tigerbeatpoet is the online moniker of Jen Paulson. She hasn’t flipped through the pages of Tiger Beat in years, and is not much of a poet. However, she knows quite a bit about obsessing over music and musicians, squealing over cute and or badass things and tigerbeatpoet.com is an outlet for the culmination of all this - from her hometown of Minneapolis, to the whole wide world.
The Meat Puppets were back-of-my-mind players in my Jr High to High School Alt-Rock of the 90’s upbringing. Back in the days when I would lock myself in my Grandma’s room and listen to 93.7 The Edge when we would visit Minneapolis I can distinctly remember the band’s signature track. It jarred my memory a bit when they were in town a couple weeks ago… and it took me watching even the first couple minutes fo the bit for me to remember that they were a whole lot more before I heard their radio tracks as a teenager. Here is a feature that’s on ABC News’ “Amplified,” which I had no idea about and will be watching obsessively for the rest of the day.
For those of us who love anything even close to a “Behind the Music,” this is for you.
Screaming Females is INTENSE: and the lead singer/guitarist chick KILLS. Scorches, even!! I wanna have a rock seizure to their music. (I think I just did.) They need to come to Minneapolis and play a gig with Gospel Gossip. I think that I would rock out SO hard at this show that I might sleep for 24 hours afterwards…
This is a great, bio-combo video talking about what this band is about… watch the whole thing.
You know, I really love Common Reaction, Uh Huh Her’s record that came out this summer. And I wouldn’t have an issue with this video at all. If it wasn’t for the male character’s weird facial hair. But otherwise, this is lovely…
P.S. Uh Huh Her will be at the Fine Line on November 5th…
The Gentle Guest is hopping on some of the tour dates with A.A. Bondy, but beforehand they will be in Minneapolis and beyond – I just love the blended Americana of this Eau Claire-ian band.
11/01/08 – Minneapolis, MN – Uptown Bar
11/07/08 – Duluth, MN – Beaner’s Central
11/08/08 – Superior, WI – Thirsty Pagan Brewery
11/09/08 – Ames, IA – Bali Satay House
11/10/08 – Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
11/11/08 – Kansas City, MO – The Riot Room
11/12/08 – Omaha, NE – The PS Collective
11/13/08 – Lincoln, NE – Box Awesome
11/18/08 – Boston, MA – Great Scott #
11/19/08 – New York, NY – The Mercury Lounge #
11/20/08 – Brooklyn NY – Union Hall #
11/21/08 – Philadelphia, PA – Tin Angel #
# with A.A. Bondy
