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As the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, and Soul Asylum were the Minneapolis bands that took the city’s underground rock and roll to international attention, the Suburbs were the Twin Cities’ biggest local act from the 1980s, packaging the largest clubs around with a good, challenging, and darkly witty mix of punk …

Minneapolis local Chan Poling was the key pad participant and vocalist with angular dance-pop group the Suburbs, whose music provided the missing hyperlink between the wise but snotty shade from the city’s new influx/punk scene as well as the quirky but thoughtful funk of Prince and his associated performers. The …