Bo Diddley

The Real Numbers' Eli Hansen: We didn't get any forms to play at SXSW

Shortly before the Real Numbers were heading in to record Only Two Can Play, original drummer Matt Allen moved to Memphis. Lesser acts would have called it a day or rescheduled, but the Real Numbers were ready to put their new songs down on wax anyway. They recruited Tony Milek to the band, but he w ... More >>

The best concerts in the Twin Cities this week: 1/30-2/5

The Twin Cities is starting to thaw out as January comes to an end. Friday night is especially busy. Retribution Gospel Choir plays the Turf Club while Minneapolis pays tribute to Joe Strummer in the First Avenue Mainroom. Semisonic songwriter Dan Wilson and brother Matt Wilson play a set at Pantage ... More >>

Eric Burdon / Lamont Cranston Band

Critic's Picks: Wiz Khalifa, the Suburbs, Teengirl Fantasy, and more

Albert Lee

Prince's Purple Rain preserved by National Recording Registry

No matter how well (or poorly) you think Prince and the Revolution's Purple Rain has aged over the years, the Library Of Congress has just seen to it that the Purple One's seminal 1984 album will live on forever. Purple Rain, along with 24 other recordings, has just been selected for induction i ... More >>

The Parlour Suite expand surf-pop genre on new album

On their new album, Everyone's Looking, Minneapolis duo the Parlour Suite cut a deep path of their very own right from the start; high and steady, bright and scintillating. Some bands lose their songs through over-complication; but this husband and wife team of Joel and Inga Roberts know that car ... More >>

Ted Nugent at Medina Entertainment Center, 8/7/11

Photos by Nikki Miller​Ted Nugent August 7, 2011 Medina Entertainment Center Ted Nugent's incantations are amusing, even charming, the first, second, third, even fourth go-round. But by the end, for fuck's sake. It's like listening to your drunk uncle complain about your aunt's bad cooking fo ... More >>

Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears at the Cedar, 4/3/11

Photos by Steve Cohen​Black Joe Lewis and the HoneybearsApril 3, 2011Cedar Cultural CenterIf I could only say one word about the Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears show, it would be "AWESOME." My faith in funk was restored; my passion for garage punk was reignited. Black Joe Lewis and his tight ba ... More >>

Steve Miller Band "took the money and run" at Mystic

Bobbie Sue took the money and run? Uhh, not to be a nerd but... shouldn't it be ran, Steve?

King Khan & the Shrines

Fall Out Boy, Lady Sovereign, King Khan & the Shrines, and more

Todd Snider

N.A.S.A., And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, and more

Hamilton Loomis

Dirtbombs: We Have You Surrounded

Reggaetón Animal

Immigrant dreams, dirty dancing, and the revolution: Meet the new Latin hip hop of Maria Isa and Danny y Elliot

Gimme That Old Time Androgyny

The New York Dolls and Scissor Sisters still find veins of rich material in the old velvet goldmine

Jersey boy by Sean Howe

The Autograph Man

What ever happened to Buddy Holly's fishing license?

The original Johnny B., gone for Goode

Various Artists: World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's a Real Thing: The Funky, Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa

Cheese It--it's the Fuzz

It's just the beat of time, the beat that must go on

VA: Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label

Real Life Rock Top 10

David Thomas channels the ghosts of Edward Hopper, Orson Welles, and his own past

Rock around the doc

U Film's "Sound Unseen" festival projects our mythologies of music onto the screen

Year of the Vulture

A Record Year: Our 13 favorite albums for 1997.

Power of Repetition