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Top 10 must-see Minnesota music videos this week

Local Frames is a weekly column spotlighting the best new music videos featuring musicians and directors with Minnesota ties.This week we kick things off with the first installment of Wiping Out Thousands' new video blog project, Crossing Wires, which aims to intimately and awesomely capture live pe ... More >>

Basilica Block Party 2013 lineup

The Basilica Block Party returns to downtown Minneapolis in July. That seems so far away today, but it's coming. Today, Cities 97 is rolling out the lineup for the two-day fest, and it's a mix of bands you probably could've seen perform a decade ago (Matchbox Twenty) and newer fare (Father John Mist ... More >>

Local Frames: New videos from Wiping Out Thousands, Teenage Moods, Mayda, and more

As the Twin Cities music scene grows, more and more artists are creating music that demands our attention. Combine the music with talented filmmakers locally and beyond, and you have a fruitful mix of distinct skills that generates more locally connected music videos than ever before. While it's im ... More >>

Local Frames: New videos from Van Stee, Aby Wolf, Gramma's Boyfriend, and more

As the Twin Cities music scene grows, more and more artists are creating music that demands our attention. Combine the music with talented filmmakers locally and beyond, and you have a fruitful mix of distinct skills that generates more locally connected music videos than ever before. While it's im ... More >>

Carroll's Brian Hurlow: We focus on the architecture of songs

It's been a hot week for local indie-rock quartet Carroll, composed of Brian Hurlow (keys/guitar/vocals), Max Kulicke (guitar), Charlie Rudoy (drums), and Charles McClung (bass/vocals). After self-releasing their debut EP Needs on Monday, the band released their very first music video and were annou ... More >>

89.3 the Current's 8th birthday party 2013 lineup

Now that the year is new, it's time again for 89.3 the Current to herald its lengthening life with a weekend of shows at First Avenue. The tastemaking radio station has revealed the lineup for the two-day bash being held January 18-19. The wunderkind John Mark Nelson, who finished tied for third in ... More >>

Local Frames: New videos from Liars, the Japhies, Twin Cities Funk and Soul All-Stars, and more

As the Twin Cities music scene grows, more and more artists are creating music that demands our attention. Combine the music with talented filmmakers locally and beyond, and you have a fruitful mix of distinct skills that generates more locally connected music videos than ever before. While it's im ... More >>

Local Frames: Videos from the Tallest Man On Earth, Wiping Out Thousands, Toki Wright, and more

As the Twin Cities music scene grows, more and more artists are creating music that demands our attention. Combine the music with talented filmmakers locally and beyond, and you have a fruitful mix of distinct skills that generates more locally connected music videos than ever before. While it's im ... More >>

Summer Set Music & Camping Festival day two, 8/25/12

By Aaron Rupar and Anand BalasubrahmanyanSee Also:Slideshow: Summer Set 2012, The PeopleSlideshow: Summer Set, The ArtistsSummer Set Music & Camping Festival day one, 08/24/12Fans, campers, and two Gimme Noise reviewers hit the second day of Summer Set in Somerset, Wisconsin, for a day that prov ... More >>

Summer Set, Bonnie Rait, Murder by Death, and more

Summer Set Music & Camping Festival

Win Summer Set Music and Camping Festival weekend passes!

See Also:Summer Set Festival 2012 lineup There's still time for one last summer blast, and we're not talking about cleaning out the garden shed. The Summer Set Music and Camping is upon us August 24-26 in Somerset, Wisconsin -- which happens to be a mere 35 miles away from Minneapolis. Given that "C ... More >>

Gimme Noise's Erik Hess has a photo show tonight

Give us five! Our esteemed photographer Erik Hess, who recently provided a wealth of delightful GIFs and other visual stimuli from this past weekend's Rock the Garden, has made it big. Well, he has made some of his favorite photos big, and they're on display on some public walls.We'd be remiss not t ... More >>

Summer Set Festival 2012 lineup

The 2012 Summer Set Music and Camping Festival arrives in late August, and the lineup is a doozy. Combining the powers of jam bands, electronic music, hip-hop, reggae, and all of the confluences that exist between these many worlds, this year's edition should be a shock to the system. To say nothing ... More >>

Weaver at the Loom on his basement album, Before Now, Was Then

Weaver at the Loom is primarily one man, Dan Smith. It's a common name, but he creates lush new songs that are brilliant individually, and collectively tell a more incandescent story. Concocted in his basement, his new album, Before Now, Was Then, Dan blends sounds that are what being in love should ... More >>

DJ Bryan Gerrard talks 'House Proud,' the vibe, and what's missing

​Bryan Gerrard has been a fixture on the dance music scene since the '90s in Minneapolis, starting out as one fourth of the Minneapolis Soul Music collective that gave the former VIP Room its reputation for raucous dance parties. Today, Bryan is best known for his Celebrity Records imprint and, mo ... More >>

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

Minnesota Beatle Project, Vol. 3 track listing revealed

​The first installment was named the Best Local Music Compilation of the year, and the second was listed among our top Twin Cities albums released in 2010. So it's not too shocking that the third volume of the wildly successful Minnesota Beatle Project series is packed with big names from our loca ... 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 >>

The Hideaway Studio profiled in Downtown Journal

Photo via thehideawaympls.com​In an article titled "Local music's best-kept secret," producer Joe Mabbott and his Northeast habitat Hidaway Studios get a well-deserved look in this week's Downtown Journal, which gives an overview of some of the more notable artists to set foot inside the cozy spac ... More >>

Lovecat, Marvelle playing Music & Movies afterparty at Nick and Eddie warehouse tonight

Lovecat photo by Ashley Gold​About a month back we wrote about a new series called GenreBeast that's been taking over the warehouse behind Nick and Eddie every Monday night this summer. Over the past few weeks the event has grown into a cool culture-clash that intentionally tosses together bands f ... More >>

Spring Jam 2011: U of M calls in reinforcements

Screenshot of riot footage.The U is hoping for a zero-riot event this year.​Has it really been two years already? It seems like just yesterday that a mob of like-minded students, filled with liquid courage and the spirit of Asher Roth, started a bonfire in the middle of Dinkytown and took tur ... More >>

Teenage Moods, Portland Cello Project, and more

Portland Cello Project

Kyle Matteson: From More Cowbell to Ten Atoms

Photo by Margaret Andrews​If you've been following Twin Cities music over the past several years, the phrase "more cowbell" means more than Christopher Walken and Will Ferrell acting ridiculous. Blogger Kyle Matteson started More Cowbell with humble intentions: sharing the music he loved with his ... More >>

The Current's 6th Birthday Party at First Avenue, 01/21/11

Photos by Stacy SchwartzThe Current's Jim McGuinn with Mayor RT Rybak​The Current's 6th Birthday Party (Featuring Free Energy, Brother Ali, Jeremy Messersmith, Roma di Luna, and Trampled By Turtles)January 21, 2011First AvenueThe Current has had such an impact on the local music scene in its six s ... More >>

Roma di Luna highlighted in this month's Rolling Stone

Photo by Ben Stannard​A new issue of Rolling Stone magazine is out this week, and it shines a spotlight on local record store the Electric Fetus and their top-selling record, Roma di Luna's latest self-released effort Then the Morning Came. Channy and Alexei Moon Casselle's expansive folk project ... More >>

Warren G, Warped Tour, and more photos from the weekend

​We had our photographers out in full force this weekend to catch everything from Warren G at Epic to Saturday's popular Lowertown Music Fest to the Menergy DJ night at the Kitty Cat Klub. Here's a sampling of some of the new music photography we have up on our site.

Robert Skoro reunites with Mason Jennings this weekend

​Believe it or not, there was a time when "Mason Jennings" wasn't a household name in these parts. Somewhat fresh to the Twin Cities in the late '90s, Mason and his band, which at the time included Minneapolis fixture Robert Skoro (then still a teenager) on bass, began the trek and career that has ... More >>

Peter Wolf Crier to tour with Rogue Wave and Midlake

Photo by Stacy Schwartz​Though the pair hasn't even wrapped up their current stint with Heartless Bastards, Peter Wolf Crier will hit the road in September for another high-profile tour, this time with Rogue Wave and Midlake. The duo will stop in St. Paul to play the Lowertown Music Festival on Ju ... More >>

Cloud Cult's Earth Day show at the U of M: Photos

Photos by Stacy Schwartz​Cloud Cult played a noontime show outside of Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota yesterday, in celebration of Earth Day and their new EP, Running With the Wolves. Photographer Stacy Schwartz was on the scene to capture these great shots of yesterday's per ... More >>

Twitter Poll: Best Local Concert of the Past 12 Months

​In anticipation of today's Best Of the Twin Cities issue, we asked our @gimme_noise Twitter followers to sound off on their picks for a few of our music-related Best Of categories. See below for our tweeps' picks for the "Best Local Concert of the Past 12 Months" category, and click here to read ... More >>

SXSW 2010: Twin Cities bands head to Austin for a week of music and mayhem

Lookbook, Grant Hart, Gay Witch Abortion, Off With Their Heads, and many more blaze their own trails at the festival

The Clientele, Owen, the Wapsipinicon featured in this week's City Pages

Music articles from this week's print edition.

The Wapsipinicon: San Geronimo

Electric Fetus Reborn, Song of Zarathustra, and more

Electric Fetus benefit lineup announced

An eclectic lineup of local talent will play First Ave on February 26.

Gimme News Weekly Wrap-Up: Nov. 9-13

Lifter Puller & Cloud Cult announce reissues, Mayda to release new EP & Felt drop first track from "Felt 3."

Gimme News Weekly Wrap-Up: August 21-27

The Uptown Bar and Myth begin to crumble, Bob Dylan's Christmas record, Dirty Projectors to play the Cedar & next week's best new releases.

August 27, 2009: Aby Wolf & Rock the Bells

New Banner Pilot, Marduk schedule TC date, & Owl City, Aby Wolf & Black Blondie coverage.

August 25, 2009: Desdamona & Cloud Cult

More on the Uptown's possible closing, new Desdamona video & Kiss announces Target Center date.

Twin Cities' busiest and most talented drummers share life lessons

JT Bates, Jeremy Hanson, Arlen Peiffer, and Anthony Poretti tell it like it is

Twin Cities songbird Caroline Smith finds the sweet spot

Singer-songwriter fulfills dream of playing at First Avenue

June 30, 2009: Cloud Cult & the Hootenanny

Solid Gold interviewed, the Current hosts the Hoot & local show recaps.

Tweecap: Grizzly Bear was hot, sweaty, and encore-free

Living vicariously through Twitter, we recap last night's Grizzly Bear show.

May 22, 2009: Animal Collective & Solid Gold

Recaps of Animal Collective's First Ave. show, P.O.S. DJs on the Current & new Soundset mixtape released.

May 21, 2009: Rockford Mules & Bob Dylan

Prince writes for the ladies & Bob Dylan's childhood lyrics found?

A Benefit for Chad Weis

Jenny Dalton's 2nd Annual Multimedia Show

St. John's Block Party