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Michael Bland

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Top 20 best Minnesota songs: The complete list

    Related:Top 20 best Minnesota musiciansFirst Avenue's 20 best concertsFirst Avenue's 20 best concerts: Readers' picks50 cool facts about the Minnesota music sceneCountless songwriters have found inspiration in the Land of 10,000 Lakes over the years, and even more have hit upon something revelatory ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Top 20 best Minnesota songs: #10-1

    Related:Top 20 best Minnesota songs: #20-11Top 20 best Minnesota musiciansFirst Avenue's 20 best concertsCountless songwriters have found inspiration in the Land of 10,000 Lakes over the years, and even more have hit upon something revelatory about Minnesota without ever becoming full-time residen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Soul Asylum finishing up first new album since 2006, tentatively titled 'Rough Air'

    Photo by Steve CohenDave Pirner singing at Tommy Stinson's solo show at First Avenue this past May​Though Soul Asylum have continued to gig sporadically in the Twin Cities (and Dave Pirner has taken up a part-time job smashing guitars at his bass player's solo gigs), it's been five years since the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Music in Mears 2011 lineup revealed

    The Twilight Hours play Mears Park on July 28​Lowertown St. Paul's picturesque Mears Park will once again be the host of a series of concerts this summer, including the Twin Cities Jazz Fest June 23-25 and the free Music in Mears series on Thursday nights in June, July, and August. The series kick ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Soul Asylum at First Avenue, 12/17/10

    Photos by Nick Wosika​Soul AsylumDecember 17, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisIt felt like the early '90s at First Avenue again, as a packed crowd awaited the highly anticipated first show by Soul Asylum at the venue since last December. Mysterious percussion and tool noises came from behind the scre ... 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

    June 11, 2009

    DJ Q&A: Otherworldly spaceman Alexander East

    Minneapolis soul-house fixture Alex East talks about his first time at First Ave, why he doesn't need anything, and Iron Maiden.

  • Music

    December 17, 2008

    Doomtree, Solid Gold, and Vampire Hands deftly dot Minneapolis's music timeline in '08

    Crack open our Twin Cities Local Music Yearbook and reminisce on an effed-up year

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2008

    Possible new Replacements project in the works

    Crack open our Twin Cities Local Music Yearbook and reminisce on an effed-up year

  • Music

    August 29, 2007

    Mr. Blue Sky

    Local Music’s Most Optimistic Fan Joins the Current

  • Movies

    February 14, 2007

    Katrina documentaries talk, argue, and fall silent before disaster

    Local Music’s Most Optimistic Fan Joins the Current

  • News

    December 27, 2006

    Artists of the Year

    Local Music’s Most Optimistic Fan Joins the Current

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2005

    Soul Asylum's return to the stage

    Local Music’s Most Optimistic Fan Joins the Current

  • News

    May 18, 2005

    We Got Us

    They write their own songs. They play their own instruments. For 19 years, they've stuck together. The rise and fall -- and rise -- of St. Paul's greatest R&B band, Mint Condition.

  • News

    December 15, 2004

    Local Music Yearbook '04

    We crowd-surfed with R.T. We bar hopped on light rail. And between some of our precious last sucks on a cigarette at the club, we scribbled it all down on a cocktail napkin.

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2004

    Death of a Monk

    We crowd-surfed with R.T. We bar hopped on light rail. And between some of our precious last sucks on a cigarette at the club, we scribbled it all down on a cocktail napkin.

  • Music

    November 24, 1999

    I Don't Know the Artist, But I Know What I Like

    We crowd-surfed with R.T. We bar hopped on light rail. And between some of our precious last sucks on a cigarette at the club, we scribbled it all down on a cocktail napkin.

  • Music

    February 14, 1996

    Sonic Valentines

    We crowd-surfed with R.T. We bar hopped on light rail. And between some of our precious last sucks on a cigarette at the club, we scribbled it all down on a cocktail napkin.

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