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Gimme News Weekly Wrap-Up: November 16-20

Fri Nov 20, 2:52 PM

Dinosaur Jr. rock First Ave., Modern Radio set 10th anniversary show & M.anifest releases new album. More >>

M.anifest's free album 'The Birds & the Beats' available now

Fri Nov 20, 2:15 PM

The hard-at-work MC takes a minute to give us some new hotness for a good cause. More >>

Friday night at the movies

Fri Nov 20, 1:55 PM

Your best bets on the big screen this weekend. More >>

Ruthless releases posthumous LP, members play the Rock tonight

Fri Nov 20, 1:39 PM

Local hip hop ensemble Ruthless has released its final album. Two of the group's MCs are playing live tonight in Maplewood. More >>

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  • We All Have Hooks for Hands support The Shape of Energy
    Seven Sioux Falls friends go on tour
    By Warren Wills
    Wednesday, November 18
    The new We All Have Hooks for Hands album, The Shape of Energy, starts with a surprising blast of fingerpicked country-western-style guitar in... More >>
  • Peter Miller collects abstract sounds for We Are the Willows project
    A Collection of Sounds... poses heartfelt but often answerless questions
    By Erin Roof
    Wednesday, November 18
    "It's like ssssSSSSHHHHhhhh." We're sitting in the dirty grass beside the Triple Rock. The sky is getting dark and streetlight-pink, it's cold... More >>
  • Desdamona: Inkling
    By Peter S. Scholtes
    Wednesday, November 18
    Except for some looped whispers and singing on "Rhythm's Heart," Desdamona's third album is almost entirely without music—an a capella... More >>
  • The Songs We Can't Escape
    By Ray Cummings
    Wednesday, November 18
    Tape Deck Mountain"Dead Doctors Don't Lie" Guaranteed to be adored by space-rock cosmonauts and effects-pedal enthusiasts, to confuse Jonas... More >>
  • Brother Ali, Dinosaur Jr., John Fogerty, and more
    Wednesday, November 18
    WEDNESDAY 11.18 Dinosaur Jr. First Avenue The music video for 1994's "Feel the Pain" featured members of Dinosaur Jr. cruising around the city... More >>
  • The Mood Swings set to release third album, Recessionista
    Twin Cities band proves meat-and-potatoes rock is still tasty
    By Rob van Alstyne
    Wednesday, November 11
    Combining chugging garage-rock riffs with caustic wit, local quartet the Mood Swings have come into their own on Recessionista, their... More >>
  • Brute Heart: Brass Beads
    By Warren Wills
    Wednesday, November 11
    At times sounding eerie or even completely foreign, Brass Beads brings a mysterious aura rarely found in music today. In their first LP release,... More >>
  • The Songs We Can't Escape
    By Ray Cummings
    Wednesday, November 11
    GIRLS"Ghostmouth" It's true: America needed its own Teenage Fanclub, which meant that we needed our own Bandwagonesque, too. But I'm almost... More >>
  • Dirty Projectors, Digable Planets, Little Dragon, and more
    Wednesday, November 11
    WEDNESDAY 11.11 Dirty Projectors The Cedar Dirty Projectors' last album, 2007's Rise Above, was a chamber-rock rewrite-from-memory of Black... More >>
  • Har Mar Superstar on rock-stardom, HBO show, and Drew Barrymore
    Sean Tillman never stops living the American Dream
    By Chris DeLine
    Wednesday, November 04
    The more you get to know about Sean Tillman, the more it seems like the guy never stops living the American Dream. That is, of course, if your... More >>
  • Sharp Teeth bite off Lines and Stars
    It's the grunge-pop trio's second album
    By Michelle Leon
    Wednesday, November 04
    It's a snowy October evening, and Sharp Teeth have just returned from a tour across the Northlands to play the Nomad World Pub in Minneapolis.... More >>
  • The Songs We Can't Escape
    By Ray Cummings
    Wednesday, November 04
    Shakira"She Wolf" Queasy. Awkward. Yup, this disco slinky is queasily, awkwardly appealing, despite coming across like a well-meaning... More >>
  • Snoop Dogg, the Sounds, White Denim, and more
    Wednesday, November 04
    WEDNESDAY 11.4 White Denim 400 Bar Fits, indeed. Austin, Texas, power trio White Denim's second album is veritably defined by fits and starts.... More >>
  • Uptown Bar fights to transfer liquor license to new location
    Manager Denni Willey seeks to usher scene staple into its second life
    By David Hansen
    Wednesday, October 28
    It's the bar that three generations of local musicians have called home. The bar where bands like the Jayhawks and the Replacements tested out... More >>
  • Total Babe's Clara Salyer is 17-year-old rock prodigy
    Never underestimate the power of a teenage girl
    By Michelle Leon
    Wednesday, October 28
    Total Babe's songwriter/guitarist Clara Salyer is eating scrambled eggs and toast for lunch. She is wearing a blue and green knit Minnesota... More >>
  • The Songs We Can't Escape
    By Ray Cummings
    Wednesday, October 28
    Birdman feat. Drake"More Milli" Lil Wayne's guardian/label benefactor would like you to gape at his stable of whips and swag (ergo "Foreign... More >>
  • David Bazan, Impaler, They Might Be Giants, and more
    Wednesday, October 28
    WEDNESDAY 10.28 David Bazan Turf Club Some artists cloak their every move in carefully manufactured mystery, but ex-Pedro the Lion frontman... More >>
  • Twin Cities folkie Martin Devaney channels inner Oasis
    Devaney's Revenge of the Tall Boys is great rock 'n' roll record
    By Rob van Alstyne
    Wednesday, October 21
    After nearly a decade of acoustic guitar strumming and soul-baring on the local scene, Martin Devaney had had enough. The time for hushed... More >>
  • Aquarelle nails dreamy sweet-spot electro
    Ryan Potts experiments with translating experience and memory to music
    By Ray Cummings
    Wednesday, October 21
    Ryan Potts laughs easily. That disarmingly agreeable laughter is one of the first things you notice in conversation with him: It radiates a... More >>
  • Mercurial Rage: Cascade
    By Pat O'Brien
    Wednesday, October 21
    There's something eminently charming and lovable about an album that opens with a greasy, spaced-out synth line and ends with a guitar solo in... More >>

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Broward - Palm Beach

Julian Marley Performs With Brothers Stephen and Damian at the Arsht Center on Sunday

By Esther Park
Some last names in pop culture resonate beyond just celebrity status. They evoke emotions,... More >>

Dallas

Electronic Music Moves Its Way Into Other Genres

By Pete Freedman
Before we (and the rest of the world) start counting down our favorite albums, songs and trends... More >>

Denver

Maynard James Keenan rests his Tool in favor of his "Cuntry Boner"

By Michael Roberts
Maynard James Keenan describes a show by Puscifer, arguably the oddest sibling in a family of... More >>

Houston

Papa Gangsta

Houston rapper E.S.G.'s evolution from street thug to family man.
By Shea Serrano
There was some construction being done in the front of the house, so maybe someone knocked over... More >>

Kansas City

Exene Cervenka's new solo record, Somewhere Gone, has strong roots in Missouri

By Annie Zaleski
Exene Cervenka is a tireless artist, in every sense of the word. She publishes books of her... More >>

Miami

Julian Marley performs with brothers Stephen and Damian at the Arsht Center Sunday

By Esther Park
There are some last names in pop culture that resonate beyond just celebrity status. They evoke... More >>

Phoenix

Meet the Chandails: Young, Unpretentious, Scuzzy, and Great

By Jason P. Woodbury
Listening to "Paper Bag," the scuzzy, shuffling opening track from Phoenix-based garage rockers... More >>

San Francisco

Neon Indian’s warm, retro glow

By Doug Wallen
Mapping out a universe of spongy synth leads and canned beats, Texas tinkerer Alan Palomo has... More >>

Seattle

mr. Gnome: His, Hers

A Cleveland duo unveils its Skeleton stew.
By Hannah Levin
Sam Meister was into Portishead and Björk when he started writing music with Nicole... More >>

St. Louis

Weather With You: Elvis Perkins in Dearland continues to bewitch listeners with its second album

By Roy Kasten
Elvis Perkins is driving into Hurricane Ida outside Tallahassee, Florida. Across the scratchy... More >>

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