The Second Stringers consists of Lars-Erik Larson on drums, Nick Salisbury on bass, and Blair Krivanek on guitar. Between the three of them they have filled out the rhythm section for groups such as Dead Man Winter, Sonny Knight and the Lakers, Ryan Bingham, Brian Fallon, Sarah Morris, Mike Munson, Jack Klatt, and many others.…  Read More →

  The Del-Viles: Swayed by mod, blues, and R & B, The Del-Viles play danceable garage rock. Crush Scene: Minneapolis Based yall’ternartive Barbie Rock Ditch Pigeon: A genre defying band reliant on melodic, carefully wrought guitar lines and spellbinding vocals, Ditch Pigeon's songs calm the room like moonlight on snow.

Wilkinson James was born in 2008 when Liz Wilkinson and AJ Scheiber met up and merged their singing and songwriting into a musical partnership that one fan described as "the bastard offspring of June Carter Cash and Townes Van Zandt." Somewhere along the line that duo became a full band, adding pedal steel, fiddle, and…  Read More →

Miners and Gardeners is the musical project of Dan Moriarty. The songs blend raw vocals alongside expansive arrangements, introspective lyrics and quiet waves of sound that occasionally roar and bite. Based in Minneapolis, MN. Inspired where indie and alternative rock meets singer-songwriters – think REM, Death Cab for Cutie, Band of Horses, and The National,…  Read More →

Mumblin’ Drew’s Oldfangled Orchestrators (MOO) are a string band from Minneapolis, MN. Purveyors of novelty, squeezed through a cheesecloth filter of eccentric entertainment, they reanimate the music of the early 20th century. Fiddle, clarinet, and saxophone weave their sound to the fringes of old-time, jazz, jug band, ragtime, and tin pan alley, while guitar and…  Read More →