Purple Rain
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Schools That Rock
9. Minneapolis
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Regardless of the course of study you pursue at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, you'll find it hard not to be distracted by all the rock & roll happening off campus. For live music, there's the 400 Bar, whose co-owner, Bill Sullivan, spent years on the road with the Replacements. And at the First Avenue and 7th St Entry, a converted Greyhound station where Purple Rain's finale was filmed, you'll have the best sightlines in town. Punk-rock fans, meanwhile, will adore Dillinger Four guitarist Erik Funk's Triple Rock Social Club. Record Stores: Indie record store the Electric Fetus is probably the only place in town where, if you bring a new CD up to the register, the clerk will alert you of a used copy for less. For collectors, Let It Be stocks so many subgenres that it's hard to keep track of them all: gabber, Goa trance, illbient, blip-hop, you name it. If you prefer your hop with hip rather than blip, head to Fifth Element. Radio Minneapolis radio actually doesn't suck, thanks to two local frequencies with remarkably adventurous playlists. The U of Minnesota's KUOM was once called "the best college radio station imaginable" by Greil Marcus.The community station KFAI, meanwhile, plays even weirder stuff -- everything from East African pop to transgendered cabaret music.
(Posted July 28, 2005)
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