Gary Louris

Caitlin Rose at Triple Rock, 4/8/13

Caitlin Rose With Andrew Combs and Martin Devaney Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis April 8, 2013 Caitlin Rose has the type of easygoing, affable Southern charm that can win over any audience. But more importantly, she's got the songs that can silence and stun any crowd as well. Both of those en ... More >>

SXSW 2013: A handy Minnesota music guide

The South By Southwest Music Conference seems perfectly timed each year with the exact moment when bands and music fans from the North have reached their collective breaking points with the interminable winter months, and communally head down to Austin, Texas in a grand, musical migration. Despite ... More >>

Best Twin Cities concerts 2012: Staff lists

Here are the raw lists from many of City Pages' contributing writers and photograghers for the finest shows they attended this year. Hint: It's all over the place!See Also:Best Twin Cities concerts 201250 Awesome Concert Photos from 2012Best Twin Cities songs 2012: Staff lists Best Twin Cities album ... More >>

Critics Picks: Summit Backyard Bash, Metric, and more

Southeast Engine on Woody Guthrie, Barack Obama, and historical songwriting

Southeast Engine is an Ohio alt-country band that charges down the open highway pinned between grit and grace. Singer Adam Remnant's voice is one-of-a-kind in that it has an everyman's quality -- even if you're hard-pressed to find anyone who sounds quite like him. For those enraptured by the vocal ... More >>

Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner on Delayed Reaction and all that jazz

Release shows at 7th St. Entry and First Avenue

Top 20 best Minnesota musicians: The complete list

​Related:Minneapolis music scene named second-best in the U.S.Minnesotans need to remember to exhale sometimes -- especially fresh on the heels of being ranked as the number two music scene in the country. Shouldn't it be enough to simply enjoy a rich history of quality musicians blossoming from f ... More >>

Top 20 best Minnesota musicians: #20-11

​Minnesotans need to remember to exhale sometimes -- especially fresh on the heels of being ranked as the number two music scene in the country. Shouldn't it be enough to simply enjoy a rich history of quality musicians blossoming from fertile local soil? For those times that worrying that people ... More >>

The Cloak Ox, Mason Jennings, more locals featured on Daytrotter

Illustration by Johnnie CluneyCreepiest rendering of Mason Jennings ever?​"We have made it people, we have finally made it." Recent Picked to Click champs the Cloak Ox were the latest in a long string of Twin Cities acts to proudly announce that they'd recorded a session with Illinois-based record ... More >>

The Jayhawks play A Prairie Home Companion, release reunion record 'Mockingbird Time'

Photos by Steve Cohen​With only a couple of weeks left until the release of their reunion record, Mockingbird Time, the Jayhawks are flying into overdrive with a series of promotional shows, downloads, and appearances, including a recent stop at Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion last wee ... More >>

Gayngs at Coachella, Nikki Sixx phones it in at the Fitz, and more notes from the weekend

Photos by Denis Jeong Plaster​April is continuing to roar by us at a steady clip, and this past weekend our local scene was so bustling that we had to export some of our musicians out to Indio, California before the whole town overflowed.

Critics' Picks: Subhumans, Jeff Beck, House of Pain, and more

Golden Smog book two nights at the Fine Line

​Longstanding Twin Cities-based supergroup Golden Smog have announced a two-night stand at the Fine Line, Friday, April 15 and Saturday, April 16. According to a press release from the Fine Line, the performance will feature all of the band's core members: Marc Perlman and Gary Louris (The Jayhawk ... More >>

Naughty By Nature collaborates with Solid Gold for Daytrotter session

​So here's a string of words I never thought would appear in the same sentence: Recording site Daytrotter recently invited Naughty By Nature to their Illinois studios for a session, with locals Solid Gold sitting in as their backing band. Wait, what?

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

Twin Cities Year in Music 2010: The highlights

Prince, Gayngs, Gigamesh, and many others dot the calendar

Dessa playing intimate New Year's Eve show at the Aster Cafe

​Hot on the heels of this weekend's wildly successful hat trick of Doomtree Blowout shows in the Mainroom, the Aster Cafe has announced a very cool New Year's Eve show in their limited-capacity space with Dessa. As we wrote about last month, the Aster has recently been revamped as an intimate "lis ... More >>

Two Door Cinema Club, the Dandy Warhols, and more

Sound Unseen announces its 11th season

​The Sound Unseen festival, which celebrates independent films about music, will celebrate its 11th season with a dozen films at three separate locations October 6-10. This season, the festival will show a selection of films at the Southern Theater on the West Bank in addition to hosting events at ... More >>

Gary Louris and friends play intimate show in Wabasha

Photos by Steve Cohen​On May 22, Gary Louris returned to home to Minnesota from a solo acoustic tour, joined by friends Marc Perlman & Tim O'Reagan (The Jayhawks), Jim Boquist (Son Volt, Paul Westerberg) and vocalist Janey Winterbauer (Astronaut Wife, Janey and Marc) at the Broadway Theater in ... More >>

Mark Olson to release solo album this summer

​Jayhawks fans have a lot to celebrate in the coming months: In addition to reissuing the out-of-print The Jayhawks album on May 18, the band will reunite with lead singers Mark Olson and Gary Louris to play three nights at First Ave June 19-21, and Olson will release a new solo album later this y ... More >>

Best Albums of '09: Pazz & Jop ballot

That's right, more lists!

April 12, 2009: The Dead Weather & P.O.S.

The Dead Weather schedule Minneapolis date, Bob Dylan retains #1 spot in the U.K. & the Boss plays the Xcel.

March 24, 2009: Man is Doomed & Solid Gold

Metallica to play Target Center in October, new Kristoff Krane announced & Man is Doomed profiled

Readers respond to "Age of Consent"

The Jayhawks, Yesterday and Today

Catching up with some of the 'Hawks' most prominent members

Feb. 10, 2009: Lykke Li & Artist Meets Artist

Lykke Li plays the Varsity, Artist Meets Artist announced and new music from Mouthful of Bees

Feb. 6, 2009: Story of the Sea and new Muja Messiah & Slug

New Muja Messiah & Slug, TC Hip Hop Award winners & Story of the Sea reviewed

More Minnesota musicians on Letterman

Ouija Radio's Christy Hunt will play Letterman next week with her more prominent national band, the Von Bondies.

Gimme News Weekly Wrap-Up: January 16-22, 2009

Dec. 11, 2008: new Brother Ali & praise for Dylan and Cloud Cult

Picked to Click 2008: The Complete Ballots

Flat Pipes and Firecrackers

Stook and the Jukes make music for the corner bar and, um, Amsterdam?

Seen Your Video

Rick Fuller turns his back on MTV to preserve the history of the local music scene.

Singing the Salvation Blues

Mark Olson lost his house and his wife, but hey—he's got a great new album

Bigger Than Badnarik

The Dixie Chicks ask for a cease-fire and sympathy

In Da Club: First Avenue's 35th Anniversary Party

A birthday bash exposes our highly incestuous scene

Minnesota's Fifty Greatest Hits

The greatest Minnesota-made records of all time

Ooh La La

Local rocker starts the fight of his life--with a party

Picked to Click

The 11th Annual City Pages New Music Poll

Bellwether: Bellwether

A Power of Ten

Slug's love bug, Kat Bjelland's exorcism, Dave Pirner's throbbing shins: Ten years of local music served on ten great platters.

Escape from Nashville

After languishing on Music Row, Kelly Willis pulls up roots and moves to alt-country

The Honeydogs

RADIO A-OK, ETC.

Uptown Blues