MN Bands to Play Show for Barack Obama

Via Pitchfork (thanks again, guys!), MN staples Low, Tapes ‘n’ Tapes, P.O.S., and other various Minnesota music acts will don the stage at St. Paul’s Turf Club. Reasons this is awesome below:

• This will be August 27, a mere few days before Republicans take over the state during the Republican National Convention.
• The music is going to be sick (refer to mp3s below to let the bands explain themselves)
• These guys will be raising money for an awesome candidate who is going to dominate Minnesota.

MP3: Low-Breaker

MP3: Tapes ‘n’ Tapes-Insistor (Live on KEXP)

MP3: P.O.S.-P.O.S. Is Ruining My Life

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News Beat, Lifting 9000 times your bodyweight Edition

Ants Invade Houston, Eat Computers

DALLAS — In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.

The hairy, reddish-brown creatures are known as “crazy rasberry ants” _ crazy, because they wander erratically instead of marching in regimented lines, and “rasberry” after Tom Rasberry, an exterminator who did battle against them early on.

“They’re itty-bitty things about the size of fleas, and they’re just running everywhere,” said Patsy Morphew of Pearland, who is constantly sweeping them off her patio and scooping them out of her pool by the cupful. “There’s just thousands and thousands of them. If you’ve seen a car racing, that’s how they are. They’re going fast, fast, fast. They’re crazy.”

Buy Devendra Banhart/MP3: Insect Eyes

Buy Tapes ‘n’ Tapes/MP3: In Houston

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Stream New Music: Cloud Cult, Atmosphere, Tapes ‘n’ Tapes

If you want to hear the newest of new music coming from the great state of 10,000, check out twincities.com:

Atmosphere

Cloud Cult

Tapes ‘n’ Tapes

MP3: Atmosphere-Little Math You

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Playlist: Numbers

What’s in a number? Obviously inspiration for many of the artists below. Enjoy the top five and two mp3s after the jump.

19: Rolling Stones‘ 19th Nervous Breakdown. Not any great “10″ songs, so why not jump up to this classic?

9: The Temptations‘ Cloud Nine. Sorry Damien Rice, neither the album nor the song cut it.

8: Tapes ‘n Tapes‘ Crazy Eights. This was possibly the hardest head-to-head pick I had to make between this rockin’ ditty and The Beatles’ Eight Days a Week.

7: Bob Dylan’s Seven Days. I knew he’d find his way on the list somehow. Off the Bootleg recordings.

6: Toots and the Maytalls‘ Six and Seven Books of Moses. Could knock off two numbers with this one song, but when we’re talking music lists, less is not more.