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2010 Stories by Peter S. Scholtes

• All Inclusive New Year's Eve with Tina & the B-Sides

  published December 29, 2010

  Though based in Santa Barbara, soul-rocker Tina Schlieske has kept the home fires burning in Minneapolis/St. Paul, where she's returned more... More >>

• Daryl Hall & John Oates

  published December 8, 2010

  Where so much big-'80s pop now seems cute but harmless—still robo-anonymous, but quaintly so—time has revealed something deeper in the... More >>

• Trailer Trash: Trashy Little Xmas Family Matinee

  published December 8, 2010

  The only downside of having a world-class honky-tonk band in your hometown do an annual weekly holiday residency at a vintage bar is this: It's in... More >>

• The Night Before Christmas: A Musical Fantasy

  published December 8, 2010

  The Sounds of Blackness are by now so synonymous with soul music and the holidays that the film Precious placed their 1992 hit "Soul... More >>

• Doomtree Blowout VI

  published December 8, 2010

  Timed to coincide with a season that keeps locals in town and out-of-towners away, the Doomtree hip-hop crew's annual Blowout at First Avenue is... More >>

• Dosh

  published December 8, 2010

  For nearly a decade, Martin Dosh has spun gorgeous, zestfully percussive music out of loops created live with a few instruments and a couple of... More >>

• A Benefit for Michael 'Eyedea' Larsen

  published December 1, 2010

  It took a large wake in St. Paul and a memorial concert at First Avenue for many fans of Michael "Eyedea" Larsen to realize they would be grieving... More >>

• KDWB Jingle Ball

  published December 1, 2010

  Even without the star sass of, say, Katy Perry, this annual Top-40 revue from Clear Channel taps new hit-makers—Atlanta rapper B.o.B.... More >>

• Clinic

  published November 10, 2010

  A distinct yet ever-shifting blend of electronic pulse and psychedelic attitude, snake-charming melodica and post-punk guitar, Liverpool's Clinic... More >>

• Azure Ray

  published November 3, 2010

  With a sound balanced delicately between straight-up acoustic radio pop and a range of indie-rock sonics, from electronic beats to chamber music,... More >>

• David Sedaris

  published October 13, 2010

  Comedians' and comic writers' lives aren't any funnier than ours, of course; the humor lies in what they choose to notice and exaggerate. Yet... More >>

• Nomeansno

  published October 6, 2010

  With their Minutemen bass lyricism, Zappa attitude, and Fugazi sense of lockstep rhythm, Vancouver's Nomeansno are a post-hardcore cult-prog dream... More >>

• Bobby Bare Jr.

  published September 29, 2010

  With a drawling quaver that's part Paul Westerberg, part Jolie Holland, Bobby Bare, Jr., is an arresting enough vocal presence to let clever,... More >>

• Guided By Voices

  published September 29, 2010

  From their '90s breakthrough to their 2004 breakup, Dayton, Ohio's Guided by Voices were one of the great perennial live bands to play First... More >>

• Those Darlins

  published September 15, 2010

  Cowpunk rather than alternative country, rowdy rather than merely hard-bitten, this singing trio (plus drummer) breathes the same blissful mix of... More >>

• Gucci Mane

  published September 15, 2010

  Atlanta's Gucci Mane is proof that a certain kind of mindlessness—not having much to say about life as people live it, for... More >>

• Janelle Monae

  published September 15, 2010

  Janelle Monáe's Eraserhead hairdo and gracefully peppy retro-soul hit "Tightrope" (with Big Boi) turned out to be mere tickets to... More >>

• Mark Olson

  published September 8, 2010

  Maybe the recent spate of Jayhawks reunions/reissues had an effect, but Mark Olson is rocking again. The Minneapolitan Californian's first solo... More >>

• Titus Andronicus

  published September 8, 2010

  Concept-album schomcept-album: Titus Andronicus's sophomore long-player with fiddle and readings from Walt Whitman and William Lloyd Garrison, the... More >>

• School of Seven Bells

  published September 8, 2010

  School of Seven Bells' cool dance beats, interweaving Euro-folkie harmonies, and wall of electronically-processed guitars are some kind of new... More >>

• Muja Messiah Mixtape Release Party

  published September 1, 2010

  Has the era of no money and free music liberated something in local rap? Muja Messiah has never sounded funnier, looser, or more sandpapery-clear... More >>

• Ludacris

  published September 1, 2010

  Atlanta's Chris "Ludacris" Hedges had the eyes of a natural movie star in 2005's Crash, but it was as narrator of the basketball... More >>

• B-Girl Be Carnival! Block Party

  published August 25, 2010

  Part park-party revival by females, part bring-your-daughter-to-hip-hop day, this recurring, one-of-a-kind celebration of women in rap, graffiti,... More >>

• Excision

  published August 25, 2010

  The windshield-rattling bass lines of most Excision tracks sound like Bernie Worrell's bottomed-out Minimoog from Parliament pumped through the... More >>

• Nas & Damian Marley

  published August 25, 2010

  Whether it's Busy Signal absorbing Chalie Boy or M.I.A. absorbing both, fertility along the rap-reggae border is eternal and very 2010. Yet nobody... More >>