The Blind Shake shakes up Sugar Maple Sunday

Minneapolis' The Blind Shake (playing Sunday at Sugar Maple) first discovered its compact, nasty power as a noisy post-punk band, but got pulled in another direction when it began collaborating with obscure psychedelic-rock experimenter Michael Yonkers. The trio made one album as Yonkers' backing band (Carbohydrates Hydrocarbons), then went on to record the second proper Blind Shake record, 2007's Carmel. Turns out noise-rock and trippy garage-blues find a lot of common ground in the band's squealing, droning cheap guitars and viciously good live sets. The Blind Shake is currently working on a new record, one side of which will be another Yonkers collaboration.

Guitar-singer Jim Blaha talked to Decider about working with Yonkers in an interview last year: "We would work off of him, but at the same time, he really let our band just be our band. He really let things happen organically. He always says, 'Let’s dream on that.' And that just means, if it’s a good idea, it’ll come back." Here's a clip of The Blind Shake dreaming on that at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis a year and a half ago.