Music

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet to premiere new material in Moorhead

October 30th, 2015

By Jamie Hutchinson

The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet doesn’t like to draw lines when it comes to the music they incorporate into their performances. Having performed material written by Bach, Chet Atkins and both Frank Zappa and his son Dweezil, the Grammy-award winning classical guitarists seem to have no boundaries.

“What we try to do is play pieces that explore all the stylistic and color potential of four guitars,” said William Kanengiser, one of three original members still…

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Prof talks music videos, performing stunts and playing Fargo

October 22nd, 2015

By Jamie Hutchinson

Following the release of his album “Liability,” his first for record label Rhymesayers, Minneapolis rapper Prof is about to headline a tour of the U.S. with Fargo serving as the second date of the tour.

HPR: “Liability” has some featured guests on it, such as Tech N9ne and Waka Flocka Flame. How did you hook up with such prolific rappers?

Prof: I don’t know, man, kind of reached out. Some started hearing me, here and there. I guess, growing up, getting a…

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Dances with Vulfs

October 22nd, 2015

Rhythm section’s funk buddies make for “thrilling” debut album


For a band whose introduction to many was a collection of silent songs, Vulfpeck sure does make a joyful noise.

The funk outfit made headlines last spring after the release of “Sleepify,” an “album” of ten “songs,” each hovering just above the thirty second mark and each completely silent.

Exploiting a clever loophole in Spotify’s royalty distribution policy, the band encouraged fans to stream the…

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Michael Pink set to record first music video

October 15th, 2015

By Jamie Hutchinson

After having his songs featured in the documentary “Madd Frank Presents Madd Frank,” Fargo musician Michael Pink plans to record his first music video for a fan-favorite song. Pink has been well known in the Fargo-Moorhead area for years due to his blend of pop rock and alternative country and the upcoming music video is just another way to get his music reaching the ears of fans.

HPR: So, you’re going to record a music video soon?

MP: Yeah. I’m working with…

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Clutch on touring, “Psychic Warfare”, and gangster rap

October 14th, 2015

 

HPR had the opportunity to chat with Clutch guitarist Tim Sult. Clutch is a hard rock band based out of Maryland that has toured internationally and is headlining the 2015 Roughrider Ink and Iron expo.

HPR: What inspires Clutch’s lyrics -- what do you read?

Tim Sult: Neil really is the lyric guy in the band. I learn a lot about his lyrics from the YouTube videos he’s been doing. He’s been explaining the lyrics from each song in those -- especially from the new album.

HPR: When…

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Blitzen Trapper’s “All Across This Land” a powerhouse

October 1st, 2015

Rock and Roll was made for you. Band in Fargo on Saturday


There’s nothing more rock and roll than singing about rock and roll. For as long as the genre has existed, its torch-bearers have spouted its mystical, transformative virtues. A seeming act of piety, it’s been ambiguously twisted into averb in thrashing sermons by the likes of Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Bob Seger and the Velvet Underground. While those bands’ definitions fall far from total encapsulation, country-rockers Blitzen…

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Blind Joe soars on The Voice

September 28th, 2015

courtesy of NBCLocal singer advancing on NBC competition show

The Red River Valley has been abuzz with the recent news that local musician Blind Joe is a contestant on NBC’s The Voice and has advanced past the blind auditions stage. This past Friday, in one of his first one on one interviews since he was allowed to talk (the episode has been taped for a while but performers were sworn to silence until it aired), HPR caught up with the country crooner who has previously been named best local musician…

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Carroll’s adventures in Wonderland

September 24th, 2015

With Minneapolis and St. Paul a relative stone’s throw away, it’s especially hard to avoid the aftershock of whatever musical A-bombs are dropped by Twin Cities musicians as their impact spreads to the rest of the nation. We were some of the first to catch droplets of Prince’s “Purple Rain,” bang heads to the Replacements and pick up the dropped science of the Rhymesayers label. Though it would be downright ignorant to say that the Twin Cities are facing a musical drought,…

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The Mouse that Roared

September 16th, 2015

photo by MeiLi Smith

From the manic buzzing of unseen bees that signaled the band’s arrival on the stage of the Bluestem amphitheater down to the last sonic drop of their second encore set, Washington indie rockers Modest Mouse blazed through a nearly two and a half hour set with a seemingly unceasing energy.

Founder and frontman Isaac Brock was the rightful center of attention as the octet bombarded their way through their catalogue, mining gems from their most recent record, “Strangers to…

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Auerbach’s soulful side project comes out on top

September 10th, 2015

The Marxist school of sociological thought posits our world as one of unceasing conflict, an undercurrent of discord raging through every instance of human interaction. It’s just as a handy a theory for making sense of large-scale movements like Black Lives Matter as it is for explaining the lesser tensions in life, like why company execs enjoy corner offices and lowlier workers cramp up in drab cubicles. While viewing the world through this lens of struggle can be draining and…

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