Music

MUSIC PREVIEW | Airick Woodhead of Doldrums gears up for the 7th Street Entry

By Lindsay LaBarre, TC Daily Planet

Photo credit Jeff Rutherford (May 2012)

On Wednesday, April 3, Doldrums wlll play at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis. I had the chance to catch up with Airick Woodhead, the man behind the Montreal-based solo project, via e-mail.
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Andrew Voegtline wins $50,000 McKnight Grant from IFP

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Independent Filmmaker Project Minnesota (IFP) announced today that Andrew Voegtline has been awarded the New Media Project Grant, a $50,000 award from the McKnight Foundation for an innovative media arts project. A graduate of St. Olaf college, where he studied music and composition, Voegtline is interested in fusing technology with various artmaking practices such as video, poetry, dance and music.  His project, Digital Cities, will use GPS location and other information from users’ smartphones to determine what content they will experience, creating a site-specific on overdrive “songscape across the city.”

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2013 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival: Don't miss these hidden gems

By Jim Brunzell III, The Optimistic Pessimist

The sun is now staying out longer and temperatures are on the rise, which only means that, the dirty snow will begin to melt, the flowers will begin to bloom, and right around the corner is the biggest film event in the state of Minnesota.

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Challenge America: National Endowment for the Arts offers a "Fast Track" for arts projects reaching underserved populations

By Jay Gabler, Front Row Seat

10th annual Hmong Arts and Music Festival at Western Sculpture Park, 2011. Photo by Mandy Dwyer.

If you're working for or with a small or mid-sized arts organization and you've been looking for funding to make your programming more accessible to underserved audiences, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) wants to hear from you.

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MUSIC REVIEW | Rihanna's too cool for school during a tepid stop at the Xcel Energy Center

By Marcus Michalik, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Patrick Dunn

Considering the name of her latest album is Unapologetic, it was a bit surprising that the first image of Rihanna’s "Diamonds" tour was one of forgiveness. On her knees in prayer and flanked with religious iconography, Rihanna opened her concert on a somber note with “Mother Mary,” a song that finds the controversial pop star admonishing herself in the eyes of the Lord for falling back on old habits and ultimately admitting that she’s “prepared to die in the moment” in the name of true love.

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MUSIC REVIEW | Local Natives bring impressive range and musicality to First Avenue

By Daniel Niepow, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Chad Rieder

By the time Local Natives took the stage at First Avenue on Saturday, March 23, a sold-out crowd had filled into nearly every inch of the main floor. In the balconies folks peered down from tables or pressed against railings to get a better view.

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Melissa Oakvik's "Peace of Mind": A rich sound from an unlikely source

By Dwight Hobbes, Sounding Off On Sound

I've been fairly fortunate of late in my trips to Corner Coffee over in Minneapolis' Warehouse District, coming across some pretty strong talent. Most recently, going in to play a set early this winter, guitarist Bill Travers and I were getting our gear together off stage when we heard an outfit that was just lighting joint up. It turned out to be one marvelously gifted singer-songwriter Melissa Oakvik backed up by a very tight band.

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MUSIC REVIEW | Lee Brice is all country at Mill City Nights

By Patrick Dunn, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Patrick Dunn

Country music fans packed Mill City Nights Thursday, March 21 to see rising star Lee Brice play a 90-minute set primarily consisting of songs from his current release "Hard 2 Love" and his first album Love Like Crazy. The 32-year-old singer/songwriter chose his path in music after a career ending football injury in college. He is becoming known for his very personal and relatable style of songwriting.

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MUSIC REVIEW | Frightened Rabbit loosen up at the Varsity Theater

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Photos by David McCrindle

According to Sasha Frere-Jones, Neil Diamond’s voice has two settings: less Neil and more Neil. Something similar could be said of Scott Hutchison, frontman of the Scottish band Frightened Rabbit—his thickly accented keen can be less poignant or more poignant, but it’s always poignant. The band’s March 21 show at the Varsity Theater, though, had a “Song Sung Blue” quality to it. The songs were sad, but the mood was buoyant.

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MUSIC REVIEW | Pink makes jaws drop at the Xcel Energy Center

By Patrick Dunn, TC Daily Planet

Photo courtesy Pink

What better way to escape the disappointing cold and snowy white start to spring in the Twin Cities than a big production music event at the Xcel Energy Center, where it was all Pink and very hot. One of Pop/Rock’s most dynamic entertainers, Pink (she spells it P!nk) presented The Truth About Love Tour in support of her sixth studio album with the same title, to a sold out crowd in St. Paul on March 19. The world tour began February 13 in Phoenix and has been selling so well that extra dates are now being added to the back half of the schedule including a November show in Minneapolis.

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