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Bonnaroo announces lineup in most annoying way possible

Tue Feb 9, 12:25 PM

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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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Features

Rapper Mike Dreams gets positive on Dreamer's Poetry
Listening to Mike's debut is like mainlining pure joy

By Andrea Swensson

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

By Erin Roof

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

By Ray Cummings

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"

By Jen Boyles

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

By Rick Mason

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

By Ray Cummings

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

By Rob van Alstyne

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

By Jeff Gage

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

By Ray Cummings

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

By Andrea Swensson

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

By Steve McPherson

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

By Jonathan Garrett

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

By Rick Mason

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

By Ray Cummings

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

By David Hansen

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

By Rick Mason

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 >>