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Best must-see new band - Hippo Campus - 2015 Best of MN

May 14, 2015 at 1:49PM
Local band Hippo Campus will release its first EP, with a long-sold-out party Saturday at 7th Street Entry.] BRIAN PETERSON • brian.peterson@startribune.com Minneapolis, MN 11/04/14
Local band Hippo Campus. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

"What a ride it's been for this band." Conan O'Brien wasn't joking when he introduced these smiley, melodic, rhythmically jubilant underage rockers on his late-night TV show in March; most of them had just left their parents' houses in Woodbury for their first-ever tour a week earlier. Before that, they put their local arts high-school training to use with a series of excitedly received club shows and one locally acclaimed EP, produced by Low's Alan Sparhawk. They have a second EP about to land and an opening job with My Morning Jacket at Northrop Auditorium on June 26. hippocampusband.com

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