|
Pulse of the Twin Cities Login |
|
If you do not have an account yet
Create One.
|
|
|
Twin Town High (vol. 8) |
|
|
|
|
Dear Music: Stay classy, Twin Cities
Wednesday 02 May @ 11:55:24 |
  by STEVE McPHERSON
Comedian Mitch Hedberg once said, "I saw this ad for a boxing match on HBO and they said it was going to be a fight to the finish--that's a good place to end." So here we are, at the cockshut of Pulse's run. We've still got a couple more issues to go, but this Tenth Anniversary Issue provides us a golden opportunity to look back at that most enduring of plot lines in literature (well, at least comic book literature): the origin story.
Part of the nature of covering music week in and week out in a scene as vibrant as the Twin Cities is that it's hard to put a finger down on the really important articles and/or features from the past ten years. Looking back through the archives over the last few weeks, I've seen articles on Lifter Puller's second album that talked about how fashionable they all are. Craig Finn made barely a peep while drummer (and now photographer) Dan Monick did most of the talking. A review of punk bands from '98 touched on Calvin Krime, a seminal Twin Cities punk band led by Sean Tillman (better known now as Har Mar Superstar), and on Arm, a band which featured Nate Grumdahl (who would go on to The Selby Tigers and later Monarques) and Bobby Drake (who's currently drumming for the Hold Steady). Average age of the members at the time of the article? 20.
So rather than comb through the vaults and try to glean some kind of strand or lesson or moral, we're taking the easy way out and going back to the beginning with Mark Wheat's first "Twin Town Trip Guide" column from the second issue of Pulse way back in April of '97, one of Slug's first "Permanent on Surfaces" columns and Keith Harris' review of the release show for Twin Town High Music Yearbook, Volume 2--a show I have a special attachment to, since it fell smack dab in the middle of the fall after I moved here, when I discovered local music in the Twin Cities. And of course, you know that Tom Hallett was going to have a little something to say about all of this.
As for me, Pulse has meant a lot--a lot of headaches, a lot of free lunch, but mostly a lot of good times. When I started here, I'd written a handful of show reviews for howwastheshow.com and a smaller handful of articles for Pulse itself. It's been very gratifying to discover so many great local bands, to get to interview some of my favorite national acts, to get to work with great new and established writers and to work on Twin Town High. I was asked to give some kind of summary of what's happened in music over the past ten years, but all I really want to say about the music scene here in the Twin Cities is something to the music scene in the Twin Cities: Thank you. You look better than ever. Just keep doing it. ||
|
|
 |
|
|
Comments -
Post Comment |
|
The comments are owned by the poster. We are not responsible for its content.
NO comments yet! Be the first!
|
|
|
