Friday News Blob – 2/19/10

The Black Belt Tour 2009 – A 9 show midwest tour featuring Toki Wright, Omaur Bliss and Haziq Ali. They are hitting The Fineline on March 8th, but the other dates are only a road trip away. Pizza Luce in Duluth and The Warehouse in LaCrosse plus others.

Tru Ruts/Speakeasy Records secures national distribution. The local [...]

A little Theater for you, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at The Bedlam

Local experimental theater company Lamb Lays With Lions starts it’s own interpretation of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, tonight 3/19 at the Bedlam Theater. They are also having a special promotion 2 for 1 tickets this weekend. So it would be a good time to check it out for those economy conscious folks.
For the [...]

Madison based Crustacean Records signs two Twin Cities bands.

Madison, WI based record label Crustacean Records have signed the bands Twenty Dollar Love and The Skullcranes. Both bands were previously attached to the locally based music collective Round 13 Records.
It looks like Crustacean records are going for a pretty heavy vibe, with both of these bands mixing the metal with a punk/rock and roll [...]

A weekend of shows awaits, Thursday and Friday anyway.

So my plan of having a cool once a week web issue has lasted about two weeks. This is the web, where things need to change daily. So daily updates it is! Things will change daily, you will want to check back daily. Daily, Daily and Daily. Whatever, I don’t know what I am doing. [...]