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There's something inherently mysterious about the Pines' dusky, timeless folk music—the way it sinks into the listener's bones like a deep winter chill, the way it only...
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It was almost four years ago now that I sat down at my new desk, opened up my new email account, and read a note from my new boss: "We need a name."
I was about to file my...
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Much like the group that Banner Pilot's bassist Nate Gangelhoff sometimes dabbles in, Off With Their Heads, these punk rockers have managed to stay just under the radar...
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With their shimmering New Standards & Friends Holiday Show album still in heavy rotation on the Current, the New Standards will return for an encore run at the Dakota after...
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This lineup, ladies and gents, is what we call a shoe-in: four persistently underappreciated, masterful live acts that represent the wide array of styles and sounds being made...
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If 2010 was the year of hyper-collaboration in the Twin Cities, then 2011 was the year of the meteoric rise. Minneapolitans Elite Gymnastics and Austin, Minnesota, native John...
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All has been relatively quiet on the Solid Gold front this year as the band took a break from steady gigging to focus their efforts on a full-length follow-up to 2008's Bodies...
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Doomtree circa 2011 is a study in contrast. For their seventh year, the seven-member crew are commandeering First Avenue for their annual Blowout, this time for seven...
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"I invited most of the people that I know in Minneapolis, and whoever showed up got to be on the record," singer-songwriter Luke Redfield laughs, casually explaining how his...
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It's hard to believe that this will only be Poliça's third performance in the Twin Cities. The sometimes hazy, sometimes harrowing electro-R&B act have already played...
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Like most good ideas, Picked to Click started on a whim. The first installment debuted 20 years ago this past May, compiled by then-City Pages music editor Jim Walsh and...
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A group controversial simply for being controversial, Odd Future have made just as many enemies as fans with their onslaught of crew releases, most notably Tyler, The...
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Based on quantity of output alone, the Sudden Lovelys have had an impressive run so far: Since forming in February of last year, acoustic duo Danny Ferraro and Paige Prescher...
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As part of a new monthly series curated by Fine Line booker and Book of Right On frontman David Joe Holiday, this series (for which the full title is "Who You Calling a...
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In addition to being the grand opening of the new downtown St. Paul music venue Amsterdam (which had a very promising, packed-to-the-gills soft opening a few weeks back), this...
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THE CROWD AT MILWAUKEE'S RIVERSIDE THEATER is bursting. It's been two years since Bon Iver has performed live—at the very same venue, back in September of 2009—and...
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As bandleaders go, the Goondas' Brenden Green is the real deal: irreverent, scoffing, seemingly possessed. He wraps his mic cord around his neck, causing it to come unplugged...
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California has Coachella. Tennessee has Bonnaroo. And Chicago has recently played host to both Lollapalooza and the Pitchfork Festival. But for Twin Cities music lovers, the...
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Chris Morrissey is no stranger to the stage. But though he's clocked hundreds of hours playing bass for Mason Jennings, Haley Bonar, Wishbook, and most recently Ben Kweller,...
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Now in its second year, the West Bank Business Association's addition to the summer block-party circuit will spill out onto Cedar Avenue when the West Bank thoroughfare is...
