Happy PRE-RELEASE day! Jumbo-Jet Whispers & Thunder-Lizard Serenades just dropped on bandcamp. Buy it now for $15 and get two tracks today and the rest when we release (digital only) on April 13th! https://3minutehero.bandcamp.com/

How Big Is Your Album? So Big! Soooo Big!

Mar 16th, 2018

I haven’t fact-checked what I’m about to write here because a.) I haven’t written it yet, and b.) I will always choose the better story over the truer story anyway. A few years ago a gigantic book appeared by the Chilean writer Alberto Bolano t

Things for Which 3 Minute Hero Is (and/or are) Thankful.

Nov 26th, 2015

I hope you know us better than that. Just because your facebook feed is full of posts about this same topic, you don’t actually think that we would bow to peer pressure and share the things that we’re thankful for. Right? Plus, it would be the

Jumbo-Jet Whispers & Thunder-Lizard Serenades: 0.) The Invocation

Sep 28th, 2015

Invocations are heavy shit. One does not invoke a higher power to assist with the clipping of one’s toenails or the preparation of an egg bake. One does invoke a higher power when the possibility of failure is fairly high and the stakes (even i

3 Minute Hero Announces 2015 Summer Starting Line-up.

Mar 12th, 2015

While other bands wheeled and dealed to the point of frenzy leading up to Wednesday’s trade deadline, 3 Minute Hero calmly released their starting line-up, apparently confident that last year’s players (with the notable addition of first-round

Interview with 93x

Mar 3rd, 2015

The Minneapolis-based ska ensemble of 3 Minute Hero banded together in 1996 after several jam sessions in the dorms at Minnesota State Moorhead. Get to know 3 Minute Hero as told by lead singer/trombonist, Jeff Nelson. What brought you all to

Works in Progress #13: Release The Bats!

Feb 11th, 2015

Many moons ago, when you were still at your mother’s teat, we played an outdoor show somewhere in Iowa. It was at a college and like all outdoor shows at colleges in Iowa this outdoor show also featured a pig roast. Normally, this would slide

Works in Progress #12: Kill a Unicorn

Oct 20th, 2014

Do you know what’s hard? Go ahead, smart-ass — I’ll throw in a caesura here for you to formulate an ultra-perverse answer. [Excellent work.] Some people think coal-mining is hard. Some people think landing on and subsequently destroying an eart

Trains: Variations on a Theme.

Jun 12th, 2014

Do you know what’s fun? Besides having that dream where you’re fighting ponytail guy in the tippy tops of the bamboo forest in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”? Playing with Reel Big Fish. That was a lot of fun. That happened this past Tuesday

Works in Progress #11: Okoboji Volcano [Parts 2 & 3]

Apr 17th, 2014

What is the price of living in paradise? I’m not talking about dollars or rubles. I’m talking about the trade-offs. Some live in the shadow of volcanoes. Others live on active fault lines. Some of us even live in St. Paul. Regardless, Fate’s dr

Thanks Fargo!

Nov 19th, 2013

This past Saturday, we returned to play Fargo for the first time in a long time. How long? Let’s just say that if I had actually kept my vow to not trim my fingernails until I played music in Fargo again, this guy would be in second place. Ho

Works in Progress #10: 800 LB Gorilla (Parts 1 & 2)

Nov 19th, 2013

After singing through the bridge of this song a couple of times last night in practice, Jay asked just exactly what the hell this was about and I launched into an overly descriptive account of a dream I had when I was all of 15. I won’t get int

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