I have a certain admiration for angry people. As a citizen and scholar of the United States, I’ve read about the provocative suffragettes; the can’t-be-tamed flag-wavers; the defiant revolutionaries. I’ve imagined myself joining their fights. But when I think about the issues threaded through present-day America, I feel numb and/or scared more often than roused. […]
Static Panic – The Crazy Thing Static Panic‘s first music video is an animated project by Wisconsiner Jake Huffcut. For more on this “discolicious” band: The Current selected their EP Chrome as one of 10 Notable Albums of 2018, and they’ll perform at First Avenue’s Best New Bands show on Jan. 4. Emily Haavik & the 35s […]
This month, musicheads far and wide are sitting down to their notebooks or computers, tapering their 2018 listening into one shining top 10 list. We took on a similar task with local albums: not a top 10 list, per se, but a collection of music we found especially memorable this year. These albums roped us […]
The Red Herring Lounge’s annual Super Big Block Party has become an annual highlight of Duluth’s music calendar. Photographer Andy Witchger captured the excitement at the 2018 installment this past Saturday. Solomon Communist Daughter Static Panic Heiruspecs Lissie Hippo Campus