Adam and Daniel LevyLast month, the Honeydogs frontman Adam Levy shared the heartbreaking news of his 21-year-old son Daniel's passing after a lengthy battle with mental illness. The community respon
To further prove the healing power of both friends and music, the Honeydogs have announced plans for a album release party at First Avenue on March 10. The distinguished local band will be celebrat
The Honeydogs have a long history behind them, with 10 studio releases under their belt and 16 years' worth of time well-spent laying down bricks in the Minnesota music scene. They are the sort
Here's a group I've been wanting to write about since last July. I stumbled on The Honeydogs latest EP, Sunshine Committee, while I was in the middle of moving between states/blogs/periods-in-my-lif e, and it's taken a while to get them on here. Summed up, I'd describe this short record as perfect driving music. For me these songs will always be linked to driving around the streets of Indianapolis as a new transplant, trying to find my way to whatever it was we were looking for at the time: a hardware store, a park downtown, a Super Target. It's [...]
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"Good Fight," a new song from the upcoming Honeydogs Sunshine Committee EP, could very well be the mantra for the long standing Minneapolis based band. While many bands and trends have come and gone, the Honeydogs have been a pop music institution in the Twin Cities for over 14 years. Their latest EP collects the usual suspects, with literate pop songs mixing with the white boy funk that lead singer/songwriter Adam Levy has been playing with his Hookers and Blow cover band over the last few years. "Good Fight" is one of the strongest tracks (in reality, all [...]

Celebrating the release of their first CD, Bunny Clogs rock the 4-foot and under crowd.

I leave for school on Monday, and I'm not going to get into Ohio until Friday night, so I have a long trip ahead of me. I'm flying up to Seattle to stay with a friend of mine, and then I'm going to drive across the country with him. Right now, I'm packing all my clothes into two suitcases, and then I have to make a 36 hour play list to keep us entertained while we're driving. As such, posts might be few and far between, between now and then, but I'll try keep the updates rolling [...]

Yessss, the big day has finally arrived. We celebrate with a triple handful, mostly of groups not yet posted here. (There are a couple of exceptions.) I'll put them in groups of five just to make it seem less daunting. Links are provided for each band. If the mp3 link doesn't work, clink on the band name to go to the SXSW bandsite, where the song should be downloadable. These SXSW links have been finicky at times. Previous SXSW 2007 postings can be found here , here , here , here , [...]

I'm not going. Just not enough good bands playing ;) Andrea had a great post on MN Artists at SxSW 2007 recently. Please allow me to add to it; here are the tunes and other related links: Birthday Suits Genre: Punk Website / MySpace Blackhearted Force Genre: Punk mp3: Blackhearted Force - Drop Low MySpace [...]

My last post included a nod to Minneapolis' The Honeydogs. Their latest has grown on me since then, so here's another from Amygdla . Buy this album now . The Honeydogs— Elan Vital -- This opening track from Andrew Bird's upcoming Armchair Apocrypha has likely surfaced elsewhere by now. Not yet sure how to compare this record to The Mysterious Production Of Eggs , but it's certainly a different [...]

Anyone else notice that Smokey Robinson did not blink once during his Grammy performance last weekend? Really. Not once. It's a miracle. "So take a goood look at my face!" That said, his voice was more agreeable than we all would have expected. Here's a nice one from Minneapolis indie-but-unpretentious rockers The Honeydogs. Their latest, Amygdla , is superb. Buy it . The Honeydots—Ms. Ketchup And The Arsonist [...]