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Bonnaroo announces lineup in most annoying way possible

Tue Feb 9, 12:25 PM

In tiny increments via social media. More >>

Big Quarters announce new album

Tue Feb 9, 11:35 AM

The hip-hop duo's third album, Party Like a Young Commie, is in the works. More >>

Flyer of the Week: Lucy Michelle is in Big Trouble

Tue Feb 9, 10:52 AM

Featuring Cusack, of course. More >>

Win Chelsea Handler and Sondre Lerche tickets today at @Gimme_Noise

Tue Feb 9, 10:11 AM

It's a double feature of free stuff today. More >>

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  • Rapper Mike Dreams gets positive on Dreamer's Poetry
    Listening to Mike's debut is like mainlining pure joy
    Wednesday, February 10
    The first lines of the first song of Mike Dreams's debut, Dreamer's Poetry, do a fantastic job of setting the stage for the 16 equally uplifting... More >>
  • Dada Trash Collage: Rain War
    Wednesday, February 10
    Rain War feels too big for a four-song EP. The number of moods and textures covered in 26 minutes is greater than most bands transmit during a... More >>
  • The Songs We Can't Escape
    Wednesday, February 10
    Gorillaz feat. Bobby Womack and Mos Def"Stylo" The unlikely, long-running project of cartoonist/illustrator Jamie Hewlett and pop auteur Damon... More >>
  • Street Sounds, Battle of the Jug Bands, and more
    Wednesday, February 10
    WEDNESDAY 2.10 Mike Dreams 7th St. Entry Michael Hannah is a rarity, an artist with a positive message and the conviction to follow through on... More >>
  • Get Cryphy celebrates two years of getting buck wild at First Avenue
    DJs Jimmy2Times and Plain Ole Bill: "We just like really rowdy party music"
    Wednesday, February 03
    It's New Year's Day, and most of Minneapolis is snuggled up at home with their hangovers still lingering from the previous night's ragers.... More >>
  • Veteran performer Willie Murphy reflects on his 40-year career
    Soul icon releases a new double album
    Wednesday, February 03
    As inextricably tied to the Twin Cities scene as any musician in modern times, Willie Murphy has just about done and seen it all in a career that... More >>
  • The Songs We Can't Escape
    Wednesday, February 03
    Vampire Weekend"Holiday" Peppy, wan lil' third-world tourism dispatch can't choose between whimsy and more-Fannon-than-thou haughtiness,... More >>
  • Gimme Noise's Gimme Shelter Haiti benefit, Rosanne Cash, and more
    Wednesday, February 03
    THURSDAY 2.4 Magic Castles Sauce Spirits and Sound Bar Magic Castles don't belong in this era. Much of their sound conjures Syd Barrett-helmed... More >>
  • Ten Centuries' White Pines
    Debut on Afternoon Records is subtly seductive
    Wednesday, January 27
    The burden of expectation has sunk many a would-be great record. With the clock ticking on expensive studio time and songs that have been honed... More >>
  • Adam Svec: Rarefaction
    Wednesday, January 27
    On his solo debut, Enemy Swimmer, Adam Svec's spritely melodies and clever songwriting drove the album's youthful sense of self-discovery. But... More >>
  • The Songs We Can't Escape
    Wednesday, January 27
    Cormega"Rapture" Rap's salvation? Cormega's def, but maybe what the genre needs now, more than ever, is gratuitous DJ cuts, scratches, and... More >>
  • Glitter Ball 3, MPLS.TV Winter Jubilee, and more
    Wednesday, January 27
    WEDNESDAY 1.27 Nice Purse Turf Club Nice Purse seem like they should be a cute band. Their sing-along lyrics and hippies-with-clean-hair look... More >>
  • Dessa ventures toward experimental pop with A Badly Broken Code
    Doomtree's songbird taking welcome new risks as a solo artist
    Wednesday, January 20
    For many in the local scene, the mention of Dessa's name conjures up a few well-tread facts: She's a literary agent, commended in the same breath... More >>
  • Modern Radio celebrates 10 years as Twin Cities mainstay
    Tom Loftus and Peter Mielech still manning local label and website
    Wednesday, January 20
    Upstairs, in a house that does triple duty as Modern Radio's office and warehouse, and Tom Loftus's home, Loftus is posing for a photo with a... More >>
  • CLAPS are an analog electro band in a digital world
    Band boils songs down to their essential components
    Wednesday, January 20
    It's often said that a band is a family, and in this case the statement would be as factually true as it is metaphorically. Jed Smentek's brother... More >>
  • Atlantis Quartet: Animal Progress
    Wednesday, January 20
    As if emerging from the watery depths concealing their legendary namesake, the Atlantis Quartet surface as a modern jazz band with impressive... More >>
  • The Songs We Can't Escape
    Wednesday, January 20
    Muse"Uprising" Plague-contagious agitprop synth wonder is content to be addictive, generalist in its revolutionary fervor, and vaguely... More >>
  • Motion City Soundtrack, TC Hip-Hop Awards, and more
    Wednesday, January 20
    THURSDAY 1.21 Freedy Johnston Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater Come for the voice, stay for the lyrics. Freedy Johnston's luminescent Kansas-Hoboken... More >>
  • Gay Beast get ready for first European tour
    Charm to debut at 7th St. Entry release show
    Wednesday, January 13
    On a bitterly cold January afternoon, Gay Beast crowd a Spyhouse three-top. Paper scraps riddled with scribblings clutter the table, and before... More >>
  • Pert Near Sandstone: Out on a Spree
    Wednesday, January 13
    Although Pert Near Sandstone like to call themselves a "new-timey" string band, there's obviously a significant old-timey component to the local... More >>

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Willie Nelson Plays Boca's Sunset Cove Amphitheater

There are people who despise country music who will admit to liking him. Notorious honky hater... More >>

Dallas

Our North Of The Dial Scribe Signs Off

He plopped down on one of the rickety chairs on the sidewalk in front of J & J's Pizza with a... More >>

Denver

Tjutjuna's music takes you far beyond the mundane world of the everyday

Named after a Siberian cryptid cognate of Bigfoot, Tjutjuna emerged from the band Mothership... More >>

Houston

Ultimate Victory

Fences with Paul Wall mended, upcoming tour planned, Chamillionaire is comfortable being the rapper next door.
Chamillionaire is the rapper you can take home to mom and dad. His albums contain very little... More >>

Kansas City

The Entrance Band could be a psych-rock dream

Keeping Guy Blakeslee on point is like gripping a balloon in a whirlpool. You just have to let... More >>

Miami

Pitbull headlines the Pepsi Musica Super Bowl Fan Jam

You might be sitting in traffic listening to the radio or getting your groove on in SoBe. Or... More >>

Phoenix

George Strait Is Classy and Totally Underrated

George Strait is underrated. Perhaps that statement sounds ridiculous: Strait has 34 albums... More >>

San Francisco

The Zen Buddha of the N-Judah: Rapper Richie Cunning

Some San Franciscans make a Mission burrito run as soon as they return to town. Rapper and... More >>

St. Louis

Murphy Lee returns with a new album — and a positive outlook

In 2010, the hardest-working man in St. Louis just might be hip-hop mainstay Murphy Lee. In... More >>

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