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TOUR: Free Energy Announces U.S. Dates With Titus Andronicus



*MP3: Free Energy - “Bang Pop”



*MP3: Titus Andronicus - “A More Perfect Union”



Free Energy has announced a nice U.S. tour with Titus Andronicus along with a stop in Minneapolis on 9/17 at the Triple Rock.

Tour Dates:
08/19: Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwells
08/21: Boston, MA @ Royale
08/22: Montreal, QB @ Il Motore
08/23: Ottowa, ON @ Mavericks
08/25: Ithaca, NY @ Castaways
08/28: Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
08/29: Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
09/05: San Diego, CA @ Belly Up Tavern
09/07: Los Angeles, CA @ Viper Room *
09/08: San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
09/10: Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
09/11: Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge/Music Fest Northwest
09/12: Seattle, WA @ The Tractor Tavern
09/13: Boise, ID @ Neurolux
09/14: Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
09/15: Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
09/16: Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room
09/17: Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club
09/18: Chicago, IL @ Metro
09/19: Newport, KY @ Southgate House
09/20: Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
09/21: Durham, NC @ Duke Coffeehouse
09/22: Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theatre
09/23: Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
09/24: Washington, DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel
09/25: New York, NY @ Webster Hall

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(Ian Anderson) 

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The Golden Age: Inception of Music



*MP3: Memoryhouse - “To The Lighthouse”



I saw Inception last weekend, and like many people, my synapses exploded. Stumbling incoherently from the theater, a mess of blown fuses and frayed nerves, I was left to ponder the power of our latent, nebulous ideas on the lives we live. In the architecture of the mind, ideas are the constructs and we are the architects. We build up entire worlds and destroy them just as easily, both in our minds and in reality. Inception is a very small thing, but as Christopher Nolan has so ravenously demonstrated, fruition is monstrous.

With a little distance from the film, however, I think about its applications to music. What exactly is music? How does it begin in our minds? Where does it come from? Why do certain musical ideas present themselves as appealing while others do not, and why does such taste change over time? Is music an idle, abstract thing, or is it hard-wired into the fabric of nature, into the very strains of life itself?

Hell if I know. But maybe that’s the point. Cold scientific fact looms large over modern times, but people still cling to mystery. As I touched on in the hadron collider piece, it’s tempting to think that music has some sort of symmetry with the universe, that somehow, our concept of music is a frequency dialed in to the music of the spheres. Perhaps the inception of music cannot be explained, or can be explained only after one plays a note on the piano.

Perhaps to explain inception, one needs to travel back to inception and, like Cobb and his team, move past every barrier of consciousness the human mind has built up to the very beginning, the genesis of the idea. Perhaps our ancestors discovered music out of necessity. Perhaps it was a healing mechanism to the harsh realities of life. It described life, but it also took one away from life. It was fun. Some were more practiced in it, or more attuned to it, and thus it became a heavenly gift. Kings had it played at their courts. It became the language of the gods given to people, more lovely and true than any other rudimentary language that ever came from the false tongues of human beings.

Maybe we discovered music, or maybe we stole it from somebody else. Whatever the case, music became many things to many people. We now believe that we can conceive of good music and bad music with little knowledge as to how such qualifications can be made. To some, music is polite, historical, chordant. To others, music is angry and political. Still others believe that music can mean anything to anybody, while some make careers qualifying music as good taste or bad taste.

We make such categorizations, though, without every truly knowing where music comes from. All we know is that it exists. We can’t remember the beginning of the dream, so we try to piece together its meaning from everything that came after. We can influence music in each other, cause secondary and tertiary inceptions of music in each other’s minds, but the origin of it all remains lost. When do we awaken to the true reason music exists? As Christopher Nolan might say, how will we know that that won’t be a dream?            

- The Golden Age is a weekly column written by Erik Martz from Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

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GAME TRAILER: “DC Universe”

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VIDEO: Tennis - “Cape Dory”

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VIDEO: Caribou - “Sun”

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TOUR: The Thermals Announce U.S. Dates



*MP3: The Thermals - “I Don’t Believe You”



The Thermals have announced U.S. tour dates with Japandroids and Cymbals Eat Guitars, along with a stop in Minneapolis on 9/30 at the Triple Rock. Their new album, Personal Life, will be out on 9/7 via Kill Rock Stars.

Tour Dates:
09.06 - Seattle, WA @ Bumbershoot Festival
09.08 - Bend, OR @ The Tower Theatre
09.09 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom (Music Fest Northwest)
09.12 - Portland, OR @ Kennedy School (You Who Kids Show)
09.25 - Bellingham, WA @ Wild Buffalo *
09.26 - Spokane, WA @ The Seaside
09.27 - Billings, MT @ The Railyard Ale House
09.29 - Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium (Dempsey’s Upstairs)
09.30 - Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club #
10.01 - Iowa City, IA @ The Mill #
10.02 - Madison, WI @ The Annex #
10.03 - Chicago, IL @ Logan Square Auditorium
10.04 - Bloomington, IN @ Rhino’s #
10.06 - Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick #
10.07 - Cincinnati, OH @ Northside Tavern #
10.08 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom #
10.09 - Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace #
10.10 - Ithaca, NY @ Castaways #
10.12 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church #
10.13 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza #
10.14 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club #
10.15 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat #
10.17 - Mt. Pleasant, SC @ Village Tavern #
10.19 - Athens, GA @ 40 Watt #
10.20 - Nashville, TN @ Exit/In #
10.21 - Birmingham, AL @ Bottle Tree #
10.22 - New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks #
10.23 - Austin, TX @ Red 7 #
10.24 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater #
10.28 - Denver, CO @ The Bluebird Theater
10.29 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
10.30 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux

* with Japandroids

# with Cymbals Eat Guitars

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(Ian Anderson) 

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TONIGHT: New Music Tuesdays with MFR at Honey Featuring Grant From Lookbook



New Music Tuesdays with MFR continues this week with the sweet influence of Grant Cutler of Lookbook fame as a guest DJ. We will be spinning jams from 9pm-1am, admission is free, and beers are $3. 

Tonight, I’ll be spinning a good portion of the new Arcade Fire album starting at 9pm, so if you want a sneak peak of The Suburbs a week before anyone else, come early! Beyond that, you can expect to hear new Best Coast, Lissie, Les Savy Fav, Tennis, Delorean and, yes, Katy Perry. 

Thanks to Sound Verite for the shout out today!

For more information, click here.

(Ian Anderson 

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MP3: Lissie - “Bully”



*MP3: Lissie - “Bully”



“Bully” is the first single from Lissie’s debut album, Catching A Tiger, which will be out on 8/17 via Fat Possum.

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Best New Releases For July 27, 2010

Best Coast - “Crazy For You” (Mexican Summer)


*MP3: Best Coast - “Crazy For You”



Buy it from Mexican Summer.

Menomena - “Mines” (Barsuk)


*MP3: Menomena - “TOAS”



Buy it from Barsuk.

You can hear more from both of these releases tonight, as well at our Best Coast listening party on 8/3 at Honey.

(Ian Anderson) 

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VIDEO: Dark Dark Dark On MPLS.tv/City Of Music

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City of Music continue their great work with this video of Dark Dark Dark.

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MP3: Les Savy Fav - “Let’s Get Out Of Here”



*MP3: Les Savy Fav - “Let’s Get Out Of Here”



New Les Savy Fav! LSF’s new album, Root For Ruin, will be out on 9/14 via Frenchkiss. Download your mp3 of “Let’s Get Out Of Here” below.



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(Ian Anderson) 

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MP3: Tennis - “Baltimore”



*MP3: Tennis - “Baltimore”



Tennis’ 7”, Baltimore, is out now via Underwater Peoples. Click here to order yours.

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MP3: Arcade Fire - “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”



*MP3: Arcade Fire - “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”



Arcade Fire’s new album, The Suburbs, will be out on 8/3 via Merge. Get excited.

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MP3: Family Trees - “Dream Talkin’”



*MP3: Family Trees - “Dream Talkin’”



Family Trees’ 7”, Dream Talkin’, is out now via Father/Daughter Records.

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TONIGHT: Pomegranates, One for the Team, Wild Moccasins at Ballentine Hall (MFR Presents)



[MFR PRESENTS]


*MP3:
 Pomegranates - “Everybody Come Outside”

 

*MP3: One for the Team - “I Got Tamed” (Feat. John Vanderslice)

 

*MP3: Wild Moccasins - “Skin Collision Past”

 

We are proud to present Pomegranates, One for the Team and Wild Moccasins tonight at Ballentine Hall. Doors open at 8pm!

Click here for show details.

(Ian Anderson) 

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