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Johnny Solomon

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    May 21, 2012

    4th annual Lyn-Lake Festival, 5/20/12

    4th Annual Lyn-Lake Festival Lyndale Avenue South at 29th Street South, Minneapolis May 20, 2012 Slideshow: Lyn-Lake Street Festival 2012The day started off a little rocky on Sunday at the 4th Annual Lyn-Lake Street Festival as Koo Koo Kanga Roo had their set pushed back 40 minutes or so due to the ... More >>

  • Music

    January 11, 2012

    Critics' Picks: Charlie Parr, Friends Like These, Dom, and more

    4th Annual Lyn-Lake Festival Lyndale Avenue South at 29th Street South, Minneapolis May 20, 2012 Slideshow: Lyn-Lake Street Festival 2012The day started off a little rocky on Sunday at the 4th Annual Lyn-Lake Street Festival as Koo Koo Kanga Roo had their set pushed back 40 minutes or so due to the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 11, 2012

    Friends Like These

    4th Annual Lyn-Lake Festival Lyndale Avenue South at 29th Street South, Minneapolis May 20, 2012 Slideshow: Lyn-Lake Street Festival 2012The day started off a little rocky on Sunday at the 4th Annual Lyn-Lake Street Festival as Koo Koo Kanga Roo had their set pushed back 40 minutes or so due to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Friends Like These announce reunion show, remastered album

    ​There's something oddly appropriate about the first Friends Like These show in several years happening on Friday the 13th.

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    The Mad Ripple Hootenanny at the Dowling Studio, 11/27/11

    The Mad Ripple Hootenanny November 27, 2011 The Dowling Studio at the Guthrie, Minneapolis Five years ago, Jim Walsh began the Mad Ripple Hootenanny in the basement of Java Jack's in South Minneapolis. The Hoot was then a ring of singer-songwriters, folk and non-folk and local big shots and up-and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    A Tribute to the Replacements, 11/26/10

    Photos by Erik Hess​A Tribute to the Replacements' TimNovember 26, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisReported with special help from Robyn LewisNow in its third installment, the Thanksgiving weekend tradition of reveling in the songs of the Replacements has grown into a gigantic local music event, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    Deer Tick at the Triple Rock 10/29/10

    The Rhode Island rockers put on an absolutely exhilarating show at the Triple Rock

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    Rogue Valley CD-release at First Avenue, 8/13/10

    Photo by Steve Cohen​Rogue Valley are now officially halfway through their ambitious journey of releasing four albums in the span of 12 months, and what a journey it has been. Back in April they brought a grandiose and theatrical album release show to the Fitzgerald that even included a high schoo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Communist Daughter prepare for Loring Park show

    Photo by Ben Clark​We're gearing up for the first installment of "4 Nights in Loring: Local Bands, Local Films," which kicks off tomorrow night in Loring Park with a performance by Communist Daughter and a screening of the film Raising Arizona. For those who haven't seen Communist Daughter, here's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Four Nights in Loring: Local Bands, Local Films lineup unveiled

    ​With the first event less than a week away, we are bursting at the seams to let you know who is performing and which movies are being screened at "Four Nights in Loring: Local Bands, Local Films," this year's free music and movie event in Loring Park. Music performances start at 7 p.m. each night ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2010

    Communist Daughter perform for City of Music

    ​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 >>

  • Calendar

    June 30, 2010

    Communist Daughter

    ​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 >>

  • Restaurants

    April 28, 2010

    The Boxcar and Schumacher's Grill 212

    Restaurants worth the road trip

  • Music

    March 31, 2010

    Communist Daughter frontman Johnny Solomon finds small-town sound

    Band practices in Solomon's Boxcar restaurant in Wisconsin

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Communist Daughter, Fifth Element's open-mic night featured in this week's paper

    Photo by Ben ClarkCommunist Daughter​We're entering a season of local CD releases, so prepared to be inundated over the next few weeks as we make our way through all the great local albums coming out this April. This week, we drove down to Prescott, Wisconsin to hang out with Johnny Solomon and hi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2009

    Total Babe

    Photo by Ben ClarkCommunist Daughter​We're entering a season of local CD releases, so prepared to be inundated over the next few weeks as we make our way through all the great local albums coming out this April. This week, we drove down to Prescott, Wisconsin to hang out with Johnny Solomon and hi ... More >>

  • Music

    December 2, 2009

    John Lennon tribute, Zero 7, Doomtree Blowout, and more

    Photo by Ben ClarkCommunist Daughter​We're entering a season of local CD releases, so prepared to be inundated over the next few weeks as we make our way through all the great local albums coming out this April. This week, we drove down to Prescott, Wisconsin to hang out with Johnny Solomon and hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Bad meat and country crossovers got me down

    News of country crossovers has me down, as does the food poisoning which has beset me since I ate some venison from a November '06 hunt (bad idea, folks).

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2009

    July 3, 2009: STNNNG & Knonam

    New music from To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie, Decider interviews City on the Make & STNNNG's 200th show.

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