10
best local albums of 2009 (so far)
-Star Tribune
"Top 15 acts I saw at SXSW-09:
1. Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears (TX)
2. Devo
3. Metallica
4. The 757s (MN)
Best band I saw all night: The 757s. And that’s not
hometown favoritism talking. The foursome of Twin Cities music vets had
twice the enthusiasm and volume of many bands half their ages, and their
cover of Grant Hart’s Huskers classic “Diane” amounted
to three of the hardest-rocking minutes of the fest."
-Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune
"The
levels are pushed into the red and left there to fend for themselves.
It's honest, impudent and urgent. Not surprisingly, it's frequently sloppy
and occasionally transcendent. It's an absolute blast. And it's over too
soon." -Luftmensch, MOKB
"Picked
to Click 2008" -City
Pages
"The
music -- a bastardized blend of the Replacements' thunder-n-blunder, Guided
by Voices' melodic rip and the Who's meaty and bouncy -- was dirty and
damaging, and it was beautiful."
-Chris
Riemenschneider, Star Tribune
"And though the
songs continued to grow on me with each repeated listen, the one thought
running through my mind as I delved into the 757s was “man, I can't
wait to see these guys live."
-Andrea
Swensson, Reveille Magazine
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