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Loring Park Music & Movies lineup unveiled by the Walker Art Center

Night Moves performing at SXSW

The Minneapolis quartet will perform in Loring Park as part of Music & Movies. Ben Clark

The Walker Art Center is once again hosting three nights of Music & Movies in Loring Park and wrapping up the series with a unique event on its own grounds, this time around with Brute Heart composing and performing an original score during a screening of the silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Other bands on the bill this year include an additional pair of local acts -- recent Domino Records signees Night Moves and folk-rock band Rogue Valley -- plus Zimbabwean Afropop artist Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi.

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MN at SXSW: Local acts compare notes on this year's festival

Poliça, Doomtree seeing spikes in press following trip to Austin

Night Moves

The local quartet were highlighted by MTV as one of the best acts at SXSW. Ben Clark

Last week, while in the thick of SXSW, I wrote that the sprawling Austin, Texas music festival can be a hard experience to quantify. With so many bands and so many venues, it's nearly impossible to step back and get a big-picture look at what's going on. But with the dust finally settling from last week, it's becoming easier to pinpoint which bands made the strongest impressions -- and a quick scan over the media coverage of the festival shows that Minnesotan bands are getting more ink than ever this year.

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First Avenue, Etix, Gimme Noise and The Current announce SXSW day party

Five local acts will perform in Austin, Texas on March 16

Trampled by Turtles

The Duluth quintet will close out First Avenue's SXSW day party. Publicity photo

For the second consecutive year, First Avenue is teaming up with my former stomping grounds, Gimme Noise, to showcase some of the most high-profile Minnesota artists at a SXSW day party down in Austin, Texas. And this year, First Avenue's ticket partner Etix and 89.3 The Current are joining in on the fun. We couldn't be more excited to share our lineup with you this morning.

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Night Moves at the Current Birthday Party

Rising local band Night Moves, fresh off a major label signing to Domino Records (Animal Collective, Four Tet, Arctic Monkeys), opened the first night of our birthday party at First Avenue. Most songs came from their debut Colored Emotions which will be out in the next few months.

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Tapes 'n Tapes, Dead Man Winter, Low, and Night Moves kick off the Current's birthday bash

The evening ended with a gutsy cover of "Purple Rain"

Josh Grier of Tapes 'n Tapes

All photos by MPR's Nate Ryan

What started as a slow-burner of a night ended with an explosion of adoration and positive energy, serving as a perfect kick-off to the Current’s birthday parties in the First Avenue Mainroom. Now in its seventh year, the station expanded their popular all-local birthday bash into a two-night run, and judging from the celebratory spirit of last night’s show we’re in for a fantastic night again tonight.

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Current Birthday Party: Friday 1/27

Friday was the first night of 89.3 The Current's two-night 7th Birthday Party at First Avenue, and it was a huge success! Read Andrea Swensson's recap here. Thanks to everyone who came out and to all the bands who performed and made it such a special night. We can't wait to keep the party going Saturday night. 

Interview

Meet Jared Isabella, the drummer in three of First Avenue's seven Best New Bands

Isabella says the busy Twin Cities scene makes it easy to multi-task

Jared Isabella

The busy drummer will perform three sets tonight. Courtesy Jared Isabella

It's a classic Minneapolis love story. Drummer moves to town, joins a band, then joins another band, and another -- and soon he's juggling so many gigs and projects that it's enough to make the casual concertgoer's head spin. Such is the case for 25-year-old Jared Isabella, who started drumming in Yer Cronies but soon found himself entangled in a web of musicians who bandy between handfuls of different projects.