Jeremy Messersmith

Daughter and Jeremy Messersmith at the Fine Line, 5/10/13

Daughter With Jeremy Messersmith Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis May 10, 2013 Two Glassnote recording artists on the rise delighted a sold-out Fine Line on Friday night, as London's Daughter and local singer/songwriter Jeremy Messersmith joined up for the first night of their tour together, a wel ... More >>

Jeremy Messersmith inks deal with Glassnote Records

The days of supper club touring for Minneapolis-based Jeremy Messersmith could be numbered. It was announced today that the singer-songwriter (and author of drunken Grammys rants on Twitter) has landed a massive new deal with Glassnote Records, based in New York. This is the label that has put out a ... More >>

Make a Scene mixtape mashes up Polica, Atmosphere, Solid Gold, Prof and more

A music scene as intimate as the Twin Cities has seen genres and styles bleed into one another, and rarely is such hybridization unwelcome. With this mindset, Wide Eyes producers Dimitry Killstorm and DJ Name have concocted a mash-up project that combines a lot of Picked to Click alums, like local r ... More >>

MN Music-on-a-Stick at the Minnesota State Fair, 8/31/2012

MN Music-on-a-Stick With Semisonic, The Jayhawks, Dessa, Jeremy Messersmith, and Lucy Michelle and the Velvet LapellesMN State Fair Grandstand, St. PaulFriday, August 31, 2012After a summer of record temperature highs, August was the perfect month for outdoor shows, ending with MN Music-on-a-Stick a ... More >>

MN Music On-a-Stick without the fair schtick

Jeremy Messersmith chats about his adopted state fair

Jeremy Messersmith on Martha's Cookies, Mark Wheat, and the MN State Fair

Jeremy Messersmith is the darling of MPR, so it seems fitting to include him in the lineup for the Grandstand show featuring MN Music On-a-Stick on MPR Day. Ahead of his Supper Club tour, where he will be taking over willing people's yards and living rooms around the country, the singer will be maki ... More >>

Jeremy Messersmith / Night Moves / Greycoats

Jeremy Messersmith's Muse for Music at Fitzgerald, 5/19/12

By Allegra OxboroughJeremy Messersmith's Muse for MusicWith P.O.S. and Chastity BrownThe Fitzgerald Theater, St. PaulSaturday, May 19, 2012Jeremy Messersmith was his dapper self Saturday in a fitted green blazer and his conspicuous Buddy Holly specs. Behind him an ever-changing configuration of seve ... More >>

Low and Zoo Animal set to play the Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery this summer

​After serving as the inspiration for Jeremy Messersmith's most recent album, The Reluctant Graveyard, and playing host to a truly unique benefit concert by Messersmith and Lucy Michelle & the Velvet Lapelles last October, The Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery has announced plans for another ... More >>

Jeremy Messersmith, Hastings 3000 join in the Occupy movement

Photo by Nick Vlcek​As Occupy Wallstreet and our own local version, OccupyMN, wear on, more and more Minnesota musicians are asserting themselves as vocal members of the 99%. Over the past few weeks, artists ranging from hip-hop acts Toki Wright, Sean Anonymous, and Guante to R&B maven Mayda t ... More >>

Jeremy Messersmith takes his album back to the graveyard

​Quiet and unassuming, you wouldn't expect such morbidity to come out of the enigmatic Jeremy Messersmith. Messersmith will be bringing the brilliant storytelling on his The Reluctant Graveyard back to the actual graveyard, the Pioneers and  --Soldiers Cemetery -- that inspired the album ... More >>

5 newish local music videos worth a look

​As summer wraps up and we start heading into fall, it's almost like the whole attitude of the city changes: Twin Citizens suck in a deep breath and prepare to hunker down and get to work, like the chilly weather somehow summons productivity. That's certainly true for some of our favorite loca ... More >>

SoundCloud vs. Bandcamp: Local musicians weigh in

Seeking new ways to distribute digitally

Jeremy Messersmith's 'Works for Words' at the Fitzgerald, 4/9/11

"Works for Words" with Jeremy Messersmith, Chris Koza, Dessa, Aby Wolf, Lucy Michelle, Brian TigheApril 9, 2011Fitzgerald Theater, St. PaulI've said this before, but it's something that bears repeating: Last month, coming down off the rush of seeing 60 Minnesota bands take over Austin, Texas for SX ... More >>

Fort Wilson Riot, Jeremy Messersmith get in on the April Fool's fun

Photo by Nick VlcekJeremy Messersmith poses for the cover of his exciting new album​It's a strange day, April 1. Every blog post, tweet, and Facebook status update is met with cynicism, every reader's BS detector turned up to 11.But that shouldn't stop bands from having a little fun, should it?

Jeremy Messersmith releases how-to video for 'A Girl, a Boy, and a Graveyard'

Photo by Nick Vlcek​Have you ever wanted to be Jeremy Messersmith? That voice... those glasses... that hair! Well, now you can. With just three easy payments of $0.00, you can not only learn the chords and picking style of one of his most popular songs, "A Girl, a Boy, and a Graveyard," you c ... More >>

Tapes 'N Tapes and Fort Wilson Riot's recent Daytrotter sessions

It's Friday, and you're likely idling in your office and sitting on a fence between interminable boredom and weekend giddiness. I don't think we ever really grow up that much, considering we've been feeling that exact same conflicting emotion since the first grade. And remember when you told your mo ... More >>

The Current's 6th Birthday Party at First Avenue, 01/21/11

Photos by Stacy SchwartzThe Current's Jim McGuinn with Mayor RT Rybak​The Current's 6th Birthday Party (Featuring Free Energy, Brother Ali, Jeremy Messersmith, Roma di Luna, and Trampled By Turtles)January 21, 2011First AvenueThe Current has had such an impact on the local music scene in its six s ... More >>

89.3 the Current's 6th Birthday Party

Best Twin Cities albums of 2010

Dessa, BNLX, Kristoff Krane, and more

Jeremy Messersmith and Adam Levy to perform for the President this Saturday

Photo by Nick Vlcek​Talk about the ultimate phone call. Yesterday, local singer-songwriter Jeremy Messersmith answered a phone call by St. Paul arts director Joe Spencer and was told that he would be opening for the President. Of the United States. Yep, that one.

The best sci-fi music videos ever

Like a puppy​Jeremy Messersmith's recently released video for his song "Tatooine" is a fucking adorable little construction paper synopsis of the Star Wars OT (original trilogy, hello?) set to a sparse guitar and piano whisper of a song.And, since we're total nerds, we're taking the occasion to re ... More >>

Video: Jeremy Messersmith, "Lazy Bones"

​Jeremy Messersmith's iPhone makes the best music videos. Fresh from a tour that spanned most of the past summer, Messersmith just released a new homemade music video for "Lazy Bones," the opening track off his most recent album The Reluctant Graveyard. "I thought I'd post of video of all the rock ... More >>

Jeremy Messersmith releases the final chapter of his pop trilogy

Singer-songwriter opens up about life, death, faith, and The Reluctant Graveyard

Jeremy Messersmith: The extended interview

Photo by Nick Vlcek​Once you've finished reading today's cover story on Jeremy Messersmith, you might still be aching to learn more about the reserved, introspective, and talented singer-songwriter. Read on for additional quotes from my series of interviews with Messersmith that didn't make their ... More >>

Outtakes from the Jeremy Messersmith photo shoot

​In order to get the right shot for today's cover story on Jeremy Messersmith -- who requested that we represent his face in an abstract, nontraditional manner -- we tried a few different angles. Some worked, and some did not. Here are the outtakes that didn't make the cut for this week's paper. A ... More >>

Jeremy Messersmith streaming entire new album online

​In anticipation for his CD-release show on May 7 at the Cedar Cultural Center, Jeremy Messersmith is streaming his forthcoming album, The Reluctant Graveyard, in its entirety on the Current's website.The new album may come as a surprise to some Messersmith fans, as it finds him moving in a darker ... More >>

Jeremy Messersmith talks morels and frickles

​The only thing getting in the way of local musician Jeremy Messersmith's hunt for morel mushrooms is his upcoming Graveyard tour, which will take him from fungi stalking in Minnesota to stops as varied as New York and Seattle. Luckily he had time to discuss the value of a piping-hot frickle befor ... More >>

KaiserCartel, Jeremy Messersmith, and Zoo Animal rock the Entry

Photos from last night's show.

Jeremy Messersmith plays "Skyway"... in a real Minneapolis skyway

So meta. So awesome.

Bunny Clogs & Friends Halloween Dance & Costume Party

Jeremy Messersmith to perform live at lunchtime

Jeremy Messersmith will be streaming a (free) lunchtime performance at 12:30 (central) via his website.

Haley Bonar, Jeremy Messersmith perform live at the Fair

Live audio and video courtesy of the Current.

Solid Gold

The crying songs

Some songs get you every time.

Rock for Pussy VI announced

Rebel, rebel. It's time for another David Bowie tribute show!

Jeremy Messersmith

Jeremy Messersmith offers free sampler

Download a free six-song mix from Messersmith and KaiserCartel.

Mischke Mix: Monday, April 20

On today's show, Mischke played a selection of songs about local streets.

Dessa, Steve Marsh and Jeremy Messersmith post promo videos

Weekend Checklist: Jan. 9-10, 2008

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Electric Arc Radio get awkwardly hip at the Ritz Theater

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Jeremy Messersmith CD release show tonight

Jeremy Messersmith: The Silver City

Provention, featuring Nellie McKay, Dan Wilson, Haley Bonar and more

Rock for Pussy V: A Benefit for the Minnesota Valley Humane Society

Rock the Cradle

The Pines; Jeremy Messersmith; Roma di Luna

Speaking in Strums

A home-schooled innocent joins the local folk-pop fraternity