Music

Turn Me Loose!

April 6th, 2016

‘80s supergroup Loverboy can attribute their successes to not only to just working on the weekends. It’s taken a lot of blood, sweat and tears to come such a long way. It’s hard to believe that at the beginning of their career, they were rejected by all of the major American record companies until Columbia Records Canada picked them up. “We had a lot of disappointments in the beginning” says lead singer and founder Mike Reno.

They eventually went on to become one of the top…

Tenacious D’S Kyle Gass

April 6th, 2016

When Kyle Gass isn’t busy rocking socks off with Jack Black as part of the comedic rock duo Tenacious D, he rounds up a talented team of players for the Kyle Gass Band. The latest project of his was formed following the breakup of his longtime band Trainwreck in 2011 and features a ’70s-tinged classic rock sound that will satisfy plenty of Tenacious D fans.

Prior to their performance at the Aquarium on April 14, the Rage Kage himself took the time to chat with HPR about the side…

Go Murphy shoots from the hip

March 31st, 2016

Go Murphy is a Fargo based indie rock band. Since their inception five years ago, they have been making quite the name for themselves. With one full length album down and another one on its way. Go Murphy has a few more tricks up their sleeves.

They have received global radio play, played RedGorilla music fest at SXSW in 2014, and one of their songs was even featured on a national radio ad campaign for American Family Insurance.

Their latest endeavor involved shooting a video at the…

Sarah Neufeld to play at the Aquarium

March 30th, 2016

With the many projects violinist Sarah Neufeld is involved in, it’s hard for her to catch a break from it all and do her own thing. But with her two bands — Arcade Fire and instrumental band Bell Orchestre — taking some time off, she finally has time to do a proper tour for her second solo album.

Released Feb. 26, “The Ridge” builds on Neufeld’s sound by adding more instrumentation and stepping more into pop minimalism than her violin-centric 2013 release “Hero Brother.”

This…

Egypt takes flight

March 24th, 2016

Egypt had broken up, but their self‐titled EP of demos spread across the globe and the stoner rock band acquired metal fans they weren’t even aware of through word of mouth alone.

Now, having been reunited for close to six years, the band has just released their second full‐length album “Endless Flight” and will be flying to Europe where they have a number of dates lined up, including slots at DesertFest in both London and Berlin.

“That self‐titled record we put out a long time…

Greensky Bluegrass’s Michael Bont talks success and improvisation

March 16th, 2016

Greensky Bluegrass’s Michael Bont talks success and improvisation

By Jamie Hutchinson

jamie@hpr1.com

The success of Greensky Bluegrass in the past few years has led to sold out shows across the country as they’ve shared their love of bluegrass and jam band music, hitting up the summer festival circuit and even headlining at Colorado’s Red Rock Amphitheater.

But while the band plays traditional bluegrass instruments and bluegrass is in the name of the band, don’t refer to them as a…

VII-VII-VII: The Neighborhood of the Beast

March 7th, 2016

It’s been five years since guitarist Gary Holt joined Slayer, but their latest album “Repentless” is the first time he’s had the chance to appear on one of their albums and he gave it his all, shredding so hard he blew out his left wrist. Yet even with tendinitis, he kept playing.

“I fought through it ’cause it was hurting when I was doing it, but it felt like I was in the flow and I would just keep going,” says Holt the afternoon before the start of their North American…

DylanFest to revisit Broadway

February 25th, 2016

Merrill Piepkorn isn’t the biggest Bob Dylan fan. He finds Dylan’s trademark nasally voice difficult to understand and as a harmonica player himself, he dislikes Dylan’s handling of the instrument, which he admits are limited by the harness Dylan wears.

“I always looked at Bob Dylan and his talent from kind of tunnel vision as a harmonica player and it’s not that great,” says Piepkorn, who has played in country western and blues groups since about 1972.

But it was through…

Rogue Valley Moves on to the Next Season

February 22nd, 2016

It’s been almost five years since Minneapolis band Rogue Valley released their last album “False Floors,” which marked the end of a yearlong effort to release four concept albums based on the seasons of the year.

The success of the albums and their live performances can be measured by the number of songs they’ve had featured in television shows and movies, with their song “The Wolves and the Raven” being featured in the Ben Stiller-starring drama “The Secret Life of Walter…

Still: Beautiful noise

February 19th, 2016

by Ben Rheault

Fargo has a bit of a reputation for noise. Whether it’s the bands of yesteryear like GodheadSilo and Hammerhead or more recent projects such as Manchester Buldge and Monowolf. Still falls in between both extremes. On one end of the spectrum, there is this distorted albeit beautiful music, and on the other a cacophony of noise that threatens to obscure it, but winds up highlighting it. There has never been anything like it here before.

I sat down with Chris Marteny…

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