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Local music notes: Hippo Campus signs, Are You Local? reveals

It looked as if Hippo Campus would be heading into next month’s South by Southwest Music Conference with ample record labels trying to woo them to their rosters. Instead, the young but clearly ready-for-prime-time Twin Cities rockers will be going into Austin’s hype-building festival as the newest signing by Grand Jury, the burgeoning New York label that’s also home to Chicago’s breaking fuzz-rockers Twin Peaks as well as Elliott Moss and Avid Dancer.

Grand Jury will rerelease the quartet’s Alan Sparhawk-produced EP, “Bashful Creatures,” on May 5 (a new video for one of its six tracks, “Souls,” debuted Tuesday). Another EP will soon follow, which the lads recorded last month under the same circumstances as the first, with Sparhawk at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minn. Before SXSW, they’re playing what is no doubt a well-paying promotional gig for Lagunitas Brewery at Aria Event Center on March 12, with Delta Spirit headlining. The event is free, with tickets available via Eventbrite. …

The sixth annual contest to send a newbie act to SXSW, Vita.mn’s Are You Local? will feature Americana rocker Sam Cassidy, electronic duo Moon & Pollution, mod rockers the Stress of Her Regard (ex-Idle Hands) and Red Lake Reservation rapper Baby Shel competing in the Entry on March 6 next to a main-room lineup that includes Brother Ali, the Blind Shake and Tiny Deaths. … Get Cryphy will mark its seventh anniversary March 14 at First Avenue. The four-DJ crew has lined up eccentric NYC rapper Le1f as one of the guests. …

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/294246221.html

 

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