Cake In 15

In our lifetimes, we can do lots of things with our time and money; there are always baubles and trinkets to buy, trips to take and meals to eat and these can all be wonderful things. Even so, we feel that one of the best things that we can do with our time and money [...]

We would like to think that we improve with each passing year, we become better, more complex and confident, more polished versions of ourselves, and hope the same for the things we care about. For the Minnesota music scene, to help this assessment along is the annual First Avenue “Best New Bands” showcase, highlighting the [...]

The Twin Cities prides itself as a musical cauldron, where styles blend together to form something grander, more interesting than simply the sum of their parts. Punk-rock rappers? Got ‘em. Blues-inflected hip-hop? Yep. Country-soul roots singers? Right here. Enter singer-songwriter Pat Dougherty and his project, Fairfax, AK. Starting off on the West Bank and recording [...]

“For those of you keeping score,” Johnny Solomon announced from the Triple Rock stage, “it’s a Beck’s Non-Alcoholic.” For a guy just coming off one year of sobriety and a band that has practiced five times in the last five years, Friends Like These kept it together well for their ten-song reunion set on Friday [...]

Looking for a Missing Employee is the kind of performance that could have easily taken place over coffee and cigarettes in a café on the Beirut Corniche. In the second show of the Out There 2012 at the Walker Art Center, Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué takes the audience on an almost two-hour long meander through [...]

It’s been a good week for music videos from local bands, and here you go! We’ve watched them, as the saying goes, so you don’t have to. But you really should, if only for the music. And so that you can imagine RoboCop in all of them. Poliça – “Lay Out Your Cards” This lovely, [...]

UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW is glorious. It is ecstatic, roiling, honest, hilarious, heartbreaking and aside from one uproariously grotesque blowjob scene, nigh-on family friendly. The show, by Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, is a commision by the Walker Art Center and is the first in their four-weekend Out There 2012: Global Visionaries Festival, opening the event [...]

It was a warm and familiar crowd at the Turf Club last night for The Money $hot, mingling and poring over the photos from Erik Hess of Noise Damage and CakeIn15′s own Stacy Schwartz of Staciaann Photography. As the artists busied themselves showing off photo highlights from the past year (or so) with mostly music [...]

It is the end of the year and to mark the passing, we’ve compiled a slice of some of our top CakeIn15 posts. That means some of our most commented and most shared posts as well as some that were really just fun to write. We hope you have enjoyed what we’ve been able to [...]

…from c.a.s. and Staciaann of CakeIn15. Thanks for all the reads, comments, contest entries and feedback over the last year. We hope you have a wonderful, warm and light-filled holiday, whether it be Solstice, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Chanukah, Festivus, Diwali, existential crisis or paint-smeared proto-pagan ritual. It’s all good for music & art. Onward and upward [...]