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The Minneapolis sound is a subgenre of funk rock that incorporates elements of new wave and synth-pop. Started at Sound 80 with tracks like “ Funkytown ” by Lipps, Inc and pioneered by Minneapolis -based musician Prince and André Cymone beginning in the late 1970s, the musical style's heyday extended through the late 1980s. [ 1 ]
The Jayhawks are a long-lived country-roots rock band who started in the mid-1980s. [157] Another group to form about the same time was Babes in Toyland, an early quasi-riot grrl band. [158] Many groups of the 1980s and 1990s eventually split up, and a number of other bands formed from the remnants.
Twin/Tone Records was an independent record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which operated from 1977 until 1994.It was the original home of influential Minnesota bands the Replacements and Soul Asylum [1] and was instrumental in helping the Twin Cities music scene achieve national attention in the 1980s.
The Suburbs are an alternative punk rock/funk/new wave band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. In its 1980s heyday, the band found great success in Minneapolis and the Midwest, and scored radio and dance-club hits with the songs "Music for Boys", "Waiting", and "Love Is the Law". The band released four albums and two EPs, including the well-regarded ...
The Wallets performed their final show at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis on January 23, 1989. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Kramer and Hest later formed an advertising agency, currently known as Hest & Kramer, Van House Weber, [ 7 ] noted for its use of music in television ads for clients such as Target Stores , MTV , Time Warner , and Buick .
The Jets are a Tongan American pop and R&B family band from Robbinsdale, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. [1] The Jets are composed of brothers and sisters LeRoy, Eddie, Eugene, Haini, Rudy, Kathi, Elizabeth, and Moana Wolfgramm, who perform pop, R&B, and dance music. [2] They started performing as a family band in 1977.
It was the first bar ever played by both of the scene's most highly influential bands, Hüsker Dü (on May 13, 1979) [6] and the Replacements (on July 2, 1980). [8] Peter Jesperson, the Replacements' manager and a founder of Twin/Tone Records , who was also a DJ at the Longhorn at that time, [ 9 ] signed the band to Twin/Tone immediately after ...
Allan Fingerhut purchased the facility in 1970 and converted it into a nightclub. During the 1980s, First Avenue flourished and became a landmark in the music and entertainment industry, playing a seminal role in establishing the '80s funk rock sub genre via the Minneapolis sound, and being the primary local venue for hometown star Prince ...