event A Tribute To The Replacements
Jeremy Messersmith and Jennifer Markey and Martin Devaney and Ashleigh Still and Stook! And The Jooks and The Bottom Forty and The Tisdales and Patches And Gretchen and The Hard Left and Erik Koskinen and Molly Maher And Her Disbelievers and Brianna Lane and Sons Of Gloria and Eliza Blue and St Dominic's Trio and John Swardson
Jeremy Messersmith burst onto the Twin Cities scene in 2006 with The Alcatraz Kid, a home-recorded batch of melodic melancholia that had critics falling over themselves to compare his folk-pop mini-symphonies with angel-voiced and emotionally troubled pop icons like Brian Wilson and Elliott Smith. Followup The Silver City (produced by Semisonic’s Dan Wilson) avoids the sophomore slump by updating his downhearted, sweetly sung tunes with bells and whistles both conventional (strings, brass) and quirky (omnichord, glockenspiel).
Updated 11/09/2009
