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Danimal (aka Dan Luedtke) has been a bright and shining light (or at least a glittery one) of the Minneapolis underground music scene for years. For one thing he hollers and pounds the keys in Gay Beast, currently one of the hardest working bands in Twin City land. Gay Beast are one of a crew [...]

Here are the beautiful posters made by local artists for our 3 House Show as School House events. HSaSH #1: Community Gardens – poster by Loren Smith HSaSH #2: xxxusa – poster by James Lindbloom HSaSH #3: Space 1419 – poster by Danimal

I wasn’t too familiar with James Linbloom before inviting him to curate a House Show for the House Show as School House series. Our mutual friend Clint from De Stijl records suggested I contact him saying something along the lines of “He’s the most together guy I know” when it came to organizing something. As [...]

The HSaSH series is reaching its 3rd and final event and we couldn’t be more excited. This one is going to be amazing. In the words of one of the curators, the luscious Danimal.. Craaaaazy show. Jackey from brute heart is organizing a marching band to play during a parade from Riverside park to Curry [...]

We had our second House Show as School House on Friday and it was a mind ripper! This one was curated by local record mogul and a veteran of new American weirdness – James Lindbloom. As a favor to us, James put together his first house show since a 1999 gig he did for No [...]

126 0217 from Sam Gould on Vimeo. HSaSH #1 featured great solo performances by two members of the Twin Cities glory that is Vampire Hands. We’re lucky to have some great video footage of both of them. Chris R. aka Robust Worlds Chris B. aka Invisible Boy 126 0218 from Sam Gould on Vimeo.

Tom Loftus is a rock of the local DIY music community. He’s the founder of Modern Radio Records, a Twin Cities based label that’s put out a large array of indie, punk, noise and avant-rock awesomeness form the region and beyond. In his own words… The focus of the label is to support the artists [...]

The first House Show as School House went off like a pack of bottle rockets next to a fire! Without a doubt, this came as close as one could hope to being the Platonic Ideal of a house show – “The House Show”. It had it all: great music, cute kids, cops, speeches, drunken debauchery, [...]

It was a portentous moment as we walked up the street to Community Gardens for the first event in the House Show as Schoolhouse project and were passed by the police. We knew where they were headed. Much of the night we were rocketed back to a time some of us have not felt in [...]