MFR's Guide to SXSW: Mpls/St. Paul Bands

P.O.S.


*MP3: P.O.S. - "Goodbye"

Thursday, March 19 11:15 p.m.
Habana Bar Backyard (708 E 6th St)
&
Friday, March 20 11:00 p.m.
Buffalo Billiards (201 E 6th St)

Doomtree


*MP3: Doomtree - "Flex"

Wednesday, March 18 8:00 p.m.
Back Alley Social (303 W 5th St)

"Absolutely fucking nothing but Doomtree."

The "it" MC and his crew bring rhymes and beats down south to show the industry what hip-hop sounds like if you freeze it for nine months. In other words, fresh and freaking cool. Hip-hop fans, don't miss these shows.

Haley Bonar


*MP3: Haley Bonar - "Big Star"

Wednesday, March 18 11:30 p.m.
Victorian Room at The Driskill (604 Brazos St)
&
Thursday, March 19 2:30 p.m.
SESAC Day Stage Cafe Austin Convention Center (500 E Cesar Chavez St)

Ms. Bonar plays and sings country-tinged pop songs that would provide an adequate dictionary definition for 'smoldering.' Go and see TC's favorite heartbreaker, but don't stand too close to the flames. (*Note: Bonar is on Afternoon Records, however, is a staple of the TC scene and needs to be mentioned).

Brother Ali


*MP3: Brother Ali - "Good Lord"

Wednesday, March 18 12:30 a.m.
Back Alley Social (303 W 5th St)
&
Thursday, March 19 12:00 a.m.
Habana Bar Backyard (708 E 6th St)

Sometimes the hardest thing in this world to be is just one of the most gifted rappers in the country. The truth is coming to Austin, so give the man a mic and step back. But not too far.

Dosh


*MP3: Dosh - "If You Want To You Have To"

Wednesday, March 18 10:30 p.m.
Mohawk (912 Red River St)

When not recording and touring with Andrew Bird, Martin Dosh puts out records of distinctly emotional electronic, beat-driven music. His one man show will be a highlight of the festival.

et al.

* The 757s
* Solid Gold
* Josiah Wordsworth
* Toki Wright
* Eyedea & Abilities
* Gary Louris & Mark Olson
* John Gorka
* Grant Hart
* Elizabeth Hunnicutt
* I Self Devine
* Mark Mallman
* Marcy Playground
* Cecil Otter
* Plain Ole Bill
* Birthday Suits
* BK One

Venues and times can be found for all HERE.

Other local bands like Gospel Gossip and First Communion Afterparty will play their trade at unofficial gigs outside of the festival.

We have missed a band, please add them to comments below.

(Erik Martz)

Reminder: Radio K's 15th Anniversary Show

Download: Low - "Murderer"
Download: Dosh - "If You Want To, You Have To"
Download: Vampire Hands - "No Fun"

The University of Minnesota's radio station Radio K is a veritable underground institution, one deserving of all the celebration it can get, not only for introducing the world to many great, left-of-the-dial bands, but for the fact that, after 15 years, the station is still going strong. So, in order to celebrate, the station has put together some of Minnesota's best acts to play a show at First Avenue. Slow, steady hush-rockers Low, electronic collage-maker/god of multi-tasking Dosh, Doomtree member Sims, and house-of-mirrors psych-rockers Vampire Hands are all coming together tonight for an 18+ show to celebrate the station and, presumably, play some awesome music.

Here are the deets:

Low + Dosh + Sims + Vampire Hands
Wednesday, October 8
First Avenue
Minneapolis, MN
8 pm | $12 | 18+.

Check out Radio K sessions featuring the artists playing tonight here:

Doomtree
Dosh
Vampire Hands

(Jonathan Graef)
jon@minneapolisfuckingrocks.com

Note: This post contains previously published content

Show Announcement: Radio K 15th Anniversary Party

The University of Minnesota's radio station Radio K is a veritable underground institution, one deserving of all the celebration it can get, not only for introducing the world to many great, left-of-the-dial bands, but for the fact that, after 15 years, the station is still going strong. So, in order to celebrate, the station has put together some of Minnesota's best acts to play a show at First Avenue. Slow, steady hush-rockers Low, electronic collage-maker/god of multi-tasking Dosh, Doomtree member Sims, and house-of-mirrors psych-rockers Vampire Hands are all coming together on October 8th for an 18+ show to celebrate the station and, presumably, play some awesome music.

Here are the deets:

Low + Dosh + Sims + Vampire Hands
Wednesday, October 8
First Avenue
Minneapolis, MN
8 pm | $12 | 18+

In other Radio K news, the station will be holding its Fall Fund Drive from October 1st to October 10th. So, while you're celebrating the station, throw it some bones too.

Check out Radio K sessions featuring the artists playing on the 8th here:

Doomtree
Dosh
Vampire Hands

(Jonathan Graef)
jon@minneapolisfuckingrocks.com

Reminder: Eight is Enough Benefit Concert

Times via More Cowbell:

SKOAL KODIAK (1:15AM)
STNNNG (12:30AM)
POS (11:45PM)
LOW (10:30PM)
DOSH (9:30PM)
KILL THE VULTURES (8:45PM)
TAPE N TAPE (JOSH GRIER AND JEREMY HANSEN OF TAPES N TAPES) (8:00PM)

Tickets are sold-out, but if you bumrush the show, you might be able to get them at the door.

Dosh Plays University of Minnesota's "Radio K"

Download: Dosh - "Capture The Flag" (Live on Radio K)

On the heels of some excellent Radio K sessions, including Gospel Gossip and M83, comes Minneapolis-based multi-instrumentalist Dosh's set at the college radio institution. The master of sonic collage performed 5 tracks in total, three of which are from his superb Wolves and Wishes album. Tracks from that effort include "Capture The Flag" and a medley of "First Impossible/If You Want To, You Have To". The songs from past records include Naoise EP's "Steve The Cat" and The Lost Take's "A Ghost's Business".

Listen to more here. In other Dosh studio performance news, the Anticon artist recently performed for Daytrotter. Check out that session here.

Dosh MySpace Page

(Jonathan Graef)

Tonight in Minneapolis: Pride Parade, Dosh

Black Blondiewill be on from 7:30-8:00. The block party will be held on Bryant Avenue South between 29th St.
and Lake St. Info below, via the Black Blondie MySpace page:

Uptown Pride Block Party
Friday, June 27, 6-10:30pm
FREE! Rain or Shine
810 W Lake St, Mpls 55408

Foxy Tann - emcee
6:00-6:30 Rope Trick
6:45-7:15 Venus DeMars & All the Pretty Horses
7:30-8:00 Black Blondie
8:15-8:45 Dykes Do Drag
9:00-10:15 Tina Schlieske & Band

(Dosh - "Fireball" -Live at the Varsity Theater)

After getting reviewed by Pitchfork, and interviewed by the AV Club, the one thing left to do is to play live, and that's what Dosh is going to do tonight at First Ave. Show is 18+, and tickets are $12. P.O.S. and Kill The Vultures open.

(Jonathan Graef)

Pitchfork Reviews Dosh's Wolves and Wishes

Download: Dosh - "If You Want To, You Have To"

One of the best qualities of Dosh's new album Wolves and Wishes, and perhaps his oeuvre in general, is how the music as a whole can start quietly, or in lo-key fashion, and then end with gloriously transcendent highs before the listener has even fully processed what has occurred. It's the type of scenario that has consumers of the music engaging in constant double-takes: "wait, what was that? I wanna hear that again." And so forth, until you find yourself listening again and again, constantly hearing new sonic patterns and pastiches to discover, digest, and, ultimately, take utter delight in.

But don't take my word for it. Indie institution Pitchfork has reviewed Wolves and Wishes, giving it a 7.7. Writer Roque Strew puts Dosh's work in both electronic and hip-hop contexts, and then elaborates upon that theme by stating:

But listening to Dosh, as opposed to listening to the equally skilled Four Tet, you don't have the sense of technology rudely intruding into the creative process, of the wizard too busy to care whether we can see him behind the curtain. He does care: where Four Tet parades his mastery of vivid, unapologetic collage, Dosh goes for a mastery of illusion. So like any illusionist, he takes care to start and end with a bang

Read the rest of Pitchfork's review here.

Dosh MySpace Page

(Jonathan Graef)

The Onion Interviews Martin Dosh

Download: Dosh - "Capture the Flag"

MPLS-based multi-instrumentalist Dosh released his fourth full-length long-player, Wolves and Wishes. Wolves, like its predecessors, does a fantastic job demonstrating what Dosh is all about: minimalist electronic symphonies which, using loops of different instruments like guitar, violin, saxophone, keyboards and drums, build slowly, but surely, to a rousing conclusion. Inquiring minds would probably like to know how Dosh goes about making his records, so the people over at the Onion A.V. Club, the like-minded entertainment section of satirical newspaper The Onion, sought the answers to that question, and more. Here's an excerpt of the interview:

AVC: Wolves And Wishes and The Lost Take brought in a lot of guest musicians, including Bird and Bonnie "Prince" Billy.

Martin Dosh: I want to expand. I'm unable to play instruments like violin and guitar—I play a little bit of guitar, not enough to come up with cool ideas, I think. I just want to have other textures in the music—I don't want it to just be all keyboards, xylophones, and drums. It can be really cool that way, but right now I want to hear those other textures. The violin is awesome, and obviously there are other avenues I could explore by sampling other things. There's so much I like about sampling other people that are reacting to my music. So I have my basic track [with] drums, melody, keyboards, and Jeremy comes over and says, "What should I play?" I'm just, "Eh, try a couple things." And we'll do a few passes through, improv-style, and listen back, find the good stuff, chop it up, move it around.

From there, the interview, conducted by Christopher Bahn, goes on to discuss the effect that touring has on Dosh's creative process, working with frequent collaborator Andrew Bird, and whether or not Dosh worries that a song will be too complex to play live.

Read the rest of the interview here.

In the meantime, check out two videos of Dosh playing live. There's "Capture The Flag", which was captured at Dosh's home, and "Um, Circles and Squares", the video of which was shot by a fan at Dosh's show in Omaha on June 6th. The last is of Dosh playing "Subtractions, Part One" at the Walker Art Center last month in Minneapolis, as part of his "World of Dosh" shows.


(Dosh, "Capture The Flag", live at home)
Via Anticon


(Dosh, "Um, Circles and Squares", Live in Omaha)
YouTube Link


(Dosh, "Subtractions, Part One", Live at the Walker Art Center)
YouTube Link

Wolves and Wishes is out now. Buy it here.

Dosh MySpace Page

(Jonathan Graef)

Video: Dosh - "Capture The Flag" (Live)

Stereogum premiered a new video of local multi-instrumentalist/looping genius Dosh performing a song from his rapidly upcoming record Wolves and Wishes. Check it out here. For more live goodies from past times, head on over to Dosh's website, or to the website of his in-studio performance over at Radio K (thanks, anonymous!)

Wolves and Wishes is out on Tuesday.

Dosh MySpace Page

(Jonathan Graef)

Dosh Performs Live on MPR

Download: Dosh - "Ankle Deep and Rising"
Download: Dosh - "Henderson Four"
Download: Dosh - "India India"
Download: Dosh - "If you want to, you have to"


In a week's time, multi-instrumentalist/arguable Robin to Andrew Bird's Batman Martin Dosh will release his fourth studio album entitled Wolves and Wishes. Recently, he played three songs from the album on a live performance in the studios of The Current, 89.3. Listen to that performance . here, as well as one MP3 from each of his albums at the top of the post.

(Jonathan Graef)

Tonight: Dosh At The Triple Rock

Download: Dosh - "Henderson Four"

See Dosh tonight at the Triple Rock for a 21+ show. Doors are at 9 p.m. and tickets are $8. Buy them here.

Opening are Mystery Palace, Cecil Otter and Andrew Broder.

Dosh MySpace Page