Here's the ballot I turned in a few weeks ago for the Annual Star Tribune Twin Cities Critics Tally
2006 Minnesota Albums of the year:
- Tim O’Reagan – Tim O’Reagan
- Chris Koza - Patterns
- Alarmists – A Detail of Soldiers
- The Glad Version – Lights Out North Star
- Ben Connelly – Over You
- Jeremy Messersmith – The Alcatraz Kid
- Stook – Soundtrack to My Minneapolis
- Mark Mallman – Between the Devil and Middle C
- Golden Smog – Another Fine Day
- The Brass Kings – The Brass Kings
2006 Minnesota songs of the year:
(not ranked)
- Tapes ‘N Tapes – Insistor (though it would have been from one of 05’s albums of the year.
- Jeremy Messersmith – Novocain
- Golden Smog – 5-22-02
- Alpha Consumer’s live “lude-slow” cover of Crimson & Clover
2006 Minnesota live act of the year:
(not ranked)
- Dance Band
- Espionage
- The Alarmists
- Ouija Radio
- Birthday Suits
#1 Sign the local music scene was alive and well in 2006:
“Unlike the Twin Cities housing market, the music scene bubble shows not even the remotest sign that it is about to burst.”