Bands, Bloodys & Other Area Bullshit
-
Winona Zombie Crawl 8
What started as about 30 college kids dressed up as zombies freaking people out down on 3rd street in 2006 has grown. It’s grown into hundreds of the undead of all ages converging on all the downtown Winona bars and then literally taking them over, for better or for worse. It’s been very cool and…
-
Megan Hanson at Winona Zombie Crawl 8
Megan Hanson seen painting the town red during the 8th annual Winona Zombie Crawl in downtown Winona. It’s the second oldest zombie pub crawl in the world. Megan Hanson is a local singer/songwriter and plays in the bands My Private Eye and the Ultrasounds. She also spends her days working for HCO (Home & Community…
-
Jamie Harper – The Man, the Myth, the Beard
In his studio, a rented, ancient basement as grungy as his beard, I easily noticed a bird guide book poking out of his backpack. All around me were paintings resting against the walls, and doors waiting to be endowed with an image. Cans of house paint were piled on the table, and a pencil, buried…
-
Best Albums of 2012
Each December I find it kind of incredible when zines, blogs, and radio stations publish their top 10 or top 50 albums of the year. A search of Wiki Answers estimates that 50 albums a week are released in the United States, meaning that about 2500 albums are released in a year. I would say…
-
WHYnona?
Just over four years ago I stepped foot in Winona, Minnesota for the first time. I couldn’t have known it at the time, but it was the beginning of something so much bigger than where I would spend that summer or do a little Spear(e)shaking. Looking back on it now I can say, without hyperbole,…
-
Gripping The Book of Love: Q&A with Jacob Grippen on Music Politics Love
Acoustic singer-songwriter (and southeastern Minnesota native) Jacob Grippen returned to the area Saturday, July 6th for a performance at Some Sum Studio in downtown Winona with Savannah Smith and Austin Weatherhead. Grippen recently released an original studio recording of The Book of Love from The Magnetic Fields’ epic 1999 three-volume concept album 69 Love Songs. Listen…