Rainy Day Crush are a female fronted Alt/Rock band that has been together for more than 5 years and is new to the Twin Cities.

Seems like no matter how much he tries, Jay Farrar can't help sounding a little like himself. Farrar's new album, Terroir Blues, finds the 36-year-old artist and alt. Country icon striving to twist, undermine, explode and generally make strange the wonderfully atavistic sounds he has made since the beginning.

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The Weakerthans music is smart, not in a nerdy math-rock time signature kind of way either, but rather the sort of uncompromising flat-out literary smart that seems downright alien to most rock music. The fact that the band’s dense word play comes packaged in a folksy rock/pop-punk package makes it all the more intriguing.

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