Humbird live at The Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN- 5/12/23

Photos: Horse Lords At Icehouse

Horse Lordswith Ka BairdIcehouse, Minneapolis, MNMarch 12th, 2024

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HEAR: Indie Rock | Stephen Steinbrink - “Pony” + Tour Dates

Stephen Steinbrink releases his new album Disappearing Coin via Western Vinyl. The record finds the Bay Area singer-songwriter settling into a pastel-tinted melodic landscape that is both playful and emotional. Today, he shares the final single “Pony,” driven by shuffling drums and flourishes of vibraphone and synth. With Steinbrink’s distinctive tenor, humorous lyrics summon a sequence of bizarre images that illustrate the absurdity of being aware of one’s own consciousness. The track is accompanied by an animated video, hand-drawn and self-produced by Steinbrink. Also announced, are new US headline fall tour dates. The live band will feature members: Steinbrink, Cole Pulice, Taylor Vick (Boy Scouts), and Paul Frunzi (Ever Ending Kicks, Mount Eerie). On the track, Steinbrink offers: "“Pony” was recorded at Tiny Telephone in Oakland by Adam Hirsch, and features my friend and longterm collaborator Andrew Dorsett on drum kit, hammond organ, piano, and vibraphone. I later animated the illustrated video by hand, matching the feeling to the song’s lyrical concept about of the often hilarious chaotic web of cause and effect. I didn’t set out with a narrative plan for the video and instead just let the story take shape on its own— I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it wanted to tell a tale of interplanetary animal liberation catalyzed by a lemon-lime flavored beverage for dogs." Live Dates 10/18 — Fargo, ND • Aquarium 10/20 — Minneapolis, MN • Icehouse 10/21 — Milwaukee, WI • Sky High Skate Shop 10/23 — Chicago, IL • Sleeping Village 10/24 — Grand Rapids, MI • Local Legend 10/25 — Detroit, MI • Lager House 10/26 — Toronto, ON • The Baby G 10/27 — Guelph, ON • Silence 10/29 — Montreal, QC • Casa Del Popolo 10/30 — Boston, MA • The Rockwell 11/01 — New York, NY • The Broadway # % 11/02 — Philadelphia, PA • Johnny Brendas 11/09 — Portland, OR • Turn! Turn! Turn! $ 11/10 — Seattle, WA • Vera Project $ 11/11 — Vancouver, BC • Green Auto $ 11/12 — Anacortes, WA • The Unknown $ 11/14 — Olympia, WA • Cryptatropa $ 11/17 — San Francisco, CA • Bottom of the Hill ^ 11/18 — Los Angeles, CA • Genghis Cohen % # w/ Lexie % w/ Cole Pulice $ w/ Ever Ending Kicks ^ w/ Briana Marela Read the full article

HEAR: Indie Rock | Stephen Steinbrink - “Pony” + Tour Dates

Stephen Steinbrink releases his new album Disappearing Coin via Western Vinyl. The record finds the Bay Area singer-songwriter settling into a pastel-tinted melodic landscape that is both playful and emotional. Today, he shares the final single “Pony,” driven by shuffling drums and flourishes of vibraphone and synth. With Steinbrink’s distinctive tenor, humorous lyrics summon a sequence of bizarre images that illustrate the absurdity of being aware of one’s own consciousness. The track is accompanied by an animated video, hand-drawn and self-produced by Steinbrink. Also announced, are new US headline fall tour dates. The live band will feature members: Steinbrink, Cole Pulice, Taylor Vick (Boy Scouts), and Paul Frunzi (Ever Ending Kicks, Mount Eerie). On the track, Steinbrink offers: "“Pony” was recorded at Tiny Telephone in Oakland by Adam Hirsch, and features my friend and longterm collaborator Andrew Dorsett on drum kit, hammond organ, piano, and vibraphone. I later animated the illustrated video by hand, matching the feeling to the song’s lyrical concept about of the often hilarious chaotic web of cause and effect. I didn’t set out with a narrative plan for the video and instead just let the story take shape on its own— I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it wanted to tell a tale of interplanetary animal liberation catalyzed by a lemon-lime flavored beverage for dogs." Live Dates 10/18 — Fargo, ND • Aquarium 10/20 — Minneapolis, MN • Icehouse 10/21 — Milwaukee, WI • Sky High Skate Shop 10/23 — Chicago, IL • Sleeping Village 10/24 — Grand Rapids, MI • Local Legend 10/25 — Detroit, MI • Lager House 10/26 — Toronto, ON • The Baby G 10/27 — Guelph, ON • Silence 10/29 — Montreal, QC • Casa Del Popolo 10/30 — Boston, MA • The Rockwell 11/01 — New York, NY • The Broadway # % 11/02 — Philadelphia, PA • Johnny Brendas 11/09 — Portland, OR • Turn! Turn! Turn! $ 11/10 — Seattle, WA • Vera Project $ 11/11 — Vancouver, BC • Green Auto $ 11/12 — Anacortes, WA • The Unknown $ 11/14 — Olympia, WA • Cryptatropa $ 11/17 — San Francisco, CA • Bottom of the Hill ^ 11/18 — Los Angeles, CA • Genghis Cohen % # w/ Lexie % w/ Cole Pulice $ w/ Ever Ending Kicks ^ w/ Briana Marela Read the full article

Alan Sparhawk performing with Derecho at the Icehouse (Whittier, Minneapolis MN) / 2022

Daddy - A Queer variety show and dance night at Icehouse Minneapolis

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Throwback Thursday: back in May 2019, I got to see The Native Howl at Icehouse in Minneapolis and had my face blown off.

⚡⚡JUNE 28⚡⚡ Come rock with us at @icehousempls with @thedetroitroll as we celebrate a new single release! We start at 11pm. $8 adv/$10 door 21+ . . . . . #rock #minneapolismusic #concert #icehouse #littleman #bodytobody #livemusic #minneapolis #guitarrock https://www.instagram.com/p/ByZL51Rlns0/?igshid=1mcse22cx4qgb

you are meticulous because everyone is watching. you are afraid because it is the only way you know how to love.

Melissa Lozada-Oliva - "Ode to Brown Girls With Bangs"

Performing at the book release party for PELUDA, September 2017. Help us make Button Poetry more accessible!

McKain Lakey live at The Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN- 5/12/23

Photos: Sen Morimoto | KINFU At Icehouse

Sen Morimotowith KINFUIcehouse, Minneapolis, MNNovember 10th, 2023

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hey twin cities! This is TONIGHT! You can buy tix at https://tickets.vemos.io/-KsFqzi4g8yG8x9vkMY8/icehouse/-LFs_rfwoBVGGJYeQwfn/button-poetry-blythe-baird-sierra-demulder for $12 or at the door for $15. SEE U THERE💕💕💕 Ps to stay tuned on updates for where and when I’m doing shows, make sure to follow my insta @blythebaird 😇

Wednesday 30th, I have the honor of spinning w/ @heymissbrit for the season finale of @thefeelsmn. Doors open at 9:30pm. Performances from @tokiwright, @jaynothollywood, & @koimemusic. @legendarybruce will be your host for the evening. Tickets on sale at tickets.vemos.io. See y'all next week! #TheFeels #ProtectYourCrown #IceHouse #Minneapolis #TwinCities #Minnesota #MusicIsLife (at Icehouse MPLS)

“This is really easy to do,” sound engineer Ryan Mach remembers his colleague Alex Proctor telling him during training at Icehouse. “Over to your left here, press record on every single show.”

Since the Minneapolis venue opened in 2012, Icehouse engineers have captured thousands (“probably in the ten thousands”) of hours of multi-tracked music recordings. At a minimum, Mach said, the recordings were available as a service to artists. “It was always just awesome to know,” he added, that “someday we can go back, look through the archives for whatever we want to do with all that music.”

Mach, who’s also a drummer (Har Mar Superstar, StoLyette, Fort Wilson Riot), has now culled 18 tracks from that mountain of music for Icehouse Live Series: Volume I. The live album is available on Bandcamp, with proceeds supporting live music programming at the Eat Street institution as it weathers the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

“It is pretty overwhelming,” said Mach about the curation process. “Which Erik Koskinen show do you want? Which J.T. Bates projects do you want to include?” He aimed to include a broad range of genres, representing the wide range of artists who’ve graced the venue’s thrust stage. “Before lunch every day I’d listen to like two concerts, and just try to find a song that sounded like Icehouse, sounded like someone on stage was really in a moment.”

There’s more than enough material for more narrowly focused compilations, which may be in store for the future, said Mach: “Specific genres, or specific types of artists, or maybe just summer of 2017, if we decided that was the golden age.”

The musical trip down memory lane brought Mach back to some incredible sets he’d personally engineered. “The Dusty Heart [track] was from a pretty magical night,” he said. “It was Dusty Heart and BBGUN, they did a residency. I remember mixing most of the residency, and the Staves actually came up on stage that night.”

Listening to all that live music with venues largely shut down during the pandemic (Icehouse has hosted outdoor shows as weather and regulations permit, and is hosting livestreams) was “kind of emotional,” said Mach. “Being a musician, I’m impacted on that side too. We’re all starving…we’re missing this engine that drives our industry.”

As a venue, Mach describes Icehouse as “very musician-friendly.” It’s known as a musicians’ hangout, and has notably become a hub of the local jazz scene with midday, evening, and late-night shows providing opportunities for a range of fans to lend an ear — often grabbing a bite while they do so.

“It’s in a neighborhood. That’s pretty cool,” Mach added. “The booking, the ownership, it’s friendly people. I feel like it encourages experimentation; it’s very free. It’s not a metal club, it’s not just a jazz club, it’s not just hip-hop. You really feel you can play whatever you want on the stage. You’re going to see some friends there. The food’s always been good. It wears a lot of hats, and it wears a lot of hats well.”

In compiling the album, Mach said, he aimed to include both representative performances and special moments like “Hot Pink,” from a rare small-room set by Halloween, Alaska. “We tried to find the moments that are very classically Icehouse, but also some rare Icehouse moments too.”

Hear tracks from Icehouse Live Series: Volume I this Sunday, Jan. 17 on The Local Show.

- Jay Gabler

I’ve been added to the lineup for Sabrina Benaim’s book release show, THIS Sunday at Icehouse in MPLS (along with Blythe Baird and Donte Collins, presented by @buttonpoetry). Here’s a link to get tickets early!