Sorry for the lack of posts. I was in NYC all week and am now at Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
If you’re in dire need of musical prose, I suggest you check out the Local Porridge links in the sidebar on the right. Adieu!

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Somebody forgot to tell The Icy Shores, pictured above in my crappy camera phone, they were the opener Saturday night, as the group brought their unique brand of agro-pop to a sizable crowd and quickly “cooled” the room with catchy hooks, spot-on solos and Foo-esque rock. Switching back and forth between songs penned by guitarists/vocalists […]

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I’m quoted in this Pioneer Press story today, talking about iPods and my issues with FM transmitters.
I still don’t see why Apple doesn’t take the FM tuning technology and build it into their iPod. Look for the next iPod to receive and transmit FM signals.

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Monday
–Fine Line Music Café - Random Pulse, Panoramic Blue, Wilke, Colin O’Malley
–Station 4 - Laredo Parish, Malitia
–400 Bar - idlehands / Radio On / Matt Jennings
–Red Sea - Last Call Home, Geisert 8 Band (Peoria IL), The Loch Ness Mobsters
Tuesday
–Fine Line Music Café - Sonic Alchemy, North Styrenn, Suburban Lights, Lenor Barry
Wednesday
–7th St. Entry - […]

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My fellow musicians, check this out. We know that ringtones are hot — sales topped $300 million in sales last year for more than 182 million content-crazy ring lovers — but here’s a way to turn that love into a revenue stream and marketing strategy for your band.
Xingtone sells software for under $20 that […]

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Here’s a disappointing story from SPIN this week:
Supervisors of Chicago’s brand new, gleaming gem — a Frank Gehry-designed music pavilion within Millennium Park — claim that they want to have more popular music performances, but clearly actions speak louder than words: City officials have vetoed Radiohead’s request to play the venue on June 19 and […]

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Robin Shaw and Larry Englund at the Hat Trick Lounge in St. Paul announced today they’re adding Sunday to their music (and food) schedule for 7-11 p.m. Read on…

From Robin’s e-mail today:
Owners Mike and Jon are busy in the kitchen refining a new and way secret signature ribs recipe, which will be another […]

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Reticence
ReMedial
reticence - n: inclined to keep one’s personal affairs to oneself.
While in their Twin City personal lives, Jesse Norell (guitar/vocals), Kristof Marden (bass) and Kyle Bonderson (drums) went from engaged to married and kept their private lives personal, in their free time they were forming a platonic little project called Reticence they felt was destined […]

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Friday night’s late show at Station 4 in St. Paul was packed with an unusually large amount of single ladies and rock fans. But I’m not sure if they were there to see Pilla like me…

Pilla is a local foursome (except the South Dakotan drummer) who love rock and roll and everything that goes with […]

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As Clear Channel continues their restructuring to attack/absorb online popularity of music channels and dumb them down, record labels like Warner and Universal are still playing it safe by going with the big money over fans/talent.
From Reuters story on Friday:
Clear Channel Communications Inc., the top U.S. radio conglomerate, on Friday said it planned to begin […]

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