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Another Tuneless Racket: Punk and New Wave In The Seventies, Volume Five: The American Beat - West Paperback – September 1, 2023

by Steven H Gardner

Blackberry Way is honored to be a part of Steven Gardner’s new book Another Tuneless Racket. This is the 5th volume about the music scene in the late 1970’s and includes a section on Mpls that covers The Longhorn, Twin/Tone, Blackberry Way, The Suburbs, NNB, Fingerprints, Flamingo, The Commandos, Curtiss A and much more. A must read for music fans!

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Remembering Jay’s Longhorn Bar

Mark Engebretson fondly recalls the nexus of our region’s punk and New Wave scene.

Mark Engebretson is the special guest  on the PBS show Almanac  discussing the nexus of our region’s punk and New Wave scene in the late 1970's.   

Jay’s Longhorn was the epicenter of the Minneapolis punk rock and indie rock scene in the late 1970s and sparked the explosion of alternative rock music that followed in the 1980s and 1990s. Blackberry Way was instrumental behind the scene recording many of these bands including Curtiss A, The Flamin' Oh's, The Suicide Commandos, Fingerprints, NNB, The Replacements,Husker Du, Soul Asylum and many more.

Clip: Season 2020 Episode 11

GRINDING THEIR AXES

Thank You Taylor Clark for including Terri Owens of The April Fools as one of the Twin Cities best guitarists!

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GRINDING THEIR AXES 

Minneapolis-St.Paul continues to be a hotbed for damn good guitar players of many different and dynamic styles. WORDS BY TAYLOR CARIK 

Guitarist: Terri Owens 
Band: The April Fools 
A true veteran of the Minneapolis music scene, Terri Owens brings decades of experience playing all over the country and all over the Twin Cities with the likes of The Babysitters and The Flamin’ Oh’s. The miles on and off the stages, combined with work as a studio engineer, honed a keen style to her effortless playing that travels across pop, rock, and Americana styles with notable locals The April Fools. 

Minneapolis rocker drops a winning new album!!

Jon Bream/Mpls Star Tribune

 

Robert Wilkinson the Flamin' Oh's frontman and veteran Minneapolis rocker dropped a winning new album, "Lost and Found," which he actually recorded in 1991 with The Robert Wilkinson Band. Filled with punchy new-wave rock and a taste of Chuck Berry, the record still sounds fresh and vital.

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The April Fools

Adding to a long list of airplay for the album "WONDERLAND"

Last Day Deaf Music webzine adds Crazy Boy by The April Fools to their video playlist. New radio play also includes Valley FM 89.5 Banks Radio Australia, Indie Cast Network Bloomington Indiana, KKFI 100,000 watt community radio Kansas City Missouri.

Last Day Deaf The April Fools "Crazy Boy"

Friday the 23rd at The Silver Dome Ballroom in Neillsville, WI The April Fools kick off The Peace Love & Music Festival @ The Historic Silver Dome Ballroom. $15.00 Fri & $30.00 Sat for an amazing weekend of music!!

FINGERPRINTS PRESS: New & Old

The April Fools