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Jon Davis

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    December 21, 2011

    Jewbilee! takes over the Entry this Christmas Eve

    ​Jewbilee! is a highly entertaining holiday alternative to Christmas Eve for Jewish people and non-Jewish alike. This new "holiday" began seven years ago when local multi-faceted creative artist/musician/DJ/journalist Danny Sigelman, living in Austin, Texas at the time, was inspired to create some ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 21, 2011

    Jewbilee!

    ​Jewbilee! is a highly entertaining holiday alternative to Christmas Eve for Jewish people and non-Jewish alike. This new "holiday" began seven years ago when local multi-faceted creative artist/musician/DJ/journalist Danny Sigelman, living in Austin, Texas at the time, was inspired to create some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Ghostband redefines electronica with a new album

    ​Desolations may sound like the landscape during a Minnesota winter, but in actuality it's the name of Minneapolis electronic musician Jon Davis, a.k.a. Ghostband's, new album. Influenced by Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ayler, and Hendrix, Ghostband leaves out the lyrics in his music, but not the imag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Emily Lacy returns to the Walker for a 12-day residency, starting today

    Photo by Marianne Williams ​The last time we heard from Emily Lacy, the experimental and evocative L.A. singer-songwriter was preparing to brave a freezing January day in Minneapolis and attempt to perform outdoors in an igloo. Now, as we recover from one of the hottest stretches in recent memory, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Ghostband and Lovecat performing Saturday at Yeti Records

    ​We've written a lot about multi-instrumentalist Jon Davis this year. While he may remain somewhat an obscurity we admire his worker-bee attitude and path to music making, scene building and the all around positive nature of his creative ethic and ability to rise to the challenge of having a hype ... More >>

  • Music

    January 26, 2011

    Ghostband's Jon Davis forges his own experimental path

    Inspired by free-jazz trio Fat Kid Wednesdays

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Ghostband cassette-release tonight with Fat Kid Wednesdays

    Photo by Tony NelsonGhostband's Jon Davis​While the Best New Bands showcase rages on in the Mainroom tonight, another all-local bill will be celebrating next door in the 7th St. Entry. Not only will the show mark the cassette tape release of Ghostband's album, Verdical, but it will also be the fir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Weekend Checklist: Doomtree, Romantica, Trailer Trash and more

    ​This weekend is hella packed with local shows. That's right, hella. Check our recommendations below for your best bets for the weekend, from back-to-back Doomtree shows to a raucous sock drive to a matinee show with Trailer Trash.

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    M.anifest, Jon Davis, Pete Hennig selected as MECA winners

    Photo by Sean SmudaMECA winner Jon Davis​It's always reassuring when an organization recognizes the time and resources required for a musician to devote any significant portion of time to their art. So we were thrilled to hear that three local musicians have been selected by the American Composers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Jon Davis talks about tonight's Somethin' Else event

    ​Jon Davis is a machine. No, scratch that; he is more like a rapidly mutating musical organism. The hardest working musician in the Twin Cities. His countless projects include his electronic guises, the enigmatic Ghostband and Speakerthrone, as well as his guest spots in different jazz and folk en ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Dr. Dog at First Avenue, 10/23/10

    Photos by Steve Cohen​Dr. Dog October 23, 2010 First Avenue My second visit to First Avenue in the week, I walk into the club for Dr. Dog's Saturday night appearance expecting a much tamer crowd than during my first (Hank III/Assjack, Wednesday night), and yet, as security staff checks IDs and ap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Tonight: The Somethin' Else #4 with Ice Rod, Mike Mictlan, Michael Larsen and more

    ​Late announcement! The Somethin' Else - local musical polymath Jon Davis' monthly series of electronic and experimental commingles - is having its fourth installment tonight at The Book House in Dinkytown. Tonight is featuring some truly epic guests, not even including those above: Sims, Medium Z ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    Loring Alley Party, Spirits of the Red City, and more from the weekend

    Photo by Nikki Miller​Just another hot, hot summer of our lives... This past weekend was packed from end-to-end with local shows of every variety, from Friday night's Rogue Valley CD-release show at the Mainroom to Saturday's Pizza Luce Block Party and Loring Alley Party and Sunday's marathon hoot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    The Somethin' Else #1 comes to Stevens Square this Friday

    ​Back in March we wrote about the innovative, lovingly curated, and highly conceptual Dystopia Days, a project from local musician and man-about Jon Davis (bassist for one of my favorite bands in town, Haunted House). This week Davis begins a new project that's equally reasoned and intelligent, ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Arrrrre Yyyyou Rrrrready? A Live Review of Korn

    ​by Nikki Miller and Andrew FlanaganFor this second chapter of Rational Dialectic, Andrew Flanagan and Nikki Miller soak in the sold-out Korn show in First Avenue's Main Room, wherein they encounter a real-life vagitarian, black shirt farts, and confront head-on their checkered musical her-and-his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Ghostband's Jon Davis prepares for Dystopia Days at the Bedlam

    A whopping 12 local experimental acts will play the unique event this weekend.

  • Calendar

    January 7, 2009

    Get Lucky 2009: Lucky Seven and the Seven Deadly Sins…

    A whopping 12 local experimental acts will play the unique event this weekend.

  • Music

    September 10, 2008

    Black Audience: Jayanthi Kyle left the church to find a home

    A whopping 12 local experimental acts will play the unique event this weekend.

  • Music

    July 18, 2007

    Apparition Man

    Jon Davis is alone in GhostBand

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