Leadbelly

The Bitterroot Band: It's just plain fun to get people riled up with that noise

Equally inspired by the lonesome sounds of folk, country, and the blues, and the frenetic sounds of rock and bluegrass (and psychobilly!), the Bitterroot Band will no doubt find a welcome home in today's current roots/Americana-friendly landscape. But their presentation is so genuine, it doesn't see ... More >>

Peter Himmelman and David Hollander to debut new music project, Minnesota, in Grand Marais

See Also: The Spirit of St. Louis Trampled By Turtles lighten up on Stars and Satellites When St. Louis Park singer/songwriter Peter Himmelman and distinguished screenwriter/filmmaker David Hollander decided to name their new collaborative musical project Minnesota, they must have known that the l ... More >>

Critics Picks: Summit Backyard Bash, Metric, and more

Jerry Douglas

The Cavalier Crooks on Southern rock tradition and Tombstone Bullets

On their new album Tombstone Bullets, The Cavalier Crooks have produced an album that grabs hold with dusty, writhing fingers, and won't let go. It's rare to find a band that manages to wholly inhabit a different degree than the masses, and even rarer to find one that makes music in that place tha ... More >>

Bill Mike discusses new projects, working with Micheal Larsen, and Rock Camp for Dads

A conversation with a local guitar hero

10 country musicians to watch in 2011

​As I culled through lists of new and upcoming releases from new and up-and-coming country artists, I couldn't help but notice a pattern: many were by women, and most of those by women who seemed to be taking country in a slightly new direction (occasionally, the "new" direction one that count ... More >>

Dust Bowl Jubilee

Charlie Parr comes out of the garage with album of homestyle blues

Bard of the Boneyard

Seekers of the sublime find the familiar in new Tom Waits multi-disc release

The Sound Unseen Festival, Oct. 7-16

Strib: Protest doc "tainted" by lack of conservative voices

Blood Simple

James "Blood" Ulmer resurrects the blues masterpiece

Minnesota's Fifty Greatest Hits

The greatest Minnesota-made records of all time

A Real Rock 'n' Roll Radio Station... for Your Pledge of Just $10 a Month?

Paul Demko, Diablo Cody, and Dylan Hicks offer three takes on MPR's new baby

Various Artists: Where Will You Be Christmas Day?

Real Life Rock Top Ten

The old, the tired, the rejuvenated, and the dead

Real Life Rock Top 10

Neko Case kills you softly with her song; The Be Good Tanyas wait around to die; Patricia Tallman confronts the living dead

Real Life Rock Top 10

The Raveonettes pull out the big guns, A.R.E. Weapons sing one for America, and the Dixie Chicks start a war

Gordon's Footlight

In a new documentary, Minneapolitan Craig Rice illuminates the prolific artistry of Gordon Parks

Life of the Party

Death in the mines. Hunger marches. An FBI spy on every block. Minnesota's daughters of the revolution can tell you about it all. But first, have some coffee cake.

Deep River of Song, the Alan Lomax Collection

Blues So Bad

Baby, I'm a Star: Lovette George in Thunder Knocking on the Door

House of the Rising Sun

Next week Red House Records issues a momentous tribute album of Pete Seeger's songs. But after 15 years at the margins of American music, this St. Paul label proudly aims to stay there.

A Choice of Weapons

After a hardscrabble life in the Depression, Gordon Parks picked up a camera instead of a gun. But as a massive retrospective of his work reveals, his sympathies have often remained with those who went the other way.

The Great Spectator

Radio Free Chicago: Studs Terkel holds down the microphone at WFMT in 1978.

Holiday Box-Set Roundup

Little Boy's Blues

Bourgeois Blues by Lead Belly & This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie

Record Roundup

Record Roundup

How He Got Ovah