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The Suburbs' star on the outside mural of the Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue. After Poling and Chaney returned to Minnesota in 1977, they decided to form a new band, and asked Poling's friend Chris Osgood of Minneapolis punk band Suicide Commandos to help them find other musicians. After meeting drummer Hugo Klaers, guitarist Bruce Allen ...
Edwin C. Ackerson (July 18, 1965 – October 4, 2019) [4] was an American musician and producer from Minneapolis. [5] He produced or engineered dozens of records including works by prominent artists such as The Jayhawks, The Replacements, Motion City Soundtrack, Soul Asylum, Golden Smog, Dave Davies of The Kinks, Wesley Stace, Mason Jennings, Mark Mallman, John Strohm, Brian Setzer, Lizzo ...
Bands and artists have performed at the nightclub and influenced the Minneapolis music scene from 1970 onward, as exemplified by the silver stars that adorn the black building's exterior (every star has the name of an artist who has played at First Avenue or 7th St Entry).
20 July: Patrick Sherry, 29, frontman of the UK-based rock band Bad Beat Revue, died of head trauma as a result of a head-first stage dive from a lighting gantry at the Warehouse club in Leeds, fracturing his skull. [55] Sherry's death is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the first fatal stage dive by a musician. [56]
Stephen T. McClellan (born March 22, 1950) is an American concert promoter and educator. For 30 years he worked at a series of nightclubs housed in a former bus depot at the corner of First Avenue and 7th Street in downtown Minneapolis, promoting the careers of local musicians and expanding the reach of talent from around the world.
First Avenue, an influential music club in downtown Minneapolis, was opened as "The Depot" in 1970, [29] [30] [31] and went through several name changes until it became "First Avenue & 7th Street Entry" in 1980. [32] Its history of launching renowned acts such as Prince solidifies its importance in the current local scene and in Minnesota music ...
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in January 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1990s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.