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Minneapolis
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Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2015, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul anchor the second-largest economic center in the Midwest, after Chicago. Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul. It was once the worlds flour milling capital and a hub for timber, the city and surrounding region is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle, with Minneapolis proper containing Americas fifth-highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies. As an integral link to the economy, Minneapolis is categorized as a global city. Noted for its music and performing arts scenes, Minneapolis is home to both the award-winning Guthrie Theater and the historic First Avenue nightclub. The name Minneapolis is attributed to Charles Hoag, the citys first schoolteacher, who combined mni, a Dakota Sioux word for water, and polis, Dakota Sioux had long been the regions sole residents when French explorers arrived around 1680. For a time relations were based on fur trading, gradually more European-American settlers arrived, competing for game and other resources with the Dakota. In the early 19th century, the United States acquired this territory from France, fort Snelling was built in 1819 by the United States Army, and it attracted traders, settlers and merchants, spurring growth in the area. The United States government pressed the Mdewakanton band of the Dakota to sell their land, the Minnesota Territorial Legislature authorized present-day Minneapolis as a town in 1856 on the Mississippis west bank. Minneapolis incorporated as a city in 1867, the rail service began between Minneapolis and Chicago. It later joined with the city of St. Anthony in 1872. Minneapolis developed around Saint Anthony Falls, the highest waterfall on the Mississippi River, forests in northern Minnesota were a valuable resource for the lumber industry, which operated seventeen sawmills on power from the waterfall. By 1871, the west river bank had twenty-three businesses, including mills, woolen mills, iron works, a railroad machine shop, and mills for cotton, paper, sashes. Due to the hazards of milling, six local sources of artificial limbs were competing in the prosthetics business by the 1890s. The farmers of the Great Plains grew grain that was shipped by rail to the citys thirty-four flour mills, a father of modern milling in America and founder of what became General Mills, Cadwallader C. Some ideas were developed by William Dixon Gray and some acquired through industrial espionage from the Hungarians by William de la Barre, pillsbury Company across the river were barely a step behind, hiring Washburn employees to immediately use the new methods. The hard red spring wheat that grows in Minnesota became valuable, not until later did consumers discover the value in the bran that Minneapolis
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Punk rock
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Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as proto-punk music, Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic, many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels, the term punk was first used in relation to rock music by some American critics in the early 1970s, to describe garage bands and their devotees. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, for the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment, by the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and street punk had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk. At the end of the 20th century, punk rock had been adopted by the mainstream, as pop punk and punk bands such as Green Day. The first wave of rock was aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, In its initial form, unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away. Soon you had endless solos that went nowhere, by 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bullshit rock n roll. In critic Robert Christgaus description, It was also a subculture that rejected the political idealism. Technical accessibility and a DIY spirit are prized in punk rock, in the early days of punk rock, this ethic stood in marked contrast to what those in the scene regarded as the ostentatious musical effects and technological demands of many mainstream rock bands. Musical virtuosity was often looked on with suspicion, according to Holmstrom, punk rock was rock and roll by people who didnt have very many skills as musicians but still felt the need to express themselves through music. In December 1976, the English fanzine Sideburns published an illustration of three chords, captioned This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. The title of a 1980 single by the New York punk band Stimulators, inscribed a catchphrase for punks basic musical approach. The previous year, when the rock revolution began in Great Britain, was to be both a musical and a cultural Year Zero. As a Clash associate describes singer Joe Strummers outlook, Punk rock is meant to be our freedom, were meant to be able to do what we want to do. Scholar Daniel S. Traber argues that attaining authenticity in the identity can be difficult, as the punk scene matured, he observes
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Indie rock
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Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Originally used to independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. In the mid-1980s, the term began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. Some prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s, during the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term alternative lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term indie rock became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status, by the end of the 1990s indie rock developed subgenres and related styles including lo-fi, noise pop, emo, slowcore, post-rock and math rock. In the 2000s, changes in the industry and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream success. In the early 2000s, a new group of bands played a stripped-down. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives, emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s. By the end of the 2000s the proliferation of bands was being referred to as indie landfill. The term indie rock, which comes from independent, describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released, the influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, post-punk and country. Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes, in fact, there is an everlasting list of genres and subgenres of indie rock. Many countries have developed a local indie scene, flourishing with bands with enough popularity to survive inside the respective country. However, there are still indie bands that start off locally, Indie rock has been identified as a reaction against the macho culture that developed in alternative rock in the aftermath of Nirvanas success. However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. The BBC documentary Music for Misfits, The Story of Indie pinpoints the birth of indie as the 1977 self-publication of the Spiral Scratch EP by Manchester band Buzzcocks, Indie pop and indie were originally synonymous. In the mid-1980s, indie began to be used to describe the music produced on post-punk labels rather than the labels themselves. The indie rock scene in the US was prefigured by the rock that dominated college radio playlists. In the United States, the term was associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of the Pixies, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr
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The Soviettes
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The Soviettes are a punk rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded in 2001. The group is composed of Annie, Sturgeon, Susy, and Danny, Annie and Susy, both natives of Fargo, North Dakota, moved to Minneapolis around 2000 where they met Bill Morrisette of Dillinger Four. He suggested that they start a band with his girlfriend, Sturgeon, the name originates from when Annie was serving coffee at a previous job, a customer offered your band should be called The Soviettes instead of a tip. The band recorded their first EP, T. C. C. P, soon Annie found Danny Henry to play with them permanently. In 2003, The Soviettes released the first LP entitled LP on Adeline Records of Oakland, in 2004, the band released their second LP entitled LP II, again on Adeline Records. The band was noticed by Fat Wreck Chords in San Francisco. The band released the song Paranoia, cha-Cha-Cha for the compilation album Rock Against Bush, Vol.1. On June 28,2005, the bands third LP entitled LP III was released on Fat Wreck Chords. The members of The Soviettes have maintained a friendship with rapper P. O. S and they also gained an association with the Minnesota RollerGirls with the single Roller Girls about the organization with backing vocals from some of the girls. They toured the United States extensively at the end of 2005 with Fat Wreck label-mates Against Me. the Epoxies, after April 2006 the band went on hiatus indefinitely and, at the time, the members doubted the band would reform at all. Susy has since moved to Los Angeles, California, I dont know why we broke up, said Danny Henry in 2007, It was pretty natural. Bands are relationships, theyre just more complicated because its a four-way deal, since The Soviettes hiatus, Annie and Danny have continued playing music together as the punk rock duo The Awesome Snakes. Sturgeon now plays in The Gateway District with Carrie, as well as Nate from Banner Pilot, Annie also performs with the God Damn Doo Wop Band. The band reunited in 2010 for some shows, the first was on March 18,2010 at Eclipse Records in St. Paul, MN. Next was March 19,2010 at the Turf Club in St. Paul, both shows were record release shows for their Rarities album, released for free on Red Sound Records. They also played at the Soda Bar in San Diego, CA on Sept 4th,2010 as part of Awesome Fest 4, on October 29,2010 the band played at The Atlantic in Gainesville, FL as part of Fest 9. They did play at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis on 05/27/2011, the band also played a live show at San Franciscos Bottom of the Hill Club on August 31,2011 that played to a full house. They punch you in the gut and make you happy for the pain
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P.O.S (rapper)
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Stefon Alexander, better known by his stage name P. O. S, is a hip hop artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. P. O. S. is a member of the indie hip hop collective Doomtree and is currently signed to Doomtree Records. He also fronts a number of rock bands and is currently serving as guitarist and vocalist for Building Better Bombs. Before entering hip hop, P. O. S was in a rock bands named Degenerates. The band Om included ex-Doomtree member MK Larada, when first performing as a punk band, he also performed shared shows with a band including Lazerbeak, named The Plastic Constellations. In 2001, P. O. S, rapper Syst and they released one album Indefinition in 2002 shortly before breaking up. The group won the award for Best Band to Break Up in the Past 12 Months in the issue of City Pages. P. O. S is a member of Doomtree. His debut EP Falsehopes with Cecil Otter and first solo album Ipecac Neat were originally released exclusively through Doomtree, the album caught the attention of Rhymesayers Entertainment who, in 2004, signed him and re-released Ipecac Neat. Since that point, his albums have been released by both Doomtree and Rhymesayers. In January 2006, P. O. Ss second album, Audition, was released, the first half of 2006 seen P. O. S accidentally tour with Gym Class Heroes in support of the album. Since then, he has focused on Doomtree projects. In 2007, the collective released a collaborative album False Hopes. In 2008, they released the first official album Doomtree, P. O. S often tours alongside fellow Doomtree members for his solo tours. In February 2009, P. O. S released his third album, the album came with a unique form of artwork. The liner notes, which include six transparent slides, can be rearranged to put the listeners own personal touch on the cover, the first single Drumroll was received well among college and alternative radio alike. The fourth album, We Dont Even Live Here, was released in October 2012, get Down features a guest appearance from Mike Mictlan of Doomtree and Fuck Your Stuff was produced by Lazerbeak of the collective. A version of the album remixed by Marijuana Deathsquads was released a year later, in January 2017, P. O. S released his fifth album, Chill, dummy
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Rarities (Soviettes album)
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Rarities is the fourth album, and first compilation, by the Minneapolis punk rock band The Soviettes. It is a selection of the groups material, including their early EPs. It was released free on the internet and also in vinyl LP format, hot Sauced and Peppered –2,34 In the Red –1,21 Go Lambs Go. –1,58 Sandbox –1,25 Matts Song –2,46 Sixty Days –2,03 Latchkey –2,51 Sunday AM –2,51 The Nine To Life –2,35 gossip@whogivesashit. C. C. P. Tracks 5 to 10 are from November 2002s split EP with The Valentines, track 11 is from the 2002 Havoc Records compilation No Hold Back, All Attack Tracks 12 &13 are from 2003s split EP with The Havenots. Tracks 14 &15 are from the 2004 single Alright, Tracks 16 to 18 are unused demos from the recording sessions for LP III. mn magazine site. The Soviettes on Myspace Red Sound Records free download site
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Venom (Awesome Snakes album)
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Venom is the debut album by punk rock band Awesome Snakes, released in 2006 on Crustacean Records. A loose, loud set of Ramones-y tunes all about two subjects, snakes and/or things that are awesome, with two instruments, two voices and two big, hairy balls hanging under their seriously snide snake, this band never surrenders the attitude for even a second. With their name and Crue-ripoff cover, you might get the feeling youre in for a good time
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City Pages
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City Pages is an alternative newspaper serving the Minneapolis–St. It features news, film, theatre and restaurant reviews and music criticism, on August 1,1979, publishers Tom Bartel and Kristin Henning debuted Sweet Potato, a monthly newspaper focused on the Twin Cities music scene. The first issue featured pop band the Cars on the cover, in October 1980, Sweet Potato went biweekly. On December 3,1981, the newspaper went weekly and was renamed City Pages, City Pages competed for readership with the Twin Cities Reader until 1997, when Stern Publishing purchased City Pages in March and the Twin Cities Reader the following day, shuttering it immediately. Bartel and Henning left City Pages in the fall of 1997, Tom Bartels brother Mark was named publisher after Bartel and Hennings departure. City Pages was one of seven alternative weeklies owned by Stern, after the deals completion, New Times took the Village Voice Media name. Web editor Jeff Shaw, food columnist Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, staff writers Jonathan Kaminsky and Jeff Severns Guntzel, among others, on May 6,2015, City Pages was sold to Star Tribune Media Co. publisher of the Minneapolis daily newspaper of the same name. Following the sale, Star Tribune Media Co. ceased publication of its competing publication, screenwriter, producer, author, journalist Diablo Cody, music journalist Will Hermes, music journalist Jessica Hopper, food critic Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl. The publication has been criticized by Minneapolis City Council member Alondra Cano, in her 2015 memoir, musician Carrie Brownstein asserted sexism in the papers music coverage in the 90s, citing City Pages among a representative sample of journalism about Sleater-Kinney. Most of these articles are actually trying to be complementary — the authors just fell into common traps, Star Tribune St. Paul Pioneer Press City Pages
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MusicBrainz
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MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open data music database that is similar to the freedb project. MusicBrainz was founded in response to the placed on the Compact Disc Database. MusicBrainz has expanded its goals to reach beyond a compact disc metadata storehouse to become an open online database for music. MusicBrainz captures information about artists, their works, and the relationships between them. Recorded works entries capture at a minimum the album title, track titles, and these entries are maintained by volunteer editors who follow community written style guidelines. Recorded works can also store information about the date and country. As of 26 July 2016, MusicBrainz contained information about roughly 1.1 million artists,1.6 million releases, end-users can use software that communicates with MusicBrainz to add metadata tags to their digital media files, such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis or AAC. As with other contributions, the MusicBrainz community is in charge for maintaining and reviewing the data, besides collecting metadata about music, MusicBrainz also allows looking up recordings by their acoustic fingerprint. A separate application, such as MusicBrainz Picard, must be used for this, in 2000, MusicBrainz started using Relatables patented TRM for acoustic fingerprint matching. This feature attracted many users and allowed the database to grow quickly, however, by 2005 TRM was showing scalability issues as the number of tracks in the database had reached into the millions. This issue was resolved in May 2006 when MusicBrainz partnered with MusicIP, tRMs were phased out and replaced by MusicDNS in November 2008. In October 2009 MusicIP was acquired by AmpliFIND, some time after the acquisition, the MusicDNS service began having intermittent problems. Since the future of the free service was uncertain, a replacement for it was sought. The Chromaprint acoustic fingerprinting algorithm, the basis for AcoustID identification service, was started in February 2010 by a long-time MusicBrainz contributor Lukáš Lalinský, while AcoustID and Chromaprint are not officially MusicBrainz projects, they are closely tied with each other and both are open source. Chromaprint works by analyzing the first two minutes of a track, detecting the strength in each of 12 pitch classes, storing these 8 times per second, additional post-processing is then applied to compress this fingerprint while retaining patterns. The AcoustID search server then searches from the database of fingerprints by similarity, since 2003, MusicBrainzs core data are in the public domain, and additional content, including moderation data, is placed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 license. The relational database management system is PostgreSQL, the server software is covered by the GNU General Public License. The MusicBrainz client software library, libmusicbrainz, is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, in December 2004, the MusicBrainz project was turned over to the MetaBrainz Foundation, a non-profit group, by its creator Robert Kaye
