Photo by Anna GulbrandsenSummit Backyard BashWith Doomtree, Now, Now, Halloween, Alaska, Heartbeats, and Caroline Smith and the Goodnight SleepsSummit Brewery, St. PaulSaturday, September 8, 2012See A
A summer weekend is not complete without a festival/block party happening. St. Paul will be hosting the Twin Cities Jazz Festival in and around Mears Park. Heart and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts brin
Photo By Jennifer ThompsonRock The Vine 3Featuring Halloween, Alaska, Solid Gold, White Light Riot, and Haley BonarSaint Croix Vineyards, Stillwater, MinnesotaJune 9, 2012Sometimes, it's just nice to
Photo By Erik HessTwin Cities music fans who are willing to make the short drive to Stillwater on Saturday, June 9 for Rock The Vine 3 will be rewarded will a bunch of great bands, exquisite wine, a
These fellas were able to produce a studio sound live, and it was amazing. They recently released Fake Mistakes: Remixes (which features a remix S. Carey, among others) is available at a pay-what-you-want price until March 13th at the Amble Down's online store . Click photos to view.
Photo By James RhodesOther Lives and Halloween, Alaska7th St. Entry, MinneapolisFebruary 9, 2012The music of Other Lives has such a classic, timeless quality to it that even the band's new songs sou
The sonic experimentalism of Halloween, Alaska has always lent itself well to potential remixes. And while the latest effort from the Minneapolis quartet, All Night The Calls Came In, is a more re
Who needs holiday shopping this weekend when you have music to keep you busy?
The Blogophilia series is backlogged for the first time in awhile! Hopefully, we can catch up here in a few weeks. This is the first new Blogophilia in over a month, featuring promotional mp3s from early July through mid-August that were hosted on The Dadada and other blogs. As always, this is a gapless mix. Blogophilia 31 Songs from Blogs early July – mid-August 2011 Download all files in one zip Tracklist (Gapless Mix) (#-Artist-Song Title) [...]
The fourth and newest release from Minnesota based group Halloween, Alaska - 'All Night the Calls Came In' also marks the solidification of a new lineup following an extended period of tension and transition. Singer/keyboardist James Diers, guitarist Jacob Hanson and drummer David King (The Bad Plus) are joined by newly recruited bassist William Shaw. All Night the Calls Came In is both a continuation and a rethinking of Halloween, Alaska. Packed with forthright pop hooks and confident brooding, its track listing offers an earnest and compelling capsule of the band's self-imposed reboot. [...]
Halloween, Alaska sonically sexualised my ears and I enjoyed every moment of it. On their third album in their US homeland, Halloween, Alaska are no strangers to the stage. A plethora of 80s synths, hopeful chord combinations and addictive underlying bass riffs are what really makes songs like Dance... Read more..
We were busy moving on Sunday and didn't get to post these songs, but we think that the temporal displacement has aged them to perfection. (Who knew they only required an additional 24 hours in our oak barrels?) In a desire to share even more great, free music with you, the Sunday Monday Sampler offers a handful of tracks without the usual critical and biographical write-up. Less talk, more tunes. [tweetmeme] Echo Lake "Another Day" from the [...]
Halloween, Alaska All Night The Calls Came In Amble Down Records [2011] Fire Note Says: Halloween, Alaska offer up some solid indie rock from Minneapolis. Album Review: Halloween, Alaska are a indie rock band from Minneapolis that stirs elements of guitar, electronic and pop into their own blend of uniqueness. The group has been a well kept secret, as their debut was released back in 2004. [...]
Sandal weather is almost over, but sweater weather is almost here!
New Music Releases - Tuesday, August 30, 2011: - Afrobeta - Under the Streets ( Stream ) - Beirut - The Rip Tide - Blood Orange - Coastal Grooves ( Stream ) - The Burning Hotels - The Burning Hotels - Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien ( Stream ) - [...]
Halloween, Alaska - “Empire Waist” Music Video from Northern Outpost on Vimeo . [LOCAL]
Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: Halloween, Alaska Video: 'Empire Waist' Highlight: "The song is grounded in the basic principle that everyone breaks somebody's heart at one point or another, whether they mean to do it or not," frontman James Diers tells Spinner. "No one likes to think of themselves as the bad guy in a relationship, but everybody eventually fills that role. The director, Max Becker, took that idea and compressed it into this gorgeous series of moments and vignettes [...]
Some NEW for you... Blitzen Trapper : Love the Way You Walk Away from American Goldwing Release date: September 13 (Subpop) Let's hope that this a harbinger of things to come. The folked out sons of Gram Parsons are pickin' and a grinnin' with a little spacey sounding pedal steel to round it all out. Eric Earley is at his best when he's [...]
Mondays are for first days that are hopefully better than your last first day. Cassettes Won't Listen - 'The Echoes' Ben Folds, Damian Kulash, Amanda Palmer & Neil Gaiman - "One Tiny Thing" Doug Hoyer - 'Northern Lights' Doug Hoyer - 'Oh, the wind will blow' (I know we don't usually include two songs by [...]
Halloween, Alaska - Oddly (and terribly) named Twin Cities quartet return with their fourth studio longplayer of lush, velveteen-textured art/pop and first since the remarkable Champagne Downtown from 2009... engaging melodic lines and classic references have put them more in the general vicinity of 80's U.K. trailblazers Prefab Sprout and The Blue Nile than most domestic comparisons...here the band looks for a less ponderously crafted affair, stripping back the sound a bit and cutting out much of the robo-beat programming...now even the synths and beats are crafted by hand // [...]
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