Berlin (Germany)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at First Avenue, 5/18/13

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club With Thenewno2 First Avenue, Minneapolis May 18, 2013 It has been a rather tumultuous couple of years for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. In late 2010, the California trio suffered the shocking passing of Michael Been, legendary frontman of the Call, who died of a heart att ... More >>

Barbara is a Cold War thriller

An East German doctor finds herself at the mercy of government and citizen spies

Girls Got Rhythm Fest announces 2013 Lineup

The inaugural Girls Got Rhythm Fest deserves an emphatic high-five. If not only for booking an astounding two-day lineup headlined by such esteemed talent as Ronnie Spector -- Gimme Noise is still levitating over her Johnny Thunders cover -- but also for getting Minneapolis's lazy bones over to the ... More >>

Insights Design Lecture Series

Berlin Discoveries: Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major Film Festival

Cabaret

David Bowie debuts new song "Where Are We Now?"

The glam rock legend David Bowie has emerged from hiding after a decade. It's his 66th birthday, and the celebration marks the release of a new single called "Where Are We Now?" Judging by the visual above, Bowie might be feeling a tad disembodied these days. The song comes with the announcement of ... More >>

Moose at Minnesota Zoo get waterbeds as part of research study

SEE ALSO: Feisty the seal and Berlin the polar bear get comfortable at Como Zoo [CUTE PHOTOS]Moose at the Minnesota Zoo seem to be bringing back a trend that died in the '70s. As part of a zoo-led research study on the impact of heat stress, the moose are now enjoying the comfort of waterbeds i ... More >>

Bon Iver book Radio City Music Hall residency, unveil Bjork cover

Bon Iver have been on quite a never-ending trek since they played the Orpheum Theatre back in September. And Justin Vernon and company are definitely a different band now -- at least in terms of public perception and recognition. Long-time supporters won't be surprised that their Grammy-winning mate ... More >>

Feisty the seal and Berlin the polar bear get comfortable at Como Zoo [CUTE PHOTOS]

It's been a busy week for Feisty, Helen, and Berlin, animals that called Lake Superior Zoo home until last week's devastating flooding.The zoo was ravaged by the flood, prompting employees from St. Paul's Como Zoo to reach out and ask if there was anything they could do to help. Superior Zoo employe ... More >>

Feisty -- the wild-eyed, freedom-loving Duluth seal -- is headed to the Como Zoo

Duluth's flash-flooding allowed Feisty the seal to have a night on the town. Now, she gets to take a road trip to St. Paul.Feisty and Berlin the polar bear are headed to the Como Zoo and will remain there until the flood-ravaged Lake Superior Zoo can repair damage caused by the Duluth Deluge.Como Zo ... More >>

Duluth flooding sets zoo seal free downtown [PHOTOS]

The Lake Superior Zoo is one of the hardest-hit victims of the torrential rainfall and subsequent flooding that has the Duluth area on lockdown today.According to the Duluth News Tribune, the zoo's Polar Shores exhibit, which housed seals and a polar bear, has been completely flooded out. The zoo's ... More >>

Lazer Sword

Landscape of the Mind

Too Much Love celebrates 5 years on Saturday

It's hard to imagine a weekend at First Avenue without Too Much Love at this point. Soviet Panda has dedicated hundreds of Saturday nights to the young and the restless of Minneapolis since the event's incarnation in 2007.  That's five years, folks. And in dance night years, it's a lifetime.

BNLX cover Lana Del Rey's "Video Games," release EP Saturday

The fiery local group BNLX have pulled off some interesting covers over the course of their seven different EPs, but their take on Lana Del Rey's "Video Games" has caused more raised eyebrows and nodding heads than anything they have tackled since their blistering, distortion-filled rendition of Pri ... More >>

Snow Patrol at the State Theatre, 4/25/12

Snow PatrolThe State Theatre, MinneapolisWednesday, April 25, 2012No one likes spending the day at the doctor's office. That surely goes for Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody as well, who went in to get a nagging throat/vocal issue checked out prior to his band's show at the State Theatre Wedne ... More >>

Ting Tings' Katie White: We need to write songs when we're depressed

​Four years ago, two unassuming musicians from Northwest England caught the attention of the music world with the explosive, sassy single: "That's Not My Name." Their fast success brought dance-pop duo the Ting Tings (Jules de Martino and Katie White) an impressive record deal, worldwide touring, ... More >>

Coldplay will wrap up 2012 tour in St. Paul

​Am I the only one who has trouble reconciling the idea that Coldplay circa 2011 is the same Coldplay that released Parachutes back in 2000? Having never seen the group live, I always imagined my first Coldplay show would be in a stuffy theater somewhere, in a red velvet seat tailor-made for sitti ... More >>

Liminal Phase release a new album at Bryant Lake Bowl

​Look up the term liminal phase on Wikipedia and you will be met with the meaning: The transition (liminal) phase is the period between states, during which one has left one place or state but hasn't yet entered or joined the next.  Minneapolis band Liminal Phase's music shares many of ... More >>

Nick Mauss: Perforations

INXS founder Andrew Farriss talks songwriting, new album & remembers Michael Hutchence

INXS back in the day (Andrew second from right)​Without Andrew Farriss there would be no INXS, and without INXS there would be a noticeable absence on the Billboard charts throughout much of the '80s and '90s. Farriss met the late Michael Hutchence as a teenager in New South Wales, Aus., when he ... More >>

BYOB Minneapolis

Rebel Rebel: Rock for Pussy VIII

Regis Dialogue and Retrospective: Julian Schnabel

Velvet Davenport prep first LP with a video and single

Warmy Girls​Parker Sprout, the brain and heart of Velvet Davenport, spent last winter recording to four-track his nearly here Warmy Girls, Velvet Davenport's third release on local label well-on-the-rise Moon Glyph, and their first on shellac. These sparse, sun-saturated excursions placably direct ... More >>

Big Quarters replicate Run-DMC photo

While heading home from a date in Berlin with Rhymesayers artists Freeway and Jake One, local hip-hop duo Big Quarters stopped in Paris and took a moment to recreate a classic Run-DMC photo in front of the Eiffel Tower. See below for Big Quarters' take on the photo (with special guest DJ Todda) as w ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem tickets finally on sale next week

​Exactly a month after announcing that LCD Soundsystem would play the Roy Wilkins Audiorium this fall, the venue has finally released details about the ticket price and sale date. The LCD Soundsystem show, which features openers Hot Chip, will take place on Saturday, October 23, and tickets will g ... More >>

Triumph of Love

LCD Soundsystem announce St. Paul date

​National music blog Consequence of Sound is reporting that LCD Soundsystem will hit the road this fall for tour of Australia, the US, and the UK with Sleigh Bells and Hot Chip. The dance-tastic indie band, led by James Murphy, will come through St. Paul on October 23 to play Roy Wilkins Auditoriu ... More >>

DVS1 reaching global heights with his techno production

Denis Jeong Plaster for City PagesDVS1 (right) emerging from the shadows​ You've heard that old maxim in the entertainment business that says if you don't make it before age 30, it's time to cut your hair, join some job-seeker sites, and demote your creative dream to "hobby" status. Zak Khutoret ... More >>

Bono back injury puts MPLS U2 concert date in jeopardy

David ShankboneThe professional difference-maker himself​News has come out of Berlin (via MPR) that Bono of U2 and Africa-centric charity fame has hurt himself "preparing for" the band's upcoming tour. No specifics of how the injury occurred were released, but at age 50 the number of ways you can ... More >>

Brian Jonestown Massacre

Jon Stewart fact checks Michele Bachmann

​ ... And Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity and Fox News in general, bullshitters all. The gleeful evisceration of Bachmann and Palin comes five minutes into the video clip below, as they invoke the name of Ronald Reagan during their Minneapolis love-fest to smear Obama for being a pie- ... More >>

Kenneth Bultman used homework time to tell student how to spice up his sex life, cops say

The 45-year-old teacher was charged last week, and ordered by the judge to stay steer clear of teenagers.

Birthday Suits, Honeydogs, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and more great shows this weekend

We've got a weekend full of record release shows, touring bands, and DJ nights galore for you.

Ellen Kuras

The King Khan & BBQ Show, Those Darlins

Dave Brubeck tonight at the Dakota (video of the day)

Check out a video of the jazz legend back in his heyday.

Oktoberfest

Talk of the Stacks: Alan Furst

Art Garfunkel

Sessions I

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Blue Man Group

William Yang: Shadows

Ballet of the Dolls

Out Rage Us

Stereo Total

The Perfect Place to Meat