Cake In 15

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 [...]

John Megas SIGNALS Trailer from Carl Atiya Swanson on Vimeo. Painter and printmaker John Megas, known for his “Paint On Demand” blog Panda Licking on a Lightbulb and for his writing at MPLSart.com, will hold his debut solo show “Signals” at Gallery 122 at Hang It. The opening reception on Friday, November 11, 7pm-10pm, is [...]

It’s been a busy couple months for Staciaann and c.a.s., between jobs and classes and the switch from summer to fall to the coming winter, there’s been a lot of work and not a lot of time to post. One of the biggest reasons is that c.a.s. has been in rehearsal for Savage Umbrella‘s newest [...]

Happy Friday everyone. Here’s a quick slice of what we’ve been enjoying this week, in between work, plays and getting occupied. City Pages dropped the annual Picked to Click issue this week, the ritualistic anointing of well connected and/or buzz-y bands with a new title to put on their press releases. This year’s edition was [...]

On Saturday night at the OccupyMN protests, the crowd is centered around a makeshift array of plastic tents, ringed by seated protesters with arms linked and then an outer shell of standing participants. People scatter off and glom on. There are enough people so that when the chanting gets loud, you can hear them from [...]

CakeIn15 gets a lot mail promoting new music and we love it- we’re also inundated by and so we don’t always get through it all. But, in an attempt to highlight some of the favorite things we do get through, here’s a rundown of what came into the mail (and e-mail) and we’re liking this [...]

“I’m sorry, you really should hear the guitar on this song.” That was the understatement of the night from Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent, at the 10pm show Sunday night at the Walker Art Center. Technically the second show of her tour, having played a sold out 7pm show, after getting the guitar patched in [...]

The lovely ladies of Blacklist Vintage have started to document their daily duds on Tumblr, so you can get your daily dose of good looks and envy there: And Brother Ali dropped a sweet video for the TC Day of Dignity coming up on October 1 with food, medical care and music coming to North [...]

CakeIn15 has long been a fan of local artists collective Hardland / Heartland; their collaborative collages, performance pieces, sound installations and ‘zine and tape production have all captured some weirdly pulsing energy on the far side popular culture. After shifting collaborations and productions of late, HL / HL artist Eric Timothy Carlson is going to [...]