Tag Archives: 1996 in Minneapolis

Minneapolis metal music group the Coup de Sophistication got more promotion from having their eponymous 1990 debut album made by Spirit Asylum’s Dave Pirner than for the rather mundane limp-wristed thrash music it contained. Featuring vocalist Jimmy Coup (aka Adam Mecherle), guitarist Steve Wresh, bassist Kurt Gillispie, and drummer Chris …

A hip-hop group from Minneapolis, Atmosphere focuses on rapper Slug (aka Sean Daley). The child of a dark dad and a white mom who divorced when he was an adolescent, Slug became entranced with hip-hop, graffiti, and breakdancing, and created the Rhymesayers collective (originally referred to as Headshots) with two …

During his proverbial a quarter-hour of fame in the late ’60s, Tiny Tim was perhaps one of the most bizarre spectacles on television: much, six-foot-tall guy with prolonged, unkempt ringlets of hair, a massive nose, along with a garish plaid wardrobe; warbling the old-time pop regular “Tip-Toe With the Tulips” …