Red Sea

Critics' Picks: Odd Future, Dum Dum Girls, and more

Baaba Maal

Critics' Picks: Janet Jackson, West Bank Music Festival, and more

West Bank Music Festival lineup announced

Photo by Erik Hess​The West Bank Music Festival will return for a second installment this year, anchored around an outdoor stage and fanning out to all of the music venues that line Cedar Ave. in the West Bank neighborhood of Minneapolis. The festival will take place on the evening of Saturda ... More >>

Where Obama should eat in the Twin Cities

"Damn, I'm hungry."​Dear Mr. President, Welcome to the Twin Cities. We're very much looking forward to your Northrup Mall visit. (The opening band is going to be awesome, by the way!) But surely with all that baby kissing and public speaking, you're going to work up an appetite. Here's where ... More >>

Zombie Pub Crawl VI: It Just Won't Die

"Damn, I'm hungry."​Dear Mr. President, Welcome to the Twin Cities. We're very much looking forward to your Northrup Mall visit. (The opening band is going to be awesome, by the way!) But surely with all that baby kissing and public speaking, you're going to work up an appetite. Here's where ... More >>

Har Mar Superstar headlines Zombie Pub Crawl 2010

​The sixth annual Zombie Pub Crawl is upon us: On October 9, 2010, the biggest incarnation of the undead fest yet will take over the West Bank, culminating with a party at Cabooze headlined by Har Mar Superstar.

Har Mar Superstar headlines Zombie Pub Crawl 2010

​The sixth annual Zombie Pub Crawl is upon us: On October 9, 2010, the biggest incarnation of the undead fest yet will take over the West Bank, culminating with a party at Cabooze headlined by Har Mar Superstar.

West Bank Music Festival set times

​If you've picked up a copy of City Pages this week, you may have noticed that something is happening tomorrow over on the West Bank... Once you've read up on performers Dessa, the Book of Right On, and Culture Cry Wolf, check out the full schedule below for all the bands performing at Saturday's ... More >>

Culture Cry Wolf, Sheeped, and more at Red Sea

​It's been a long while (ok, actually it's never happened) since we've gotten a Flyer of the Week submission for a show at the Red Sea, the small restaurant and club tucked into the West Bank near the 400 Bar that showcases under-the-radar local acts. This flyer, with its Pleasantville-esque '50s ... More >>

Ol' Dirty Bastard tribute at the Red Sea this weekend

A handful of locals pay tribute to the ODB this Friday night.

Readers respond to "Skatepark of the Gods"

A handful of locals pay tribute to the ODB this Friday night.

Franz Ferdinand, Voltage: Fashion Amplified, and more

A handful of locals pay tribute to the ODB this Friday night.

At Your Service: Cedar Ave.

A handful of locals pay tribute to the ODB this Friday night.

Local teen club TC Underground closes

A handful of locals pay tribute to the ODB this Friday night.

Reggaeton, A-Z

A handful of locals pay tribute to the ODB this Friday night.

Reggaetón Animal

Immigrant dreams, dirty dancing, and the revolution: Meet the new Latin hip hop of Maria Isa and Danny y Elliot

Cold Rock a Party

Why Heat rap better without men

Roxanne Shante, Lovebug Starski in Minneapolis tonight

Why Heat rap better without men

On the Corner

Four questions for the freeway exit-ramp beggars

The Kane Mutiny

Oak Street makes an urgent call to the senior 'Citizen'

Contact High

He's collaborated with Lil Jon. He's opened for Young Jeezy. He's worked at the same record store for eight years. For North Side rapper Contac, hip-hop dreams are just around the corner.

Crime blotter: West Bank flower peddler in critical condition

He's collaborated with Lil Jon. He's opened for Young Jeezy. He's worked at the same record store for eight years. For North Side rapper Contac, hip-hop dreams are just around the corner.

Baby let me hold your hand: Katrina benefit shows archive

He's collaborated with Lil Jon. He's opened for Young Jeezy. He's worked at the same record store for eight years. For North Side rapper Contac, hip-hop dreams are just around the corner.

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.

Two Hundred Twenty-Four Ballots...and No Hanging Chads!

Picked to Click Pollsters cast their votes

Secret Stash

Three local hip-hop CDs spark the party you missed

Blazin' on $20 a Day

A DJ for every club, a mic for every stage: Five days in our own hip hopolis

A Local Music Yearbook

Two cities, twelve months, a million reasons to rock!

The Speech Heard Round the World

Did Minnesota ride a Republican wave, or create one?

Raw Power

Spilled blood, blown fuses, and perforated skulls: the unlikely rise of American Head Charge

Rhyme out of joint

Rising rap star Slug is a master at putting words in order. Now why won't his life fall into place?

Rap Up

Will 2000 be the year Minnesota hip hop broke?

Ruhama Veltfort: The Promised Land

Will 2000 be the year Minnesota hip hop broke?

Drawn Out

Will 2000 be the year Minnesota hip hop broke?

1923

Will 2000 be the year Minnesota hip hop broke?

Keeping the Faith

U Film Society's Jewish Film Festival delivers a celluloid shalom for the age of kabala chic

Grandmaster Clash

Connie Francis meets Nurse with Wound on the unruly turntables of DJ Ts

Harmonic Convergence

In Sliver's emotional pop, girls and boys are on the same team

Celluloid Shalom

Keeping the Faith: A Hasidic boy recites his prayers in A Life Apart: Hasidism in America.

DJ Psychomatic

Keeping the Faith: A Hasidic boy recites his prayers in A Life Apart: Hasidism in America.

Who Are These Girls & Guys?

That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.

Music Notes

That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.

Uptown Blues

That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.

Southern Exposure

That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.

Sonic Valentines

That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.

Best New Scam

That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.

Last Writes

That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.

A New Flame

That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.

Mood School

That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.