Cyn Collins

Critics' Picks: Three 6 Mafia, Grimes, Balkan Beat Box, and more

Best nationally released albums of 2011

​It's a good thing we waited until the last week of 2011 to publish our final best-album lists, since a few bands managed to eke out stellar releases just this December (the Roots' undun and the Black Keys' El Camino in particular made their way onto a few staffers' lists). With only a few da ... More >>

Minnesota's Best Albums of 2011

Low, Doomtree, Brute Heart top best local releases

Valet talk about this weekend's reunion show

Photo by Cyn Collins​Local indie-rock band Valet were a venerable Twin Cities music scene fixture right from their start in 1998, and for nearly a decade after. Like so many bands that stand the test of time, they formed via friendships. Robin Kyle, who moved to the U.S. in 1994, was performing so ... More >>

Picked to Click 2011

The Cloak Ox, Night Moves, and more

Wize Guyz, Sound Unseen featured in this week's City Pages

Photo by Chris McDuffie​It's Hump Day, which can only mean one thing here at Gimme Noise headquarters: It's time for the print edition of our blog to hit newsstands. Here's a sneak peek of what we have in store for you:

Critics' Picks: Electric Six, the Horrors, Communist Daughter, and more

Photo by Chris McDuffie​It's Hump Day, which can only mean one thing here at Gimme Noise headquarters: It's time for the print edition of our blog to hit newsstands. Here's a sneak peek of what we have in store for you:

24 Hour Film Race Screening

Photo by Chris McDuffie​It's Hump Day, which can only mean one thing here at Gimme Noise headquarters: It's time for the print edition of our blog to hit newsstands. Here's a sneak peek of what we have in store for you:

SXSW 2011: Five nights in Austin

Highlights from Gimme Noise's recent trek to the festival

Minnesota SXSW 2011 invasion: Complete

Photo by Ben ClarkPhantom Tails at SXSW​It's a strange thing, going from the constant cacophony of thousands of bands playing at once down to nothing at all. But it's a process that is as much a part of attending SXSW as all of the incidentals of the festival: BBQ, suntan lotion, beer, beer, beer. ... More >>

Foo Fighters, Michael Cera help ring in SXSW Music 2011

Photos by Stacy SchwartzNick Diamonds and Michael Cera of Mister Heavenly​The exponential growth of South by Southwest over the past 25 years has been simply stunning. In honor of this, and just in time for SXSW's silver anniversary, the festival's organizers opted to extend the music portion of t ... More >>

Flyer of the Week: Humanda, Epic Snake, Pogmatone

Thanks to Jay Gabler for directing us to Nick and Eddie's relatively new Tumblr account, where they posted this amazing flyer for a two-part show featuring Humanda, Epic Snake (love that name), and Pogmatone.

The Jayhawks, Best New Bands, Lyrics Born, and more

Thanks to Jay Gabler for directing us to Nick and Eddie's relatively new Tumblr account, where they posted this amazing flyer for a two-part show featuring Humanda, Epic Snake (love that name), and Pogmatone.

Ghostband cassette-release tonight with Fat Kid Wednesdays

Photo by Tony NelsonGhostband's Jon Davis​While the Best New Bands showcase rages on in the Mainroom tonight, another all-local bill will be celebrating next door in the 7th St. Entry. Not only will the show mark the cassette tape release of Ghostband's album, Verdical, but it will also be the fir ... More >>

Savage Aural Hotbed invite us into their garage for a demonstration

Photos by Cyn Collins​In advance of their CD-release show tomorrow night in the First Ave Mainroom, Mark Black, Bill Melton, Stuart Devaan, and Dean Hawthorne of Savage Aural Hotbed met up with Gimme Noise in their cool large studio space filled with auto parts, power tools, plastic barrels, and s ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Snoop, the Current's birthday party, and more

Photos by Cyn Collins​In advance of their CD-release show tomorrow night in the First Ave Mainroom, Mark Black, Bill Melton, Stuart Devaan, and Dean Hawthorne of Savage Aural Hotbed met up with Gimme Noise in their cool large studio space filled with auto parts, power tools, plastic barrels, and s ... More >>

Mark Mallman Marathon 3 live blog, day 4

​This is it, people. We're in the home stretch of Mark Mallman's 78-hour song, which he started performing on Thursday afternoon at the Turf and will wrap up tonight at 10 p.m.For reasons not even we can explain, we've been live-blogging the majority of Marathon 3 here on Gimme Noise, and will con ... More >>

Mark Mallman Marathon 3 live blog, day 2

Photo by Erik Hess​While the rest of us slept last night, tucked away warm in our beds, Mark Mallman continued laboring away during the first overnight lap of his Marathon 3, which continues through Sunday.We're picking up where we left off last night to find out how the Marathon is going so far - ... More >>

The Sex Rays debut at Palmer's this Thursday

​Local music writer and lover, KFAI DJ, and show booker extraordinaire Cyn Collins has an intriguing bill lined up at Palmer's this Thursday night featuring brand new local garage rockers the Sex Rays. The band has posted a few tracks on their MySpace page, and Cyn gives the group a ringing endors ... More >>

Picked to Click XVII: complete ballots

​Local music writer and lover, KFAI DJ, and show booker extraordinaire Cyn Collins has an intriguing bill lined up at Palmer's this Thursday night featuring brand new local garage rockers the Sex Rays. The band has posted a few tracks on their MySpace page, and Cyn gives the group a ringing endors ... More >>

Minnesota Jukebox

Sweatin' to the local oldies—plus a newie from the Flamin' Oh's

God Damn Skunk Bud!

...and other true tales from local musicians

Local Music Yearbook '06

Prince went to Vegas. Smokers went to Maplewood. Tapes 'N Tapes went to the moon. And sometime after the last zombie dance party got busted, we wrote it all down for you.

Oak Street Cinema seeks volunteers

Prince went to Vegas. Smokers went to Maplewood. Tapes 'N Tapes went to the moon. And sometime after the last zombie dance party got busted, we wrote it all down for you.