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    August 5, 2011

    Seven Inches of Minnesota Music: The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group, 'Mij Amsterdam'

    ​ While it may have seemed like the Legendary Jim Ruiz Group were a part of the lounge and swing music revival of the '90s, Jim Ruiz, his brother Chris and then wife, Stephanie Winter were more enthused with European pop, mod culture, new wave punk and two-tone ska music of the '80s.

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    June 8, 2005

    How Could You Idiots Forget...?

    Ten (or eleven) more Funkytown favorites

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    December 29, 1999

    A Power of Ten

    Slug's love bug, Kat Bjelland's exorcism, Dave Pirner's throbbing shins: Ten years of local music served on ten great platters.

  • News

    July 15, 1998

    The Music of Chance

    An artist of the accidental, Jim Ruiz croons a lounge music of personal loss.

  • News

    January 24, 1996

    The Year in Music 1995

    An artist of the accidental, Jim Ruiz croons a lounge music of personal loss.

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