Jungle TheaterĪt the end of last year, LynLake’s Jungle released a series of audio plays dubbed Jungle Serial, as well as its first-ever virtual performance, which could really only have been produced in a pandemic: Is Edward Snowden Single? Theater Mu Via streaming, we realized just how important the experience of live performances can be. When stages went dark, our screens lit up-and not just with Gossip Girl reruns (but those too). June 12, this year’s Record Store Day, can’t get here fast enough. Paul are among the other indie vinyl shops who managed to survive the pandemic. All three locations of both Down in the Valley and Cheapo, Roadrunner Records in Kingfield, and Eclipse Records on Wabasha Street in St. It feels like this is driven by the passion to support local, appreciate old friends-and old stores-and make the most of the time at home,” says Aaron Meyerring, co-owner of the 53-year-old retail icon. While 2020 was like a bad scratch in your favorite album, Electric Fetus will persist, thanks largely to a pandemic bright spot: Folks fell in love with browsing vinyl again. on TikTokįive albums lined up Spinning Good Out of the Bad Mallman demonstrates incisive wit, stirring insight, and a mastery of music history that could only be born out of the love and admiration of somebody who knows exactly what it feels like to write and perform songs. Each segment is a searching exegesis of unbelievably varied songcraft: He’s done “People Have the Power” by Patti Smith, “Holocene” by Bon Iver, “Condition of the Heart” by Prince. Marathon rocker and memoirist Mark Mallman proved that with his wildly popular 60-second song-reactions series on what most of us thought was a dance platform. Among empty sports stadiums, downtown streets alternately abandoned or filled with fire and protest, lead singer Lars Pruitt’s voice trembles as he sings, “I’m clinging to the light, my dear, I’m clinging to the light-pass me a cup of kindness yeah, I’ll drink it down tonight.” on Instagram Mature TikTok Rocker When translated from the Scottish, the New Year’s Eve standard “Auld Lang Syne” means something like “days gone by” or “old times.” So, it definitely struck a different chord when local pop band Yam Haus dropped their version a couple days after Christmas, set against eerily beautiful drone footage of the year most of us had survived. Sadly, though, when our stages do illuminate once again, our First Lady of Song, who passed away unexpectedly in late December, will not be there to grace them. And in the decades since, Twin Cities jazz fans could set their watches by Duncan’s steady presence. She came from L.A., by way of Detroit, in 1984 for what was supposed to be a six-week-long residency at Rupert’s. On any-and almost every-given night, the big-voiced jazz singer known simply as our First Lady of Song was blasting soulful vocals on a Twin Cites stage. In the before times, it felt like Debbie Duncan was everywhere. Paul’s Irvine Park that you don’t? Take a listen and find out! Why not get a little exercise and learn something when you’re in your safe household bubble? The Segway-lovin’ folks behind Six Foot Bubble Tours launched a new concept as the pandemic began: self-guided, well-produced walking tours, some narrated by locals in the know, like architectural historian Larry Millett. Barely six months later, he released 38th, and a couple months after that, Chicago Avenue, together a two-part album that runs full speed at what America is now, and what he hopes it can become. In those tumultuous days, Nur-D, who was gassed, shot at, and even arrested, vowed his music would strive to meet the magnitude of the moment. In the weeks that followed, Nur-D-given name Matt Allen-set music aside to help his community heal, in part by cocreating Justice Frontline Aid, which provided first aid, water, and other safety resources during the unrest. The pandemic sidelined the ascending career of Twin Cities rapper Nur-D, but it was the death of George Floyd that redefined it. Still, the shows were magical for the simple fact that there was still a First Avenue for them to happen at-and a Charlie Parr to play them. Parr’s January residency was far from the official return of live music, and with very limited, table-only seating, the sellouts really weren’t. This would not be remarkable-not for the beloved Parr or for Minnesota’s seminal rock venue-if not for the fact that those were the first five shows in almost a year that either Parr or First Ave had seen a live audience. Charlie Parr moseyed onto First Avenue’s main stage to a capacity crowd.
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