Frank Zappa

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 >>

Top 10 worst Minnesota songs

Related:Top 20 best Minnesota songsTop 20 best Minnesota musiciansFirst Avenue's 20 best concertsFirst Avenue's 20 best concerts: Readers' picksFor all of the impressive songsmiths penning grand lyrics and melodies inspired by our fair Minnesota, there are nearly as many embarrassing clunkers doing ... More >>

Circle of Heat setting fire to Bunker's with CD Release tonight

​Circle of Heat provide an intelligent alternative to mindless jamming. These four University of Minnesota music department products are celebrating the release of a self-titled album tonight at Bunker's, and the results should be filled with interstellar keyboard and guitar duels. Drawing as much ... More >>

Art Sled Rally 2012: Weird sleds take to the hills of Powderhorn Park

​What's the kookiest thing that could serve as a sled? Chances are, whatever it is, it'll be at the 5th Annual Art Sled Rally at Powderhorn Park this Saturday. The event is as theatrical as the ArtCar Parade (one of last year's goofier entrees was a mitten designed by five teenagers). The winter f ... More >>

Six Months to Live: Season 7

​What's the kookiest thing that could serve as a sled? Chances are, whatever it is, it'll be at the 5th Annual Art Sled Rally at Powderhorn Park this Saturday. The event is as theatrical as the ArtCar Parade (one of last year's goofier entrees was a mitten designed by five teenagers). The winter f ... More >>

The Bad Plus return to perform Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'

​The music of Stravinsky has been appropriated and reconfigured for ages now. From Charlie Parker to Ornette Coleman and Frank Zappa, pieces have been pulled, re-arranged and served as the catalyst for new ideas in both classical and jazz worlds.

Justin Bieber's Bronx beaver isn't alone

​Aw, just look at him. That there is Justin Beaver, so named after the Bronx Zoo held an open vote - in other words, an open door to the inevitable. He's the second beaver to take New York in 200 years, keeping Jose company whilst they free-float down the Bronx River (which if you've never smelled ... More >>

Darryl Rhoades

​Aw, just look at him. That there is Justin Beaver, so named after the Bronx Zoo held an open vote - in other words, an open door to the inevitable. He's the second beaver to take New York in 200 years, keeping Jose company whilst they free-float down the Bronx River (which if you've never smelled ... More >>

Stooges, ABBA to rock Hall of Fame

Local music blog desperately scrambles for picture of Iggy Pop, Anni-Frid Lyngstad in same shot.

Dream Theater

Local music blog desperately scrambles for picture of Iggy Pop, Anni-Frid Lyngstad in same shot.

The Pretenders, Cloud Cult, and more

Local music blog desperately scrambles for picture of Iggy Pop, Anni-Frid Lyngstad in same shot.

Gogol Bordello; Man Man

Local music blog desperately scrambles for picture of Iggy Pop, Anni-Frid Lyngstad in same shot.

Santigold, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and more

Local music blog desperately scrambles for picture of Iggy Pop, Anni-Frid Lyngstad in same shot.

Spazz Jazz Revival

Local music blog desperately scrambles for picture of Iggy Pop, Anni-Frid Lyngstad in same shot.

The Fray, George Clinton, and more

Local music blog desperately scrambles for picture of Iggy Pop, Anni-Frid Lyngstad in same shot.

Mandre, ''Third World Calling (Opus II)''

Plastic People of the Universe

Radiohead's best tops this week's pop culture picks

Javon Jackson & Les McCann

3/30 Morning Communiqué

No More Teachers' Dirty Looks

Children pressured to learn classic rock songs; writer leaves town in protest

Link Wray, R.I.P.

Children pressured to learn classic rock songs; writer leaves town in protest

STNNNG in a Stunner

Picked to Click XV

Kill Your Idols

For those about to rock: Do not watch 'Rock School'

Godfrey Daniel: Take a Sad Song...

For those about to rock: Do not watch 'Rock School'

Harmonic Convergence

Zebulon Pike and the fastidious art of kicking ass

First Love

The legendary bands. The terrifying toilets. An oral history that goes so far behind the music it will leave you at a gun range beneath the stage.

Bad Luck!

How three Midwestern boys reached jazz nirvana

Tom Scharpling and Ronald Thomas Clontle: Rock, Rot & Rule

How three Midwestern boys reached jazz nirvana

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: The Dust Blows Forward: An Anthology

How three Midwestern boys reached jazz nirvana

Power to the People

After years of government oppression, jail time, and dubious comparisons to Frank Zappa, Plastic People of the Universe are finally coming to America

Songwriters on Songwriting

After years of government oppression, jail time, and dubious comparisons to Frank Zappa, Plastic People of the Universe are finally coming to America

Tutus: Take Two

After years of government oppression, jail time, and dubious comparisons to Frank Zappa, Plastic People of the Universe are finally coming to America

I'm Your Puppet

Rug Burn: Pakistani children rejoice in cheerful sweatshop in HOBT's Web Sight.

Scoring

Sound + Vision: A new generation of DJs and musicians play cut 'n' paste with film history.

Memories

Sound + Vision: A new generation of DJs and musicians play cut 'n' paste with film history.

Over-Nite Sensation

Sound + Vision: A new generation of DJs and musicians play cut 'n' paste with film history.