Email Author Nate Patrin

2013 Stories by Nate Patrin

• Twin Shadow

  published May 29, 2013

  George Lewis Jr. isn't exactly your typical '80s revivalist. Granted, his self-produced 2012 breakthrough, Confess, definitely has that... More >>

• Nachito Herrera

  published May 29, 2013

  Nachito Herrera has taken an eventful route from Cuba to Minneapolis -- a child prodigy at 12 performing Rachmaninoff with the Cuban Symphony... More >>

• Kings of the Mic Tour

  published May 29, 2013

  The four acts assembled for the Kings of the Mic tour are golden-age hip-hop star power, and a cross-section of everything rap had begun to... More >>

• Transmission

  published May 29, 2013

  "Retro" is a tricky niche to slot a dance night into. Usually you've got to find yourself an era and a genre, hew towards the hits, and maybe... More >>

• International Reggae All-Stars

  published May 22, 2013

  Make all the jokes you want about the climate differences between Kingston and Minneapolis, but the cultural ones aren't as hard to reconcile. The... More >>

• Todd Rundgren

  published May 15, 2013

  In 1973, Todd Rundgren was the producer behind the meat-and-potatoes hard-rock gem that is Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band LP.... More >>

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

  published May 15, 2013

  Chalk up Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's resilience to good timing if you want -- their debut album B.R.M.C. hit in the dead center of 2001's... More >>

• Jaill

  published May 15, 2013

  If you run across one of those aging, bitter punk bros moping about how indie rock's all pudding-soft, go right ahead and mock him for not paying... More >>

• The Silver City Millers

  published May 8, 2013

  Since autumn 2010, the Silver City Millers -- multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter Jeff Rolfzen and mandolinist/clogger Sarah Cagley -- have... More >>

• DJ Shadow

  published May 1, 2013

  It's hard to believe that we're almost 20 years removed from DJ Shadow's breakthrough MoWax single "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)." Not just because... More >>

• James Blake

  published May 1, 2013

  At the same time dubstep started to get massive, James Blake cranked down the volume. His circa-2010 singles for the Hessle Audio and R&S labels... More >>

• Chicago

  published April 24, 2013

  Chicago have pioneered a number of things since their first LP in 1969: commercially friendly jazz-rock, the quadruple-live LP, the Roman-numeral... More >>

• Captured! By Robots

  published April 24, 2013

  With all due respect to Daft Punk -- who are technically humans dressed as robots anyways -- the best mostly-automaton band in existence is... More >>

• International Reggae All-Stars

  published April 17, 2013

  Make all the jokes you want about the climate differences between Kingston and Minneapolis, but the cultural ones aren't as hard to reconcile. The... More >>

• Nachito Herrera

  published April 17, 2013

  Nachito Herrera has taken an eventful route from Cuba to Minneapolis -- a child prodigy at 12 performing Rachmaninoff with the Cuban Symphony... More >>

• REO Speedwagon, Styx

  published April 17, 2013

  Few bands have spent more time being blasted through the speakers of mid-American Skyhawks and Mavericks than these two. REO Speedwagon (pictured)... More >>

• T.I.

  published April 17, 2013

  It's been 10 years since T.I.'s breakthrough Trap Muzik, one of the crucial records of the early-aughts Southern rap boom with a lyrical... More >>

• Chris Tomlin

  published April 9, 2013

  Chris Tomlin is one of worship music's most popular artists, with a Best Contemporary Christian Music Album Grammy (for 2010's [i]And If Our God... More >>

• The Gaither Vocal Band

  published April 9, 2013

  Few acts in any genre have been as prolific and consistently popular over the last couple decades as the Gaither Vocal Band. Personnel changes... More >>

• Bernie Worrell Orchestra

  published April 9, 2013

  Bernie Worrell should be considered an immortal for playing keyboards for every single year of the Parliament-Funkadelic mothership's untouchable... More >>

• The Doobie Brothers

  published April 2, 2013

  These mainstays of classic rock radio haven't taken a break from the road in decades, even if their studio work's gotten sparse since the dawn of... More >>

• Toots & the Maytals

  published April 2, 2013

  Out of all the acts who got their chops in the '60s as ska transitioned to rocksteady and finally to reggae, Toots & the Maytals are easily one of... More >>

• Sky Ferreira

  published March 27, 2013

  If 2012 had a single that summed up the feeling of cringing through an election-year parade of stomach-turning callousness and cultural ennui, it... More >>

• Brass Messengers

  published March 27, 2013

  The best way to describe the Brass Messengers is through a litany of basic facts -- they're a brass band, there's eleven of them, and you can see... More >>

• Redman

  published March 27, 2013

  Reggie Noble raps like he was born grimy. He set a gold standard for high-grade headknock from his first appearances, starting with his early... More >>