And the poster....

And the posters for the HowWasTheShow 5th Anniversary party, designed by the most-awesomest Steve McPherson.

HowWasTheShow's 5th Anniversary Lineup Announced

It's that time of year again, folks, and time for a party that might be alternatively called my 4th annual 39th birthday (if I was still counting such things.)

HowWasTheShow.com is excited to announce the lineup for our 5th Anniversary Party, which is scheduled to take place Saturday, June 9, 2007, at the Turf Club in St. Paul. The show will be sponsored by Radio K.

It's been five years since HowWasTheShow.com founder David de Young first started a blog to archive his reviews of live shows. Since then, HowWasTheShow.com has blossomed into a website that archives hundreds of reviews of the best local and national music to come through the Twin Cities, interviews with bands, pictures by the Cities' best up-and-coming concert photographers, and an active forum where musicheads gather to share music news and updates.

Each year the website continues to grow as a resource for music fans, and this past year we were awarded our first Minnesota Music Award for our efforts. We are still going strong and have lots of reasons to celebrate, so we gathered up the best talent this town has to offer to help us throw our 5th Anniversary bash! Here are the details:

HowWasTheShow.com 5th Anniversary Party featuring:

First Communion Afterparty - myspace.com/firstcommunionafterparty
The Slats - myspace.com/theslats
Jeremy Messersmith - myspace.com/jeremymessersmith
Mouthful of Bees- myspace.com/mouthfulofbees
Estate - myspace.com/dotcommunists

Saturday, June 9th
Turf Club, 9pm, $5, 21+

No RSS for the wicked?

Finally, RSS returns to HowWasTheShow. And this time it's automated!

Check out our new feed now in beta testing at http://www.howwastheshow.com/rss/ and never miss a feature story, review or interview again.

Our forum has always been RSS'ified. You can simply point your favorite RSS reader at http://www.howwastheshow.com/forum/ to pick that one up and be notified of each new post (though not each new response, unless you subscribe specifically to the thread using your forum account.)

I am an internet phenomenon

On Tuesday, May 1st, I'll be on the panel of Becoming an Internet Phenomenon at the Walker Art Center with a few friends and ironically enough, one of my own father's former students (Mike Fotis of Ferrari McSpeedy.) Come see me spout whatever it is I may say. Wisdom maybe? Fear not. You'll definitely get what you paid for; it's free!

Tuesday, May 1
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Walker Art Center Cinema
$$Free$$

Quote:

Hear from artists and organizations that have had success getting their work seen and heard on the Internet. This panel discussion, moderated by Chris Roberts and Carolyn Petrie, will be useful to individual artists of all disciplines and arts organizations who want to utilize the web as part of their career or marketing strategy. Moderators: Carolyn Petrie, freelance theatre critic and writer and Chris Roberts, host of “The Local Show” on Minnesota Public Radio Panelists: Kathleen Kvern (mnartists.org), Hans Eisenbeis (The Current), David DeYoung (Howwastheshow.com), Emma Berg (mplsart.com), Nate Schroeder (Walker Art Center), Mike Fotis (Ferrari McSpeedy) and Chuck Olson (filmmaker, mnstories and Blogumentary). Becoming an Internet Phenomenon is a coproduction of Springboard for the Arts and mnartists.org.

Details: http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=3841

HowWasTheShow monthly podcast now available on Minneapoliscast.com

The April Edition of the monthly HowWasTheShow does Minneapoliscast.com is online now!

This month's songs:

* Charley Dush - “Two Lonely Travellers” (selected by Dave Rachac)
* Walker Kong - “We Are the Falling Stars” (selected by Jen Paulson)
* Baby Guts - “Staple Gun” (selected by David de Young)
* Western Fifth - “Lose Yourself” (selected by Pat O'Brien)
* Abzorbr - “Sleepy Dreamer” (selected by Andrea Myers)

Showpage:

http://minneapoliscast.com/2007/04/13/howwastheshowcom-april-cd-reviews/

Direct podcast link

(Did you somehow miss last month's show? Tony over at Minneapoliscast kindly has left the old shows archived. Listen to March's HowWasTheShow podcast here.)

Voltage was absolutely fabulous

The folks at HowWasTheShow have a thread which is collecting some of the press and photo highlights from Voltage 2007.

If you have anything to add, links, your 2 cents, whatever, head over here and share it.

Get the Spins w/ HowWasTheShow.com

THIS Tuesday, March 27 from 9pm-12am come down to the Nomad World Pub (4th & Cedar) for The Spins: HowWasTheShow.com writers spinning our favorite records while you dance/drink/hang out with us.

And there are drink specials! In honor of our first ever Spins party, the Nomad crew will be celebrating with mystery beer night.

This is a new, bi-weekly event hosted by HowWasTheShow.com and the Nomad World Pub. See you there!