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Top 3 Uses for a Time Machine (Minnesota Winter Edition)

1) Go back in time and tell myself not to move to Minnesota. 2) Go back in time and tell European settlers not to move to Minnesota. (Bonus: The Dakota and Ojibwe will be psyched.) 3) Go to summer. Never come back.

The Rural Alberta Advantage with Midnight Reruns at the Cedar Cultural Center, 1/15/14

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Midnight Reruns When I owned a drumkit -- before I moved to a small apartment in Saint Paul -- it had a Rural Alberta Advantage (RAA) sticker on it. I like their lyrics; I like their drumming; I like their singer's weird voice. I first heard them on a Saddle Creek sampler when I lived in France, and since then I have frequently wished they would make music faster. The good news is that they have a new record on its way out, and their short tour that began in Minneapolis last week is kind of a test run for new material they're recording right now. Midnight Reruns Midnight Reruns opened the show. They're a four-piece rock act from Milwaukee who played the first two nights of the RAA's tour, after swinging back up from Austin (they played the Soundpony in Tulsa on the way). I liked some of their riffs and the way they smiled when they played. I liked that they visited the Como Zoo before the show that night. And so I bought their record after the show. Their dr...