Exactly 30 years after Soul Asylum’s legendary 1993 MTV Unplugged session – recorded at the height of the band’s fame – the Minneapolis alt-rockers returned to their hometown to once again strip things down and go acoustic.
The performance captured that night wasn’t a song-for-song recreation of their early-’90s set, but it was very much conceived in the same spirit: an intimate, unvarnished look at a band and a songbook now carrying three more decades of history.
Three years later, the band is giving the album, MPLS Unplugged, captured from that Minneapolis show, a proper release. Frontman and rhythm guitarist Dave Pirner is the sole remaining member from the Grave Dancers Union era of…

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