The DoggLounge
I was at the Dinkytowner for ladies night last night (2 free drinks, and they do not skimp on the alcohol). According to the card on the table, the DJs were from the DoggLounge.
I love house music. It’s hard to know where to find house music. Especially because a lot of people don’t exactly know what it is and it’s a little hard to describe it short of playing an example.
Even better than the fact that they were playing house music at at any bar in town is the fact that the DoggLounge has an internet radio station from which you can stream this delicious house music at your leisure. I would expect this sort of thing coming out of Detroit or Chicago or New York, but not so much coming from here. Good to know that someone in the TC is into house.
They post their upcoming shows in the forum at their website. Looks like they’re pretty regular at the Dinkytowner and there are about one or two a month at various other places around town.
So if you like that sort of thing (or have no idea what I’m talking about), visit DoggLounge.com and give it a listen.
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really? you can’t find house in mpls? I can’t *not* find house in mpls.
;^)
show me some junglists in the TC and I’ll be impressed.
Maybe I just don’t know where to go then. :P Got any suggestions?
I’m not surprised to find any kind of music in the Twin Cities. This area has a long and storied music heritage. The trouble is knowing where to look, as you’ve mentioned.
A couple of sites to watch for a specific kind of dance/elec. music event:
http://www.mnvibe.com/
http://www.beatworld.com/events.html
http://ww.vitalvinyl.com/
Plush on Fridays @ the Quest depends on who the headliners is, but is fairly frequently house.
http://www.sound-in-motion.net/
You already found Butter on Mondays @ the Dinkytowner
JetSet on Friday nights…deep house
Mell’s Beauty Bar has fairly frequent house-y nights
http://www.mellsbeautybar.com/
First Avenue & VIP Room…loads of different house sets thrown by different collectives of peeps (Saturday nites in VIP is DigDeep, but there are many others. Check the First Ave. calendar.)
Ooh, thanks Jason. I guess I need to get out more. Heh.
It feels like there’s indie rock and indie pop up the wazoo around here. Which could be because that’s what some of my friends are into so I hear about it from them all the time. I don’t feel like I don’t hear about much else.
Erica - Thanks for posting about this…I was just talking to my partner about getting out and listening to some house, but didn’t know where to start (yeah, yeah, I live in the ‘burbs). Now I have a few options!
Thanks for the post Erica! I only play down there once in a while when Focus invites me over on Monday nights. Glad you dug the tunes and come say hi on the Dogglounge chat sometime!
CHEERS!