Jake Mandell

Picked to Click winners so far: 1991-2008

Picked to Click winners so far: 1991-2007

Best New Bands Poll

Electric Company

Two local jazz luminaries become laptop converts

The Year in Music

The Sound of Music, 2001: Our Favorite Things

Zen Arcade

A new-wave rocker turns into a medical-software developer. A Web site turns into a nightclub. Adventures in branding and reinvention at downtown's Sursumcorda.

Square Roots

Multiplying geeky pop by brainy drum 'n' bass, Triangle's new math adds up

God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You

Multiplying geeky pop by brainy drum 'n' bass, Triangle's new math adds up

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.

Sound Check

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

Scene Not Heard

Computer wizards leave their bedrooms, rappers reach the stage, and the Mason Jennings Band creates the bar buzz of the decade. In the ninth annual City Pages New Music Poll, 60 local music fans pick the bands that made the biggest noise.

The Machine Makes the Man

Under the name Radar Threat, Benji Gross visits a retrograde world of analog instruments and the Atari 2600

Rage for the Machine

Under the name Radar Threat, Benji Gross visits a retrograde world of analog instruments and the Atari 2600

OK Computer

A musical boy and his laptop give new meaning to the term Mac Daddy