Artist	Song
Vampire Hands	Paradise Knife Fights
from Me & You Cherry Red / Cuz It's a Beach Funeral (2009)
Michael Yonkers Band	Boy in the Sandbox
from Microminiature Love (2003)
Spider John Koerner	Froggie Went-A-Courtin'
from Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Been (1986)
Calvin Krime	The Look, the Know
from You're Feeling So Attractive (2004)
Mason Jennings	Ain't No Friend of Mine
from Blood of Man (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Lamont Cranston Blues Band	Upper Mississippi Shakedown
from Lamont Live! (2001)
Gay Witch Abortion	Stain On the Floor
from Maverick (2008)
Motion City Soundtrack	The Future Freaks Me Out
from I Am the Movie (2005)
Soviettes	Bottom's Up Bottomed Out
from Lp (2005)
Motion City Soundtrack	L.G. FUAD
from Commit This to Memory (2005)
Mark Mallman	True Love
from Mr. Serious (2004)
Morris Day	The Oak Tree
from Color of Success - EP (2004)
Boiled In Lead	Rasputin
from Antler Dance (1994)
Tapes 'n Tapes	Hang Them All
from Walk It Off (Bonus Track Edition) (2008)
Lucy Michelle and The Velvet Lapelles	Postcard
from Orange Peels & Rattlesnakes (2008)
Short Fuses, The	Corvette Summer
from Get the Hell Down (2000)
Bedtime for Toys	Alphaville (feat. Har Mar Superstar)
from R!ot - EP (2006)
Terramara	Jaded Little Love Song
from Terramara (2002)
Arcwelder	All My Want for Need
from Xerxes (1994)
Knifeworld	The Wretched Fathoms
from Buried Alone: Tales of Crushing Defeat (2009)
Black Blondie	Knife Fights and Xmas Lights
from Do You Remember Who You Wanted to Be (2009)
Muja Messiah	Tha Madness
from Thee Adventures of a B-Boy D-Boy (2009)
Aby Wolf	Thanks 4 Listening
from Sweet Prudence (2009)
Hüsker Dü	Could You Be the One?
from Warehouse: Songs and Stories (2008)
The Time	777-9311
from What Time Is It? (2008)

Comment:

For every platinum-plated artist to emerge from the Minneapolis scene, there are so many others worthy of attention we’ve barely got space to scratch the surface. The Michael Yonkers Band crafted cracked, psychedelic, underground masterpieces like “Boy in the Sandbox” in the late ’60s, but they weren’t heard by the wider world until their 21st-century reissue. Folk/blues fingerpicker Spider John Koerner has been a cult hero and local semi-secret since even earlier than Yonkers, and he makes even the coffeehouse staple “Froggie Went-A-Courtin’” sound like a standard from another planet. And up-and-comer Aby Wolf shows that the Twin Cities have a bright future in store, as she weaves her bewitching whisper around the entrancing acoustic ballad “Thanks 4 Listening.”

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