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Viva Lutsen!: Snowball, Dessa, DJ Abilities to hit the slopes this month
Posted by: Chris Riemenschneider under Music, Minnesota musicians Updated: January 4, 2013 - 10:13 AM
Dead Man Winter was a fitting choice for last year's Snowball in Lutsen. / Courtesy Papa Charlie's
As the base on the “mountain” in Lutsen grows, so thickens the music calendar at Papa Charlie’s, the coolest ski-in rock venue in Minnesota -- not that Buck Hill or Afton Alps provide much competition. Next week sees the bar’s biggest event of the winter, Snowball, featuring a lot of favorites from the Cabooze/West Bank music scene. Here are the lineup highlights:
THURSDAY: Pert Near Sandstone, Useful Jenkins / FRIDAY: Jon Wayne & the Pain, Soap, the Limns / SATURDAY: WookieFoot, Heatbox
Papa Charlie’s is also bringing in some impressive names for the other Saturdays this month, including DJ Abilities this weekend and Dessa with A. Wolf & Her Claws on Jan. 19. It is also now hosting a weekly comedy night on Fridays as well as a songwriter series on Mondays (when rooms at the neighboring Eagle’s Ridge resort are cheaper). Some of the participating tunesmiths include the Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank next week, Chris Koza of Rogue Valley on Jan. 14 and Ben Kyle of Romantica on Jan. 21.
If you don't know, Lutsen is about a 4½-hour drive from the Twin Cities along the North Shore.
Turf Club's Leah Rule to be remembered Friday at the Cedar
Posted by: Chris Riemenschneider under Music, Minnesota musicians Updated: January 3, 2013 - 5:05 PM
She helped make one of the Twin Cities’ best-known venues what it is today, and tomorrow Leah Rule will be given a send-off at another local live music haven.
The Cedar Cultural Center is hosting a memorial for the longtime Turf Club maven/matron on Friday from 4-10 p.m. Rule, 44, died on Dec. 21 after a nearly two-year battle with cancer of unknown primary (originally thought to be ovarian cancer). She and husband Rob Rule have been living in rural Wisconsin for the past half-decade but maintained close ties to the Twin Cities music community, which will get a chance to show its love at Friday’s tribute.
Musicians including Molly Maher, Rich Mattson with Germaine Gemberling, Terry Walsh and Jennifer Markey are slated to sing a couple songs each at the Cedar. They will perform purely unplugged, i.e. no amplification, which makes the Cedar a fitting setting. Rob will also perform some tunes with his Mammy Nuns bandmate Dennis Hildreth (Leah was the bassist in their group). Her siblings Greg and Jaime Strom and best friend Dana Kassel are also expected to speak, and a slideshow will be playing throughout the memorial with an accompanying soundtrack straight off of Leah’s own iPod. Among the songs will be cuts from the in-the-works “Rock for the Rules, Vol. 2” benefit/tribute album.
“These are all Leah's wishes,” Rob said. “She always was a planner and visionary.”
All are welcome to attend Friday's tribute. The family’s obituary with memorial contribution info can be found here.
Cloud Cult, 4onthefloor top the Current's No. 8 birthday Jan. 18-19
Posted by: Chris Riemenschneider under Music, Concert news, Minnesota musicians Updated: January 2, 2013 - 9:34 AM
Cloud Cult frontman Craig Minowa spent much of last year working on his band's new record, "Love." / Brendan Sullivan, Star Tribune
A few of the local music scene’s youngest breakout acts of 2012 will join some of the oldest at the Current’s eighth birthday party, which is coming up quick, Jan. 18-19, at First Avenue.
Orchestral pop wunderkind John Mark Nelson -- who issued his debut record last summer just after graduating from Minnetonka High School -- will kick off the Friday night lineup, which also features the dusted-off '60s-'70s stars of the Secret Stash Records compilation, “Twin Cities Funk & Soul,” plus headliners the 4onthefloor. This morning’s on-air announcement of the two-night bash culminated with the debut of a new track by Cloud Cult, who will return from a long break to top off the Saturday night bill along with Soul Asylum frontman Dave Pirner and a couple other young buzzers. Here’s the full lineup:
Maurice Young of the Valdons joined last year's "TC Funk & Soul" revue. / Star Tribune file
FRIDAY, JAN. 18
John Mark Nelson
Chastity Brown
Twin Cities Funk & Soul All-Stars (members of the Valdons, Prophets of Peace, more)
The 4onthefloor
SATURDAY, JAN. 19
The Chalice
Now, Now
Dave Pirner
Cloud Cult
Tickets go on sale online Friday at noon to Minnesota Public Radio members, and a small number will be available in person (for non-members, too) at the Depot next door to First Avenue. If any are still available on Saturday, they will then open up to everyone online. Past years have sold out right away, and this year probably won’t be any different. The 4onthefloor packed First Ave all on their own for their first-ever headlining slot there last April. Cloud Cult hasn’t played in the Twin Cities since an Orchestra Hall gig last July, and fans are eager to hear the tunes off the band’s first record since 2010, simply titled “Love” and due out March 5.
'Rust & Bone' soundtrack features Bon Iver songs
Posted by: Claude Peck under Music, Movies, People Updated: December 31, 2012 - 4:10 PMThe French movie "Rust & Bone," an unflinching and sometimes grueling look at a romance between a disabled whale trainer (Marion Cotillard) and a security-guard-slash-kickboxer-slash-single-dad (Matthias Schoenaerts), features two songs by Grammy-winning Wisconsinite Bon Iver (aka Justin Vernon).
The movie, directed by Jacques Audiard, has quite a bit of original music composed by Alexandre Despat, but it also includes Bon Iver's "Wash." from his much-praised 2011 self-titled album, and "Wolves (Act I and II)" from his 2008 release "For Emma, Forever Ago."
The Bon Iver tracks underscore the movie's often-downbeat mood, and are used in both the opening and the closing, setting a tone for a movie that many say will earn Oscar nominations for Cotillard. Other bands on the soundtrack include B-52s ("Love Shack"), Lykke Li ("I Follow Rivers") and Django Django ("Firewater").
Nothing compares to Brandi Carlile on New Year's Eve
Posted by: Jon Bream under Music, Minnesota musicians Updated: December 31, 2012 - 7:01 PMA few thoughts about Brandi Carlile’s sold-out performance Sunday at the Varsity Theater:
• She remembered playing at the Varsity in 2006 and mentioned her Twin Cities debut at the 400 Bar, which officially closed last week (though she probably hadn’t heard the news).
• Carlile really likes us. She gushed about Minneapolis and St. Paul several times and said she had to make “ Minne” the final stop on her New Year’s Eve tour, which included Portland, Ore., and Seattle.
• Phil and Tim Hanseroth, her longtime sidemen, no longer look like identical. Tim still has a shaved head under his fedora but Phil was sporting black hair under his fedora.
• Carlille added a few covers that were not heard at her 2012 tour opener at the Minnesota Zoo. She did a backwoodsian Irish reading of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” and a Prince-like version of “Nothing Compares 2 U” (without any mention of the local connection, he wrote the song for the Family but Sinead O'Connor made it famous). As an extra encore in the 105-minute set, Carlile and company offered Johnny Cash’s always rollicking “Folsom Prison Blues.”
• She explained that after performing just before Christmas at a women’s prison in her native Washington state, “That Wasn’t Me” has taken on new meaning to her.
• The woman sitting next to me was nine months pregnant. She’d also been to the Vikings-Packers game earlier. She said the baby – a boy – preferred the concert.
• As they exited at the end of the night, all 900 concertgoers were offered commemorative posters with the date and venue printed on it.
• Here’s hoping Carlile does something extra special at Monday’s New Year’s Eve show at the Varsity. Suggestion: How ‘bout a mashup of “Auld Lang Syne” with Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”? Just wishing.
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