This was such a killer week for local music videos. I was stoked to include a new one from Dessa, one of my favorite Minnesota musicians. We also got new visuals from a 15th anniversary party performer and an exciting new Picked to Click band. Want a chance to be featured in an upcoming Friday Five? E-mail […]
POLIÇA + s t a r g a z e – “How Is This Happening” As if POLIÇA and s t a r g a z e‘s Music for the Long Emergency wasn’t collaborative enough, Santa Fe arts collective MEOW WOLF joined on to produce a short film for “How Is This Happening.” It’s hard to […]
Student 1 — “Ready” Rapper Student 1 and creative team CMNCLTR follow up their fantastic “Paint” video with “Ready,” a track from Stu’s forthcoming EP Dork, which drops today. Nikki Jean — “People & Planes” Things get catastrophic in this video from Rhymesayers artist (and native Minnesotan) Nikki Jean, who’ll perform at this year’s official Soundset Before […]
Ever since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the island has been struggling with limited power, water, and fuel. Musicians in Minnesota are stepping up to do their part with shows including a Kitty Cat Club fundraiser tomorrow called “Fuerza” — Spanish for “strength” — as well as a Tom Petty tribute tonight at the Turf Club, […]
To commemorate the one-year anniversary of Prince’s death, we wanted to round up some of our favorite local tributes to the pop icon. While dozens of others are out there, our list was limited to songs available online. Here’s our top picks for Minnesota-made Prince homages and covers. Tickle Torture, “Full Court Press (feat. Velvet Negroni)” […]
We in Minnesota should spend more time outside. The weather can make that difficult — as I’m writing this, it’s cold and drizzly — but it’s good for us to ditch our skyways and living rooms, making effort to spend time under the sun. In his music video for “Sagepatch Kid,” off 2016 EP The Homecoming, local rapper Tufawon sets a great […]
“Let us grow,” Tufawon chants near the beginning of The Send Off’s “Freedom Seeker,” starting a conversation with the cosmos. His hungry intonation swoops into a stellar verse from Elay, and soon, Tufawon will return to spit bars and shut down the song. But first, he repeats, “Let us grow” — with a “please” this […]
Mark Mallman, “The End Is Not The End” Following in his creative video-making tradition (see: “Terrified” and “It’s Good To Be Alive”), Mark Mallman plays with images using Prisma, a photo-animating app. The video jumps into the in between, showing people in dreams both individual and somehow shared. It’s split-screen; it’s “both and”; it’s questioning — and it urgently defies any typical narrative arc. As Mallman […]
Hippo Campus: “South” Vevo’s “dscvr” series is so anxious to find the hottest new bands, it doesn’t have time for vowels. Woodbury upstarts Hippo Campus recorded a new live video for their song “South” as the sprightly number, a hit among our listeners, continues to spread nationally. The band are busily touring the U.S., but they’ll […]
