Mina Moore is a singer-song writer from Minneapolis. Her music draws from that of her upbringing, leaning heavily on soul, R&B, and inevitably, pop. Like so many of us, Mina's pallet is ever growing, and her live performances aim to educate as much as entertain. Mina Moore will release her debut album this fall. 

Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Vic rose to public awareness as a member of the eclectic hip-hop band Kids These Days and founder of the Chicago collective SAVEMONEY alongside Chance The Rapper and other local upstarts Joey Purp and Peter CottonTale. His solo debut mixtape INNANETAPE dropped in 2013, igniting immediate accolades (including a spot on the XXL Freshman cover in 2014), and a fortuitous introduction to Jay Z that led to a record deal with Roc Nation. Mensa went on to help Kanye West pen his esoteric song “Wolves” from The Life of Pablo, drop three critically acclaimed EPs (2016’s There’s A Lot Going On, 2018’s Hooligans, and 2020’s V TAPE) and his debut full length The Autobiography (2017), as well as furthering social causes in his hometown through his nonprofit SAVEMONEYSAVELIFE. In both music and his social activism, Vic challenges the American system responsible for a history of overcriminalization, racial injustice, and issues that affect the lives of people in underserved communities, while showcasing profound levels of consciousness and self-reflection.

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EMOT is a slow-core indie rock band from St. Paul, Minnesota. Taking cues from Talk Talk, Halloween Alaska & Acetone, the band’s spacious music unfolds and grows organically on record and in the live setting. Embedded in this openness and sonic space are finely tuned folk songs in the vein of On the Beach Neil Young, Kris Kristofferson, and Jeff Tweedy. The group’s core line-up consists of Dan Choma (drums/keyboards/sampling), Justin Hartke (bass/vocals), Matt Leavitt (vocals/guitars/keyboards) & Robert Mulrennan (guitars/sampling/vocals).

For their third LP, self titled EMOT, the band enlisted the veteran hand of producer Brian Moen of Peter Wolf Crier, Laarks, and The Shouting Matches. It is the sound of two weeks in two years. Of purposed efforts with room to breathe. Of console organs, rummage sale keyboards, saturated guitars and a beating heart of Wurlitzer & Rhodes pianos. From Moen’s basement studio in Roseville, MN to his parent’s cabin outside of North Branch, MN sounds were tracked with focus and a clear sense of direction. The ten songs are a mission statement; of a band fully embracing a sound and a cohesive environment. Throughout EMOT there are explorations of duality; walking through the gooey muck of self-absorption and learning how to breathe like the piercing clarity and neon darkness of a winter night sky.

EMOT has shared the stage with other venerable Twin Cities musicians such as Haley Bonar, Halloween Alaska, Love Cars, No Bird Sing, We Are the Willows, Adam Svec, Van Stee, amongst others.
2011 saw the release of their sophomore effort, Make You Electric, which Rob Van Alstyne of Minneapolis City Pages dubbed “A subtly stunning listen”. Upon its release, Make You Electric was amongst the CMJ’s top 20 adds as well as charting in the CMJ top 200; netting a wider audience for the group at home & abroad. Those same sessions also culminated in a cassette-only EP, Trees & Claws, released in March of 2012.

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Anthony Newes (vocals, guitar, keys, and other sounds) and Brendan Kelly, known in hip hop circles as BK-One, (drum programming, samples, keys, glockenspiel, kalimba) were introduced through their work with the developmentally disabled. Their first meeting was a 5-minute conversation about Tom Waits. Their second was at a client’s deathbed.

BK-One is probably best known for his decade of work with esteemed rapper Brother Ali. As the backbone of Ali's live show, BK crafted elaborate routines with quick mixes and pounding beats while performing across the world and earning a reputation as one of underground hip hop’s best live acts. However, his first exposure to the life of a traveling musician came years earlier. Before he was old enough to get into clubs, Brendan was touring the country in a jazz band while studying piano and vibraphone alongside musical giants like Sonny Rollins, Milt Jackson, Yusef Lateef, and Wynton Marsalis. Over his 20-year career BK-One has recorded with a diverse array of musicians, from rappers like Black Thought (of The Roots), MF Doom, and The Wu-Tang Clan's Raekwon to Brazilian legends like Arthur Verocai and Helcio Milito; from a 9-piece brass band (The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) to a French cowgirl (Marianne Dissard). In October of 2009, BK released his first solo album, "Rádio do Canibal", inspired by the crates of records he had recently brought home from Brazil.

As a teenager, Anthony Newes booked punk rock shows and worked at the famed Pachyderm Studios in his hometown of Cannon Falls, Minnesota. Feeling drawn to the road, Newes studied audio engineering in Arizona, improvisation and music theory in Northern California, and worked at a homeless shelter in Seattle, all the while honing his songwriting skills on the piano and guitar. He formed a critically-celebrated rock band in Eureka, CA, earned a reputation playing folk music in the old Minneapolis haunts of Dylan and Guthrie, and in 2004 released a self-titled solo album showcasing a stripped down collection of pop songs. Newes quickly gained a local following, sharing bills with Jeremy Messersmith, Roma di Luna, Charlie Parr, and members of Trampled By Turtles. Anthony spent the last several years playing in the melodic rock band Villa. His guitar lent a recognizable sound to the group, but it was his lush vocal arrangements that gave their two releases (2010’s self-titled EP "Villa", and 2012’s “Plains, Fog, Cold, and Snow”) an unmistakable pop glisten.


While Bones & Beeker isn’t either of these musicians’ first time adapting to new musical genres, it has certainly been their most challenging. They quickly found that their record crates had few bands in common, Newes didn’t really understand how sampling works, and it had been over 15 years since BK had written music in a band. It took endless hours of discussion to learn how to communicate with each other musically. Next came months of awkward recordings and “back to the drawing board” conversations before finally hitting on a sound that excited them both.

Flanked by Chris Bierden (bassist for Polica and Pony Trash) and Nate Collis (guitarist for Atmosphere and Attracted To Gods), Bones & Beeker deliver an album full of surprises. Jumping quickly from late-night soul steppers to classic rock ballads to grimy hip hop production, you would expect this bizarre collection to make for a jarring listen. Instead, the album is served well by the “nothing’s off limits” attitude of this veteran DJ, and is tied together by the warm blankets of multi-tracked vocals. The result is one of this year’s most original and satisfying albums.

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