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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 lead off with an Alice In Wonderland nightmare clip from the atmospheric Minneapolis garage rock quartet, Crimes, taken from their new record, Thin Sunlight, whic ... 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 >>

Alison Scott set to tour Minnesota on state's arts funding

A tremendous amount of creativity and talent has been fostered by the funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board's arts and cultural heritage fund since it was passed by the state's voters in 2008. Countless musicians and artists from all over Minnesota have received much needed support from the fu ... More >>

The Baseball Project's Steve Wynn on the Twins, Dream Syndicate, and origins

The Baseball Project is a supergroup of four veterans of American underground rock and punk. Combining talents from R.E.M., the Dream Syndicate and Minneapolis's Zuzu's Petals, each member contributes 30 or more years of experience, and they are also huge baseball fans. The band features Steve ... More >>

Kevin Bowe on writing with Paul Westerberg, the current "scene," and his record release at Varsity tonight

Kevin Bowe has seen it all in the Twin Cities. After cutting his musical teeth opening for the Replacements and Hüsker Dü in the '80s, Bowe later directed his talents towards songwriting for artists as diverse as Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Etta James, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and 3 Dog Night. He ... More >>

Weekend Checklist: Freedy Johnston, Social Distortion, Florence and the Machine, Haley Bonar

This weekend in music is a throwback with Freedy Johnston in St. Paul and Social Distortion across town with a sold-out show. The rest of the heavy-hitters are also performing on Friday with Haley Bonar co-headlining with Peter Wolf Crier, while Rogue Valley performs a free show at the U of M, and r ... More >>

Paul Westerberg collaboration appears on Kevin Bowe's new record

As Twin Cities music fans wait patiently for any sign of stirring from Paul Westerberg, there is a small bit of creative activity from the former 'Mats frontman on the forthcoming new record from renowned Minneapolis songwriter/producer/guitarist Kevin Bowe and his band the Okemah Prophets. Bowe ... More >>

Concrete and Grass Lowertown Music Festival

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

Freedy Johnston, Darden Smith

Stream Dessa's a capella encore of "Hallelujah"

Photo by Stacy Schwartz​We're still buzzing from Dessa's magnetic and stirring performance at the Best of the Twin Cities Bash at the Varsity Theater, and are excited to show you the footage that MPLS.TV shot of Saturday night's performances by Dessa and openers No Bird Sing. But before we release ... More >>

Freedy Johnston

Motion City Soundtrack, TC Hip-Hop Awards, and more

Jonathan Rundman: Public Library

And It Isn't Just Talk

An incident at Taste of Minnesota gives new resonance to Freedy Johnston's "Bad Reputation"

Every Chord Tells a Story

With some of the keenest eyes in pop, Freedy Johnston trails male loneliness into its blackest nights

various artists: Real: The Tom T. Hall Project

Southern Discomfort

Hello Rock Star and other salutations that may never reach the ears of the seriously talented but lamentably underappreciated singer-songwriter Marlee MacLeod

Marc Ribot, Mongo Santamaria and Israel Cachao Lopez

QUICK SPINS

Evolution Radio

Zoning Out: New Zone 105 recruit Brian Oake.

Arto Lindsay, Mundo Civilizado / Hyper Civilizado

MILL CITY PLANNER

C'est la Vie