Martin Sexton at Pantages Theatre on 11/15/03

By: Kristin A. Hasler
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My first experience with Martin Sexton was at the expansive, glorious Winnipeg Folk Festival several years back, about 180 degrees from the primly restored Pantages Theatre in downtown Minneapolis. Sitting in a crowd of well-scrubbed white folks in jeans, I felt like a tourist in my head-to-toe black (hey, you try to dress for an evening of multiple venues and music genres). I felt more touristy when the lights dimmed and the crowd went positively...

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...

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...

The Raveonettes with Stellastarr, Holly Golightly and KO and the Knockouts at First Avenue on 9/23/03

By: David de Young
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The Raveonettes at First Avenue - Photo by David de Young (click for full size) Tuesdays night's 4 band bill at First Avenue is one show for which I'm glad I arrived fashionably on time. Detroit's down to earth garage rockers Ko and the Knockouts jump started what turned out to be one of my favorite national show bills of the fall so far. (Of course, it'...

Miguel Migs at Escape Ultra Lounge on 9/13/03

By: Kristin A. Hasler
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Miguel Migs - publicity photo Related Links: http://www.astralwerks.com/migs/ http://www.transportrecordings.com http://www.twincitiesnightclubs.com/escape.asp I found myself in a retail space on a Saturday night, hopped up on an excitement not usually culti...

The Dandy Warhols at First Avenue on 9/4/03

By: David de Young
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The Dandy Warhols at First Avenue - Photo by Anna Lee Members: Courtney Taylor-Taylor – guitar/vocals Zia McCabe – Keyboards/tambourine Brent DeBoer – drums/cool afro Peter Loew - (aka Peter Holmstrom) – guitar _____ - trumpet Official website: http://www.dandywarhols.com ...