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Using the Flaming Lips' "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" to teach allegory

Tyler Flory is a teacher at Main Street School of Performing Arts in Hopkins. His Music Class column ties together his job and his music fandom in a neat little package.Teaching allegory to high school students is difficult. It is much easier when the lessons of stories are found within the pages it ... More >>

Rodriguez at Fitzgerald Theater, 5/15/13

Rodriguez Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul Wednesday, May 15, 2013This historic week in downtown Saint Paul continued at the Fitzgerald Theater as a sold-out audience paid witness to the first public concert locally from Rodriguez. The now-famous Detroit singer/songwriter finally became a household favo ... More >>

Aziz Ansari

Andy Mannix's Chris Kluwe profile wins GLAAD Outstanding Newspaper Article award

Andy Mannix's October profile of Vikings punter and gay rights advocate Chris Kluwe has been recognized by GLAAD as 2012's Outstanding Newspaper Article.SEE ALSO: Andy Mannix's Chris Kluwe profile is a GLAAD Media Awards finalist The profile, titled "Game Changer," beat out four other nominees for ... More >>

Why Death Grips sold drama instead of a copy of NO LOVE DEEP WEB

By Will McClainThe Music Industry is a weekly column that dissects local and national music-business headlines with the help of local industry professionals and music fanatics.This month, dark lords of alt-hip-hop Death Grips emerged from the shadows to thrill believers by leaking their latest alb ... 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 >>

Michele Bachmann says Romney is best presidential candidate because Obama is too wealthy [VIDEO]

SEE ALSO:-- The Onion's "Bachmann Thankful No Americans Died In Sikh Shooting" story dupes dozens-- Michele Bachmann waves bag of gay-unfriendly Chick-fil-A [VIDEO]-- Michele Bachmann is making shit up in her latest fundraising e-mailDuring an RNC interview with USA Today, Michele Bachmann offered u ... More >>

Can Taylor Swift age gracefully with Red?

See also: Taylor Swift at the Xcel Energy Center, 6/14/11 and 6/15/11 Taylor Swift sells out Xcel Much has been made this week of Taylor Swift's Monday night video chat, in which 72,000 fans tuned in to watch the totally-pop, maybe-kinda-country songstress discuss her upcoming record, Red, with a ... More >>

The Weeknd at First Avenue, 6/17/12

The WeekndFirst Avenue, MinneapolisSunday, June 17, 2012On record, Abel Tesfaye is a drugged-out, manipulative playboy, but Sunday at a very sold-out First Avenue show filled with a notably fashionable 18 crowd, he seemed genuinely filled with love. To just about any musician, this was a dream audi ... More >>

Aerosmith's Global Warming tour launches in Minneapolis

​Aerosmith will begin its 18-date summer tour this June at Target Center. Dubbed the Global Warming tour, the seminal Boston band will bring Cheap Trick along for the North American dates that carry between mid-June and early August."The old Aerosmith is back with a new vengeance and we will kick ... More >>

Aziz Ansari raised $13,200 for Anoka-Hennepin LGBT group [UPDATE]

​Tammy Aaberg had more than one thing to celebrate yesterday. Even before she found out about the terms of the settlement in the Anoka-Hennepin gay bullying lawsuit, she received a very special phone call from comedian and "Parks and Recreation" star Aziz Ansari. "It was crazy," she said just aft ... More >>

Aziz Ansari hosting comedy benefit for Anoka-Hennepin LGBT group

​After reading a Rolling Stone article about the gay-bullying problem and suicides in the Anoka-Hennepin school district, comedian Aziz Ansari was inspired to action. He contacted the reporter, Philadelphia-based Sabrina Rubin Erdely, to find out if there is an LGBT charity that would directly ben ... More >>

Anoka-Hennepin school board kills the neutrality policy

Moments after the final vote.​The "no homo promo" is no 'mo. In front of a standing room-only audience, five of the six Anoka-Hennepin school board members voted to retire its controversial Sexual Orientation Curriculum policy. The so-called "neutrality policy" or "no homo promo" has been rewrit ... More >>

Howard Stern attacks Michele Bachmann over Anoka-Hennepin suicides [AUDIO]

​Howard Stern lit into Michele Bachmann on his Sirius satellite radio show in the wake of the Rolling Stone article on the spate of teen suicides in the Anoka-Hennepin school district."The amazing thing to me--I'm watching these debates, the Republican debates--this Michele Bachmann and Rick Sant ... More >>

Anoka-Hennepin school district blasts Rolling Stone article [UPDATE]

​In response to an article in the most recent issue of Rolling Stone, officials in the Anoka-Hennepin school district issued a lengthy statement lambasting reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely."The article in Rolling Stone presents a grossly distorted portrayal of the Anoka-Hennepin School District, its ... More >>

Anoka-Hennepin school district's gay-bullying problem profiled in Rolling Stone

​In its current issue, Rolling Stone magazine becomes the latest big-name national media outlet to come down hard on the gay-bullying problem in the Anoka-Hennepin school district. In "School of Hate: One Town's War on Gay Teens" reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely writes about the plight of gay studen ... More >>

Reed Fischer named new music editor of City Pages

Photo by Ian WitlenIncoming City Pages music editor Reed Fischer​As we near the end of 2011, big changes are in the air for Gimme Noise and the City Pages music section. After holding down the position of music editor for almost four years, I've decided to pursue an opportunity outside the company ... More >>

Howler, Big Quarters, Buildings drop new music videos

Courtesy Big Quarters​Minnesota artists are releasing music videos at such a fast clip these days that we can barely keep up with posting the best ones. Just yesterday, three separate videos from Twin Cities artists were lighting up our Twitter feeds and Facebook pages, and one was even debuted by ... More >>

Coldplay's 'Mylo Xyloto' drops tomorrow: What we know so far

BY LIZ SPIELMAN​It seems hard to believe that it has been nearly three and a half years since Coldplay's last album made Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People possibly more iconic than it already was or provided that a church bell can indeed find a place on a rock album.

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 >>

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Palin hot on Bachmann's heels into Iowa

Happy couple Bachmann and Palin campaigning together for cash last year.​Whatever she's been doing in Iowa, it's paying off for Michele Bachmann, because she's now second only to Mitt Romney in the first Des Moines Register poll of 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls. That gives America's Craziest ... More >>

Chris Wallace asks Michele Bachmann: Are you a flake? [VIDEO]

​If you want to be president of the United States, like Michele Bachmann does, voters need to be assured that you've got the necessary brains, common sense, and principles to run the country. So Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace laid out some of Bachmann's more recent noteworthy gaffes, lies, and i ... More >>

G.R. Anderson on Rolling Stone's Bachmann piece: "I do want credit where credit is due"

G.R. Anderson (left) says Matt Taibbi (right) lifted his reporting on Michele Bachmann.​Matt Taibbi's piece on Michele Bachmann in Rolling Stone this week borrows liberally from a 2006 cover story by former City Pages reporter G.R. Anderson Jr. So much so that Abe Sauer of the Awl called them out ... More >>

Rolling Stone's Michele Bachmann story follows City Pages blueprint

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi is a big City Pages fan.​We noted yesterday that Matt Taibbi's hit job in Rolling Stone on Rep. Michele Bachmann would sound familiar to local Bachmann watchers. As The Awl points out today, Taibbi's piece should sound even more familiar to City Pages readers, bec ... More >>

Rolling Stone eviscerates Michele Bachmann

Rolling Stone: Don't laugh at Bachmann, or the joke's on you.​Rolling Stone has uncorked a hit job on Rep. Michele Bachmann that suggests just how utterly buffaloed the national press has become by her presidential campaign. Just today, for example, the New York Times devotes dozens of uncritical ... More >>

Greil Marcus talks Bob Dylan at Magers and Quinn

Photo by Thierry Arditti​When it was time for Greil Marcus to start his reading last night at Magers and Quinn, he suddenly realized that his emcee had gone missing--off, he later suggested, to use the bathroom. So the 65-year old author, perhaps the most famous of all living rock critics, walked ... More >>

Weekend Checklist: Tommy Stinson, No Bird Sing, Death Cab, MODSUN

​In case the apocalypse doesn't happen this weekend, here's some stuff to check out!

Bon Iver set to release new record in June

Photo by Ben ClarkJustin Vernon performing with DeYarmond Edison at SXSW​Justin Vernon has kept mostly quiet about his next Bon Iver record until this week, focusing his energy on his side projects (Gayngs, the recent DeYarmond Edison reunion), and -- oh yeah, collaborating with one of the most fa ... More >>

Rolling Stone's 'Do You Wanna Be A Star' competition is at least a little hairy

via Mod Sun's Myspace​​Rolling Stone announced today, via a press release and a very kind article in the New York Times, their collaboration with hair product line Garnier Fructis in a nationwide search for their dignity an "up-and-coming band" to grace their cover. Where to start?

Jayhawks planning tour, reissues, new album (!)

Photo by Steve Cohen​It's no easy feat pulling off three back-to-back nights at First Avenue, but the Jayhawks made it look effortless this past summer when they powered through one of the most memorable local music events of the year. Ever since founders and lead singers Gary Louris and Mark Olso ... More >>

Soul Asylum's 1995 Rolling Stone cover, WTF

​Yeah, this is old news (about 15 years old, to be exact), but something caught our eye when we were browsing our sister paper Houston Press's list of Rolling Stone's 25 Worst Cover Misfires. The whole list is pretty gruesome, but we couldn't help but wonder -- just what were the editors going for ... More >>

Lil Wayne to record whenever "logistically possible" upon release from prison

​Yesterday, Rolling Stone reported that upon his release from Rikers Prison this Thursday, Lil Wayne will record on the private plane flying him home. After that story hit the wires, undisclosed sources filled Gimme Noise in on some of the other transient locations - all of which are presentl ... More >>

Roma di Luna highlighted in this month's Rolling Stone

Photo by Ben Stannard​A new issue of Rolling Stone magazine is out this week, and it shines a spotlight on local record store the Electric Fetus and their top-selling record, Roma di Luna's latest self-released effort Then the Morning Came. Channy and Alexei Moon Casselle's expansive folk project ... More >>

Ke$ha is totally trying to save your at-risk tween and junk

​By now, you've probably heard Ke$ha's new single, "We R Who We R," several dozen times, and its strobe-lit dance-pop thump either speaks to you, or it doesn't. (Back in Pennsylvania, my niece is probably banging the song on her smart phone as I type this.) It brings to mind E-addled rave parties ... More >>

501 Art features band photos

Tom Loftus by Greg Schaal​The 501 Club will launch their 501 Arts fall program this Saturday with a band photo exhibit featuring Minneapolis-based photographers. From mid-performance snapshots to posed band portraits, the medley of photos in the exhibit will be intriguing, to say the least. A ... More >>

Kanye West calls in Bon Iver: Hawaii 5-OMG

image by: Matt Bardins​"I called [Vernon] and we ended up becoming like really good friends, playing basketball together everyday, and going into the back studio and just record his parts," West told Rolling Stone. "He's similar to me, like where he just does shit just so people would be like, ... More >>

Sage Francis, the Fleshtones, and more

Bob Dylan album debuts at #1 in the US and UK

For only the fifth time in his career, Dylan tops the charts with his latest album.

MTV News clip from exactly 15 years ago today

A chilling report from April 8, 1994, the day Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home.

Women tonight at the Triple Rock

Ain't entendres grand? The Calgary lo-fi troupe goes vintage tonight with Bouncer Fighter and White Sand/Badlands.

Radio K 15th Anniversary Party

The Current Fakebook: Greil Marcus and the Mekons

Culture Jamming

A Beautiful Mind

Minnesota-born Paul Nelson was a '60s folk revival pioneer and a founding father of rock writing

U2, DJ Spooky remix race and the American South

Hold the Fries

From flavor factories to modern-day sharecropping, author Eric Schlosser looks at the supersize mess created by our Fast Food Nation

Out of Sight

Celebrity supernova Jennifer Lopez opens her mouth and makes the world a sadder and lonelier place

The Perfect Place to Meat