Paul Westerberg

Tommy Stinson and Paul Westerberg plan studio time later this year

In a lengthy interview with Time, the Replacements and Guns N' Roses bassist Tommy Stinson gives a detailed update on where he's at and where he's been. Though the article has some dated facts -- it refers to a City Pages columnist who is no longer with the paper and Sean Combs as P. Diddy -- but St ... More >>

The Replacements' Songs For Slim producer Ed Ackerson shares session details

Today is the day that longtime fans of the Replacements have been waiting anxiously for. At 10 a.m. Twin Cities time, 250 limited-edition copies of what the Songs For Slim website is calling "the first new Replacements release since 1990's All Shook Down," goes up for auction. The exclusive 10" viny ... More >>

The Replacements' Songs For Slim EP gets tracklisting and cover art as auction details emerge

As the excitement continues to build around the Replacements' new benefit EP, Songs For Slim, more information about the project continues to filter out. In addition to the full track-listing for the EP as well as the Chris Mars designed album art (featured above), details have also emerged about wh ... More >>

Best Twin Cities songs 2012: Staff lists

Okay, so there are a few songs out of the Twin Cities that were completely inescapable in 2012. (Nudge.) But when you're talking about a music community that's blasting in clubs, basements, garages, warehouses, automobiles, record stores, Soundclouds, public radio stations, college radio stations, a ... More >>

Paul Westerberg's "Away in a Manger" to rock the Current

Topical songwriting is a great niche if you can manage it. The Current announced today they'd received a burned copy of Paul Westerberg's "Away in a Manger," and it proves to be a jagged addition to the holiday music that doesn't absolutely suck. First of all, it sounds like it's reverberating out o ... More >>

More Replacements benefit EP details as Slim Dunlap nears hospital exit

Paul Westerberg recently confirmed that he and Tommy Stinson reunited as the Replacements to record four covers for a benefit EP to help their pal Slim Dunlap. A longer interview with Rolling Stone has emerged today, and included in the details is some updated news about the condition of Dunlap, who ... More >>

The Replacements back together on covers EP to benefit Slim Dunlap

After six years apart, the Replacements' singer-guitarist Paul Westerberg and bassist Tommy Stinson have officially reunited. As tipped back in June, when Stinson said the old bandmates were working on a track together, the plan has expanded into a limited edition 10-inch vinyl EP, according to Roll ... More >>

Paul Westerberg shares brand new track "My Road Now"

There really hasn't been anything conventional about the music or the means of Paul Westerberg's recent creative output. Whether it's surprising the music world by making a collection of his lo-fi home recordings, 49:00, available digitally on Amazon for 49¢ in 2008, then cheekily releasing a compa ... More >>

The Replacements' final show was 21 years ago -- hear it!

See Also:Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson reunite for Slim Dunlap benefit track Against Me! and Joan Jett cover the Replacements' "Androgynous"While motorboats and firecrackers and sweet potatoes mixed with marshmallows sure can provide a wild ride for the Fourth of July, imagine being out in Chica ... More >>

Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson reunite for Slim Dunlap benefit track

Related: Chris Mars records new song to benefit Slim DunlapBrief, but exciting news for fans of Replacements reunion conspiracies: Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson are working on a song together. Similar to the recent Chris Mars single, these two 'Mats members are reuniting to rally for their old b ... More >>

Against Me! and Joan Jett cover the Replacements' "Androgynous"

New transgender poster boy/girl Tom Gabel, now Laura Jane Grace, made a prominent statement during Friday's Against Me! show at New York's Terminal 5 using a familiar gender-bent song by the Replacements. Joan Jett, who notably shared vocals with Paul Westerberg on a cover of Cole Porter's "Let's Do ... More >>

Kevin Bowe on writing with Paul Westerberg, the current "scene," and his record release at Varsity tonight

Kevin Bowe has seen it all in the Twin Cities. After cutting his musical teeth opening for the Replacements and Hüsker Dü in the '80s, Bowe later directed his talents towards songwriting for artists as diverse as Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Etta James, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and 3 Dog Night. He ... More >>

Paul Westerberg collaboration appears on Kevin Bowe's new record

As Twin Cities music fans wait patiently for any sign of stirring from Paul Westerberg, there is a small bit of creative activity from the former 'Mats frontman on the forthcoming new record from renowned Minneapolis songwriter/producer/guitarist Kevin Bowe and his band the Okemah Prophets. Bowe ... More >>

Replacements Archives: Twin Tone Madness, Garage Rock Mania

​Following last Friday's yearly tribute to the Replacements at First Ave--this year's headline featured a star-studded performance of the Replacements' debut album, Sorry Ma, I Forgot To Take Out The Trash--we thought it would be interesting to dig through the CityPages archives and look at some o ... More >>

Replacements Archives: Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash

​Following last Friday's yearly tribute to the Replacements at First Ave--this year's headline featured a star-studded performance of the Replacements' debut album, Sorry Ma, I Forgot To Take Out The Trash--we thought it would be interesting to dig through the CityPages archives and look at some o ... More >>

Color Me Obsessed: A Film about The Replacements

Except with no Replacements music

Deer Tick

Paul Westerberg makes cameo in new Glen Campbell video, directed by Minnesota native Kii Arens

​Replacements fans will recognize a few familiar qualities in Glen Campbell's new video for "Ghost on the Canvas," the title track from his farewell album. Not only was the song written by Paul Westerberg, but the video begins with a shot quite similar to that used in the 'Mats' video "Bastards of ... More >>

Paul Westerberg talks to the Village Voice, hints at new solo material

​It's not often that Paul Westerberg talks to the press these days -- a fact that Village Voice contributor Peter Gerstenzang brags about in the intro to his new Q&A -- so it's interesting that the former Replacements frontman has shown up not once, but two separate times in New York blogs thi ... More >>

Tommy Stinson

Tommy Stinson coming to First Avenue

​After touring Europe with Guns 'N Roses and traveling to Haiti to help with hurricane cleanup and relief efforts, former Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson has embarked on a solo tour that will bring him to his hometown on May 20 to play a show at First Avenue.

A Tribute to the Replacements

Paul Westerberg re-emerges as Mr. F

​The inscrutable and completely random recent output by Paul Westerberg is apparently going to continue with the just announced release of a 7-inch featuring a batch of new songs attributed to Westerberg, now evidently recording under the moniker Mr. F. Nimbit Music (another seemingly arbitrary d ... More >>

Bobby Bare Jr.

Titus Andronicus

Paul Westerberg at Target Field: Preview footage

​As we reported last week, Paul Westerberg recently resurfaced to play a rare, two-song set at Target Field for the travelogue-style documentary 40 Nights of Rock 'n' Roll. Today, the filmmakers sent us a teaser clip of the performance, which includes a snippet of his acoustic performance on top o ... More >>

Paul Westerberg filmed at Target Field

​Former Paste editor Steve LaBate and filmmaker Scott Sloan are in the midst of a trek called "40 Nights of Rock 'n' Roll," in which they travel the country rounding up musicians for interviews and performances, and they've been keeping their stop in the Twin Cities a secret until today. It turns ... More >>

Billie Joe Armstrong and Paul Westerberg interviewed together in SPIN

A discussion between the two provides an intriguing slice of Twin Cities music history.

Paul Westerberg writes about Alex Chilton for the New York Times

The Replacements singer pays tribute to his mentor.

Doomtree, Solid Gold, and Vampire Hands deftly dot Minneapolis's music timeline in '08

Crack open our Twin Cities Local Music Yearbook and reminisce on an effed-up year

Possible new Replacements project in the works

Paul Westerberg re-emerges

The ex-'Mat releases a new online-only concept album

Reporter's Notebook: Paul Westerberg's 49:00

Unearthed: Lovelines by the Replacements

Letters to the Editor

The Shouting's Over, Too

An oral history of the Replacements captures the '80s music scene but can't get a handle on the band

It's a Wonderful Life. Kinda.

Laurie Lindeen, ex-Zuzu's Petals frontwoman, remembers days of touring with a punk band and turning Paul Westerberg's head in her memoir, Petal Pusher

High on Stress: Moonlight Girls

Top 10 Minnesota Albums of 2005

Local Music Yearbook '04

We crowd-surfed with R.T. We bar hopped on light rail. And between some of our precious last sucks on a cigarette at the club, we scribbled it all down on a cocktail napkin.

Let's Go Crazy

For a rocker

I Hate 1984

The music and movies were epochal. The politics were abysmal. A poison valentine to the year that won't go away.

Wanted: Someone To Write An Ode to a Urinal

Is there no one in Minnesota who can handle the job?

Let The Bad Times Roll

Paul Westerberg talks about drinking, depressed fans, and finding a reason to live

I Buried Paul

More than a decade into Paul Westerberg's solo career, it's time to replace The Replacements

Personal Bests

The Year's Local Favorites

This is Hardcore

It made less history than '77 punk. It sold fewer records than Nirvana. But the suburban rebellion of Eighties America found its own potent way to say no.

Young Spuds in a Longhorn Daze

Fakin' to Be

Record Roundup