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Memory Lanes Block Party

Memory Lanes Block Party 2011 lineup announced

Photo by Ben Clark​You know what sound just about perfect right now? The idea of hopping on a bike and pedaling down the greenway and up over that big Hiawatha bridge to Memory Lanes, and then standing around on the hot black pavement with the sun cooking my scalp as my ears ring from some blister ... More >>

Twin Cities hardcore band In Defence are taco men in a pizza nation

Tom Burt: "Try talking shit about pizza—it gets them out of their seat"

Learning Curve Records X-Mas Showcase thrives on aural assault

The Blind Shake and Gay Witch Abortion headlined the local punk label's show at the Triple Rock Social Club.

In Defence: the Gimme Noise interview

Local globetrotting punks talk taco supremacy, touring Europe, and losing members.

In Defence kicks off Europe tour tonight at Memory Lanes

Local hardcore outfit to preach the supremacy of the taco on foreign soil.

Local Music Yearbook '04

We crowd-surfed with R.T. We bar hopped on light rail. And between some of our precious last sucks on a cigarette at the club, we scribbled it all down on a cocktail napkin.

Two Hundred Twenty-Four Ballots...and No Hanging Chads!

Picked to Click Pollsters cast their votes

Picked to Click

To those who have recently begun to rock, we salute you

Everybody Wins

Polls and punditry for the best new bands in town