The Uptown Bar, once deemed “The House The Replacements Built”, was piled into the ground with a wrecking ball earlier today. City Pages has some photos of the desruction. The venue, which was sold earleir this year, hosted a month of so of farewell shoes as a tribute to the Twin Cities’ rock mecca it once was. The bar had made plans to re-open at a South Minneapolis location, but complications and liquor permit restrictions have prevented this from happening at this point. For now, it serves as a memory of a musical era in the Twin Cities as well as the band and legacy that was born out of it. Check the sweet video retrospect 89.3 The Current did in its honor above. (Via: Daily Swarm via City Pages)

Paul Westerberg may not be winning any awards for album title clarity in the near future, but his formidable musical catalog helps us roll over the PW & the Ghost Gloves Cat Wing Joy Boys a little easier. The title takes one word from each song title on the EP, creating a sort of musical madlib, which we suppose we can get behind. And it’s a mere $3.98 for download on Amazon (or $6.98 for a physical copy with an odd collage-type thing of Paul and a wolf in the forest)! That’s less than those Subway sandwiches, and with a lot gain.

In other Replacements news, Jim Walsh’s The Replacements: All Over But The Shouting will be released on paperback on November 27. That same night, if you happen to be in the Twin Cities area, Minneapolis’ First Ave. is hosting “A Tribute To The Replacements: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Let It Be.” It  features a laundry list of local artists and it benefits the Twin Cities Music Community Trust. (Via: PaulWesterberg.com)

As rock bands go, Arizona’s Meat Puppets have never been what one would classify as normal. At their calmest you could say that their approach to music is unorthodox and at their wildest well, they are flat out, full-speed-ahead weird.
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