Patti Smith

Yo La Tengo biographer Jesse Jarnow shares the band's not-so-lurid secrets

Just a few weeks since its release, critics have already hailed Yo La Tengo's 13th full-length album Fade as one of the band's best in years, harkening back to epic cult favorites such as I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One and And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out. In anticipation of the band ... More >>

Legs McNeil on Joey Ramone, punk in 2012, and not trusting music critics

Legs McNeil is a legendary rock music historian, author and journalist. He co-founded and wrote for Punk Magazine back in the mid-'70s, is a former senior editor for Spin, and founder/editor of Nerve magazine in 1992. He is renowned as co-author of Please Kill Me: the Uncensored Oral History of Pu ... More >>

Girls Got Rhythm Fest Day 1 at Amsterdam Bar, 5/11/12

Girls Got Rhythm Fest Day 1With the Muffs, Pierced Arrows, White Mystery, Caroline & the Treats, the Pinsch, and Hot RashAmsterdam Bar & Hall, St. PaulFriday, May 11, 2012Related:Slideshow: Girls Got Rhythm FestivalGirls Got Rhythm Fest Day 2 at Amsterdam Bar, 5/12/12If anyone in the Amsterd ... More >>

Is/Is show kaleidoscopic talent on new album III

Sarah Nienaber, Sarah Rose, and Annie May form punk-chick trifecta

Victoria Jackson: Tea Party princess

From SNL to the rabid right of modern politics

Wild Flag at the Varsity Theater, 10/3/11

Photos by Tony Nelson​Wild FlagOctober 3, 2011Varsity Theater, Minneapolis"There's really no better place to start a tour than Minneapolis," Carrie Brownstein gushed near the end of Wild Flag's set, one of the only times they really stopped to address the audience at length. "There's really nothin ... More >>

Chris Pureka at Aster Cafe, 5/2/11

​ May 2, 2011 Chris Pureka Minneapolis Aster Café Chris Pureka has one of the quietest speaking voices you've ever heard. As she introduces herself softly to the crowd at the packed Aster Café show last night, the entire audience falls absolutely silent--a state that Pureka would slowly co ... More >>

Roma di Luna, Heart, Dosh, and more

Kele, Aimee Mann, Muja Messiah, and more

One-woman band Patches and Gretchen releases first disc

Songstress (and sister to Aimee Mann) pays her own homage to Dylan

Electric Fetus: Still relevant after 40 years

The store reveals its secrets of vitality

Flicks to Pick

A guide for taking the guesswork out of MSPIFF

Shakespeare Gets Punked

What would happen if Patti Smith gave birth to Hamlet? Something like 'God Save Gertrude'

Dead City

Riot Redux

Swan Island emerge from recently charted waters

Blame Dick Clark

'TRL' feeds thin gruel to its audience; kids beg for more

A Record Named Goo

Sonic Youth offer a gift idea for the no wave completist

Force-feeding

Myth and life and the dark side

Black Mountain: Black Mountain

The Anti-Rockist Protests Too Much

A modest proposal for a New York Times critic who should let pop eat itself

All the News That's Unfit to Print

City Pages runs letters to the editor--of the PiPress

Keep on Rockin' in the Free World

The first Tuesday in October, the first Tuesday in November

Pearls Before Swine: Wizard of Is, and Patty Waters: You Thrill Me

Never Mind The Sex Pistols, Here's Neal Pollack

A snarky writer thinks he's America's greatest living punk

John Berryman Leapt Here

Mapping the literary landmarks of the Twin Cities

Cult of Personality

A fond look back at Blue Öyster Cult's hits and misses

This Is Desire

PJ Harvey displays a deceptively sunnier outlook on Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

No Future?

I went to CMJ Music Marathon 2000 and all I got was this lousy tote bag

Interview with the Vampire

An encounter with the Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt, the surliest conversationalist in indie-rock

Austin Powers

Reports from South by Southwest, where a Texas town becomes a mecca of indie music and film

Not Fade Away

Iconic singer-songwriter Eric Andersen leads his own folk revival with You Can't Relive the Past

Fight the Power

A new FCC proposal creates high hopes for local low-watt radio

For the Record

The music industry released 30,000 albums in 1998. You can live without 29,990 of them.

Psychotic Reactions

Rock makes an unruly return to the garage with a Rhino reissue of the Nuggets collection

Artists Of The Year

We list the best of the best of 1997.

various artists

Kerouac and In Their Own Voices

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