HowWasTheShow Blog

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:

1. Tim O’Reagan – Tim O’Reagan
2. Chris Koza - Patterns
3. Alarmists – A Detail of Soldiers
4. The Glad Version – Lights Out North Star
5. Ben Connelly – Over You
6. Jeremy Messersmith – The Alcatraz Kid
7. Stook – Soundtrack to My Minneapolis
8. Mark Mallman – Between the Devil and Middle C
9. Golden Smog – Another Fine Day
10. 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.”