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EDC 2012: Calvin Harris Plays CDs of Himself Singing

Dance music is fighting for its soul. The charts are filled with tracks (Rihanna, Flo Rida) that borrow from the ecstatic trance and pulsing grooves of electronic dance music. The last time pop was so infatuated with the dance floor was 1979, the year disco died. This time around fans are more sa ... More >>

EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds

[Update at 2:48 a.m]: EDC is over for the night. Organizers are waiting for crowds to thin out before making an official announcement. More details and older updates at the bottom.Electric Daisy Carnval in Las Vegas tonight was shut down temporarily as a result of high winds buffeting tall sound st ... More >>

EDC 2012: Coachella or Electric Daisy Carnival: Which One is Better?

See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage Dance music is coming to an arena near you: Kaskade will be the first DJ ever to play Staples Center (July 27). And mainstream concert promoters such as Live Nation are diving into the electronic dance explosion. Electric Daisy Carnival, which is being hel ... More >>

Best Buy hits the jackpot with new NASCAR sponsorship

​Hey look, Best Buy is in the news because it got something right for a change!Following last season, Best Buy decided to switch its NASCAR sponsorship from Richard Petty Motorsports to Roush Fenway Racing. And it already looks as though that switch will already pay off in hundreds of thousands of ... More >>

Marty Robbins' death: On this day in country music history

​We've written about Marty Robbins here before, most notably on the anniversary of his recording of the Western revival, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs -- click on over to learn about the history of that seminal album. But this dude's so cool, he warrants mention more than once so today, w ... More >>

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. at 7th St. Entry, 6/15/11

Photo by Shelby FailleDale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. at a City of Music taping last fall​Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. June 15, 2011 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis As Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.'s Joshua Epstein and Daniel Zott took the stage Wednesday night at the 7th St. Entry, it was hard to know what to expect f ... More >>

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.'s Josh Epstein on origins, Detroit, and the Real Dale Jr.

​There's a bundle of conflicting impulses at work in the winning, swooning pop of Detriot's Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr. The languid guitars and loose-waisted melodies are at odds with the pulse-pounding, engine-revving nature of their namesake and the broken-down, end-times ennui of their home city -- a ... More >>

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Everett Jasmer, monster truck pioneer, sells USA-1

Josh KirscherOne of Everett Jasmer's last car crushes at the wheel of USA-1.​It appears that the USA-1 monster truck will live to crush another day. The last time we told you about Everett Jasmer, one of the godfathers of monster truck racing in the '80s, he had fallen on hard times. Now, Jas ... More >>

Betty McCollum threatened by racist fax after NASCAR comment [DOCUMENT]

Tax dollars for NASCAR? Betty McCollum says no.​Rep. Betty McCollum has become the target of some vile hate mail from a NASCAR fan. The St. Paul congresswoman just tried unsuccessfully to defund the U.S. Army's $7 million NASCAR car sponsorship, labeling it as a waste of taxpayer money. For ... More >>

Betty McCollum wants to defund Pentagon NASCAR sponsorship

McCollum isn't worried about NASCAR dads.​The biggest drags on the national debt are entitlements and military spending, and Rep. Betty McCollum thinks the Army's $7 million sponsorship deal with NASCAR is a fine place for the Pentagon trim spending. "It's just a waste of money," McCollum chi ... More >>

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Adam Greden blames truck racing crash on dead girl

FloraIs the survivor of a teenage drag race responsible for the deaths?​An investigation revealed 17-year-old Adam Greden was drag-racing a truck full of teenagers at speeds up to 95 mph last April just before the truck spun out of control, killing three teens and badly injuring a fourth.But G ... More >>

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Reminiscing with Rachel's potato chips

A pioneer in gourmet potato chips!​Coming across a bag of Rachel's potato chips last weekend was like finding an old friend: Naming biases aside, I think the chips--one of the first "gourmet" potato chip brands--are a great product. Though somehow I couldn't remember the last time I'd had a ba ... More >>

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. perform for City of Music

​As promised, we've got a hot new video to share with you this morning courtesy of our friends at MPLS.TV. The film crew arranged for a special performance by rising Detroit quartet Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., who took some time out of their schedule while they were passing through Minneapolis to perf ... More >>

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Minneapolis is not the "Manliest City" in America

Photo: GoldbergGetting our man on​Damn. We're not as manly as Milwaukee, so we'll let you notch one up there, cheese heads. But Minneapolis still broke the Top 20 in Sperling's annual "America's Manliest Cities" survey. The biggest hunk of American manhood can evidently be found in Nashville, ... More >>

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Drag racers unite in Brainerd this weekend

Driving way over the speed limit is legitimate this weekend in Brainerd.

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Math and science nerds: bring your kids to this event

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Danica Patrick refuses to quit race

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The Women's Expo brings out the beast within, but Supercross brings out the knitting

Boom Buggies

Welcome to the world of decibel drag racing, where trophies go not to the fast, but to the loud

Wheel of Fortune, Wheel of Fate

Author Jonis Agee imagines the unvanquishable human wrecks whose lives revolve around the NASCAR circuit

Pound of Flesh

The former owner of Buns & Roses says Minneapolis cops wanted him to pay up or shut down