Of the half-dozen or so real singular things that seem, to me, classically Minnesotan—state fair, birthplace of the DFL, almost hilariously great publishing and bookstores, scrappy/underdog baseball—the thing I’m most drawn to, of course, is music. It’s easy to make lists that make the cold, weird 32nd state seem like some freakish something’s-in-the-water type place: [...]
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A friend got me into Jamie Lidell by putting “Multiply,” the title track from his second-most-recent disc, on a mix for me, I think, in the summer of 2006. Is that right? Maybe it was the fall. Something like that.
Of course, the friend who made me the mix just put the title of [...]
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This interview was originally done over email like 2 years ago, or at least a year and a half, but the magazine it originally ran in was both small and based exclusively in the midwest, and so it seemed like a good idea to put it up somewhere more lasting and public.El Perro Del Mar [...]
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M Ward and Zooey Deschanel’s project She and Him: Volume 1 is coming out soon from Merge and the track that’s already leaked everywhere, “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here,” is a perfect example of the strengths of this pairing. It’s an instantly hummable song, something that sticks in your head about as quickly [...]
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So in the summer of, I think, 2006, there were like five bloggers who found and posted this amazing and sexy track called “Pretty Little Thing,,” by a guy named Fink. For those of us who found and listened to the track, summer of 2006 was all the better for it (and, had I been [...]
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