Music
Ian Alexy – “A Little Bit Further Back”
This is a video from my latest release Are You Listening. I will be performing at Fitger’s Brewhouse this Saturday, Nov. 12. Hope you like the clip!
Sarah Krueger – Dancing with Phantoms
Hi Duluth friends. I’m releasing a new album at the end of the month. If you’re interested in listening, pre-ordering, downloading, streaming, sharing, or whatever, visit sarahkruegermusic.com. The official release date is Nov. 25, and the Duluth album-release show is at Teatro Zuccone on Tuesday, Dec. 6, with Coyote! Thanks for listening and supporting local music.
Duluth musicians/bands on Twitter
Perfect Duluth Day has an actual Twitter feed for this, so if you want to follow everything listed below, check out Twitter @perfectduluth/music.
If you know of someone or something that should be added to this list, please make it known in the comments. (more…)
Teague Alexy Has Gone Twitter!
I am quoting one of my lyrics per day until my new album comes out early next year. Everything from Hobo Nephew songs to The New Folklore to Spilled Milk to hip-hop tapes we made in high school. When the time is right, I will quote from the new album too. Tune in! twitter.com/TeagueAlexy
New album from the Surfactants
It’s been a few years, but the Surfactants have finally released their second full-length album Our Dead Bodies. If you don’t know who the Surfactants are, that’s probably for the best.
You can stream it all for free and/or buy it here. It’s $4 or pay-what-you-want. There are also two singles featuring some remixes that are $1 each. There are currently no plans to produce any physical media. (…because CDs are just going to go in the garbage anyway and you can download very high quality files when you purchase them. And besides, if we made a CD and you bought the CD then you’d be paying twice as much for the same music and a bunch of garbage. So really your $4 [or more] is saving you $4 [or more].)
Oh, and there’s also a cover of a Haley Bonar song on the album, and she’s nice.
Listen, download, pirate, burn something (one).
Sex and Rock and Roll
Now that I have your attention
I thought it would be better to start a whole new thread because this is an important topic. And yes it will be bloody tedious. But here is the deal: ever since Jean Paul Sartre it’s been known in Western Civ that one quality of social interaction is the ongoing appraisal of everyone by everyone else. Sartre called it “the Look” and what he meant by that was how a person was changed when they knew they were being perceived by someone else. Sartre’s lover, Simone de Beauvoir, was the first to write about how men used this system to relegate women to the category of “other.” We are men (persons) but women are not. They are other. Please don’t kill the messenger here — I am just repeating what they said.
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Blitzen Trapper/Dawes tix for sale
I have three tickets for sale to the Blitzen Trapper/Dawes co-headlining show at First Avenue this Friday, Nov. 4, at 8 p.m. The Belle Brigade opens. After fees and taxes, they came to $30 each. I’m in Duluth, so we can meet up to do an exchange. Email joxley1 at gmail dot com if you are interested. Just FYI – the show is sold out.
Ween … and you?
Hola, PDDers! Some folks and I are going to be performing the whole Ween record Chocolate and Cheese on Friday, Dec. 30 at Pizza Luce here in Duluth. We’re excited!
I am looking for someone that would be interested in documenting the rehearsals leading up to the gig and then the gig itself. I would probably be able to get you a little money for your time but not much. It’d certainly be a plus if you were borderline obsessive about the record.
We get together for a couple hours on Thursday afternoons in the Washington Studios to run the tunes. Hopefully this would be a decent time for you to come video for a bit. We’ve got (gulp) 8 rehearsals scheduled leading up to the gig.
Feel free to leave any contact info in the comments below or you can email me. marcgart(at)hotmail
Choreographer Morgan Thorson and Low – “Heaven”
There’s a bunch of background in a previous post, “Low reaches for ‘Heaven’ with dance.”
Rachael Kilgour – “Will You Marry Me?”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBBm32Ek-PQ&feature=player_embedded
Video by Trent Waterman for the North Shore Sessions.
Lions&Creators – “Hands” (Live at Beaners 10.1.11)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9d4Rt_gvgw
From our CD-release show on the first of October. Physical and digital copies are up for sale here. Duluth is the best!
The Fontanelles – “Stranger”
httpv://youtu.be/i5fssTMflUg
Video from last month’s “One Week Live” series at Beaner’s Central, edited by Dan Dresser.
Coyote – “Champagne Eyes”
Live at Teatro Zuccone, Oct. 7, 2011.
Looking for WIGL Jingles
WIGL radio was a daytime Top-40 music station covering the Duluth-Superior market from 1961 to 1964. I am a collector of radio jingles, and have many from WEBC and a couple of early WAKX ones. However, WIGL has been elusive. I e-mailed Lew Latto about it (who owned the station for a while), and he regretfully replied that he was unable to help me. I know some people taped the radio back then (I did) — maybe there’s an aircheck out there with a WIGL jingle or two. I remember they had purple promo signs on the backs of the city buses during that era, and their jingles always ended with “Wiggle!!!” Posting this in case somebody is unknowingly sitting on a piece of Duluth-Superior broadcasting history.
Lions & Creators – “Growing”
Lions&Creators just released their album in Duluth on Saturday and now the whole thing is up to stream on our Bandcamp, which is here. You can buy it there for only $5! (and it comes with a few extra surprises too). Physical copies will be available at The Electric Fetus soon. All hand made, designed by the band.
Retribution Gospel Choir – “Working Away” Documentary
Duluth guys in Spain.
Anyone familiar with this?
I saw a poster today for an old (25 years!) Roland electric upright piano for sale. Full-size keyboard, model HP 5500/5600. I tried to research online, but of course, these things just ain’t around anymore. Anyone familiar?
I’d love a real piano, but just don’t have the space right now, though I bet for just a bit more money I could get something much better sounding? Advise, fair Duluthians. Thanks!
Local Music
I’m new to Perfect Duluth Day and my roommate told me he got some good discussions when he brought up his electronic music endeavors). I’ve been messing around with a few production programs for a while now and I’m always looking for people interested to talk shop with. Any critiques or general comments would be awesome, but opportunities to swap techniques and explore possible collaborations are always on my radar as well. If any of my songs are up your alley, get after me and let’s pump out some tunes together!
Take a listen, and I hope you enjoy it!
P.S.
I also DJ with a collective called the Crunchy Bunch. We’ll be playing at the Rex Bar in Fitger’s this Wednesday, and on Friday, Oct. 7. We play all kinds of music, so if you like to dance to loud stuff come check us out!
Tom Russell – “Mesabi”
Have you ever seen Duluth
when the Great Lake waves were pounding?
There must be some way out of there
You might end up lost or drowning
And the polkas at the Polish dance halls
And the carnivals of Spring
Rock and roll on that upright piano
And the kids make the high school rafters ring
Ryan Van Slooten – “Rise or Fall”
CD release show at Amazing Grace on Saturday, Sept. 17. No cover.
The Overhead Low is available at all online retailers, locally at the Electric Fetus, and on ryanvanslooten.com.
Please check out the video for the first track, “Rise or Fall.” Hope to see you at the show, thanks for all your support!
Hope CD Available At Super One Grocery Stores and Duluth Grill
The Hope CD, a fund-raising album, is available at Super One Grocery Stores in Duluth, Superior, Two Harbors and Cloquet at the service counters, and also at Duluth Grill.
The singers/musicians on the album are James Moors, Andy Elwell, Sara Thomsen, Kim Storm, Rachael Kilgour, Jane Aas, Bill and Kate Isles, Josh Revak, and Peter Provost.
The beautiful photos throughout the CD case are donated by Dennis O’Hara. All proceeds benefit Circle of Hope for breast cancer treatment bills for patients of any gender or age in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Michael Kac is Back
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBDuBDEzvwc
After an absence of more than a year, I’ll be back at Amazing Grace, one of my favorite places to play, on Saturday, Oct. 8, 7 p.m.
Audio samples from my CD Square One.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URI4DAO-ovw&feature=related
John Berquist performing at the 2011 Wirtanen Fall Festival
John Berquist singing a northern MN folk song about our iron ore industry at the 2011 Wirtanen Farm Fall Festival this past weekend in Markham, MN.
Dinosaur Bones – New Dance Piece
Choreography by Anna Galikowska-Gajewska PhD, Music Academy Gdansk, Poland. The music is Dinosaur Bones from my 2007 Innova release Analog.
Annual record sale!
5,000+ old LPs and 45 rpm records from the 1950s to 1980s. Rock, pop, soul, blues, jazz, country. 25 cents each and up! Friday and Saturday 9-5. 417 N. 11th Ave. W. in alley.