Skateboarding, snowboarding, music and making zines.
Music
Bands we've interviewed: Birthday Suits, Building Better Bombs, UltraChorus, Junebug, Daughters of the Sun, Knife World, Mystery Palace, Ice Palace, Dance Band, Vampire Hands, Mel Gibson and the Pants, Georgie James, Mannequin Men, The Great Physician, Common Enemy, The Plastic Constellations, Everest, DMRE, The Grey, Love of Everything, STNNNG, Cardinal Sin, Metallagher, Mike Gunther, The Loved Ones, Strike Anywhere, Crooked Fingers, Kid Knuckle, Best Friends Forever, Paint it Black, Des Ark, Del Cielo, These Arms Are Snakes, Maritime, A Whisper in the Noise, Build or Burn, The Hang Ups, Four Letter Lie, The Umbrella Sequence, Challenger, Despistado, Sparta, The Mars Volta, Joan of Arc, Q and Not U, Hey Mercedes, The Lawrence Arms, Cave In, Cursive, Statistics, Song of Zarathustra, Signal to Trust, The Book of Dead Names. Bands we like: A Day in Black and White, American Analog Set, The City on Film, Say Hi To Your Mom, The Nein, Bound Stems, The Narrator, Chariots, Chin Up Chin Up, The Aquabats, Askeleton, Baby Teeth, Barr, Baumer, Beep Beep, The Balckout Pact, Breather Resist, The Comas, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Criteria, The Crush, Crystal Skulls, Death Cab for Cutie, The Deathray Davies, Ester Drang, Explosions in the Sky, From Ashes Rise, Get Him Eat Him, The Good Life, The Grey, Hold Steady, The Jim Yoshii Pile Up, Kid Dynamite, Lifetime, Lifter Puller, Love of Everything, Make Believe, Mates of State, Mercury Radio Theater, Metal Hearts, Mike Doughty, Milemarker, Minus the Bear, Nada Surf, National Eye, Owen, Pedro the Lion, Portastatic, The Promise Ring, Roy, Spoon, Valet, Vermont, Heiruspecs, Nehemiah, Mel Gibson and the Pants, Neko Case, Look Mexico, Rilo Kiley, Tegan and Sara, The Faint, Azure Ray, All-Time Quarterback.
Swimmer's Ear is a skateboarding, snowboarding and music magazine from Minneapolis.
Here is what TWSnow had to say about Swimmer's Ear:
"...Swimmer's Ear hypes up the scene in Minnesota, and not only does this little low-budget mag celebrate the brotherhood among Midwest snowboarders and skateboarders, it also gets across the goodwill fostered between all local scenes. SE has great photos-now all it needs is a high-octane color printer to do itself justice." -Jennifer Sherowski, Nov 2003
The End of an Era: Minnesota's longest running independently published skate/snow/music magazine has finally come to an end after 10 years in print. This issue features an interview with artist Michael Seiben and interviews with bands; Birthday Suits, Knife World, Mystery Palace, To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie, Junebug, Daughters of the Sun, Ice Palace, Building Better Bombs and UltraChorus.
Past Issues
Swimmer's Ear 24
A long time in the works, Swimmer's Ear Magazine #24 finally hits the streets. This issue features interviews with bands; Pomegranates, Auxes, and Now,Now Every Children, an interview with artist and musician Horsebites, as well as a look into the portfolio of Akron, Ohio based artist Robindale330. If that wasn't enough, there's more, we take a peek into Randy Laybourne's 20x20 project and we invade the workspaces of four of skateboarding's top artists, Andy Jenkins, Mark Fos, Michael Sieben and Patrick Jilbert.
This issue of Swimmer's Ear features interviews with bands; Dance Band, Vampire Hands, professional snowboarder T.J. Schneider, and photographer Nick Wosika. This issue is also a photo issue with portfolios by Adam Bubolz, Laura Austin and Michael Stenerson.
For the 22nd issue of Swimmer's Ear, we've got an interview with skateboard designer Randy Laybourne, Six Degrees with Tucker Gerrick, Industry Insider with Turf Skateboards and band interviews with Mannequin Men and Georgie James. Plus all the things you've learned to love like music/product reviews and photos.
In this issue of Swimmer's Ear, we've got a band interview with MN's own The Great Physician, interview with artist Charlie Kraft. Articles about Burnsville MN's Zombie Skateshop and the newest skate park in MN, Renegade. Add in some sweet artwork done on broken boards in the "Rebirth" feature and a butt load of awesome photos, both skate and artsy fartsy, and you've got yourself one hell of an issue.
This issue features interviews with pro skateboarder Emeric Pratt, snowboarder Erich Dummer, artist Mike Kershnar, and griptape artist Stencil Steve. Also, articles; Etnies GVR, Handjob, and Featherproof Books. Plus great skateboarding photos by Sam McGuire.
This issue features interviews with skateboarder Jeff Bauman, bands; Everest, DMRE, and The Plastic Constellations. There is also an article written by pro snowboarder Pat Milbery entitled "Heartaches & Handrails."
This issue features an interview with photographer Shad Lambert, bands; The Grey, and Love of Everything, and artist Russ Pope . There is also an an extensive article about Etnies 20 years in business, plus a Familia skate shop profile.
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