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Band Name:  Black Diet
   
 
   
Song Title:  Thrown Stones
Band Description:  Black Diet is a garage/indie/soul band with a sartorial flair. Indebted to Stax records, they put on shows that look like Baptist church services held at punk houses. Part of a stream of vintage sounding acts coming out of Minneapolis' Pinata Records, they're spitting out sharp, testimonial jams for the masses.

Formed in the Fall of 2011, they've spent years playing show after show, session after session, a walking paragon of the "hard working Midwestern band." Having finally released their first two singles in July of 2013 ("You Did it to Yourself" and "Slow it Down", Pinata Records-003), they're ready to move on up.

Standing at 6'5 with a spiky afro, singer/writer Jonathan Tolliver, a soul journeyman raised by a Baptist pastor father and a church singing mother, sticks out like a sore thumb. He rumbles and screeches through songs about abandonment, fear of loss, the devastation of endings. His singing is at once detached and extremely anxious. A former competitive dancer, he's also got footwork for days.

They're rounded out by professional burlesque singer Mugsy, afrobeat mavens Mitchell Sigurdson and David Tullis, blues rock wailer Sean Schultze, and funk/soul DJ/bassist Garrison Grouse.They form a rhythm unit that's tight and percolating, always ready to fly off the rails if the feel demands.
City:  Minneapolis
Band Website:  www.facebook.com/blackdiet
 
 
 
 
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Franky So good.
Mon, Feb 10 2014 5:05 PM		 Suggest Removal
justmugsy These guys deserve your vote. I have first hand experience with them.
Tue, Feb 04 2014 2:30 PM		 Suggest Removal
Hymies This band is a great live act -- see 'em once and you'll understand!
Tue, Feb 04 2014 1:40 PM		 Suggest Removal
jwqualls You guys. Makin me sweat in the middle of February.
Tue, Feb 04 2014 12:41 PM		 Suggest Removal
 
 
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