Fillmore Posters: What are they, where can I get them, and are they really hand-painted concert posters from the 1960s?  The one here is from 1968 for Jimi Hendrix, done by Rick Griffin.CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO AND SITES TO PURCHASE!

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High School Rocks Battle
of the Bands 2009: Youngsters Take All

This past Sunday 14 Northland bands competed in the 3rd Annual High School Battle of the Bands at the DECC Arena.

 

In previous years the bands’ ages put them on the verge of dashing off to college or even having a few members out of high school.  This year the youth movement stole the show with many bands having members not even out of middle school.   Breaking Glass, a two year old Esko band, took the top honors even though the youngest member isn’t in middle school yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 






National Articles:

FEATURE:
Lollapalooza 2008 Chicago
This past weekend at Grant Park in downtown Chicago, a record crowd of over 250,000 people were treated to the likes of Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, NIN, The Raconteurs, Wilco, Gnarls Barkley, Kanye West, and many other bands.



Scooters: The Best Way To Fight The Gas Crisis!


*Andrew Olson's weekly column on music for

Bill Isles Interview 2008

Completely Random @ Beaner's Central

Arlo Guthrie & The Bricks

Reggae Festival 2008

Tangled Up In Ore: Bob Dylan & Ironworld.  This past weekend my wife and I went on an odyssey to the far off lands of the Iron Range to seek out the roots of Bob Dylan.  MORE

MUSIC:
"Go Now" Bessie Banks vs. The Moody Blues 

Bad Taste In Music: Bee Gees and Jefferson Starship.

Vanilla Ice & Afroman Live Review

Gnarls Barkley, Even your emotions had an echo - In so much space.

Foo Fighters/Weezer: Live Review By: Andrew Olson
The old saying, two heads are better than one was the underlying picture that the Foo Fighters/Weezer concert last Sunday  epitomized.  Even though neither band have ever been a "top-rated" group nationally, combining powers changed that image.  The packed Excel Energy Center in St. Paul was alive with energy, and it also showed that record sales don't always show the true popularity of a band.  MORE

The White Stripes Live in Concert

 

MORE PICTURES FROM THE SHOW! CLICK HERE! 

Underground: The Used
By: Kurt Vatland

(BYOB) Bring Your Own Bombs: System Of A Down By: Andrew Olson

Lenny Kravitz, Minister Of Rock& Roll! By: Andrew Olson

Afroman: Taking it to the people! 
By: Andrew Olson

Nirvana, With The Lights Out  By: Andrew Olson



CONCERTS:
Jefferson Airplane/Starship Show Review & Pictures!!


The Animals, Dick Dale, The Doors, & Ludacris
 

TOP STORY: HOT!
LEE CONKLIN:  Fillmore artist, Album Cover designer, and psychedelic mindbender
In the 1960s there were parallels to past revolutions. The Boston Massacre was replaced by Kent State, Sit-ins for Civil Rights replaced horrific Battles of a Civil War, and the Common Man of Payne became known as a hippie


FUNKY FEATURE:
Funky Paul Olsen Interview

Paul Olsen (Pictured here playing drums with Eric Claption) has been a fixture in art for many years.  From the T2 logo and psychedelic posters to the effects in the Star Trek movies and album covers.  A conversation with a great artist about growing up on the Haight in S.F., leaving for England in 1968 and much much more!   

 
HIPPIES:
Avalon Ballroom San Francisco, CA.: Where Janis Joplin was queen.. 
 

Visit www.fheads.com to see all of Andrew Olson's past articles or click below on a band:

Cars & Trucks: Still Rolling...

High School Rocks: 4 Bands Live @ Grandma's Sports Garden

High School Rocks: Battle of the Bands @ The DECC  

Hojas Rojas vs. Savage Grace

Now Now Every Children

Matt Ray: Western MN Americana

Dubh Linn's Comedy: Best Bet In Duluth Is anyone else looking for something of substance to do on a Saturday night that has a pinch of culture and a ton of entertainment? 

The Alrights: Doing it their way.

The Alrights have re-released their debut album High School nationally through Manhattan’s City Canyons Records.  They also
are recording a new five song E.P. and can be heard this Friday
 night for free at Carmody’s Irish Pub. 
MORE

The Alrights New Album: MOTSLCLOVAEFTKNA

Cars & Trucks Interview

Homegrown 9 

Little Black Books: Sparta Circle Drive

Circa A.M. & Coal Car Caboose

The Dream Band Review/MadLib 

Kritical Kontact and Number One Common 

Duluth Song Of The Year For 2006:
"They're Never Wrong"
Little Black Books (Black Out)
 

Bill Isles: The Shores of my hometown  

*NEW* Boku Frequency Interview
California Dreamin'

BACK 2 SCHOOL
MN Music Awards
The Very People, Very Clean
Cloud Cult & Number One Common

Andrew Bird

The Alrights: Pittsburgh

Little Black Books

P.O.S. Audition
Ian Alexy: Broken Billy
Proctor Late Night
Portraits For Judith
Trampled By Turtles:
Blue Sky & The Devil

Tim Mahoney/Bologna

Prince Paul & The Black Labels
Kurt Vatland & The Alrights

Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank

The New Congress

Jim Hall

Michael Monroe

MySpace.com(BAND-AID)

The Olympic Hopefuls

Bill Mike

Mason Jenning

Gabriel James

The Duluth "Scene"

666 Dreary Lane

Knockout Jones

Aneuretical

Dukes Of Hubbard

Astrodizzyak

Little Black Books: Black Out

The Gallows/Geek Prom Benefit

 

 

 

 




  

A HEAD:

HAIR:  Brilliant, tribal, and still provocative.  One of the greatest plays still has the energy and high it was written with 35 years ago! At the Pantages theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota a time machine stopped on Friday night.  Not like the Back To The Future DeLorean, but more of an incense, and peppermint VW Van. 

 


THE MERRIEST OF MERRY PRANKSTERS! SOME Q & A WITH KEN BABBS 

THE 100 GREATEST MOVIES OF GENERATION X/Y and the ones our parents made us watch too? 

 

 

 

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WHITE IRON BAND
ARTICLE MADE THE COVER


Trampled By Turtles opened for the White Iron Band’s CD release party (Tap Room, Feb. 11th ) and drew out more Flappin-Jack hippies than any band in town. The band created some great electric buzz-saw fiddlin’ music to the amusement of the high-twirling patchwork crowd. White Iron Band then headlined the show and got that same group and their own swinging and swilling. Eventually the mass bubbled out of the bar and into the parking lot, to tailgate between shows. MORE 


The Top 11 Songs of 2005 from Minnesota bands. 1/1/2006  
The Black Labels
Mick Sterling 12/7/2005
The Deaths 11/18/2005
Future Lisa 11/14/2005
Root City Band 11/1/2005
Charlie Parr  11/1/2005
Homecoming, St. Cloud style!
10/31/2005
Open Mic: Welcome to Duluth Kurt Vatland 
Azure Du Jour  7/28/2005 
The Alrights and the
 attack of the Naked Biker..

Eyes & Hands Festival 2005 

4th of July, Musically Speaking... 07/11/2005
Terramara 07/11/2005
No Wait Wait 06/27/2005
Reno Divorce 06/14/2005
Cloud Cult 06/14/2005
The New Congress 06/13/2005
Hydrophonics: Thrown'
It Down In Duluth!
06/01/2005
Death To Our Enemies 06/01/2005
Kurt Vatland/Velveteen 

CHECK IT OUT!:
BOKU FREQUENCY
ARTICLE MADE THE COVER

"Sometimes it's better not to ask." That was the response Boku Frequency's manager gave me when asked why Thomas (Bass, Lead Vocals & Dancer) emerged from a station wagon last New Year’s that was overflowing with girls. "That's just Thomas, he is the lady's man and lover of the band." MORE

 Nothing Much 05/30/2005
The Big Wu: Still Going... 5/30/2005
The Urban Hillbilly Quartet 5/30/2005
Homegrown Music Festival - LOW Cancels Tour 05/30/2005
Jeff Ray 05/30/2005
Teague Alexy 5/14/2005
Wastin' Away In Margaritaville
05/01/2005
April Fools Article 04/28/2005
Adults
Only: The Horny Hairy
Hippies Vs. The Cidiots

Beau Kinstler, Ocean 5/1/2005
Great Girls Blouse 5/1/2005
Shelter Belt 5/1/2005
Blue Sky and the Devil  
Elizablue 3/28/2005
Sam Dull/Beaner's  2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
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