Jeremy Ylvisaker

Gramma's Boyfriend: We just show up and barf all over

It's almost closing time at the Roller Garden in St. Louis Park. A disco ball overhead spins, flashing colors around the room, where banners with snowflakes and valentines on them hang from the high, arched ceiling. There's a big, green dinosaur standing in the far corner, and as the DJ switches thr ... More >>

Greycoats: If our last album was molasses, this one's San Pellegrino

In early summer of 2012, Minneapolis band Greycoats released a five song EP Helicline that was a teaser to their full-length album, World of Tomorrow. The new album is four years in the making, four years when the band took to grow into a new, more-complete sound. What grew was a heart-stoppingly ca ... More >>

Greycoats CD-release show

Sufjan Stevens, Andrew Bird, Punch Brothers, and more

Andrew Bird: Fever Year

Andrew Bird

Mark Mallman's Marathon 4 is in progress! Minneapolis stop details

Dear internet, Mark Mallman is on his way to making some sort of musical history this week. Known for his feats of technological and musical mayhem, Mallman and his team are heading cross-country to create a seven-day documentary song in a pimped-out 1992 Vandura conversion van. The project began in ... More >>

Dosh on Andrew Bird, stories from the road, and grilling in his backyard

See Also:Martin Dosh talks about reuniting Lateduster and touring EuropeAndrew Bird at First AvenueMartin Dosh has been a regular in the music community for many years. He weaves his way in and out of various projects, balancing all of that while being on the road with Andrew Bird pretty consistentl ... More >>

Is/Is light "Fire" from debut III, out in April

​Is/Is represents the sludgy savior to raise you from the typical local rock doldrums. The all-female Minneapolis trio just dropped a new single from their forthcoming debut album, III. It's called "Fire," and the slow-burning smolder provides the ideal entry into their world -- if, ahem, you didn ... More >>

Luke Redfield spills Willie Nelson and Ke$ha run-ins, explains Tusen Takk

​There is an element of exaggeration in all good storytelling -- and not to say that Luke Redfield is lying -- but his new album tells a sweeping tale of a man who has lived 100 lives in the ten songs off of Tusen Takk, the culmination of years of hard work and traveling.  The album emanates ... More >>

Mally, Sexcat top Best New Bands showcase

Annual First Avenue show highlights best newcomers

A musical guide to surviving the holiday week

​It's Christmas and Hannukah week, and we all know what that involves: the mad scramble at the mall, the in-depth combing of the internet for holiday recipes to impress your friends, and selecting the highest proof scotch to get you just where you need to be by the time family dinner arrives. ... More >>

Ghostband redefines electronica with a new album

​Desolations may sound like the landscape during a Minnesota winter, but in actuality it's the name of Minneapolis electronic musician Jon Davis, a.k.a. Ghostband's, new album. Influenced by Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ayler, and Hendrix, Ghostband leaves out the lyrics in his music, but not the imag ... More >>

Picked to Click 2011

The Cloak Ox, Night Moves, and more

Coloring Time makes chaotic, collaborative cacophony at the Cedar

Photos by Ben Clark​It would be easy to describe Coloring Time's first full-scale performance by simply listing the names of all of the collaborators who performed at one point or another last night. But what actually transpired sounded nothing like Peter Wolf Crier or Dosh or Alpha Consumer or th ... More >>

Coloring Time make their debut at the Cedar this week, watch a short teaser video

​The premise for new collaboration Coloring Time is enticing, to say the least: Members of at least a dozen local bands that range from hip-hop to jazz to folk get on stage, plug in their instruments, and see what unfolds between them. The Twin Cities has boasted a healthy improvisational scene th ... More >>

Roma di Luna nears its end as members move on to other projects

Photo by Stacy Schwartz​The days are numbered for one of the Twin Cities' most popular roots bands. Roma di Luna, who started as a husband-and-wife duo playing folk songs at a farmer market six years ago and have since grown into a brassy, bluesy roots band, will end its impressive run before the ... More >>

The Cloak Ox release three tracks, plan debut EP

​Cool news from the Totally Gross National Product camp today: The Minneapolis label is getting ready to release the debut EP from Andrew Broder's newest project the Cloak Ox, and the band has already posted three of the EP's six tracks on the web as a preview.

DJ Shadow, Fleet Foxes, the Suburbs, and more

Gramma's Boyfriend perform for City of Music

​People of the internet, meet Gramma's Boyfriend: frantic and frenetic, this budding new punk band is a far cry from the lush singer-songwriter fare normally offered up by Haley Bonar. But Bonar has never been one to let her music fit squarely into one category, and her new side project -- which f ... More >>

Guitar Party's 7-year-old lead singer Mijah Ylvisaker talks about fronting a noise rock band

​The band Guitar Party is a supergroup of sorts that includes some longtime local music veterans: Jeremy Ylvisaker, Haley Bonar, Jake Hansen, Andrew Broder, J.T. Bates, and Michael Lewis. Even the late Micheal "Eyedea" Larsen was a member before he passed away last October. But new to the fold ... More >>

Northrop unveils Summer Music Festival lineup

​The University of Minnesota has made a tradition out of inviting local bands to perform on the Northrop Plaza each summer, but this year they are upping the ante by bringing on Minneapolis musician Grant Cutler (ex-Lookbook, Grant Cutler & the Gorgeous Lords) to help a team of students curate ... More >>

Face Candy 'Waste Age Teen Land' being released this month

​Seven months after the passing of musician Michael "Eyedea" Larsen, Rhymesayers will be releasing the final studio recordings of the freestyle/improv band Face Candy, which he had founded and been a part of since 2005.

Czeslaw's Loop unites dozens of local musicians for massive riverside Art-A-Whirl project

​What started as an annual tradition during Art-A-Whirl has now transformed into a project of monumental proportions. Previously known as the Boat Project, which would invite local noise and experimental rock bands to play on the roof of a houseboat and out in the middle of the Mississippi River b ... More >>

Andrew Broder launches 'Broderbeatcast' podcast

Photo by Nick Vlcek​While it's no secret we are big fans of Andrew Broder here at City Pages we still have a hard time keeping up with the crafty South Minneapolis cat. Since last summer he has played and toured the planet with Oakland's Why?, and also collaborated on a graphic novel with Alan Mo ... More >>

Alpha Consumer release Kick Drugs Out of America

Album finally sees the light of day after several years

Love-cars reuniting for 'Rent Party!' at the Turf tonight

​It all makes sense. For those wondering how local musicians like James Diers, Haley Bonar, Jeremy Ylvisaker, JT Bates, Jake Hanson, and Mike Lewis find the time to spawn so many amazing, collaborative projects, the answer is simple: They all share a practice space. And unfortunately, that practic ... More >>

Dosh

Andrew Bird at First Avenue, 12/02/10

Photos by Stacy Schwartz​Andrew BirdDecember 2, 2010First Avenue, MinneapolisAndrew Bird gave his passionate fans that filled a sold-out First Avenue on a frigid Thursday night an intimate glimpse into what the sound and direction of his new album will be, debuting five new songs within his cap ... More >>

Celebration of the Life of Mikey 'Eyedea' Larsen, 11/9/10

​For many of his fans, he was known as battle rap legend and Rhymesayers recording artist Eyedea. For others, he was Micheal Larsen, the front man of genre-bending experimental groups like Carbon Carousel and Face Candy. For others still, he was known by his alter-ego Oliver Hart.But for most of t ... 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 >>

Saint Paul Art Crawl, Curtiss A's John Lennon tribute: Freeloader Friday

Photo by wwarby via Flikr​ Once again we find ourselves fast approaching a weekend filled with tons of free things to do. The entire city of St. Paul will be loaded with free art shows, concerts, parades, demonstrations, wine tastings, and more thanks to the Saint Paul Art Crawl. Other events of n ... More >>

Luke Redfield, Aria Souder

Luke Redfield's nomadic ways make for memorable debut

Ephemeral Eon is self-released

The Soviettes, Luke Redfield featured in this week's City Pages

Clippings from this week's print edition.

Dosh CD-release show announced

The new record will feature a slew of local and national talent.

Videos: Mark Mallman CD-release show

Live footage from Mallman's show at First Avenue.

Eyedea & Abilities: By the Throat

Andrew Bird

Devo, Janelle Monáe, and Solid Gold wow music nerds at SXSW

South By Southwest brings together a country of insatiable indie kids

SXSW: Devo, Devo, Devo

Nevermind all these hip, up-and-coming indie bands. Let's go to DEVO.

Minnesota does Letterman: the YouTube videos

Video clips from Ben Kweller and Andrew Bird's performances on David Letterman this week, both backed by local musicians.

And there was whistling...

Andrew Bird

Fog Cult

A night at the Turf Club with Alpha Consumer

Truth Is

My So-Called Band

Tiki Obmar compose the IDM soundtrack to your high school experience

Picked to Click XII

Hail the Conquering Heroes: Polls and Praise for This Year's Best New Artists

This Postmodern World

Swing Backward, Drone Ahead

The Future's Imperfect and the Past Is Always Here