I Need An Intern.

Surf's Up
10pm | $5

Myrrh
Food Pyramid
Bloodwall
Million Brazilians (Portland)
Rotten Apples (Boston)

The Hexagon Bar
10pm | No Cover

Bomb Banks (Chicago)
Goatflower
Skoal Kodiak
The Hecks (Chicago)

Even though I really want to see  Million Brazilians and Myrrh at the Lounge and Goatflower and Skoal Kodiak at The Hexagon there's something else going on a few blocks up the street from the home base. Icehouse MPLS is having a soft opening stop kick off their new Monday night Jazz series. From the man himself, Mr. JT Bates...

"Alright dear friends. Tonight Adam Linz, Dave Karr and I will christen the Icehouse MPLS stage! It's slightly different tonight as it is the soft opening. We will play a little after 10pm, please, if you're not invited to the opening, do not arrive until 10 or a little after. we will also play a later set at 11:30. ((normally it will be 9:30 & 11:30 sets)) Played some music in there last night, and it sounds amazing!! I am so very grateful for this opportunity to begin again. please come down and celebrate with us. Also tonight only, NO COVER!!!!!! please share this all over the damn place. Thanks."

Wizards Are Real @ Hymie's Records

Photo by Steven Cohen

320kbps mp3s of this recording can be downloaded here.

Wizards Are Real
Hymie's Records
Minneapolis, MN
Sunday November 13th 2011

Recorded by: emptystapes AT gmail DOT com
Location: DINish, at the pilar, 7' ^
Source: AKG 414B-xls (Cards) > Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Transfer: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > Razorlame > 320kbps mp3]
Edit: mild compression (Sound Forge 10) track indexing (CD Wave)

This Recording is for Promotional & Archival Purposes Only.

01. I’m Your Free Lieutenant
02. We Need Zinc
03. The Expert
04. Through the Pipes
05. 9 Volt
06. Clamander
07. Falconry
08. Flavor of Coal
09. Stay Golden
10. Keep Still
11. Making Out the Hard Way

Melanie Bergstrom - sax
Tim Baumgart - drums
Ted Held - bass
Brian O'Neil - pedal steel

Facebook | Hymie's Records

Thanks to Dave and Laura at Hymie's (3820 East Lake Street) for doing what they do for the community and Wizards Are Real for being cool with me sharing this. Check out the Hymie's site for weekly in-store performances from some of the best bands in all the land.

Jazz Thursdays At MacPhail

Mingus: Meditations and Revelations

Thursday, October 14 · 8:00pm - 10:00pm
MacPhail Center For Music
501 South 2nd Street

Join Adam Linz, Chris Thomson, and Alden Ikeda as they present the first Jazz Thursdays concert at MacPhail. Kicking off our year long tribute to the music of Charles Mingus. From Duke Ellingtons Sound of Love to a solo version of Please Don't Come Back From The Moon we pay tribute to one of America's most unique voices in jazz and society. Hope you can make it. Special QandA session with the artists from 7 till 7:30PM in the US Bank Lobby outside Antonello Hall. Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment For The Arts.

Adults $10 | Students $5

Tickets are available by calling 612.767.5250 or you can purchase in person at MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis.

Kill The Vultures @ The Triple Rock '10

A .RAR file containing this recording can be downloaded here.

Kill the Vultures
The Triple Rock
Minneapolis, MN
Saturday September 25th 2010

Taper: empty (emptystapes AT gmail DOT com)
Location: DINish (cm, º), right drink rail, 25' back, ~8' ^
Source: AKG 414B-xls (Cards) > Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Transfer: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > razorlame > 320kbps]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 10 (compression + fade out)

This Recording is for Promotional & Archival Purposes Only.

01. Moonshine
02. Dirty Hands
03. 14th St. Ritual
04. The Big Sleep
05. Spare Parts
06. Walk On Water
07. a cappella
08. The Vultures
09. 7, 8, 9
10. Sick Days Are Upon Us
11. Beasts of Burden

DJ Anatomy - music
Crescent Moon - voice

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Welcome to night 3 of the 5 night run that I'm currently engaged in. No Bird Sing and Bouncer Fighter supported Kill the Vultures this evening. Alexei had just flown back from France on Friday but his vocals were top notch and he never missed a beat. Anatomy kept the set tight and moving. I don't believe I've been able to catch up with KTV since 11/14/09 so this will be the first and only 2010 recording that is released. Get it on ze ipod! Thanks to Kill the Vultures and The Triple Rock for allowing me to document this set.

Jazz in the Clown Lounge this week...

You might already know that my favorite Twin Cities jazz trio Fat Kid Wednesdays have had a long standing Monday night gig at The Clown Lounge in the basement of The Turf Club. Morecowbell.net recently started up a weekly jazz series Tuesday night in The Clown Lounge making the Midway the place for jazz fans to start off the week. This week in particular is rather tasty downstairs...

Monday, December 14th - Jazz Implosion in the Clown Lounge with Happy Apple!

Tuesday, December 15th - The Clown Lounge Jazz Series with Dave King, Adam Linz, Scott Fultz and Zacc Harris Quartet!

Face Candy :: Jam City (Volume 1)

Here's a link to the torrent.

Face Candy
Jam City Volume 1
The West Bank Tapes

Tracks 1-8
The Triple Rock Social Club
Minneapolis, MN
Friday August 3rd 2007

Taper: empty (neveragain1980 AT yahoo DOT com)
Location: DINish, 20cm, right drink rail, 20' back, ~10' ^
Source: Studio Projects C4's > Mil Spec Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Conversion: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > TLH lvl 6 + Tested > FLAC]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 9 (fade in)

01. ...intro
02. Shedding Light
03. the First Step
04. Ground Meets Walls
05. Know The Inside
06. Grips of the Ego
07. ...banter
08. the Mayor

Michael Larsen - Freestyle
JT Bates - Drums
Casey O' Brien - Bass

A couple of days after the bridge collapse. Playing with Abzorbr and the Bill Mike Band.

Tracks 9-20
The Nomad
Minneapolis, MN
Thursday December 27th 2007

Taper: me
Location: AB, 20cm, ~6ft LOC, 10' back, ~10' ^
Source: Studio Projects C4's > Mil Spec Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Conversion: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > TLH lvl 6 + Tested > FLAC]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 9 (fade out)

09. Carnage beatbox set
10. Icicles
11. I'm Awake
12. It Happened on a Nice Sunny Day
13. A Path to Break
14. The Damage
15. Wired in Different Ways
16. Jam 1
17. Jam 2
18. Jam 17
19. Jam 16
20. Jam 14

Michael Larsen - Freestyle
Carnage - Beatbox
Casey O' Brien - Bass
Kristoff Krane - Freestyle (12-20)

Playing with Mel Gibson & the Pants and Cecil Otter from Doomtree. The last night of MG&TP's December 07 residency at the Nomad.

www.myspace.com/facecandy
www.crushkillrecordings.com

Freestyle meets free jazz and now that I have permission to release whatever I want it's time to kick out the jams. Face Candy shows are always an experience because you never know who's going to be on stage or what you're going to get. I thought about doing a two disc compilation with the best tracks from six or so shows but realized people would probably prefer full sets. Since we're talking improv all of the song titles are made up.

In 2006 Rhymesayers released Face Candy's first and only album "This Is Where We Were." It's a live album comprised of recordings made during an 8 date Midwest tour. The line up for the album included Eyedea (vocals), Mazta I (vocals), Kristoff Krane (vocals), Carnage (vocals), JT Bates (drums) and Casey O' Brien (bass). Face Candy have since continued playing shows in MN/WI as a trio featuring Eyedea, Casey and JT. With that said, Chris has always been a member and he's joined them for at least half of if not all of the set at 95% of the shows I've seen. I've also seen two shows that brought Carnage back to the fold to provide percussion in JT's absence.

Michael, Casey and JT are also in Carbon Carousel. Chris and Casey are also in Abzorbr. JT is in a dozen bands at any given time and I'd have to say he's my favorite Twin Cities drummer. Check out Carnage's solo material or anything he's done in Ill Chemistry.

The next Face Candy release is going to be a studio album culled from a non-stop 48 hour recording session that has yet to go down.

Fat Kid Wednesdays @ The Cedar

Here's a link to the torrent.

Fat Kid Wednesdays
The Cedar Cultural Center
Minneapolis, MN
Saturday February 9th 2008

Taper: empty (neveragain1980 AT yahoo DOT com)
Location: DIN (~20cm, ~90º), FOB, DFC, 30' back, ~10' ^
Source: MBHO 603a + KA200N > Mil Spec Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Conversion: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > FLAC Frontend 1.7.1 lvl 6 + Verify]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 9.0 (fades)
TRT: 42:28

Please Do Not sell this recording. Share & trade it freely.

01. intro
02. Art Deco (Don Cherry)
03. Faithful (Ornette Coleman)
04. Dewey's Tune (Dewey Redman)
05. That Little Sports Car (The Shaggs)
06. Unrecovery (Duster)

Michael Lewis - saxophones
Adam Linz - bass
JT Bates - drums

www.myspace.com/fatkidwednesdays
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Bfj_PczLg - Au Zèbre de Belleville, Paris 10-17-07

So there are numerous extremely talented jazz trios in Minneapolis but FKW are by far my favorite. Add together all of the other bands and artists that these guys are in or gig with and you'd have an intertwining tree of at least another 20 other active bands. Don't let this set fool you either, they have plenty of original material to check out.

See also; Happy Apple, Alpha Consumer, Carbon Carousel, Face Candy, Slide Huxtable, James Buckley Trio, The Pines, Dosh, Fog, Dubsack, Gloryland PonyCat and Kelly Rossum Quartet to name a few.

Happy Apple @ The Cedar

Here's a link to the torrent.

Happy Apple
The Cedar Cultural Center
Minneapolis, MN
June 8th 2007

Taper: empty (neveragain1980 at yahoo dot com)
Location: DIN, FOB, DFC, 30' back, ~10' ^
Source: Studio Projects C4's > Mil Spec Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Conversion: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > FLAC]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 9.0 (+2.4db & fades)

Disc I - 51:40

01. Happy Birthday Dave...
02. The Broad Side of The Silent Barn
03. Happy Apple back on top...
04. Rise Mark Anthony
05. light and evil...
06. See Sun Spot Run
07. we scored a film...
08. All God's Children Gots Number Theory

Disc II - 45:11

01. marketing theory...
02. Youth Oriented
03. jazz "biffy hoods" comercials...
04. Proud To Be All Heart
05. banter...
06. It Will Be

encore

07. If This Is Love, It Isn't


www.happyapplemusic.net
www.myspace.com/happyapplejerks