THURSDAY MAY 29TH! 7:30!

This inaugual event has been organized by It girl Liana Simonds as a showcase for the young musical talent in the Twin Cities. Unfortunately these fine specimens (above) won’t make it. It’ll be featuring:

Best Friends Forever. I saw these guys in a basement, and let me tell you, they managed to make the Interstate Highway System, Lincoln and that basement seem like the coolest thing in the world.

Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelle’s. A 6 piece (wow!) band that is defined as “folk/fusion/ghettotech”, let me tell you, there are some hotties in this band.

The openers will be the ineffable DJ Relax and Johann. Now these kids are great, you may know them from tooling around the town but now they’ve stopped long enough to open the show.

See you there!

Louise Parker

Amy Tromiczak

Abraham Pineda Fisher

Vaski

Tyler O’Neill

The Velveteens

Loud +2

Phonetic One

Lady Lit

Misha Kahn

As part of 20 Under 20, WACTAC’s series of juried art exhibitions, we organized a graffiti battle. To prevent snitchery we didn’t invite the public to watch, but you can see the flicks on Chunderman’s flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24770588@N02/

Well, last night we began hanging all the beautiful artwork for the 1st preliminary in St.Paul.

I am so excited about the show all of the work looks so amazing.

Come down on Saturday to be amazed and see and meet some amazing young artists!

This Saturday May 10th from Noon-7 Performance at 5

Northern WareHouse(Level 2,careful the elevator is broken)

308 Prince Street

Volunteers Needed: The G.A.M.E.
Graffiti Art Mentoring and Education

The G.A.M.E. is seeking volunteers for the 2008 summer mural production season. Volunteers will work with Program Coordinator/Artist-in-Residence JoJo throughout the summer to prepare and paint the walls, organize paint, promote the program as a street team member and maintain the Intermedia Arts' parking lot, walls and property. Volunteers can receive school credit and/or community service hours with proper paperwork. All volunteers will be on-call throughout the summer for up to 5 hours/week.

Contact thegame@intermediaarts.org for more information!

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The Minnesota Center for Book Arts has created a program similar to the WACTAC! It’s goal is too form a council which helps the By Design program work more efficiently. It has three seasons, summer, fall, and spring, and hopes to bridge teen art making at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts with other teens and the artistic community. Click here for more info.

I spent a month assembling my duct tape suit for prom.

Via minneapoline.

We have been so busy planning and hosting our 20 Under 20 exhibition that we haven’t had time to plug the By Design exhibition of high school artists at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. By Design is a really awesome program where you can learn a variety of artistic processes that relate to making books - printmaking (screenprinting, letterpress, and more), paper making, and other great things that you could only get your hands on through MCBA.

So after you check out their exhibition, consider applying for the By Design program. Over and out.

In luv with Cali? Welcome to the club. Club Med that is.
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Barr, a certain Brendan Fowler who is from none other than LA, spouts wisdoms through spoken word in an effeminate stage demeanor backed by loud-asz beats. (and he’s cute too)

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Have you ever thought, “Damn I want more southside rap music based around acoustic guitar and good friendships!“?

If so, look no further.

A friend and I have just the thing for you

The Good Company EP, produced by Cory Grindberg is now on sale.

For more info/ sample tracks

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Sleep well, everyone.

–chantz

(On an unrelated note, come down to 20/20 this saturday)

The Dallas Morning News has more on this story.

Gap and the Whitney Museum of American Art have teamed with some of my favorite artists to create some cool Tee’s for Men and Women. I am very excited that today I went to the Walker Art Center instead of ordering offline or dragging myself into my local gap store to purchase my Marilyn Minter Tee.

Featured artists tees are :

Hanna Liden

Chuck Close

Jeff Koons

Marylin Minter

Kenny Scharf

Glenn Ligon

Sarah Sze

Kiki Smith

Barbara Kruger

I must admit I am not one to usually enjoy art and retail or art and advertising but after I heard the Walker was selling the shirts and it benefited the museum, I was on board. All the shirts sold at the Walker benefit the museum, and they are the same exact price as Gap!The shirts are 100% cotton,they run kinda large..and they are super soft.$28 dollars and you can have your favorite art on a shirt.

Saturday May 24 - July 8, 2008
MODERN RADIO’S 9 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
First Amendment Arts
1101 Stinson Blvd, Basement rooms A & B
Northeast Minneapolis (612) 379-4151

Grand opening Saturday May 24, 6-10pm
All Ages
Free admission 6-8pm // $5 from 8-10pm

This show marks the opening of events for the 9 year anniversary celebration of Twin Cities record label, Modern Radio. Starting at 6pm, the First Amendment Arts gallery will be featuring posters, flyers, photos, records and artwork from the history of the record label, home to rock groups STNNNG, The Plastic Constellations, Vampire Hands, Signal to Trust, and many others.

Local photographers Carl Wedoff, Adam Bubolz, Sharyn Morrow and Greg Schaal will display photographs covering nine years of live rock shows in the Twin Cities and beyond. Also on display will be screenprinted concert posters from Aesthetic Apparatus, Burlesque of North America, Tom Stack, Dan Black/Landland, Neil Fasen, and several othes. The gallery is set to celebrate the creative people behind the last 9 years of this Twin Cities record label, and it wouldn’t be a First Amendment gallery opening without some live entertainment!

Performing at the celebration will be Togetherness, featuring photographer Carl Wedoff (also of Malachi Constant). Togetherness play catchy and carefree Euro synth pop. Also performing are The Carrots, straight out of Austin, TX. Carrots bassist Chris Lyons is also is well known for his Gene Defcon project which released a 7″ on Modern Radio, not to mention their releases on K, Retard Disco, and Lookout! The Carrots play ’50s girl group / soul-influenced pop. The show will be rounded out by local DJ Jonathan Ackerman of the Moon Goons crew, so dancing should definitely be happening.

I am extremely saddened that one of my favorite artists of all time died today. Robert Rauschenberg was a pioneer, a visionary, and one of the greatest artists of the last decade. Throughout his years, Rauchenberg pushed the definition art and blurred the lines of the categories that separated painting, sculpture, and dance. In memoriam, take some time and check out his prolific body of work that spans over 60 years. Here’s an article in today’s NY Times.

This June, Story Board's On-Location Academy (OLA) will offer a mini-film camp to students interested in film production. Students contemplating a college education in filmmaking, a career in the industry, or want to receive hands-on experience on a film set should apply for this unique opportunity.

Click here for more info or go to The Storyboard website.

Substance presents...

Justice Jam Day long festival celebrating activism at the U and around the Twin Cities Saturday, May 3rd, 2008, 2pm-10pm Gateway Plaza, McNamara Alumni Center front plaza, U of M (outdoors, 200 Oak St. SE, Mpls, MN)

Featuring: Heiruspecs and White Light Riot With: Kanser w/More than Lights, Truthmaze (Tru Ruts), Indigo, St. Paul Slim, Muja Messiah, Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles, GENA, plus poetry by MN Spoken Word Association Street Skateboard demo by 3rd Lair and Cal Surf Concessions provided by Duffy's Pizza (Dinkytown) - Vegan options A "Green" Event Free and open to all Part of Actifest - www.actifest.org

Also :
They will also be providing paint and assembling a free standing wall for YOU to come paint on! They are planning on putting up several 4×8 plywood panels(in a row), of which artists will be able to keep if they so wish.

If you’re at all interested, please e-mail ASAP info@livewithsubstance.org, so they know how big a wall and how much paint to buy.

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