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National Articles:
FEATURE:
Lollapalooza 2008 Chicago
This past weekend at Grant Park in downtown Chicago, a record crowd of over 250,000 people were treated to the likes of Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, NIN, The Raconteurs, Wilco, Gnarls Barkley, Kanye West, and many other bands.
Scooters: The Best Way To Fight The Gas Crisis!
MUSIC:
"Go Now" Bessie Banks vs. The Moody Blues
Bad Taste In Music: Bee Gees and Jefferson Starship.
Vanilla Ice & Afroman Live Review
Gnarls Barkley, Even your emotions had an echo - In so much space.
CONTROVERSY:
Cut-Up (The Stolen Scroll)
By: Bill Ectric
Jim sat at the library table with his head in his hands. He didn’t want to go to jail. Yesterday morning he prided himself in caring nothing for possessions, but today, all the people who could have been his friends probably hated him for something he possessed.
POLITICS & POETRY:
Lightning Rod's Latest Column
Presidencies are a bit like romances. After the blush is off the rose, that is to say after about the first four years, things start to get dicey. You've told all of your stories (several times). She is too familiar with your habits, and you with hers. Everybody knows who snores or who grits their teeth or who can't keep up with their socks. The things that once endeared now irritate. She's told you all of her stories (several times). You both know what to expect from the other (yawn). The cap is off the toothpaste tube, so to speak.
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MUSIC:
Foo Fighters/Weezer: Live Review
By: Andrew Olson
The old saying, two heads are better than one was the underlying picture that the Foo Fighters/Weezer concert last Sunday epitomized. Even though neither band have ever been a "top-rated" group nationally, combining powers changed that image. The packed Excel Energy Center in St. Paul was alive with energy, and it also showed that record sales don't always show the true popularity of a band. MORE
The White Stripes Live in Concert
MORE PICTURES FROM THE SHOW! CLICK HERE!
Underground: The Used
By: Kurt Vatland
(BYOB) Bring Your Own Bombs: System Of A Down By: Andrew Olson
Lenny Kravitz, Minister Of Rock& Roll! By: Andrew Olson
Afroman: Taking it to the people!
By: Andrew Olson
Nirvana, With The Lights Out By: Andrew Olson
TOP STORY: HOT!
 LEE CONKLIN: Fillmore artist, Album Cover designer, and psychedelic mindbender
In the 1960s there were parallels to past revolutions. The Boston Massacre was replaced by Kent State, Sit-ins for Civil Rights replaced horrific Battles of a Civil War, and the Common Man of Payne became known as a hippie.
FUNKY FEATURE:
 Funky Paul Olsen Interview
Paul Olsen (Pictured here playing drums with Eric Claption) has been a fixture in art for many years. From the T2 logo and psychedelic posters to the effects in the Star Trek movies and album covers. A conversation with a great artist about growing up on the Haight in S.F., leaving for England in 1968 and much much more!
HIPPIES:
 Avalon Ballroom San Francisco, CA.: Where Janis Joplin was queen..
A HEAD:
 HAIR: Brilliant, tribal, and still provocative. One of the greatest plays still has the energy and high it was written with 35 years ago! At the Pantages theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota a time machine stopped on Friday night. Not like the Back To The Future DeLorean, but more of an incense, and peppermint VW Van.
CONCERTS:
Jefferson Airplane/Starship Show Review & Pictures!!
The Animals, Dick Dale, The Doors, & Ludacris
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Past Favorites!
MANY OTHER ARTICLES IN EACH SECTION!!
GROWING ARTICLE ARCHIEVE CLICK HERE!
THE MERRIEST OF MERRY PRANKSTERS! SOME Q & A WITH KEN BABBS
THE 100 GREATEST MOVIES OF GENERATION X/Y and the ones our parents made us watch too?
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Bill Isles Interview 2008
Completely Random @ Beaner's Central
Arlo Guthrie & The Bricks
Reggae Festival 2008
Tangled Up In Ore: Bob Dylan & Ironworld. This past weekend my wife and I went on an odyssey to the far off lands of the Iron Range to seek out the roots of Bob Dylan. MORE
Cars & Trucks: Still Rolling...
High School Rocks: 4 Bands Live @ Grandma's Sports Garden
High School Rocks: Battle of the Bands @ The DECC
Hojas Rojas vs. Savage Grace
Now Now Every Children
Matt Ray: Western MN Americana
Dubh Linn's Comedy: Best Bet In Duluth Is anyone else looking for something of substance to do on a Saturday night that has a pinch of culture and a ton of entertainment?
 The Alrights: Doing it their way.
The Alrights have re-released their debut album High School nationally through Manhattan’s City Canyons Records. They also are recording a new five song E.P. and can be heard this Friday night for free at Carmody’s Irish Pub. MORE
The Alrights New Album: MOTSLCLOVAEFTKNA
Cars & Trucks Interview
Homegrown 9
Little Black Books: Sparta Circle Drive
Circa A.M. & Coal Car Caboose
The Dream Band Review/MadLib
Kritical Kontact and Number One Common
Duluth Song Of The Year For 2006: "They're Never Wrong" Little Black Books (Black Out)
Bill Isles: The Shores of my hometown
*NEW* Boku Frequency Interview
California Dreamin'
Jim Morrison once sang, "The West is the best" in his song "The End." He was referring to the mass exodus of young people to California in the mid-1960s. There has always been a draw to the Golden State though; from the 49ers to Grapes Of Wrath searchers to hippie seekers, many movements have happened from the arrival of so many different views.
As someone who grew up learning and reading about the west it was only appropriate that my honeymoon would be spent there. So I decided to contact some of the hippies I had interviewed over the years to find out where the best places to go would be. Paul Olsen, who grew up on Haight Street, was a part of the Artists Liberation Front in 1966, and knew the area well gave me some great advice. We wanted to see the touristy stuff, but also leave the beaten path. The only things set in stone were that we were flying into Sacramento and leaving through Las Vegas 10 days later. Paul and I exchanged long emails and he helped to plan my trip.
We also contacted Lee Conklin (Fillmore West’s poster artist from 1967-1969) and Ken Babbs (Merry Prankster, Acid Tests, and Ken Kesey’s right-hand man). Once an itinerary was established and the wedding was over we embarked on a journey. Mapquest led us on an adventure. MORE
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BACK 2 SCHOOL
MN Music Awards
The Very People, Very Clean
Cloud Cult & Number One Common
Andrew Bird
The Alrights: Pittsburgh
Little Black Books
P.O.S. Audition
Ian Alexy: Broken Billy
Proctor Late Night
Portraits For Judith
Trampled By Turtles:Blue Sky & The Devil
Tim Mahoney/Bologna
Prince Paul & The Black Labels
Kurt Vatland & The Alrights
Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank
The New Congress
Jim Hall
Michael Monroe
MySpace.com(BAND-AID)
The Olympic Hopefuls
Bill Mike
Mason Jenning
Gabriel James
The Duluth "Scene"
666 Dreary Lane
Knockout Jones
Aneuretical
Dukes Of Hubbard
Astrodizzyak
Little Black Books: Black Out
The Gallows/Geek Prom Benefit
The Top 11 Songs of 2005 from Minnesota bands. 1/1/2006
The Black Labels
Mick Sterling 12/7/2005
The Deaths 11/18/2005
Future Lisa 11/14/2005
Root City Band 11/1/2005
Charlie Parr 11/1/2005
Homecoming, St. Cloud style! 10/31/2005
Open Mic: Welcome to Duluth Kurt Vatland
Azure Du Jour 7/28/2005
The Alrights and the attack of the Naked Biker..
Eyes & Hands Festival 2005
4th of July, Musically Speaking... 07/11/2005
Terramara 07/11/2005
No Wait Wait 06/27/2005
Reno Divorce 06/14/2005
Cloud Cult 06/14/2005
The New Congress 06/13/2005
Hydrophonics: Thrown' It Down In Duluth! 06/01/2005
Death To Our Enemies 06/01/2005
Kurt Vatland/Velveteen
CHECK IT OUT!: BOKU FREQUENCY ARTICLE MADE THE COVER
"Sometimes it's better not to ask." That was the response Boku Frequency's manager gave me when asked why Thomas (Bass, Lead Vocals & Dancer) emerged from a station wagon last New Year’s that was overflowing with girls. "That's just Thomas, he is the lady's man and lover of the band." MORE
Nothing Much 05/30/2005
The Big Wu: Still Going... 5/30/2005
The Urban Hillbilly Quartet 5/30/2005
Homegrown Music Festival - LOW Cancels Tour 05/30/2005
Jeff Ray 05/30/2005
Teague Alexy 5/14/2005
Wastin' Away In Margaritaville 05/01/2005
April Fools Article 04/28/2005 Adults Only: The Horny Hairy Hippies Vs. The Cidiots
Beau Kinstler, Ocean 5/1/2005
Great Girls Blouse 5/1/2005
Shelter Belt 5/1/2005
Blue Sky and the Devil
Elizablue 3/28/2005
Sam Dull/Beaner's 2005
CHECK IT OUT!: WHITE IRON BAND ARTICLE MADE THE COVER
By: Andrew Olson
Trampled By Turtles opened for the White Iron Band’s CD release party (Tap Room, Feb. 11th ) and drew out more Flappin-Jack hippies than any band in town. The band created some great electric buzz-saw fiddlin’ music to the amusement of the high-twirling patchwork crowd. White Iron Band then headlined the show and got that same group and their own swinging and swilling. Eventually the mass bubbled out of the bar and into the parking lot, to tailgate between shows. MORE
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