A Prairie Home Companion at Fitzgerald Theater on 10/25/03

By: David de Young
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A shot of the Prairie Home Companion stage on Saturday. Andrea Zonn and Stuart Duncan fiddle stage right as Vasen plays stage left. Garrision Keillor waits center stage. Photo by Anna Lee (click for full size version) Prairie Home Companion writer and Artistic Director Garrison Keillor came out on the stage of the Fitzgerald ...

Atmosphere at First Avenue on 10/24/03

By: Zach Hasler
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Atmosphere's "Seven's Travels" tour made the anticipated hometown stop in Minneapolis October 24th and 25th at First Avenue. I attended Friday, and for those that didn't—well, I hope you made it out on Saturday. The Rhymesayers faithful following packed the room, threw down, and were treated to an evening of first-rate true hip-hop. Before doors opened at 5, there were a couple hundred ...

Sherwin Linton CD Release Party at Fine Line Music Café on 10/20/03

By: David de Young
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Sherwin Linton kicks up his heels at the Fine Line Monday night - photo by Steve Wolf (click for full size) Sherwin Linton held the second of two CD release parties for his latest album, "It Happened in America" (Black Gold Records, 2003) at the Fine Line on Monday evening. This was a show I'd been looking forward to c...

The Handsome Family at 400 Bar on 10/19/03

By: Nancy Jane Meyer
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"Only the Tear Filled Eye Does Not Close" "Happy families are all alike," Tolstoy wrote, and subsequently a vain and despairing woman hurls herself in front of a train when society, family and love fail her. Much has been made of the literary allusions in the Handsome Family Songbook, in which a sense of uneasy collision between the natural world and the industrial exists: somnolent fie...

Artwear in Motion: Future Tense at Textile Center of Minnesota on 10/18/03

By: David de Young
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Two models exhibit some of the wearable art by artist Cynthia McGuirl of Thomaston, ME at Artwear in motion I spent my Sunday doing something I would not have guessed a year ago that I'd be doing. I volunteered from noon to 6 p.m. to staff a boutique during the second and final day of the Textile Center of Minnesota's (http://www.textilecente...

Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man at Fitzgerald Theater on 10/17/03

By: Jim Froehlich
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Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Photo courtesy of High Road Touring So I'm in my seat waiting for the show to begin when this post-modern chick plops down behind me with her date and starts recreating the movie line scene from "Annie Hall". Apparently, portions of the new Beth Gibbons/Rustin Man CD "Out Of Season" are informed by Michael ...

Joe Henry at Fine Line Music Café on 10/13/03

By: David de Young
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Joe Henry at the Fine Line Sunday, October 12th - Photo by David de Young (Click for full-size. Dim the lights, put on some smooth, lounge-lizardy jazz, pour yourself a strong cocktail, and light up a smoke. Or just slip on Joe Henry's latest album, Tiny Voices. (Anti-, 2003) If this website's template allowed, I'd write this review in grey or b...

Hot Hot Heat at The Quest Club on 10/2/03

By: David de Young
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Hot Hot Heat performs at the Quest - photo by David de Young (click for full size) Reviewed by David de Young When I arrived at The Quest Club about halfway through French Kicks set, the first two things I noticed were related: One, the club was filled with a preponderance of yo...

The Frames at Fine Line Music Café on 9/30/03

By: David de Young
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Glen Hansard of the Frames at the Fine Line Tuesday night - Photo by David de Young (click for full size) The Frames finished their set at the Fine Line in Minneapolis nearly 24 hours ago. Tonight I'm sitting at home listening to their Live CD, "Set List," which was recorded in Dublin in November of 2002, still under th...

Turbonegro at Fine Line Music Café on 9/25/03

By: Jim Froehlich
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Hank von Helvete of Turbonegro at the Fine Line - Photo courtesy of http://www.odysseyzine.com (used with permission) Pity the Scandinavian rock band: lacking a modern musical heritage of their own, they succumb to the worst excesses of both inane pop (Ace of Base, Roxette) and evil satanic metal (Burzum, Emperor). I mean, when yo...