Sun Ra

Ghostband redefines electronica with a new album

​Desolations may sound like the landscape during a Minnesota winter, but in actuality it's the name of Minneapolis electronic musician Jon Davis, a.k.a. Ghostband's, new album. Influenced by Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ayler, and Hendrix, Ghostband leaves out the lyrics in his music, but not the imag ... More >>

James Sewell Ballet: Ballet Works Project

​Desolations may sound like the landscape during a Minnesota winter, but in actuality it's the name of Minneapolis electronic musician Jon Davis, a.k.a. Ghostband's, new album. Influenced by Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ayler, and Hendrix, Ghostband leaves out the lyrics in his music, but not the imag ... More >>

Baghdad/Seattle Suite

​Desolations may sound like the landscape during a Minnesota winter, but in actuality it's the name of Minneapolis electronic musician Jon Davis, a.k.a. Ghostband's, new album. Influenced by Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ayler, and Hendrix, Ghostband leaves out the lyrics in his music, but not the imag ... More >>

Gimme Noise's Gimme Shelter Haiti benefit, Rosanne Cash, and more

​Desolations may sound like the landscape during a Minnesota winter, but in actuality it's the name of Minneapolis electronic musician Jon Davis, a.k.a. Ghostband's, new album. Influenced by Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ayler, and Hendrix, Ghostband leaves out the lyrics in his music, but not the imag ... More >>

David Bazan, Impaler, They Might Be Giants, and more

​Desolations may sound like the landscape during a Minnesota winter, but in actuality it's the name of Minneapolis electronic musician Jon Davis, a.k.a. Ghostband's, new album. Influenced by Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ayler, and Hendrix, Ghostband leaves out the lyrics in his music, but not the imag ... More >>

Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers

​Desolations may sound like the landscape during a Minnesota winter, but in actuality it's the name of Minneapolis electronic musician Jon Davis, a.k.a. Ghostband's, new album. Influenced by Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ayler, and Hendrix, Ghostband leaves out the lyrics in his music, but not the imag ... More >>

Readers respond to "The Sound and the Fury"

​Desolations may sound like the landscape during a Minnesota winter, but in actuality it's the name of Minneapolis electronic musician Jon Davis, a.k.a. Ghostband's, new album. Influenced by Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ayler, and Hendrix, Ghostband leaves out the lyrics in his music, but not the imag ... More >>

Skoal Kodiak, Squid Fist top list of local bands bringing the noise

Living loud: A local history of experimental music

Vieux Farka Touré is living definition of "cultural hybrid"

New album Fondo highlights Touré's time on the road

Orange Mighty Trio (CD-Release)

New album Fondo highlights Touré's time on the road

Metric, PJ Harvey, Tower of Power, and more

New album Fondo highlights Touré's time on the road

Kill the Vultures

New album Fondo highlights Touré's time on the road

Kill the Vultures, AIDS Wolf, and more

New album Fondo highlights Touré's time on the road

Dosh keeps it interesting, plays Saturday at the Cedar

Jason Ricci & New Blood

Umphrey's McGee

Kill the Vultures

Dan Deacon's spaceship lands at the Triple Rock

The future shock of Dan Deacon

Battles: Mirrored

Don't Fence in the DJ

Danny Sigelman craves more than playing other people's music

Comets on Fire: Avatar

Danny Sigelman craves more than playing other people's music

The spirit is always whispering to me

Danny Sigelman craves more than playing other people's music

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

Danny Sigelman craves more than playing other people's music

Score

Underground movies and rebel music hook up in the Sound Unseen Festival

Greatest Hits, 2002

Underground movies and rebel music hook up in the Sound Unseen Festival

Straight Outta Academe

A hip-hop exhibit bridges the gap between the dis and the dissertation

Space Oddity

Manplanet prove they're more than just a group of space cadets

Lost in Space

Manplanet prove they're more than just a group of space cadets

Song Of Songs

Barbara Sibley's all-encompassing love of music has inspired her to sacrifice her time, her blood, and a whole lot of shelf space. A look at record collecting as a metaphor for life--and life as a metaphor for record collecting.

Keith Harris's Jazz

Barbara Sibley's all-encompassing love of music has inspired her to sacrifice her time, her blood, and a whole lot of shelf space. A look at record collecting as a metaphor for life--and life as a metaphor for record collecting.

Star Time

L.A.'s BellRays recapture the experimental tension between rock and soul that once made punk more than a marketing strategy

Sun Ra and His Solar Myth Arkestra: Life Is Splendid

L.A.'s BellRays recapture the experimental tension between rock and soul that once made punk more than a marketing strategy

New Music Express

Longtime KFAI host and pioneering electronic musician Richard Paske finds a new key in solo jazz piano

Sound Check

Longtime KFAI host and pioneering electronic musician Richard Paske finds a new key in solo jazz piano

Song of Myself

With her sophomore outing Da Real World, Missy Elliot empowers her pocketbook--and not much else

Rubbernecking

The No Neck Blues Band's art-noise jams put the "hip" back in "hippie"--and at least some of the world is watching

Marc Ribot, Mongo Santamaria and Israel Cachao Lopez

The No Neck Blues Band's art-noise jams put the "hip" back in "hippie"--and at least some of the world is watching

Drop Your Shorts

Bit player: Beth Orton's new EP makes a statement in 24:49.

1948

Bit player: Beth Orton's new EP makes a statement in 24:49.

Star Child

Bit player: Beth Orton's new EP makes a statement in 24:49.

MUSIC: Mike Ladd

Bit player: Beth Orton's new EP makes a statement in 24:49.

Crazy Wisdom Masters

The Jungle Brothers' careful return to hip hop.