Minneapolis native Chan Poling was the keyboard player and vocalist with angular dance-pop group the Suburbs, whose music provided the missing link between the smart but snotty tone of the city's new wave/punk scene and the quirky but thoughtful funk of Prince and his associated artists. The Suburbs formed in 1977 and released their first EP a year later; their first full-length, In Combo, followed in 1980, and the band's ambitious 1981 double album, Credit in Heaven, spawned a nationwide club hit "Music for Boys." After the EP Dream Hog charted another dance hit, "Waiting," t...