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Austin Gerth

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  • Associate Developmental Editor, Strategic Education, Inc
Minnesota
As seen in: KCMP-FM (St. Paul, MN), County News Review, Union-Times, Tiny Mix Tapes, Racket, The Mille Lacs County Times
Covers:  Music, culture, food

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Austin Gerth’s Biography

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Drummer and occasional freelance writer for Racket and others.

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A Beautiful Now: The free record that started my vinyl collection

A Beautiful Now: The free record that started my vinyl collection

Daniela Amavia's 2015 film A Beautiful Now is the reason I own a record player. I haven't seen the movie and …

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Vampire Weekend Whip Shitties in Rock 'n' Roll's Parking Lot at the Armory - Racket

Vampire Weekend Whip Shitties in Rock 'n' Roll's Parking Lot at the Armory - Racket

The indie rockers are getting goofier as they get older, and that's a plus.

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The Sound of Young Outstate Minnesota: Identity Crisis and Bad Supremacy Make '80s-Style Hardcore...

The Sound of Young Outstate Minnesota: Identity Crisis and Bad Supremacy Make '80s-Style Hardcore...

Two high school bands are stripping their favorite music down to its essentials

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Minnesota's Parrot Heads Adjust to Life Without Jimmy Buffett - Racket

Minnesota's Parrot Heads Adjust to Life Without Jimmy Buffett - Racket

RIP to the beachcombing bard.

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What's the Deal With Hastings? - Racket

What's the Deal With Hastings? - Racket

A new-ish resident's deeply subjective guide to Rivertown.

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Chopping Through the Space Jungle of Millennial Nostalgia with M83 at the Palace - Racket

Chopping Through the Space Jungle of Millennial Nostalgia with M83 at the Palace - Racket

No one else can duplicate the synth band's skyscraping, euphoric sound.

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Local Guitar Amp Designers Keep Those Vacuum Tubes Aglow

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By Austin Gerth
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Let’s talk about the most important piece of furniture in your home: Your vacuum tube guitar amplifier. If you don’t play guitar, you may only picture amps as stacked black behemoths hulking behind classic rock legends onstage. But they come in all shapes and colors and sizes. (OK, mostly just the one shape.) And you can even get one made locally, by hand. Local, artisanal… high-voltage electronics?
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'Mysterious’ Shoegazers Julie Slice Through the Hype at the Fine Line

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By Austin Gerth
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Could a guitar amp be… haunted? At the Fine Line Wednesday night, buzzy young California shoegaze group julie performed in front of a motley wall of vintage amps and cabinets, including one especially spectral head.
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Vampire Weekend Whip Shitties in Rock 'n’ Roll’s Parking Lot at the Armory

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By Austin Gerth
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Age gracefully by aging goofily. That was the unexpected playbook that Vampire Weekend offered other indie-rock survivors at the Armory on Wednesday in downtown downtown Minneapolis. On the second night of a two-night stand, the NYC-launched, L.A.-based band supported some of the heaviest-hearted music of their career with a strikingly lighthearted set.
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