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St. Vincent rebukes crowd during Pearl Jam cover, adds First Ave. show

​Those of you who didn't get a chance to see St. Vincent's entrancing sold-out performances at the Walker in October (and even those of you who did) now have another opportunity to see Annie Clark and company bring the songs of Strange Mercy to life, as St. Vincent have just announced a stop a ... More >>

Jane's Addiction announce local show at the Brick, a new Minneapolis nightclub

​Those of you who saw Jane's Addiction's tour announcement yesterday probably asked the same question that many other local residents did when they saw the venue listed next to the Minneapolis date on March 19th -- What the hell is the Brick? It turns out that the Brick is a new Minneapolis ro ... More >>

Gwar guitarist Cory Smoot's cause of death revealed

Photo by Erik HessFlattus Maximus performing his final show at First Ave​It's been over a month since Gwar fans learned of the death of guitarist Flattus Maximus, a.k.a. Cory Smoot, which happened sometime in the hours following when Smoot and the rest of the band played a show at First Avenue and ... More >>

Dada Trash Collage releases new 7-inch and reveals east coast dates

Looking At The Ground cover art​Dada Trash Collage was nothing short of prolific in 2010. After releasing a Rain War EP and the full-lengths Neighbors and Cool Waves Bad Days the recent Twin Cities expat has continued his insane level of productivity in 2011 by unleashing a brand new 7-inch with B ... More >>

Minneapolis is the best American city for finding employment

mattlawsFind work here.​All you people without a job, take note: Forbes magazine has named Minneapolis the best city in the country for finding a job. We can hear you sharpening pencils for those job application forms right now.

Minneapolis ranked 10th most dangerous city in America

Andrew CiscelThe 10th most dangerous city in America?​We're so used to the Twin Cities placing high in national rankings of one sort or another that a new survey from U.S. News brought us up short: Minneapolis is tied with Cleveland - Cleveland! - as the 10th most dangerous city in America.

Atmosphere announce 21-date 'Family Tour'

Photo by Dan Monick​With their seventh full-length album, The Family Sign, due out April 12, Atmosphere have announced a 21-date 'Family Tour' that will kick off April 20 in Colombus. The tour doesn't include any local dates just yet (the group will complete their five-date loop of the outer areas ... More >>

We Are the Willows tour diary, Vol. 12

​Since my last entry, a cold had been creeping up on me and really got me in Florida.  I could still sing, but I felt like I was singing with my fingers up my nose.  For the last week or so, I was either sleeping in my van, or playing tunes in a fever dream.  I found that, for whate ... More >>

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 >>

Peter Wolf Crier announce tour with Heartless Bastards

Photo by Stacy Schwartz​It's going to be a constructive summer for rising locals Peter Wolf Crier, whose debut album, Inter-Be, will be re-released by Jagjaguwar later this month. The duo has a CD-release show at the Turf Club on May 21, followed by a massive tour that will take them across the Mi ... More >>

Gaslight Anthem announce rescheduled Minneapolis show

The Springsteen-loving Jersey boys will play Epic on October 3.

Kona Grill - Eden Prairie up in the air?

The future of Kona Grill's Eden Prairie restaurant appears uncertain.

Penumbra's The Whipping Man takes on life after Civil War

Former masters and slaves confront new realities

Atmosphere skips Minneapolis (gasp!) on new tour

Psssh. It's like THAT?

Retiring doc delivered 16,000 ugly babies

Before you get too hung up on the miracle of birth and the idea of 16,000 precious wonderful babies to have and to hold, step back for a second. Newborns are ugly, ugly creatures.

The Popstream: Skillz's 5-Season 'The Wire' Rap-Up

Readers respond to "Being Tron Guy"

We Called Him Mr. Brown

James Brown, 1933-2006: A godson remembers the Godfather

Sgt. Briggs's War

Bob Briggs got a head full of shrapnel in Iraq. Then he came home to more wars: to regain the use of his half-paralyzed body, and to get the U.S. government to pay for his medical care.

Is the bottom finally rushing up on D'Angelo?

Bob Briggs got a head full of shrapnel in Iraq. Then he came home to more wars: to regain the use of his half-paralyzed body, and to get the U.S. government to pay for his medical care.

Arrested Development

How Minnesota philanthropist and developer Henry McKnight's utopian vision of suburbia became a blueprint for modern exurban nightmares

VCR: VCR

How Minnesota philanthropist and developer Henry McKnight's utopian vision of suburbia became a blueprint for modern exurban nightmares

The Other War

The Bush administration & the end of civil liberties

The Road to Everywhere

Aaron Cometbus's 20-year journey into the heart of underground America

Truck, Stop

Car chases, cell phones, and a smelly Super Soaker: This is not your father's picket line

Footsteps in the Dark

A walk through D'Angelo's hotly awaited, strangely elusive masterpiece, Voodoo

The Steel Ceiling

Despite a "good-faith effort," Hennepin County's new jail is being built by a bunch of white men

You Make Me Blush

City officials call Minneapolis's numbers on minority contracting "an embarrassment." So what are they doing about it? Uh, well, gosh...

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