Solid Gold has quickly become a mainstay of the famed Minneapolis rock club First Avenue. The dingy, black and white venue on the corner of 1st Ave and 7th St in downtown Minneapolis has served as a launchpad for local acts like Husker Du, The Replacements, and Prince (much of "Purple Rain" takes place on the First Avenue stage). The band is adored in the Twin Cities and the goal now is clearly to extend their audience to the coasts and beyond. "While every year another set of musicians get labeled the 'next big thing to break out of the Twin Cities,'" the local alternative weekly City Pages wrote in July, 2009, "this past year has seen one rise above all others: Solid Gold."

The group was in New York at the end of 2009 for the annual CMJ music marathon--a frenzied convention for the unknown and unsigned to grab blog headlines and music industry props. This video was shot at their final show in New York as the band fronted a mish-mash bill at Littlefield, a new performance space in an industrial patch of Brooklyn near the Park Slope neighborhood.

The three core members of Solid Gold--Zach Coulter (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Matt Locher (bass, synth), and Adam Hurlburt (guitar, bass)--have the casual repartee of old friends and as they did a handful of pre-show interviews it felt like they were continuing conversations that they've been having since the band formed back in 2001 at the University of Wisconsin.