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If your name has the word "Vader" in it, odds are you are in the business of ruining somebody's shit. There's Darth, obviously, all running around choking lackeys with his...
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Sweet Time is a deke move of an album. When you think it's going to put the pedal down to the floor, it suddenly jumps from balls-out rock to mournful, almost...
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Some of the people who became enamored with Gothenburg, Sweden's Little Dragon via the left-field jazz-tinged and R&B-flavored indie pop of their self-titled 2007 debut might...
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Armed with a loud bass, a louder, pencil-strummed guitar and a deceptively stripped-down drumkit, the Fuck Knights have spent the past couple years proudly upholding the...
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"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are..." exclaims the Owl in Edward Lear's 1871 nonsense poem, The Owl and the Pussycat. While these stanzas...
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A dazzling clarinet player, Evan Christopher (pictured) is thoroughly steeped in traditional New Orleans jazz, exemplified by the likes of Sidney Bechet and Barney Bigard. His...
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Though northeast Minneapolis may be teeming with artists, rarely do they convene at one place. That is exactly what will happen this weekend at the Fall Fine Arts Show, where...
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Last summer, Creative Electric studios set up a satellite gallery space on a tiny houseboat docked on the Mississippi. Dubbed the "SS Infinite Regress," the gallery featured...
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Responsible parents probably don't want their small children hanging out at a nightclub, but this Saturday little Suzy might get permission to do so. They grow up so fast,...
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The most eclectic comedy production in the Twin Cities returns after a summer hiatus, and creator/host/diabolical mastermind Andy Brynildson says he's spent the break cooking...
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Bobcat Goldthwait is perhaps best known as the screechy-voiced actor from the Police Academy series—or he was, anyway. But Goldthwait has undergone a kind of...
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Tonight's revolution is less combative, more philosophical. Meaning that, rather than celebrating fighting, this party will honor the types of things that inspire artists:...
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Those who have seen previous Hardcover Theater adaptations such as A Princess of Mars and The Sea-Wolf recall the spiky sense of discovery these shows provided. Truly, it was...
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After 20-some years, Bob Schneider is pretty much an institution in his adopted hometown of Austin, where he's led a succession of bands that have run the stylistic gamut from...
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This Saturday, Barnes & Noble in Maple Grove will host a local-author marathon with a bevy of popular scribes in the same place reading from their latest books. Just about...
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Digable Planets are well acquainted with how fickle the music business can be. After a spike in popularity and a Grammy award in 1993, the jazzy hip-hop group disbanded the...
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Led Zeppelin comparisons don't do either of these buzz bands good or justice. With Australia's Wolfmother (pictured), there's the small fact that they don't rock that hard,...
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Until this year, being a Fiery Furnaces fan meant that one had an especially high tolerance for cracked musical-theatre narratives, live revisionism, and wonky, disjointed...
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The clamor for San Francisco's Girls is almost early-Nirvana-sized, so it's not surprising to hear familiar-but-better in their recent debut on True Panther/Matador, Album....
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Normally, drinking wine in the presence of grizzly bears and tigers would not be a good idea. Presumably, they would not pair well. But in a controlled environment like the...
