There are few things in the music world as joyous as a well-delivered shuffle. A shuffle is a rhythmic feel with swung eighth-notes and a strong and persistent backbeat. In my opinion, a blues shuffle divides the pros from the amateurs in most settings. When a band can really cook over a shuffle beat the...Read More

Hot New Local Single for Wednesday, May 21 In the Twin Cities we are blessed to have a thriving music scene that features great players at every stage of their career. One sign of a thriving scene can be measured in the ability for new players to arrive to town, land a couple gigs and...Read More

This week’s Hot New Local Single comes to us from the prolific Ned Kantar, who has been a main stay in the Twin Cities Music Scene for fifty years. It’s an arrangement of “Indiana” performed by the Budapest Scoring Big Band. The song was published in January, 1917 by Tin-Pan Alley songwriter James Hanley in collaboration with...Read More