Screening Date: Tue. Mar. 19, 2024
Time: 7:00
Venue: Pop’s Art Theater
Cost: $10
Run Time/Year/Country: 93min, 2019, USA
Director: Mark Engebretson

Featuring a post screening Q&A with director Mark Engebretson

Before First Avenue there was Jay's Longhorn - the epicenter of the Minneapolis punk rock and indie rock scene in the late 1970s. At a time when the music scene was dominated by Top 40 cover bands, a group of punk rock visionaries - led by Andy Schwartz, former publisher of the New York Rocker - scoured the city in search of a place that would welcome the New Wave. The Suicide Commandos, Flamingo, Curtiss A, the Suburbs, and NNB found a home at Jay's Longhorn - which also served as the launching pad for Hüsker Dü and the Replacements and the preferred venue for touring acts like Elvis Costello, The B-52s, and The Police.