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  • Blogs

    October 4, 2012

    Ten George Strait songs that define his 30-year career

    In a press conference streamed live last week from his website, country legend George Strait announced his farewell tour, aptly coined "The Cowboy Rides Away Tour." Is he sick? Don't think so. Gettin' too old? Nah, some of the old fellers still touring have got at least two decades on him. Wants to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2012

    Raekwon tops Twin Cities Sneaker.Art Exchange in November

    The Wu loves coming to the Twin Cities. This year alone has featured three visits from Ghostface (including Soundset with Raekwon the Chef), a RZA show, and a GZA performance just a couple weeks ago. Now, Raekwon is coming back in early November as the featured guest at the first annual Twin Cities ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 3, 2012

    Next to Normal

    The Wu loves coming to the Twin Cities. This year alone has featured three visits from Ghostface (including Soundset with Raekwon the Chef), a RZA show, and a GZA performance just a couple weeks ago. Now, Raekwon is coming back in early November as the featured guest at the first annual Twin Cities ... More >>

  • Music

    September 26, 2012

    Ty Segall, Ben Folds Five, Grizzly Bear, and more

    The Wu loves coming to the Twin Cities. This year alone has featured three visits from Ghostface (including Soundset with Raekwon the Chef), a RZA show, and a GZA performance just a couple weeks ago. Now, Raekwon is coming back in early November as the featured guest at the first annual Twin Cities ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 26, 2012

    Chick Corea & Gary Burton

    The Wu loves coming to the Twin Cities. This year alone has featured three visits from Ghostface (including Soundset with Raekwon the Chef), a RZA show, and a GZA performance just a couple weeks ago. Now, Raekwon is coming back in early November as the featured guest at the first annual Twin Cities ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 26, 2012

    Lil B

    The Wu loves coming to the Twin Cities. This year alone has featured three visits from Ghostface (including Soundset with Raekwon the Chef), a RZA show, and a GZA performance just a couple weeks ago. Now, Raekwon is coming back in early November as the featured guest at the first annual Twin Cities ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2012

    Amanda Palmer on crowd-sourced musicians, Emily White, and kerfuffles

    Amanda Palmer just had a rough couple weeks. Recently thrown into the spotlight for trying to crowd source various "horn-y and string-y" musicians for beer and hugs during her Theater is Evil tour, it's understandable that Palmer might be wary of opening up about her decision to let the music commun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2012

    GZA at First Avenue, 9/20/12

    GZA with Bear Hands, Sweet Valley and Killer Mike First Avenue, MinneapolisThursday, September 20, 2012Without a word to the cheering, three-quarters full audience, dressed simply in baggy jeans and a grey, Pringle of Scotland sweater, Wu-Tang Clan heavyweight GZA (neé Gary Grice) stepped onstage a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2012

    Top ten country songs about farming -- ahead of Farm Aid this weekend

    David Allan Coe famously said that the perfect country and western song requires the following five components: Mama, trains, trucks, prison, and gettin' drunk. With all due respect to Mr. Coe, one subject seems absent: farmin'. Farming has been a part of country music since -- well, we guess the ... More >>

  • Arts

    September 19, 2012

    Dynamic duo Penelope Freeh and Jocelyn Hagen join together for Slippery Fish

    David Allan Coe famously said that the perfect country and western song requires the following five components: Mama, trains, trucks, prison, and gettin' drunk. With all due respect to Mr. Coe, one subject seems absent: farmin'. Farming has been a part of country music since -- well, we guess the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 19, 2012

    Built to Spill

    David Allan Coe famously said that the perfect country and western song requires the following five components: Mama, trains, trucks, prison, and gettin' drunk. With all due respect to Mr. Coe, one subject seems absent: farmin'. Farming has been a part of country music since -- well, we guess the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2012

    Hip Hop Harambee at Nomad World Pub, 9/15/12

    Hip Hop Harambee With Talib Kweli, Sims, Big Zach, and moreNomad World Pub, MinneapolisSaturday, September 15, 2012Saturday's Hip Hop Harambee, an all day hip-hop block party held in the parking lot of the Nomad World Pub, was by all measures a success. You couldn't have asked for a better day to ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2012

    Five Brother Ali classics you've probably never heard

    See Also:Cover Story: Brother Ali in His Own WordsBrother Ali: The day I met Cornel West This week, hometown hero and indie rap superstar Brother Ali unleashes his new album Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color. Declaring that it's not only a new album, but a new chapter in his career, we decid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2012

    NOFX's show at the Cabooze tonight has been postponed

    Due to the 102° fever of singer Fat Mike, tonight's NOFX show at the Cabooze has been postponed. The celebrated Los Angeles punk band were set to play the West Bank club this evening along with local luminaries Dillinger Four, but the show has been called off. Ticket holders should contact the Join ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2012

    Ten essential Bill Monroe facts on the 101st birthday of the father of bluegrass

    It's said that it was a sweltering early autumn day in Rosine, Kentucky when a neighbor found Malissa Vandiver Monroe in her yard, strumming away furiously on her mandolin under the shade of a tree. Malissa was very, very pregnant with her eighth and last child, a boy who would be born on September ... More >>

  • Movies

    September 12, 2012

    Paul Thomas Anderson on The Master

    The director discusses Joaquin Phoenix and researching Scientology

  • Music

    September 12, 2012

    Critics' Picks: Hip Hop Harambee, St. Vincent & David Byrne, Purity Ring, and more

    The director discusses Joaquin Phoenix and researching Scientology

  • Calendar

    September 12, 2012

    Minus the Bear

    The director discusses Joaquin Phoenix and researching Scientology

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2012

    The Weeknd announce last-minute Skyway Theater show

    See Also: Frank Ocean & the Weeknd at Lollapalooza, 8/4/12 The Weeknd at First Avenue, 6/17/12 After easily selling-out First Avenue back in June, it's quite apparent that the atmospheric R&B of the Weeknd clearly has an audience here in Minneapolis. And that passionate bond is only going t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2012

    The 2012 presidential election through a country music fan's eyes

    When it comes to political touchstones, country music is all about po' folks and old time religion, issues that largely resonate with folks no matter where they sit on the political spectrum. As we gear up for the November election, it's important to think about what you support -- not just politi ... More >>

  • Music

    September 5, 2012

    Carnage the Executioner comes into his own

    The best rapper from Minnesota you've never heard

  • Movies

    August 29, 2012

    Julie Delpy Rocks New York

    Writer-director-actress takes on everything that's wrong with movies—and she's bringing Chris Rock

  • Calendar

    August 29, 2012

    We Exist

    Writer-director-actress takes on everything that's wrong with movies—and she's bringing Chris Rock

  • Calendar

    August 29, 2012

    Wiz Khalifa/Mac Miller

    Writer-director-actress takes on everything that's wrong with movies—and she's bringing Chris Rock

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2012

    Aby Wolf talks records ahead of A. Wolf & Her Claws vinyl release party tonight

    See Also: Aby Wolf bares claws, drops single Aby Wolf and Her Claws' experimentation pays off In this digital age of MP3s, BitTorrents, and Soundcloud files, music fans have consistently sought out a more personalized, intimate engagement with the songs and albums that move them, which is one of th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 22, 2012

    Company

    See Also: Aby Wolf bares claws, drops single Aby Wolf and Her Claws' experimentation pays off In this digital age of MP3s, BitTorrents, and Soundcloud files, music fans have consistently sought out a more personalized, intimate engagement with the songs and albums that move them, which is one of th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 22, 2012

    Previews

    See Also: Aby Wolf bares claws, drops single Aby Wolf and Her Claws' experimentation pays off In this digital age of MP3s, BitTorrents, and Soundcloud files, music fans have consistently sought out a more personalized, intimate engagement with the songs and albums that move them, which is one of th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 22, 2012

    Summer Set Music & Camping Festival

    See Also: Aby Wolf bares claws, drops single Aby Wolf and Her Claws' experimentation pays off In this digital age of MP3s, BitTorrents, and Soundcloud files, music fans have consistently sought out a more personalized, intimate engagement with the songs and albums that move them, which is one of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2012

    Expatriate's Adam Nero on switching from hardcore to Americana, and a new EP

    Adam Nero does not immediately come across as the type of guy who would get behind a guitar and play some folky, genuine Americana. He's a clean-shaven, bespectacled fellow, dressed down in a sweater and dark denim -- the look is a little more "off-duty lawyer" than "grungy, tobacco-rolling country ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2012

    Talib Kweli to headline Hip-Hop Harambee Block Party

    See Also: Talib Kweli talks about his new tour, album, and role models in hip-hop The name of the festival might be a bit unfamiliar, but for local hip-hop fans the stellar lineup certainly won't be. The Hip-Hop Harambee Block Party is set to take place on Saturday, September 15 in the Nomad World ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2012

    Bachelor Farmer makes Bon Appetit's 10 Best New Restaurants in America

    Last week we told you that first-year Minneapolis restaurant the Bachelor Farmer, had made it onto Bon Appetit magazine's top 100 restaurants in America list, but now Minneapolis's favorite Scandinavian-themed restaurant has been upgraded. The Bachelor Farmer has made it onto Bon Appetit's Hot 10 li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2012

    15 gorgeous GIFs from Knotfest 2012

    See Also:Knotfest at Somerset Amphitheater, 8/18/12Slideshow: Knotfest 2012 Music PerformancesSlideshow: Knotfest's People & Scenes Knotfest 2012 was nothing if not a vigorous experience. Take it from these three Gojira fans above. For the thousands who gathered in Somerset, Wisconsin, this was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2012

    Pleasure Horse on South Dakota, not being "100% honky" and country's evolution

    See Also:Night Moves members say goodbye to Flying Dorito Brothers on Friday (INTERVIEW)Pleasure Horse is a new local '70s outlaw/cosmic country style outfit. Four of the six members of Pleasure Horse grew up in South Dakota and attended college there -- which lends to their affinity for, and the qu ... More >>

  • Music

    August 15, 2012

    Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Spinners, Murder of Crows, and more

    See Also:Night Moves members say goodbye to Flying Dorito Brothers on Friday (INTERVIEW)Pleasure Horse is a new local '70s outlaw/cosmic country style outfit. Four of the six members of Pleasure Horse grew up in South Dakota and attended college there -- which lends to their affinity for, and the qu ... More >>

  • Music

    August 15, 2012

    Inaugural Knotfest brings metal to Somerset

    Slipknot promises apocalyptic chaos and stink

  • Calendar

    August 15, 2012

    Del McCoury Band

    Slipknot promises apocalyptic chaos and stink

  • Calendar

    August 15, 2012

    Outside Providence

    Slipknot promises apocalyptic chaos and stink

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2012

    Miranda Lambert on her new album and married life with Blake Shelton

    Country singer Miranda Lambert has made a name for herself as a feisty, strong, torch-your-ex's-house-if-he-screws-you-over kind of girl. While she's still as tough as ever, her newest album Four the Record gives fans a chance to see a softer side of Lambert. As she prepare to perform a sold-ou ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 8, 2012

    Rodney Crowell

    Country singer Miranda Lambert has made a name for herself as a feisty, strong, torch-your-ex's-house-if-he-screws-you-over kind of girl. While she's still as tough as ever, her newest album Four the Record gives fans a chance to see a softer side of Lambert. As she prepare to perform a sold-ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2012

    Four reasons Lollapalooza needs EDM

    See Also:[Slideshow] Lollapalooza 2012: The PeopleJustice at Lollapalooza, 8/5/12Ten things your Lollapalooza outfit says about youWith every year that passes, it feels like electronic dance music gains a bigger foothold in the summer festival circuit, and the climb in popularity was especially appa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2012

    25 gorgeous GIFs from Lollapalooza 2012

    See Also:Ten things your Lollapalooza outfit says about you[Slideshow] Lollapalooza 2012 Day One: The Music[Slideshow] Lollapalooza 2012 Day Two: The Music [Slideshow] Lollapalooza 2012 Day Three: The Music[Slideshow] Lollapalooza 2012: The PeopleReady for some GIFs? To quote Ozzy Osbourne, "I can't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2012

    Jack White at Lollapalooza, 8/5/12

    See Also:Best of Lollapalooza day three: At the Drive-in, Florence the Machine and moreBlack Sabbath at Lollapalooza, 8/3/12Jack WhiteLollapalooza at Grant Park, ChicagoSunday, August 5, 2012There's no musician who has worked harder than Jack White over the past decade. As the figure within the Wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2012

    Sigur Rós at Lollapalooza, 8/5/12

    By Abbie Gobeli See Also: Jack White at Lollapalooza, 8/5/12Best of Lollapalooza day three: At the Drive-in, Florence the Machine and more Sigur Rós Lollapalooza at Grant Park, Chicago Sunday, August 5, 2012 Sigur Rós unleashed a baptism of ethereal beauty that blanketed the tightly packed oc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2012

    Black Sabbath at Lollapalooza, 8/3/12

    See Also:M83 at Lollapalooza, 8/3/12Ten things your Lollapalooza outfit says about youBest of Lollapalooza 2012, day one: Afghan Whigs, Die Antwoord, and moreBlack SabbathLollapalooza at Grant Park, ChicagoFriday, August 3, 2012In 2012, being a purist fan of rock (of varying hardness) is getting tou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2012

    Ten things your Lollapalooza outfit says about you

    See Also:Black Sabbath at Lollapalooza, 8/3/12M83 at Lollapalooza, 8/3/12SXSW: Ten things your outfit says about youMPLS.TV asks River's Edge Music Festival: "What the f*ck are you wearing?"Now more than ever, Lollapalooza is a mélange of different fashion decisions to accompany the varied mus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2012

    Lollapalooza Day Two suspended due to dangerous weather conditions

    Update: According to a new press release from the festival: "Lollapalooza will resume at 6:00 PM following a brief postponement due to dangerous weather conditions and warnings. Today's updated schedule can be found on Lollapalooza's official website."Bands will begin playing again at 6:30 with a re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2012

    Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias at Target Center, 8/1/2012

    Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias with Frankie JTarget Center, MinneapolisWednesday, August 1, 2012See Also: Slideshow: Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias at the Target CenterA couple of Latin musicians whose personal lives are more interesting than their musical lives took over Target Center on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2012

    American Idol ISO country judge: our predictions

    The country music world's been abuzz all week with Idol chit-chat about - cue Ryan Seacrest voice - Who will be... the next American Idol judge. Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez have vacated their seats, with Mariah Carey joining tenured judge Randy Jackson for the program's twelfth season, and rumor ... More >>

  • Music

    August 1, 2012

    Ice Rod leaves Minnesota

    Michael Gaughan takes his rap act to San Francisco

  • More >>
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