Complicated Fun at History Theatre

An alternative theater experience

198x. Ronald Reagan, Rubik's cubes, and the underground music scene of Minneapolis. Get swirled up with two young misfits who discover themselves in the musical madness pouring out of First Avenue. Everybody's dressin' in this mixtape love letter to the counterculture sounds that made the city famous. Relive the legendary '80s scene with a band that stirs up the sounds of the Replacements, the Suicide Commandos, Hüsker Dü, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, the Suburbs, and many more.

Find out how a cold Midwestern metropolis gave birth to so many geniuses of punk and funk!