(Tracks is a feature on Borangutan that showcases local artists and their recent album. Many local artists generously donate their music to Borangutan writers, and part of our mission is to take that music and place it in your ears. Voila! Each feature offers a free, limited-time mp3 download (one track) from the highlighted artist's [...]
I don't consider myself a great She & Him fan, but I do fancy myself one of Zooey Deschanel! Ever since the movie Elf - I just can't resist her charm. The other night while paging through Netflix on the media-savior Nintendo Wii, my girlfriend recommended we check out the made for Sci-Fi series Tin [...]
The Killers front man Brandon Flowers is venturing out on his own, releasing a new solo album this September titled Flamingo, and as a pre-buzz build up he has put together a video for "Crossfire." The video features the widely adored Charlize Theron beating up a couple ninjas no less than three times with her [...]
The biggest challenge a local band faces here these days (besides a harsh climate, both literally and figuratively) is actually getting out of this proverbial midwestern island town and on tour. It usually takes many months (more likely years) of networking to be able to get decent touring gigs, as independent bands need to gain [...]
It's no secret the Borangs are Communist Daughter fans, and so it's no wonder we were thrilled to receive word of this latest MPLS.TV presentation. In the video below Communist Daughter performs their song "Oceans" atop lead singer Johnny Solomon's restaurant (the Boxcar) in Prescott, WI. This video is part of the "City of Music" [...]
We've been quietly mentioning this for about a week now through a conspicuous little advert in our sidebar, but now seems like as good a time as any for us to direct you to one of the hottest events in the Twin Cities area that you can attend in the next three weeks. That event [...]
A high school English teacher once told us in class that you could tell it was prom night in Iowa when all the farm boys drove their dad's tractors into town. The hayseeds in my class laughed—not because the idea of driving one's father's International Harvester to prom was necessarily a bad idea—but because we [...]
Few videos have ever created so many mixed emotions within me as Metric's new "Eclipse (All Yours)." Why, might you ask? It's pretty simple: add one part infatuation with Metric's Emily Haines and one part detestation for Twilight's Kristen Stewart and voila! Instantaneous internal conflict. (sigh) But if you love both Metric and Twilight, then [...]
Ah, the Atlantic Line of the Pacific coast - a band whose name finds irony in geography, and whose new album entitled Exit to Intro is likewise conceptually backwards (at least in nomenclature). But that's all very superficial, and were the music itself similarly of little consequence, you can bet a blue ox (why [...]
Have you heard of Sparkydog & Friends? Unless you're from Fort Lauderdale, FL, chances are your answer is "no." That was my answer too; but now that I've made their acquaintance, I won't soon forget them! Sparkydog & Friends is an ambitious little project that may just outgrow their britches, and they seem to have [...]
I'm not too sure what constitutes a "fake place," but if I had to place a bet on where to find one, I might choose the place that band members Joe Winterer and Garrett Neal met - (duh, duh, duh, duhhhhh) the internet's Craigslist. It might not be the most storied place to meet (how [...]
Nothing quite like digging an old record out of a cellar wall, eh? This new video by Minneapolis' self-evident is an interesting storyline beginning to end... or is it end to beginning? I don't know - just watch and decide for yourself. "The Past" is another video brought to us by our friends over [...]
Our Friends over at MPLS.TV are being busy, busy little media artists! They just released a video of live footage captured at the Lookbook concert last Friday night, and it's not your ordinary run-of-the-mill reel. In addition to Lookbook performing their song "My Darkness," there are short takes of Zoo Animal, Bight Club, and Slapping [...]
Happy Saturday all! A couple righteous news interviews came out this last week with two of the Twin Cities best bands: Communist Daughter and The Melismatics. We just thought we'd share. Communist Daughter just got voted MetroMix's "best band in the Twin Cities," hence, the coverage. The interview with the Melismatic's Ryan Smith was shot at [...]
The first time I saw Buffalo Moon, Preston "Danger" Holm was naked from the waist up playing a clarinet and gyrating dangerously close to a keyboard. This wouldn't be worth mentioning except that this band is so rad that it actually took me a couple songs in to their set at their CD release at the [...]
Hailing from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, The Spill Canvas played at the Triple Rock a couple weeks ago. Playing an hour's set, band members Nick Thomas, Joe Beck, Dan Ludeman and Landon Heil reawakened the raw appreciation for the grunge sound, with their suggestive yet explosive drums and bass guitar. A slightly hypnotizing sound reminiscent of [...]
In the constant mania that is my life of searching for all things local-rock-and-roll-cool, I often overlook stuff tossed at me from abroad. But an album called Under Cover of Brightness was just dropped today from a little band out of Toronto, Canada named Fjord Rowboat. Hmm... yes, I know - a name that evokes [...]
This was recorded waaaaaaay back in January at New Band Night in the main room of First Avenue, but rather oddly, it has just now popped up in cyberspace. I love great live footage, but all too often it's just too darn difficult to track down. How thankful I am then that this one fell [...]
Minneapolis' Fort Wilson Riot are poised to release their second full length album entitled Predatory/Prey this July, and as a lead up to its release (and a string of hot local shows) they're tossing their new single out there for one and all! The new tune is "All My Friends," and as FWR's Amy Hager [...]
Peter Wolf Crier's "Hard As Nails" video is the latest release from local video virtuosos Northern Outpost. The video premiered last Friday on stereogum.com (yes, I know - how mainstreamy, but the exposure is cool nonetheless). Northern Outpost productions just keep getting better and better, and if you haven't checked out their back catalog yet, hop [...]
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