The lapse in snowfall last Thursday brought something new to the Twin Cities: Alvvays, a band of five based out of Toronto and touring the country after the September release of their second album, Antisocialites. They performed with Jay Som, a band from Oakland, CA, who returned to Minneapolis after a concert last March. Prior…
Occasionally, The Mac Weekly sits down with a Macalester student artist. This week we caught up with studio art major Julia Eshaghpour ’17. She hails from New York City. So what’s your brand of art? That’s a hard one. I’ve dabbled in a lot of different media. At Macalester I’ve mostly taken drawing, painting and…
Between 2007 and 2016, Macalester graduated 617 theatre and dance, art, music and English majors, but pursuing a career as an artist is notoriously difficult. Kerry Alexander ’12 is one of those graduates. She’s the self-described “brains” behind the Bad Bad Hats, an indie rock band started at Macalester that has since gone on to…
This week, The Mac Weekly chatted with Ilana Budenosky ’17, a senior studio art major from Manhattan, Kansas. We met in the Dunn Brothers on Grand, which was filled with Mac students on a Friday afternoon. It was a delight to clutch a cup of tea in the bustling coffee shop and chat with Ilana…
Allison Wegren Metzger ’09 collaborated with Catherine Reinhart to create Common Threads Exhibition. Drawing inspiration from murals by the Iowa artist Grant Wood, Metzger and Reinhart created many works on paper and an interactive sculptural instalation. I spoke with Metzger on the phone to discuss the exhibit, her creative process and her time at Macalester….
Last Sunday night the sounds of shoegaze pop group Eros and the Eschaton pulsed through the Icehouse in downtown Minneapolis. The blue and red stage lights mixed together to create a purple haze, and Eros took the audience through a psychedelic sonic journey by alternating between tunes with light, dreamy harmonies and beat-driven, guitar-filled anthems….
Michelle Zauner makes music for when you’re grief-stricken or cocky or scared or in love or all four. The former lead singer of Philly punk favorite Little Big League released Psychopomp in April, her first solo album under the name Japanese Breakfast. The record marks a culmination of six years of writing songs and putting…
