Isaac Gale

Top 10 must-see Minnesota music videos this week

Local Frames is a weekly column spotlighting the best new music videos featuring musicians and directors with Minnesota ties.This week launch right into the festivities with a new, erotically charged Atmosphere video, released to get people even more hyped for the big Soundset Festival taking place ... More >>

Marijuana Deathsquads remix P.O.S., plan tour with Solid Gold

It's truly a great time to be part of Marijuana Deathsquads. In addition to their engrossing "Music Rocks" May residency at Icehouse (which continues tonight with an MDS rap set, as well as a performance by Lizzo alongside Lazerbeak and Cliff Rhymes as they bring LIZZOBANGERS to life, and DJ Plain O ... More >>

Top Ten must-see Minnesota music videos this week

Local Frames is a weekly column spotlighting the best new music videos featuring musicians and directors with Minnesota ties. This week we kick things off with the strikingly gorgeous new video for the Ocean Blue's soaring new single, "Sad Night, Where Is Morning?" which was deftly directed by vete ... More >>

Marijuana Deathsquads announce May residency at Icehouse

It's impossible to know what you're truly going to get at a Marijuana Deathsquads show. Even the musicians themselves don't know what the end result is going to be within their improvisational electronic excursions, as they adhere to the loose sonic parameters that lead them fitfully into a track wi ... More >>

Local Frames: New videos from Wiping Out Thousands, Teenage Moods, Mayda, and 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 >>

Local Frames: New videos from Bob Mould, Atmosphere, The Color Pharmacy, and 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 >>

Best Twin Cities music videos of 2012

Whether or not Minnesota music is in a new golden age or not is a debate for another day further down the road, but there should be little question that local bands recorded and released some truly amazing records in 2012. There was one triumphant record release party after another, and with each su ... More >>

Local Frames: New videos from Night Moves, Leisure Birds, Caroline Smith, and 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 >>

Local Frames: New videos from Dark Dark Dark, Night Moves, Guante & Big Cats!, and 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 impo ... More >>

Local Frames: New videos from Liars, the Japhies, Twin Cities Funk and Soul All-Stars, and 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 >>

Local Frames: Videos from the Tallest Man On Earth, Wiping Out Thousands, Toki Wright, and 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 >>

P.O.S. breaks sh*t in "F*ck Your Stuff" video

See Also:Slideshow: Totally Gross National Party 2012P.O.S. debuts "Bumper" video via City of MusicWanna be in the P.O.S. "Get Down" music video?"We genuinely believe that all of your shit is fake," P.O.S. exults amid the madness of "Fuck Your Stuff," the latest video to rupture forth in the lead up ... More >>

Local Frames: New videos from Poliça, Paper Tiger, Sleep Study, and more

See Also:Local Frames: New videos from Now, Now, Howler, Bloodnstuff, Astronautalis, and morePoliça sign to Mom Pop, unveil Dark Star EPAs 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 ... More >>

P.O.S. debuts "Bumper" video via City of Music

See Also:Wanna be in the P.O.S. "Get Down" music video?Summit Backyard Bash announces all-local lineupP.O.S. finally comes into his own with Never BetterA new era in the twisted evolution of Stef Alexander is upon us. The rapper known to most as P.O.S. has released the first single from his fourth s ... More >>

The Tribe & Big Cats! "DMT Flow" video: How to rap in a tank

See Also:Behind the video: "DMT Flow" by The Tribe & Big CatsThe Tribe and Big Cats unveil latest album, SpaceTTxBC have just dropped another video directed by Isaac Gale and David Jensen: "DMT Flow", the first song on the group's new free album Space, finds rapper TruthBeTold spitting bars whil ... More >>

The Tribe and Big Cats unveil latest album, Space

Release show Saturday at the Entry

Marijuana Deathsquads' Boston Massacre at Turf Club, 4/20/12

Wade Boggs' Wicked Boston Baked Bash with Marijuana Deathsquads, Weird Boggs, Plain Ole Bill, Baby Boys Turf Club, St. Paul Friday, April 20, 2012 When the details were posted no one could've been fully prepared for this gig. The bizarre promo video didn't exactly clarify things either. The lineup ... More >>

Marijuana Deathsquads unleash Boston Massacre at Turf Club on 4/20

​Leave it to the Turf Club to have something this audacious planned for 4/20. The evening is hilariously billed as 'Wade Boggs Wicked Boston Baked Bash,' and will feature a merry band of local characters all presenting something vaguely Bostonian throughout the night. Of course Marijuana Deaths ... More >>

Father You See Queen, the Cloak Ox, and Marijuana Deathsquads at the Entry, 01/20/12

​Father You See Queen, the Cloak Ox, and Marijuana Deathsquads7th St. Entry, MinneapolisFriday, January 20, 2012Check out a slideshow from the concert here.Father You See Queen turned the 7th St. Entry into an art house cinema on Friday night, fluidly blending their moody, ethereal music with pr ... More >>

Cocktail history, Art Shanty Project: Freeloader Friday

​ Despite the cold, this weekend is filled with tons of free stuff to do. For example, after taking a year off the Art Shanty Project is returning to Medicine Lake with shanties offering fashion, live music, sports, family activities, and more each Saturday and Sunday through early February. Looki ... More >>

This is Not a Place

Cecil Otter's Blowout night at the Entry, 12/8/11

Photo by B FRESH​BY ALLEGRA OXBOROUGH Six years ago I was barely 18, just old enough to legally attend the first Blowout. I went alone, in my home-stenciled hand-painted Doomtree shirt, and firmly held my position front and center for the whole show.

MPLS.TV's "City Of Music" gets a series feature on Pitchfork

​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 >>

Marijuana Deathsquads release Crazy Master tonight at Nick and Eddie

Photo by Brian Garrity​The many, rotating members of Marijuana Deathsquads have always had a tendency to do business according to their own unique sense of time. So it's not too surprising that they're just now getting around to putting out their first official release, even though it's been widel ... More >>

Marijuana Deathsquads (record-release)

The Cloak Ox unveil new video, 'Prison'

​The time has come people. The kids from the Cloak Ox have been making a steady impact on the Twin Cities music scene since we first started losing our shit about them late last year. They've taken shape on the stage and, more recently, in the studio, and the band is getting ready to release t ... More >>

Czeslaw's Loop: The Final Opus

Czeslaw's Loop unites dozens of local musicians for massive riverside Art-A-Whirl project

​What started as an annual tradition during Art-A-Whirl has now transformed into a project of monumental proportions. Previously known as the Boat Project, which would invite local noise and experimental rock bands to play on the roof of a houseboat and out in the middle of the Mississippi River b ... More >>

Gimme Noise and First Avenue day party fills up Skinny's Ballroom

Photos by Erik Hess​We had an insanely fun time yesterday afternoon throwing the first ever Gimme Noise day party in Austin in partnership with First Avenue. The party was hopping from the get-go, thanks in part to the free beer offered up by Tiger, and we were thrilled to see a huge contingent of ... More >>

Spyder Baybie Raw Dog & 2% Muck drop creepy new video

​Ironic booty rap duo Spyder Baybie Raw Dog & 2% Muck are getting ready to drop their debut full-length, Grimeworld, next month, and are tiding us over with a pleasantly bizarre new music video for their track "52247365."

Marijuana Deathsquads raid the West Coast

Ryan Olson, P.O.S., Har Mar wrap up their residency

Picked to Click 2010

Pink Mink lead the pack in our 20th annual best-new-bands poll

Dessa Darling bringing a lit-bent menagerie to the Guthrie

Photos by Isaac Gale​Taking place at the Guthrie the evenings of May 5th, 6th, and 7th, Cadence is a three-night series curated by reliably erudite writer/rapper/poet and fresh from tour Dessa -- a celebration of sorts and an event that will end up somewhere between heady oratory, ensemble perform ... More >>

Dessa's tour diary, Vol. 4

Dessa files a final installment from the road and prepares for her own headlining tour.

Dessa's tour diary, Vol. 2

"I don't mean to be immodest, but we may be the best troupe of touring jump-ropers in the contiguous United States."

Building Better Bombs Get Heavy

P.O.S.'s hardcore band release Freak Out Squares

The Movie Lovers

The world makes out all right at the International Film Festival