Cake In 15

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 [...]

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 [...]

It has been Doomtree week in the Twin Cities, with the epic Blowout VII events coming fast and furious from the 7th Street Entry, and now, tonight and Saturday, from the Mainroom at First Avenue. If you haven’t been cramming into the Entry to get the sold-out feeling live, then the recaps and media around [...]

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 [...]

Even if you haven’t heard Dustin Thomas play a song, you’d recognize him from being out at shows. With a buoyant smile under a billowing cloud of copper hair and dreadlocks, there’s no way that the kid isn’t an artist. In a town chock-a-block with talent and singer-songwriters, Thomas is worth a listen for his [...]

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 [...]

If you are sitting around in Minneapolis and not quite sure what to do with yourselves tonight, let us offer a couple suggestions for you. Obviously, we brought you an interview with Grieves & Budo yesterday, so if you are looking for a hip-hop show, that’s going to be your bag, and then there are [...]

Despite the mourning in his name and the sly, dark poetry of his lyrics, which go straight for the gut and the heart, sometimes by way of the bottle, Grieves is a funny guy. The man born Benjamin Laub may be “batshit crazy”, as he claims, but also genuinely funny in conversation, especially when backed [...]

“That whole idea of decade packaging, things don’t happen that way…that packaging of time is a journalist convenience that they use to trivialize and to dismiss important events and important ideas. I defy that.” -Utah Phillips, “Bridges” from The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere Journalist convenience or not, a decade is about to come up on [...]

Alright, so the Fringe Festival and I haven’t always had the best of relationships. Suspicious as I am of large organizations of wildly enthused people and competitive art-making (which, with the time-limits and winner’s encore slot, the Fringe is) I’ve generally avoided the event, or at least, only gotten into it when I need to. [...]