Made to be Broken

we've moved!!!!!!!!!!

2006-04-14T17:11:00.000-07:00

www.myspace.com/madetobebrokenmn

Saturday Best Bets

2006-03-28T16:56:00.000-08:00

Chris Koza CD Release Party for "Patterns" w/ Fitzgerald, and Coach Said Not To - Turf Club

Beth Orton with special guests - First Avenue $20 7PM 21+

Ela / Friends Like These / Superdanger / DJ Steve McPherson - Nomad World Pub 10pm $5

Friday Night Best Bets

2006-03-28T16:53:00.000-08:00

KID DAKOTA w/ Glad Version (CD RELEASE) and Duplomacy - 400 Bar, 21+, $7

JENNY DALTON CD RELEASE w/ Coach Said Not To and These Modern Socks - Varsity Theater, 9 PM, 18+, $5

331 Club 1 year anniversary fe: the Get Up Johns, the Roe Family Singers, Glen Hanson's Lonesome - 331 Club $0

Magical Misery Tour?

2006-03-28T16:48:00.000-08:00

Magical Misery Tour!!!
featuring Beight, Charley Dush & Nick Leet (of High on Stress)

Thursday, March 30 @ The Terminal Bar - (Acoustic) Magical Misery Tour Kickoff Party

Friday, March 31 @ Beautiful Day Cafe (Pewaukee, WI) - (Acoustic)

Saturday, April 1 @ Gallery Cabaret (Chicago) - (Acoustic)

Sunday, April 2 @ Mick's Bar (Omaha) - (Acoustic)

Monday, April 3 @ Davey's Uptown (Kansas City) - (Acoustic)

Friday Night Best Bets

2006-03-24T10:57:00.000-08:00

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness w/ Planes for Spaces and The Julie Puppets - 400 Bar 10pm 21+

RIFT MAGAZINE PARTY, feat. HIGH ON STRESS w/ Beight, Derailleur and more - Terminal Bar, 9:15 PM, 21+, $5

2024 Records Showcase fe: The Hopefuls, Romantica and Duplomacy.- O'Gara's $8 8PM - $21

New Prince album released today!!!! 3121

2006-03-21T14:33:00.000-08:00

Prince 3121 released today!!!

Saturday Night Best Bets

2006-03-18T14:56:00.000-08:00

Afternoon records 3 year anniversary party Day 1, fe:
Superdanger
Look Down
Aneuretical
Hello Blue

ID Show - 10PM - $7
Superdanger
Look Down
Aneuretical
Hello Blue
Triple Rock Social Club 5PM AA $7

Doomtree, Mel Gibson and the Pants, Snakebird w/ live painting and breakdancing - Varsity Theater, 9:00, FREE

CHARLIE PARR - 331 Club, 9 PM, 21+, $0

Friday Night Best Bets - ST PATRICK'S DAY ROCK!!!

2006-03-16T08:35:00.000-08:00

Anchorhead w/ the Wranglers and Roe Family Singers 9:30pm - 21+ - $5 - TERMINAL BAR

Mood Swings w/ So It Goes and Vanishing Kids (Madison) 10pm - 21+ - $5 - UPTOWN BAR

Haley Bonar CD Release party, w/ Redstart 8:00 (7:00 doors), $10 - CEDAR CULTURAL CENTER

New Local Releases -- get to the FETUS

2006-03-14T11:19:00.000-08:00

Low Lustre - Low Lustre

Colonial Vipers Attack - Colonial Vipers Attack

Koalas - Koalas

Red Room - Red Room

Thusrday Night Best Bets

2006-03-14T11:11:00.000-08:00

Radio MNArtists: Live at the McGuire Thu Mar 16
Interviews and performances by Black-Eyed Snakes; Jake Keeler; Spaghetti Western String Company; Truth Maze. Hosted by KFAI's Marya Morstad with Neal Cuthbert. Free; ticket required. 6:00 pm WALKER ART CENTER

The Mad Buggers (Pink Floyd's the Wall) Thu Mar 16
18+. $8. 9:00 pm. VARSITY THEATER

Sofa Kingdom; 4th Year Freshman; Reverend Pokey Bunge; Re-Animated; Dirty Sanchez Thu Mar 16
Free. UPTOWN BAR

Saturday Night Best Bets

2006-03-10T08:48:00.000-08:00

Crackle and Drag: Tribute to Paul Westerberg feat. Johnny Clash and the Hootenannies, Elliot Hilton and the Roe Family Singers - Terminal Bar, 9 PM, 21+, $5

Signal to Trust / The Monarques / Colonial Vipers Attack (CD Release) / Cardinal Sin - Turf Club 10pm 21+ $5 cover

The Mighty Mofos - Triple Rock 10PM - 21+ - $5 cover

Friday Night Best Bets!!!!

2006-03-09T08:13:00.000-08:00

Friends Like These / Askeleton / The Beatifics / Big Trouble / Johnny Swordson - HEXAGON BAR - 21+ - NO COVER!!! 10pm

The Smoking Popes / Bayside / Story of the Sea - TRIPLE ROCK - 5PM $10 all ages

High On Stress / Van Pelt / Capital Sons - CLUB UNDERGROUND 10pm - $5 Cover - 21+

Tapes n' Tapes tour dates at Pitchfork

2006-03-09T08:08:00.000-08:00

Tapes 'n Tapes Announce U.S. Dates

Matthew Solarski reports:
Bands christened with silly, music-hardware-related names have gone over extraordinarily well here at Pitchfork. Just look at the Walkmen, Stereolab, the Microphones, and, hello, Radiohead. The latest entry in this hallowed litany: Minneapolis-based quartet Tapes 'n Tapes.

Conveniently coinciding with their recent 8.3 rating and "Best New Music" distinction, the infectiously scrappy indie-poppers have announced a wee lil' tour of Texas, California, Oregon, Washington, and, you guessed it, Iowa. Okay, nearly half these dates are SXSW BBQs. Still! Tapes could just be this year's *mumble mumble, nudge, wink*, if you know what I'm saying. Strike while this iron's molten.

AND they're playing a Houston venue called Super Happy Fun Land! For serious!

Loony:

03-10 Dallas, TX - The Cavern *$
03-13 San Antonio, TX - Blacklion *
03-14 Houston, TX - Super Happy Fun Land! ^
03-15 Austin, TX - Trading Post (SXSW Levi's/Fader Party) +
03-15 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Stage (SXSW Live on KEXP)
03-16 Austin, TX - Red 7 (SXSW Team Clermont/Echo Label Party) %
03-17 Austin, TX - Antone's (SXSW Spaceland/Echo Party)
03-17 Austin, TX - Latitude 30 (SXSW) ~
03-18 Austin, TX - The Velvet Spade (SXSW NY2LON party) #
03-21 Los Angeles, CA - AlterKnit Lounge
03-22 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland &
03-23 San Francisco, CA - Café du Nord
03-24 Portland, OR - Dante's @
03-25 Seattle, WA - Sunset Tavern @
03-31 Iowa City, IA - The Mill (Mission Creek Midwest Festival)
04-28 Chicago, IL - Subterranean =
04-29 Chicago, IL - Schubas !

* with Birdmonster
$ with Seventeen Evergreen, Bill (from Sound Team)
^ with Dr. Dog, Hudson Bell, The New Flesh
+ with the Zutons, Cities, Rumble Strips, Carina Round, La Rocca, Field Music
% with Midlake, Field Music, the Capes, Stephen Yerkey, King of France
~ with Jason Forrest, Best Fwends, Sukpatch, Tilly and the Wall, Au Revoir Simone
# with Editors, the Rakes, Two Gallants, the Morning After Girls, the Kooks, Voxtrot, Boy Kill Boy, the Heights, the Charlatans
& with Little Barrie
@ with The Double, Mazarin
= with Essex Green
! with the Wrens

* Pitchfork Review: Tapes 'n Tapes: The Loon
* Tapes 'n Tapes: www.tapesntapes.com

Tapes n' Tapes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2006-03-09T08:01:00.000-08:00

courtesy of www.cokemachineglow.com

Interview: Tapes 'n Tapes
by Alan Baban

So an indie rock reviewer and an indie rock frontman meet up for an interview and dicuss... indie rock. CMG's lone British scribe, Alan Baban, recently got the chance to talk music with Josh Grier: his favorite records, his biggest letdowns, and even a little about his own band, Tapes 'n Tapes.

If you're looking for more info on the band's excellent debut, read CMG's review, then read below to get a glimpse into the influences, and one of the personalities, behind it.

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CMG's Alan Baban (CMG): Have there been any instances where you’ve been deflated by an artist blowing their whole credos on one megaflop record?
Josh Grier (JG): The Green Album is definitely eclipsing everything else right now.
CMG: I remember hearing it for the first time and just feeling so deflated at how one of, what I considered, to be the best pure pop bands in the world could put out, well, something so bland.
JG: The Spaghetti Incident definitely was a bit of a let down but by the end of Use Your Illusion II... I guess it wasn't too much of a surprise.

CMG: What do you think makes all these great bands suddenly just turn out a whole load of crap? Major labels? Larger audiences? Scott Shriner?
JG: I'm not sure... it's always been a great mystery to me. I think that listening too much to what people say about your music can definitely screw up the delicate balance. I think bands start to anticipate what people want to hear, and then everything can kind of go to shit, you know?

CMG: Yeah, that's what struck me about The Loon. Although we're working, at face value, in fairly conventional indie pop parameters, there's some crazy stuff going down there. Most of it is just really inspired and unpretentious, which is refreshing, to say the least. You’re on an indie label now, right?
JG: Thanks, we actually self-released the record under our own little "fake" label, ibid records.

CMG: Awesome, it seems to be picking up a lot of press now, though. I know we had our review go up a while back on CMG, and Pitchfork seems to be sending out the fishing nets, too.
JG: Yeah, it's all really exciting and a bit overwhelming, at times. Everything’s been happening really fast the last few months. I mean, we just released the album locally in November, so all this stuff is pretty amazing for us. For a band with very modest aspirations, I think I can truthfully say that the last month has far exceeded all of them.

CMG: You're lucky though, in that, although there's certainly been lots of word of mouth via blogs etc., I wouldn't say we've approached DEFCON 1 just yet. I think it's because the online community you're breaking all over is very close-knit, and we're pretty much all past the "Holy Crap!!! The New Arcade Fire/CYH/Wolf Parade/Voxtrot" bull. I think that's the NME's rag now. What’s your take on this mid-millennial burst in commercial indie?
JG: I'm digging it. The music scene right now is so much more exciting for than, say, 5 years ago.
CMG: Really? There's evidently certain bands that appear to be acknowledging and transcending their influences, but on the other hand, there's others who seem to directly copycat them, or worse, rip new acts, like Editors and Interpol. Well, at least the whole rap metal scene is done and dusted.
JG: Yeah, as much as I’m sure we all loved the Kid Rock/Korn days...

CMG: Listen to any rap?
JG: Definitely. I'm more into the early ‘90s Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Nate Dogg scene than a lot of the newer stuff, but Mos Def and Madvillain are great.
CMG: Have you heard Edan's Beauty & the Beat?
JG: Not yet, but I've heard about it, and I think I need to hear it. I think our bass player might have it, so I have to bug him to borrow it.
CMG: I'd recommend it, especially if you're into your late '60s/early '70s psyche. Do you have a favourite personal era?
JG: I think my favorite personal era depends on the day of the week. It totally depends on the mood I'm in. Sometimes it's late '70s punk, then it's mid '90s, then it's late '60s. The top 5 records is equally difficult...I think I'd have to do a top 20 to make sure not to forget anything...

CMG: There's some bands, don't you agree, where you listen to a song, or whatever, and it totally lifts your spirits, and you end up exploring solely their back catalogue for weeks on end. I’m thinking Pixies here, specifically...
JG: Definitely... that's totally how I got into Pixies.
CMG: ”Debaser?”
JG: Yup. It always has to be "Debaser."
CMG: I know! There's one guy I know, though, who tried to argue that "Debaser" is a poor song, something along the lines of "It never explodes" or "where’s the fist-pumping chorus." I can’t comprehend that guy’s thought process. He also likes Mcfly. There was a point where I couldn’t take anybody's opinion on music seriously if they didn’t think "Debaser" was brilliant.
JG: My old room mate (who I started the band with, but has since moved on to grad-school) never "got" the Pixies... it was a sore point.

Some top records: Wire's Chairs Missing, Radiohead's Kid A, Neutral Milk Hotel's Aeroplane over the Sea, Silver Jews’ American Water...

CMG: Chairs Missing over Pink Flag?
JG: Yeah, it's a tough call, but I think that Chairs Missing was such a huge step forward in such a short amount of time...and it was the melding of new-wave and punk... I still love Pink Flag.

CMG: The Silver Jews are such an underrated presence on the whole early '90s indie rock movement, and they continue to flourish.
JG: Tanglewood Numbers was one of my favourite records last year. David Berman is a great songwriter.

CMG: So what do you think is more important in the writing of songs, the music or the lyrics (old debate, I know).
JG: Music, and lyrics that don’t detract from it. That’s why I think Dylan and Berman are so amazing, because they have great music and great lyrics – the double threat.
CMG: It also helps if you’ve got Malkmus on guitar, too. Well, sometimes, at least.
JG: Yeah, it’s a little unfair, isn’t it.
CMG: His playing on American Water is just ridiculous.
JG: It perfectly fits the album.

CMG: Looking forward to any new records this year?
JG: There are so many… Outkast, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Built to Spill...
CMG: Radiohead!
JG: Definitely Futureheads, and of course Radiohead.
CMG: I think there’s some sort of competition among the CMG staff where the winner gets to review the new Radiohead.
JG: Really? Can I enter?
CMG: Ha! I was too scared to enter. Reviewing Radiohead is a daunting task -- it took me a few months at least to get to grips with Kid A.
JG: I think I am still hearing something new every time I listen to Kid A... and I've probably listened to it at least a couple hundred times. It’s an amazing record.

CMG: Are we to expect some similar ‘what?!!’ moments from Tapes n’Tapes in the near future?
JG: I sure hope so... I think that's one of the best things about music. So, if we're able to do that, then I think we're being successful.

CMG: Well, Josh, I wish you the best, it certainly looks promising at the moment
JG: Thanks Alan, it was great talking to you. Thanks for a great interview/music chat.

Kirby Puckett

2006-03-08T13:55:00.000-08:00

Crackle and Drag: Paul Westerberg Tribute

2006-03-06T14:06:00.000-08:00

Just saw this posted over on the forum at
www.howwastheshow.com

Crackle and Drag - Paul Westerberg Tribute
Terminal Bar on Saturday Night March 11th
21+
$5 cover
9pm doors
music at 9:45 pm

Roe Family Singers
Elliot Hilton (w/band)
&
Johnny Clash and the Hootenannies (sounds like an alias to me)

I can't wait for this one!!!!

Saturday Night Best Bets

2006-03-04T11:44:00.000-08:00

SMA Records Showcase w/ Ol' Yeller, Flamin' Oh's, The Gleam, The New Vintage & Mike Nicolai - Cabooze 8pm $8 cover 21+

Plastic Constellations w/ Thunder in the Valley - Turf Club 10pm $5 cover 21+

Your Loving Tiger; The Gilded Age; the Jealousy Sat Mar 4
$5. cover 9:00 pm 21+

Beight - File in Rhythm

2006-03-03T12:17:00.000-08:00

Purchase his album here... http://cdbaby.com/cd/beight

March - ARTIST OF THE MONTH

2006-03-02T09:18:00.000-08:00

Beight

Find him here... www.myspace.com/beight

Friday Night - Best Bets

2006-03-02T08:41:00.000-08:00

Nada Surf / Rogue Wave / Inara George, Fine Line, 8:00, $13.50 adv/$15 door

The Ashtray Hearts and Mike Nicolai - 331 Club 9:00, FREE 21+

John Mars (Madison, WI) Ryan Brake & Vince Everitt(Detroit, MI) Elliot Hilton & Jenny Dalton - Club Underground 9PM 21+ $5

Made to be Broken

2006-03-02T08:36:00.000-08:00

Made to be Broken was created with the idea of promoting local Twin Cities music as well as music from all over. You will see show listings, cd and live reviews as well as general opinions on the state of music. Stay tuned...