Soul Asylum and Cracker

Acclaimed alt-rock bands Soul Asylum and Cracker are performing a double headline concert at the Paramount Theater! Soul Asylum formed in Minneapolis in 1981, Grammy Award-winning band Soul Asylum’s raucous live sets and early releases on the hometown indie label Twin/Tone- including the albums Say What You Will, Made to Be Broken and While You Were Out- earned it a loyal fan base and widespread critical acclaim. Soul Asylum’s indie success led to the band entering the major-label mainstream with 1988’s Hang Time and its 1990 follow-up And the Horse They Rode In On, and achieving a platinum-level commercial breakthrough with 1992’s Grave Dancers Union and 1995’s Let Your Dim Light Shine. Cracker a chart-topping band Cracker has been described as a lot of things over the years: alt-rock, Americana, and insurgent-country. They have been the terms punk and classic-rock thrown at them. Co founders David Lowery and Johnny Hickman have been at it for a quarter of a century- amassing ten studio albums, multiple gold records, thousands of live performances, hit songs that are still in current radio rotation around the globe, and a worldwide fan base that- despite the major sea-changes within the music industry- continues to grow each year.