Monthly Archives: November 2009
The Good Armada
By: Elise Cleereman As part of Minneapolis-based sextet, The Good Armada (TGA), keyboardist and bassist Tim Kosel has a leading role in both the compositions of their songs and the production of their first album. Learning from the likes of … Continue reading
Games of the Year: Osmos
Move, devour smaller creatures, get bigger and devour more. Become the biggest little glob. The lifestyle is one of nature’s most basic, and found all across the globe in jungles, forests, fast food joints, and shopping supercenters across this scale-busting … Continue reading
Student Profile: David Stevens
In this installment of Student Profile we Meet David Stevens, currently enrolled in his 5th quarter of studies at The Institute of Production and Recording, and learn a bit about the benefits of keeping an open mind, networking with those … Continue reading
Despite Dreadful Filmmaking, The Twilight Saga: New Moon Breaks Records. Weep for the Future.
By the time you read this, New Moon, the latest film based on Stephenie Myer’s dreadfully morose Twilight saga, will have officially scratched and clawed its way to the third highest spot in the all-time weekend box-office debuts (early Sunday … Continue reading
Games of the Year: A Review of Left 4 Dead 2
We didn’t ask for this, but developer, publisher, and multi-faceted industry pioneer Valve software delivered Left 4 Dead 2 barely one year after the first anyway. And company chose to do so despite the passionate and sometimes ludicrous objections from … Continue reading
Digg users express (justifiable?) concern over site’s front page ads.
Popular social news site Digg.com targeted its tech-savvy, mostly left-wing, sensationalism-devouring audience and repeatedly bombarded them with a Dragon Age: Origins-riddled front page. Almost no corner of the site remained untouched by the Bioware-developed and Eletronic Arts-published videogame. A site … Continue reading
Audio Injection
Droid artists are no stranger to Minneapolis, in 2007 The Particle People began a tradition with out even realizing the power of this collective. Since then we have had return visits from Acid Circus, and Drumcell so make sure to … Continue reading
Brian Setzer’s newest album, “Songs for Lonely Avenue”
Brian Setzer’s newest album, Songs for Lonely Avenue, much of which was recorded in Minneapolis and engineered by Institute of Production and Recording faculty members Scott LeGere and Eric Olsen, recently debuted at #4 on Billboard’s Jazz Chart. Having been … Continue reading
Forza 3′s Community Defies Online Gamer Stereotypes
I typically don’t spend any measurable time inhabiting online game communities and conversing with the residents , especially those with console houses. They’re often a mean sort, drunk off the anonymity afforded by the internet. Pitchforks, or rather, controllers in … Continue reading
JackCast002 Ben Klock Live at BLACK
Back in April The Particle People were visited by Ben Klock. While on a short visit to the US (NYC and Minneapolis only) with a special night at BLACK we were able to find out why he was on the … Continue reading


