Email AuthorReed Fischer
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Triple Rock shuts down Triple Double night due to violence
May 22, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Denis Jeong PlasterMike 2600 spinning at Triple Double Not long after its five-year anniversary, another popular dance night bites the dust. For the time being, the Triple Rock...
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Summer Music & Movies 2013 at Walker Art Center lineup
May 21, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Emily UtneThe Walker Art Center's yearly pairing of high-concept film and local music, Summer Music & Movies, has just unveiled this year's slate of entertainment. Running on Mondays...
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MN State Fair 2013 free stages: Sheila E., Chastity Brown, and more
May 21, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Sheila E.Most Minnesotans hunger for music as much as they crave cheese curds -- if not more. So it makes sense that between the Minnesota State Fair's Grandstand entertainment and...
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"Clouds" songwriter Zach Sobiech has died
May 20, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Erik HessThe prodigious singer-songwriter Zach Sobiech's trials with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, have ended. When his song "'Clouds" went viral last year, the teenager brought...
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Watch Prince perform "Let's Go Crazy" on the Billboard Music Awards
May 20, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Prince kicked off what should be an epic week with a storming of the 2013 Billboard Music Awards Sunday in Las Vegas. It was announced earlier this year that he'd...
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Concert promoter Sue McLean has died
May 17, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Sue McLean, an independent Twin Cities concert promoter, passed Friday afternoon after a battle with cancer. Any regular show-goer in the region has attended countless shows booked by McLean over...
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Bassgasm 9 lineup announced
May 17, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Bassgasm is back for its ninth offering -- the second and final installment of 2013 -- on July 13. The five-stage electronic music event takes over every inch of First...
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Walker Art Center's 2013-14 music lineup
May 17, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Never doubt the power of the Walker Art Center to bring together one of the most intriguing assortments of performance art in the region. The gallery's 2013-14 season is no...
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Love is the Law Concert with the Suburbs, 5/14/13
May 15, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Anna GulbrandsenLove is the Law ConcertWith the Suburbs, Gay Men's Chorus, Jack Brass Band, P.O.S., Zoo Animal, and Hookers $ BlowEcolab Plaza, St. PaulTuesday, May 14, 2013"Life is...
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Love Is the Law concert celebrating marriage equality announced
May 13, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Love is the law.Well, it will be officially on Tuesday. Following Governor Dayton's signing of the Freedom to Marry Bill Tuesday afternoon, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman will host a...
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Heliotrope Festival is "on pause" for 2013
May 13, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Erik HessHasps at Heliotrope 2012Over the past decade, the Heliotrope Festival has been a long-standing beacon of bizarre innovation in local music and beyond. Hosted at area theaters...
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Prof wants your beats for King Gampo follow-up album
May 09, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Anna GulbrandsenEnterprising hip-hop producers, you have the power to decide where Prof's sound heads next. The Minneapolis rapper, who has employed jazz samples, EDM explosions, and trap rap...
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Kitty Pryde calls Danny Brown Triple Rock incident "an actual sexual assault"
May 02, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Erik HessKitty Pryde performing at Triple Rock on FridayDanny Brown's show last weekend at the Triple Rock, in which a member of the audience allegedly performed oral sex...
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Man impersonating Pink Floyd's David Gilmour arrested at St. Cloud hospital
May 01, 2013 in Gimme Noise
David Gilmour's Facebook page; mugshot via St. Cloud PoliceAt left: David Gilmour; at right: Not David Gilmour In "Us and Them" off Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd's David...
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Danny Brown's Triple Rock show sparks unseemly oral sex controversy
April 30, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Erik HessDanny Brown at Triple Rock Social Club on Friday Live performance is an incredibly intimate bond between artists and fans, but that intimacy got busted worse than Danny...
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Doomtree at Roosevelt High School, 4/26/13
April 29, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Erik HessDoomtree Roosevelt High School Auditorium, Minneapolis Friday, April 26, 2013 "Good morning, Roosevelt." With these words, Dessa quieted the chattering group of students and fans inside the south Minneapolis school's...
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Prince first hit the cover of Rolling Stone 30 years ago
April 29, 2013 in Gimme Noise
A lot of things have changed in the past 30 years, but several of the controversial aspects of Prince were already fully established. For his first Rolling Stone cover story,...
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Totally Gross National Product drops 2013 sampler, massive future plans
April 29, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Garret BornLizzo, with Lazerbeak and Cliff Rhymes, is expected to release LIZZOBANGERS on TGNP in 2013.Doing it big is the only way for Totally Gross National Product. The...
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Doomtree announce surprise show tonight for $5... where?
April 26, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Via Dessa's TwitterLooking for some affordable entertainment to kick off the warm weather? Anyone who is already on Doomtree's email list has the answer. The Twin Cities hip-hop crew is...
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First Avenue named no. 3 best "big room" in America by Rolling Stone
April 26, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Ed NeatonPeople were understandably miffed when First Avenue was left off Rolling Stone's Best Clubs in America list recently. Several of the comments proclaim the general sentiment of...
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Irish alt-rockers Kodaline pen "A Song for Minneapolis," get our attention
April 25, 2013 in Gimme Noise
"The one and only Prince described it well with Purple Rain/ Where Bob Dylan spent his days before he caught the New York Train."If you haven't gotten your band written...
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Macalester radio station dedicates mix to Phantom Vibration's Henry Mackaman
April 24, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Rigoberto Lara + James ChristensonThere are all sorts of reasons to pick up the mixtape compiled by WMCN 91.7 FM, Macalester's college radio station. First of all,...
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First Avenue music festival is postponed for 2013
April 23, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Erik HessWe'll blame the snow for this announcement.Today another major Twin Cities summer festival decided to take 2013 off. The long-gestating First Avenue music festival, which was set...
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Brother Ali to perform on The Lowertown Line's second episode
April 22, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Erik Hess After launching the series earlier this year with Trampled by Turtles, MN Original and TPT have gotten the go-ahead for another episode of their live concert series...
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Watch Har Mar Superstar get interviewed by a fourth grader
April 22, 2013 in Gimme Noise
Here's Har Mar talking with his hands.Your day will improve measurably to see the on-camera interactions between Har Mar Superstar and future talk show host Leo Lorge. Initiated by MTV...
