting about this week's new video featuring Spyder Baybie Rawdog and 2% Muck. "Do you guys have any rules about what you can post? This video gets a little.... crazy."Don't say we didn't warn you -- parts of this video are potenti ... More >>
Next week's City of Music video is shaping up to be completely insane. The MPLS.TV crew and producer Dan Huiting rounded up some party animals for their shoot with Spyder Baybie Raw Dog 3k (who some might recognize as Jeremy Nutzman of Bight Club) and 2% Muck."It was a night of total debauchery," ... More >>
Over the last few years the local music scene has come a long ways, from national recognition and "big indie" signings and more importantly a progressive, experimental spirit that seems valued above all else. Instead of a local sound it seems we have a local ideal: play well, don't languish. Not ... More >>
Photos by Dajana BartulovicThe MPLS.TV crew went to the Varsity last week to film a special live "touring band" version of City of Music with Surfer Blood, who happened to be passing through town. The video won't be ready until next Monday, but you can preview a few photos from the Surfer Blood s ... More >>
Photos by Casanova FrankensteinAs promised, we're excited to drop a fresh installment of the City of Music series this morning featuring local dance party maestro BadNraD, who performed a brand new song just for the video shoot.Check below for the world premiere of BadNraD's new song "Werebabe!," ... More >>
As we mentioned last month, Grant Cutler of Lookbook is quickly making a name for himself as a solo artist with his new project Grant Cutler and the Gorgeous Lords. He will release his grandiose four-song EP next week with a show next Wednesday, October 20 in the Turf Club Clown Lounge (with gues ... More >>
Photo by Casanova FrankensteinFor this week's City of Music, the weekly music video series that we present on behalf of Dan Huiting and MPLS.TV, the crew decided to change things up a bit and record a straight-up concert at a local venue. Doomtree beatmaker and Plastic Constellation Lazerbeak, a. ... More >>
photo by: Casanova Frankenstein"I rolled into the Fine Line Music Cafe around 9:45PM and was immediately struck by how packed it was. The place was bursting with fans. And with performances from Doomtree, The Plastic Constellations, and finally Lazerbeak, the night did not disappoint."City of Mus ... More >>
MPLS.TV is officially on a tear. In addition to unleashing this week's videos of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. partying it up at Lee's Liquor Lounge and Gayngs and Glasser rehearsing for their tour at Justin Vernon's recording studio, the crew met up with Neutral Uke Hotel and Johnny and Molly of Commun ... More >>
Our next City of Music video drops this Monday, and as a sneak peak our partners over at MPLS.TV sent us some behind-the-scenes photos from their recent shoot with local hip hop artists Wide Eyes. "We set up in the locker room of Second Foundation School in Dinkytown, invited a bunch of our frien ... More >>
As with every Monday, we're pleased to present a new City of Music video today from our friends Dan Huiting and MPLS.TV. This week, the video crew ventured into the green room at the Cedar Cultural Center to capture a unique performance by Roma di Luna. The band plays tonight at the State Fair (H ... More >>
For next week's City of Music video, producer Dan Huiting and his film crew went backstage at the Cedar Cultural Center with Roma di Luna for a unique performance. "We originally planned to shoot at the MPLS Farmers Market, but the wind was too strong to record outdoors," Dan explains, "so we mov ... More >>
We have another City of Music video on its way to you this Monday, and to whet your appetite the video team sent over a few stills and behind-the-scenes shots from their shoot with up-and-coming new drum-heavy band the 4onthefloor."It was the last stand at the Meridius, a house in N.E. that sing ... More >>
As we told you about last week, local septet Me and My Arrow invited the City of Music team to Sound Gallery Studios to capture a unique performance for this week's video. Take a look at some of the behind-the-scenes shots from the taping here, and see below for our brand new City of Music video ... More >>
For next week's City of Music video, our cohorts Dan Huiting and MPLS.TV were invited into the Sound Gallery performance space to film Me and My Arrow. "It was a significantly lower stress shoot than some of our other recent videos," says Huiting, the producer and director for the shoot. "We were ... More >>
For this week's City of Music we welcome our very first touring band, Washington's the Heligoats, who performed an intimate show for our crew at Galactic Pizza on Lyndale. Click here to see some behind-the-scenes shots, and see below for the video, produced and directed by our multi-talented City ... More >>
For next week's City of Music video, our crew caught up with touring band the Heligoats and filmed an intimate performance at Galactic Pizza in the Lyn-Lake neighborhood (our "Best Pizza" winner in this year's Best of the Twin Cities issue). Producer Dan Huiting tells us how it went down: "We set ... More >>
Photos by Casanova FrankensteinOur videographers are already hard at work on next week's City of Music video, and this time they met up with Dark Dark Dark to record in an old warehouse space. "We shot in an old broken-down warehouse at Harris Machine Company, near the U of M," says director Dan ... More >>
We've been singing the praises of the Goondas for a while now (read the profile we ran last month here), and for good reason; dudes know how to get down and have a good time doing it. For proof, we submit Exhibit A: The Goondas performing exclusively for our City of Music series with MPLS.TV and ... More >>
For this week's City of Music session, MPLS.TV ventured out to Prescott, Wisconsin to hang with Communist Daughter. The video was filmed on the roof of the Boxcar, the restaurant lead singer Johnny Solomon owns (and which we wrote about in our feature of the band earlier this year). "We got set u ... More >>
Dance night BOMP! took over the Bedlam once again last Friday night, and local videographer Dan Huiting was on the scene to capture this great video footage of the action. BOMP! happens on the last Friday of every month with different DJs in every room of the venue. Click here for a full slidesho ... More >>
Illustration by Mux MoolHaving decamped from Minneapolis to Brooklyn about two years ago, Mux Mool has been working near-constant since, touring and writing and remixing and partying in advance of what may could be a big year for Mr. Lindgren. He's been shouted out as "New Band of the Day" by The ... More >>
Our reigning Best Of the Twin Cities champion, Dessa, blew the competition out of the water by being recognized across not just one but three categories this year: Best Album of the Last 12 Months (for her solo debut, A Badly Broken Code), Best Songwriter, and Best Local Girl Made Good. Watch the ta ... More >>
MPLS.TV and Gimme Noise collaborator Dan Huiting put together this video from Saturday night's "Worn to be Wild" party, thrown by local design company Anthem Heart and featuring local buzz band Bight Club. For more on Saturday's party, check out our slideshow of photos by Time Squid and Kara Tharald ... More >>
The group played their first show in over a year this past weekend.
Watch a video clip featuring Heidi Barton Stink, Bouncer Fighter, and Zombie Season.
Check out some live footage from the release party.
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