To commemorate their first release in like 10 years, MNSKA band 3 Minute Hero have put together a video for their song “Happy.”  The song is featured on their upcoming limited release F Minus: The Uncollected Works.  Trumpet player Bryce Blilie created the video with scenes from the movie Annie.  It’s hilarious and fun, just like the band.

Be sure to catch them at their release show this Friday, October 28th at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis with special guests The Dropsteppers!

You can watch the video on YouTube HERE

MNSKA veterans 3 Minute Hero are throwing a party to celebrate their first musical release in over 10 years, F-Minus: Uncollected Works.  The show will be on Friday, October 28th at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis.  Doors are at 8pm and fellow MNSKA band The Dropsteppers will be opening.  To get you geared up for the new music, we posting an exclusive track from the new album:

“Happy” by 3 Minute Hero from F-Minus: Uncollected Works

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Here’s what the band had to say about their upcoming show and release:

“3 Minute Hero – isn’t that the band that…” Yes, yes, yes: public urination – but that is all in the past, like so many other things. First, let us dispose of the third person introductions. The 3 Minute Hero Show is back after a stint in our creative chrysalis and ready to emerge like the tantalizingly lurid butterfly that we are. We could tell you about our throbbing rhythm section, our undeniably handsome horn section, and our non-stop frontal assault on the banality of live music, but that tells you nothing. Come closer. Smell that? It’s electricity, and sweat, and liquor, and laughter, and possibly hair product. It’s the smell of you at our next show – and you smell great.

3 Minute Hero will be debuting their completely unexpected and unnecessary musical response to 9/11, the new album “F Minus: Uncollected Works.” Each album is numbered and features original, uninspired lino-cut art on the cover,  as well as containing a one-of-a-kind band photograph (which may or may not contain the band and will undoubtedly be out of focus &/or irrelevant). In addition to this, there will be a shiny disc with music on it – terrible music – from a touching ballad of pant-wetting  to a butchered Duke Ellington cover to a chalupa-induced hallucination. This promises to be the least earnest, most bullshitty,  fleeting,  uneven, and incomprehensible album of 2011. It’s also awesome as hell. You’re welcome.

The planets aligned this week and Courtney was able to talk to not one, but TWO members from long-standing punk-reggae group Sic & MAD.  Guitarist Vic Ruggiero and frontman Happy call-in from Version City Studios, home of Stubborn Records, to promote their latest record Songs For The Revolution.  Listen in as the guys chat about why it’s “punk rock” to like MySpace, how Happy is indirectly to blame for the formation of The Slackers, and how the genesis of Sic & MAD is a story of kids lying to impress a cute girl.  From high school reunions to Hot Topic, Vic and Happy discuss it all.

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