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Featured Story: Bill Mike Band CD Release w/ Hummingbird

By: Donette Ambrosy

Bill Mike Band - Photo by Jenn Barnett “Mommy, is this rock ‘n roll?”   “Yes, darling. It’s the Bill Mike Band.”   This naïve yet profound exchange between my four-year-old son and me serves as an adequate summary of the experience we shared at the Cedar Cultural Center Friday night.   My kiddo requested an unprecedented “spiky hairdo” for the show; little did we know just how à propos my diminutive hipster’s finger-in-a-light-socket coiffure would be for the Bill Mike Band CD Release Party.  The band exudes the spirit of rock ‘n roll in its truest, big-hair-in...

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Photo of the Week for November, 13, 2008

Lookbook has become one of the hottest bands on the Twin Cities stages this year.  You may remember vocalist Maggie Morrison from the also quite successful Digitata.  With Digitata on hiatus for now, Morrison has been working with Grant Cutler (Passions, Sun Giant) on Lookbook. Morisson’s voice is mesmerizing, strong, sexy, as otherworldly as ever, and so fluid you can practically lose yourself in it. Check out “My Darkness” and “King of Con” on their...

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Photo by: Robert Luna

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