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By: Rob Frost (ed note: Apologies to Rob. It helps to hit “publish” after you draft a review.) What does a band do when they turn 20?  What any person in the world would do, throw a party!  Nada Surf did just that last week at First Avenue focusing on the release of their seventh [...]

Some of Cake In 15′s favorite people ever are putting on an awesome show at First Avenue this Saturday, April 7th! Caroline Smith & the Good Night Sleeps will be joined by Retribution Gospel Choir and Crimes. YOU can win a pair of tickets by just commenting about what your favorite fluffy animal is and [...]

By: Kyle Matteson Republished with Permission It’s no question that seeing concerts at the Minnesota Zoo’s Weesner Amphitheater is one of the more intimate outdoor places to see shows in Minnesota in the summer, and clearly it’s been a hit as they celebrate their 20th season this year. However, it’s also one of the priciest [...]

by: Brittany Ranck Three amazing bands played at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis on Saturday night. To start the night off you had Zoo Animal. This band is a wonderful trio featuring Holly Newsom as their lead singer, who kills on vocals every time she opens her mouth. Their music is soul wrenching. You [...]

The Cake Shop was in full swing this evening with a pair of beautiful sets from Haley Bonar. Each set was unique – “I just wrote a list of fifty songs, so I’m kind if winging it here,” Haley joked as she flipped through her lyric book – but there was some overlap and a [...]

As it so happens numerous times in our fair city, there are too many good shows on one night. So it works itself out to be that way this coming Saturday with Plants and Animals, Fanfarlo, Nada Surf, and Bowerbirds all on the same damn night. So to help you decide which of these amazing [...]

Say we here at CakeIn15 really hated classical music (for the record, we don’t). We could use our platform to tell you reasons why you shouldn’t listen to classical music, why you should hate classical music, deny the value of classical music and otherwise influence you to loathe Mozart, Chopin and Stravinsky. What would be [...]

While introducing the members of the 802 tour, Walker Performing Arts Curator Philip Bither remarked on how the talents of the musicians involved dissolved genres into something new. That’s not exactly the case, because the genres still very much present and instead of a dissolution, it’s a delectable layer cake of musicality. Intermingling on stage [...]

For me, SXSW usually involves running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to shoot one band after another. I’m usually in pain (feet, back, shoulders) by the end of each day from carrying photo gear and any swag I decided to pick up. It’s fun, and I love it, but… This [...]

There are three things that I feel I need to disclose before I can write anything honest about the brilliant and incisive red, black & GREEN: a blues by Marc Bamuthi Joseph/The Living Word Project at the Walker Art Center. 1) I spent the formative years of my childhood living in Egypt, a white boy [...]