Me and My Arrow drummer Mitch Miller, guitarist Jacob Grun, bassist Sarah Schneeberger and keyboardist Brian McDonough all enjoy bigger pieces of the Local Bin's pie.

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While Minneapolis' Me And My Arrow have distilled their once-mammoth roster to a more traditional five-piece, the group approached this second installment of The Local Bin with a quixotic outlook. More »

Photo by Andrew Penkalski

Accordionist Emily Lazear, guitarist Clara Salyer, drummer Tim Leick Jr and bassist Howard Hamilton III show off their subsidized records.

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Gimme Noise wants to help our Twin Cities musicians push this envelope of rock 'n' roll shit-shooting, and it's something that can only occur in certain local spaces where any inch of floorspace can play soapbox to any yokel fancying himself a Robert Christgau. These places are called record stores.

"The Local Bin" is a decidedly simple conceit: Take bands record shopping and start talking. With financial provisions rivaled only by the wealthiest of Edina 10th-graders, Minneapolis's crunchy rock dream-weavers Prissy Clerks willingly played guinea pigs for an afternoon outing with us to Treehouse Records, where we discussed their work a bit -- but let the tangential cues around us take over. A bunch of it was captured on video. The group plays Friday at the Basilica Block Party. 
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