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The best Twin Cities concerts: 5/15-5/21

Finally! The weather is starting to catch up with the time of year. Just in time for Northeast's annual celebration, Art-A-Whirl. Featuring creative works from all over Minneapolis, the 331 club will be hosting local favorites such as Gospel Gossip, Carroll, Prissy Clerks, Crimes and more. Minneapol ... More >>

The Music Tapes' Julian Koster on the circus tent he's bringing to the Cedar tonight

Julian Koster is the type of creative artist that doesn't really exist in the trepid trapping of reality. For over a decade, Koster has been experimenting with sound to create musical "tape collages." As part of Music Tapes, Koster's live performance pop project, Koster has spent the last four years ... More >>

The best Twin Cities concerts: 4/24-4/30

It's the last week of April, and the snow is finally melting away. Wednesday, local favorites Poliça play a show in the First Avenue Mainroom, while songwriter Josh Ritter plays a set the next night. Mill City Nights also welcomes Mindless Self Indulgence as new local band Ginkgo plays a set at the ... More >>

Fatoumata Diawara: I'm working on a voice for women that didn't exist before

Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara may be a newer name to music fans in the States but she has had a long career in her native country and her homebase, France, since the mid-'90s as a stage and film actress. She blends the background of southwestern Mali's Wassoulou traditions with her life experience ... More >>

Efterklang: We couldn't forget about the polar bears

Efterklang's Piramida might be the bravest record of the year. The Danish trio -- Casper Clausen, Rasmus Stolberg and Mads Brauer -- has always been dedicated to pushing the limitations of conventional sound. For them, that meant venturing to the remote Norwegian island of Spitsbergen -- today, it's ... More >>

The best Twin Cities concerts this week : 3/13-3/19

A good chunk of the Minneapolis music scene has gallivanted away to South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, but that doesn't stop the music! Total Trash release their latest cassette tape in the 7th Street Entry Thursday. Friday, Davina & the Vagabonds swank up Patrick's Cabaret while Chanhassen Di ... 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 >>

Ted Moore kicks off 416 Club Commissions Sunday at the Cedar

For the third year running, the Cedar Cultural Center is providing local artists the opportunity to collaborate and experiment with new sounds and processes outside of their norm. This happens in the form of the Cedar's 416 Club Commissions--a weekly series funded by the Jerome Foundation and runnin ... More >>

Twin Cities Year in Music 2012

From P.O.S. to Prince to Polica, 2012 was a golden year in Minnesota music

Dan Deacon at the Cedar, 11/3/12

Dan Deacon With Height With Friends, Chester Endersby Gwazda, and Alan Resnick The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis November 3, 2012 The typically sedate Cedar Cultural Center played host to an untamed dance party on Saturday night, as Dan Deacon brought his unorthodox electronic sounds and bound ... More >>

Antibalas at First Avenue, 9/11/12

See Also: Antibalas: Who Is This America? Amadou & Mariam at the Cedar Cultural Center, 8/7/12 Antibalas with Malamanya First Avenue, Minneapolis September 11, 2012 With the dark anniversary of 9/11 hanging over everyone's head, Antibalas proved to be the perfect remedy for any sad memories, a ... More >>

Amadou & Mariam at the Cedar Cultural Center, 8/7/12

See Also:Slideshow: Amadou & Mariam at the Cedar Cultural CenterCedar Cultural Center named best World Music venueThe Cedar's African Summer Music Series begins tonightTwo musicians from Mali and a footloose cosmopolitan chart the peaks and valleys of globalism Amadou & MariamCedar Cult ... More >>

Spoek Mathambo, Global Dance Festival, Beirut, and more

Van Stee on Krautrock, origins, and tonight's Local Current Live

See Also:Claire de Lune's New Lion establishes her as more than just a "hook girl"Chastity Brown releases Back-Road HighwaysThe Current's Local Show hosts a free show tonight at the Cedar Cultural Center, and they've hand-picked some emerging local music gems to perform. Along with folk artist Chast ... More >>

Destroyer at Cedar Cultural Center, 6/25/12

Destroyer with Sandro Perri  Cedar Cultural Center  Monday, June 25, 2012     View a slideshow here.The multifaceted Dan Bejar, who performs as Destroyer, debuted the jazzy, chamber pop tracks from one of last year's best releases, Kaputt, at the Cedar Cultural Center l ... More >>

Mark Lanegan Band at the Cedar, 5/18/12

Mark Lanegan Band The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis May 18, 2012 Related:Top 10 best grunge songsMark Lanegan is no less menacing on stage, even after all these years. The grunge stalwart and survivor returned to the Cedar Cultural Center a year and a half after gracing that same stage with Is ... More >>

GrandMothers of Invention carry Frank Zappa's legacy to the Cedar tonight

Mother's Day comes a couple days early this year for freaks and fans of Frank Zappa. The Cedar Cultural Center hosts the Grandmothers of Invention making a stop on their current tour. The show will include the group performing the 1974 landmark recording Roxy & Elsewhere in it's entirety and ver ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Saul Williams, the Joy Formidable, and more

Sharon Van Etten & Shearwater at Cedar Cultural Center, 2/18/12

​Sharon Van Etten and ShearwaterThe Cedar Cultural Center, MinneapolisSaturday, February 18, 2012View a slideshow from the concert here.It's a rare and wonderful thing to have a double-bill featuring artists who have both recently released superlative new albums. And that is just what the sold-o ... More >>

Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg: I came back before I got frostbite

​Jonathan Meiburg started Shearwater as a side project with his then-bandmate in Okkervil River,  Will Sheff, as an outlet for material that wouldn't quite fit the sound of their primary band. After 12 years, while Sheff is now solely focused on Okkervil, Meiburg is still dedicated full-ti ... More >>

Chastity Brown's Back-Road Highways Minnesota tour announced

​The last time Chastity Brown released an album, it was summertime, two years ago, with High Noon Teeth -- a soulful piece, as bathed in vivid storytelling as Chastity's Tennessee background would have you believe. Since then, Chastity has been building her reputation further as Minneapolis' star ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Charlie Parr, Friends Like These, Dom, and more

Weekend Checklist: Dark Pony, Animal Lover, Joey Ryan & the Inks, Dream Crusher

​A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. - Garrison Keillor

Martin Dosh talks about reuniting Lateduster and touring Europe

​As the holidays bring about good times between families and long lost friends, drummer and electronic musician Martin Dosh is busier than ever preparing for his annual year-end show to the Cedar Cultural Center.

Critics' Picks: Solid Gold, John Lennon tribute, Ryan Adams, and more

Picked to Click 2011: The ballots

​​As is the yearly tradition, we're publishing the ballots of all 115 of our Picked to Click voters for your perusal. Check out all of this year's contributors below, and thanks to all the writers, photographers, label owners, club bookers, DJs, and local music experts for weighing in on th ... More >>

Megafaun's evolution

Wisconsin expats release excellent self-titled album

Guitar Party's 7-year-old lead singer Mijah Ylvisaker talks about fronting a noise rock band

​The band Guitar Party is a supergroup of sorts that includes some longtime local music veterans: Jeremy Ylvisaker, Haley Bonar, Jake Hansen, Andrew Broder, J.T. Bates, and Michael Lewis. Even the late Micheal "Eyedea" Larsen was a member before he passed away last October. But new to the fold ... More >>

Tony Allen talks Afrobeat and Fela Kuti

In front of a full house of middle and high school students as part of the Project Success organization to inspire kids, the Walker Art Center and the Cedar Cultural Center set the stage for a unique afternoon concert featuring spellbinding legend, drummer Tony Allen. As a fellow drummer and Afrobea ... More >>

Volcano Choir at the Cedar Cultural Center, 3/25/11

Photos by Stacy Schwartz​Volcano ChoirMarch 25, 2011Cedar Cultural CenterIn the occasionally hyper-competitive climate of the indie rock world, claiming that you were the first of your friends to discover a band, or that you saw them way back when at some small, impossibly intimate venue, has beco ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Zoo Animal, Dillinger Four, and Lyle Lovett

Roma di Luna, Heart, Dosh, and more

Red Pens, Danzig and more

Spider John Koerner gives us a reason to whiskey tonight and tomorrow

photo via Red House Records​Seeing Spider John Koerner live is a lucky thing, something we get treated to more often than, say, we deserve. Memories or wishes of north woods hootenannies and smoke-filled parlors in the sixties as all those jubilantly drunk revelers stomp and squall towards sunrise ... More >>

Ramblin' Jack Elliott at the Cedar (PHOTOS)

Photo by Tony Nelson​Iconic folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott stopped at the Cedar Cultural Center on Saturday night for a show, where he was joined by locals Patches and Gretchen and an all-star local tribute act called the Rolling Patches Review, who warmed up the crowd with their own renditio ... More >>

Colin Hay brings inspired performance to the Cedar

​I used to work with a girl who was a mega fan of Colin Hay, former lead singer of the Australian band Men at Work. We thought this was a bit out there. I mean, who has even heard Colin Hay's solo material, let alone enough of it to claim that it was better than the stuff he did with his famous on ... More >>

Julia Nunes brings her YouTube hits to the Cedar

20-year-old Julia Nunes is translating musical success on YouTube into a tour to sell her new CD

Cedar announces Haiti benefit show

An eclectic bill will rally to raise money for Doctors Without Borders.

Beach Boys, the Kills, Mogwai, and more

Katy Perry, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and more!

Beer and culture collide tonight on the West Bank

Fleet Foxes at the Cedar: The anti-rock stars

GZA and more

Over the Weekend: May 30-June 1

Haale: Fields of clover and tantric sex

Goodbye Blue Monday: Dean & Britta at the Cedar

Breakfast of Champions: 2/12

Spaghetti Junction

Folk strings and cinematic swing intertwine on 'Lull and Clatter'

The Owls (Expanded Web Content)

A calm and bashful Ryan Adams keeps it mellow at the Cedar