June 18, 2012, Monday - Jonathan Coulton Band at The Guthrie
Time: 7:30pm
Location: McGuire Proscenium Stage, Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street South
In 2005 Jonathan Coulton dropped out of a perfectly good software career to write music on the internet. He embarked upon a bold experiment called Thing a Week, in which he home-recorded and released a new song every week for an entire year, giving them all away for free. While a struggling music industry fell to pieces over filesharing and shifting business models, Jonathan Coulton quietly and independently amassed a small army of techies, nerds and dedicated superfans who buy his music even though they don’t have to. Artificial Heart is Coulton’s first album of new material since Thing a Week, and it features an actual kickass band, the delicious high production values of a real recording studio, and the talents of guest vocalists like Suzanne Vega, John Roderick of The Long Winters, and Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara. It springs from a brief run opening for They Might Be Giants that ended with member John Flansburgh offering to produce Coulton’s next record -- a collaboration that fans of both acts have been waiting for their entire lives, whether they know it or not.
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