Cecile Cloutier

Critics' Picks: Arctic Monkeys, Janelle Monae & Bruno Mars, and more

Ratatat at First Avenue, 9/11/10

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Kele, Aimee Mann, Muja Messiah, and more

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Chromeo, Glamorama, Psalm One, and more: Critics' Picks

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Psychedelic Furs, Kaskade, and more

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Art-A-Whirl, Henry Rollins, and more: Critics' Picks

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Kevin Costner (yep, that one), Private Dancer, and more

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Sigur Rós and more

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Ice Cube and more

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Kanye West and more

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Earl Root lives on

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Over the Weekend: May 23-26

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Critics Picks: Morcheeba and more

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Critic's Picks: British Sea Power and more

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Critics Picks: St. Vincent and More

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Mika and more

Photos by Steve Cohen​RatatatSeptember 11, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisREVIEW BY CECILE CLOUTIERThe Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat mix up rock, hip-hop, dub and electronica with cool abandon, and in retrospect it shouldn't have been a huge surprise that their live show was somewhere between a ... More >>

On Dethklok: A Conversation

Adult Swim's Resident Death Metal Band Release an Album—We Put on Our Corpse Paint and Take a Listen

Concert Highlights for the Week of July 11 - July 17

Adult Swim's Resident Death Metal Band Release an Album—We Put on Our Corpse Paint and Take a Listen

Concert Highlights for the Week of May 16 - May 22

Adult Swim's Resident Death Metal Band Release an Album—We Put on Our Corpse Paint and Take a Listen

Artists of the Year

Adult Swim's Resident Death Metal Band Release an Album—We Put on Our Corpse Paint and Take a Listen

Minnesota's Fifty Greatest Hits

The greatest Minnesota-made records of all time

How Could You Idiots Forget...?

Ten (or eleven) more Funkytown favorites

Working for the man (in the red suit)

...and other jobs of Christmas Past

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.

Tell Us What You Really Think...

Picked to Click Voters spew forth their most vehement opinions about the local music scene

Picked to Click

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

Let It Blurb

Ouija Radio: Last Night on Earth, Terry Eason: Bees Will Bumble

Bring Back the Buses

For Chrissakes... Milwaukee's got public transit. (Omaha, too.)

Get on the Bus

One transit worker buckles up for a long, bumpy ride in her daily strike journal

Top-Ten-o-Matic

City Pages scribes chime in with their top tens

The Soundtrack of Our Lives

The Best Albums in the World Ever!! Okay, Maybe Just in This Town, Circa 2003

Local Music Yearbook '03

We Sang. We Danced. We Set things on Fire. And Sometime after the Bar Closed, We Wrote It All Down for You.

Everybody Wins

Polls and punditry for the best new bands in town

Personal Bests

The Year's Local Favorites

A Local Music Yearbook

Two cities, twelve months, a million reasons to rock!

Picked to Click XII

Hail the Conquering Heroes: Polls and Praise for This Year's Best New Artists

The .14 Cent Solution

New royalties proposed by the music industry threaten to kill independent Internet radio

The Year in Music

The Sound of Music, 2001: Our Favorite Things

Picked to Click

The 11th Annual City Pages New Music Poll

Indie 500

With roughly 100 productions and 500 performances, the Minnesota Fringe Festival turns low-budget theater into a two-week marathon

Picked to Click X

Astronaut Wife, decembers architects, and the Foxfire factor: The 2000 City Pages New Music Poll

Sound Check

Astronaut Wife, decembers architects, and the Foxfire factor: The 2000 City Pages New Music Poll