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MINNERAPOLIS: Muja Messiah Interview

Friday, July 25th, 2008

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Previously: Muja Messiah CD Release Party on July 27th

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Five Questions with… Black Blondie

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Attracting attention both locally and nationally, the critically acclaimed Black Blondie continue to compel audiences with their tireless live schedule. Leading up to the band’s forthcoming First Avenue performance with Muja Messiah, M.anifest and Maria Isa the group took aim at a few questions about the upcoming show, critical obsession with labeling their sound [...]

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Influenza with Alltruisms Part Two

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Approach Influenza as a series which serves to help give insight as to where music is born; these are the thoughts, influences and the inspirations directly from the mind of the artists. Here in the second episode featuring Chicago’s Alltruisms the emcee remarks on the rush of excitement he gets when completing a solid rhyme; [...]

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Five Questions with…Bodies of Water

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Los Angeles quartet Bodies of Water has attracted an abundance of online support, much of late has been aimed at the band’s forthcoming release A Certain Feeling( scheduled to hit stores July 22nd). Preparing for a twenty one date tour that hits both Canada and The United States, singer and guitarist David Metcalf answered [...]

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Influenza with Alltruisms

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Approach Influenza as a series which serves to help give insight as to where music is born; these are the thoughts, influences and the inspirations directly from the mind of the artists. Here, Chicago emcee Alltruisms describes the extended period of time leading up to his recently released Clusterbombs. Adding to that an [...]

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Instead of speaking to a musician, we thought it would be interesting to switch it up this week and talk to an artist of a different kind - in this case Ken Shipley, a sort of archaeologist of music. Ken’s record company Numero Group unearths long lost or forgotten classics, and gives them a [...]

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Influenza with Metermaids’ Sentence

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Approach Influenza as a series which serves to help give insight as to where music is born; these are the thoughts, influences and the inspirations directly from the mind of the artists. In the second of two editions featuring New York City’s Metermaids, Sentence breaks down and divides the title track from the duo’s recently [...]

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Influenza with Swell of Metermaids

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Approach Influenza as a series which serves to help give insight as to where music is born; these are the thoughts, influences and the inspirations directly from the mind of the artists. In the first of two editions featuring New York City’s Metermaids, one of the group’s two emcees Swell explains the basis for his [...]

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Five Questions with…Dan Deacon

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Dan Deacon is a musical artist like no other. Though he employs a gargantuan deck of esoteric and homespun electrical devices, his musical production remains very accessible. This is partly due to the man’s utter lack of pretension about his craft as well as his willingness to be approachable to his fans. In anticipation [...]

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Five Questions with…Laarks

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Making the trek from Wisconsin this weekend to play the Nomad World Pub is the Eau Claire-based quartet Laarks. Band member Ian Jacoby fielded questions from Culture Bully’s Jon Behm for this week’s Five Questions, covering the band’s connection to the fantastic Land of Talk, its relationship with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and challenging Justin [...]

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An Interview with Bell’s Olga Bell

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

New York City seems to be so full of musicians these days, it is a wonder that anyone can rise to the top of the fray. It is a credit to singer/musician Olga Bell that she is steadily gaining musical acclaim in what could be one of the most over-saturated musical markets in the country, [...]

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Five Questions with…Roma di Luna

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Perhaps better known as emcee Cresent Moon, Moon Casselle threw a curveball at the indie-rap community back in 2005 by playing a series of acoustic folk shows along with his wife, Channy. Their love of early folk and country music blossomed into Roma di Luna, which has since grown from a duo into a [...]

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Influenza with Nick Leet of High on Stress

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Approach Influenza as a series which serves to help give insight as to where music is born; these are the thoughts, influences and the inspirations directly from the mind of the artists. In this edition Nick Leet, from the Minneapolis-based quartet High on Stress, describes the evolution of “Cop Light Parade.” Written by Leet [...]

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Five Questions with…Sia

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

After the success of her most recent album, the fabulous Some People Have Real Problems, and the whirlwind tour that followed, the multi-talented chanteuse Sia deserves some well deserved relaxation by way of some time off. Culture Bully’s Jen Paulson was able to check in with the singer as she begins to wind down from [...]

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Five Questions with…The Cops

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Never heard of The Cops? You will. The Seattle punk/garage band is a rising star in a small but burgeoning revival taking place across the country; mixing political ethos with deadly guitar thrashing, the band’s goal seems to be to start a worldwide revolution. After signing up for his militia, Culture Bully’s [...]

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