In the late 1980s, Minneapolis was home to a tightly-knit and influential music renaissance whose artists loomed large on the college and alternative radio playlists of the day. Golden Smog evolved as a loosely spun creative outlet for members of several of the scene's most popular bands to jam with friends and shake off career frustrations in between tours and recording projects. The indie rock "super-group's" core DNA was formed by singer Kraig Johnson (Run Westy Run) and guitarists Dan Murphy (Soul Asyl...   [ read more ]

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This is where a thirty-something music geek scratches his balding (not bald) head and says, "Geez, has it really been 20 years since that first Jim Pepper album came out?" He pauses momentarily to consider his mortality, then puts this two-disc sampler in the machine and immediately hears David Bowie's "Changes" and Sugar's "Changes" back to back -- two songs that could hardly be more dissimilar, and that together illustrate as well as any could the amazing history of the company that made i...   [ read more ]

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