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The Bad Plus

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2011

    Weekend Checklist: Dark Pony, Animal Lover, Joey Ryan & the Inks, Dream Crusher

    ​A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. - Garrison Keillor

  • Music

    December 21, 2011

    Critics' Picks: Vampire Hands, Alexander O'Neal, Twilight Hours, and more

    ​A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. - Garrison Keillor

  • Calendar

    December 21, 2011

    The Bad Plus

    ​A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. - Garrison Keillor

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    50 cool facts about the Minnesota music scene

    Here's a not-so-secret fact about Minnesota music: People love to talk about how much they love the scene here. Musicians from both out-of-state and the Twin Cities have gone out of their way to pen odes to our town and its vibrant community, from Atmosphere to Lucinda Williams Tom Waits to Mark Ma ... More >>

  • Music

    September 7, 2011

    Halloween, Alaska get a makeover

    Local icons: "We're letting all the sounds in now"

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    The Bad Plus return to perform Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'

    ​The music of Stravinsky has been appropriated and reconfigured for ages now. From Charlie Parker to Ornette Coleman and Frank Zappa, pieces have been pulled, re-arranged and served as the catalyst for new ideas in both classical and jazz worlds.

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Pachyderm Studios' Cannon Falls property for sale

    Photo via Edina Realty​Pachyderm Studios, best known as the recording site of Nirvana's final studio album, In Utero, as well as the place where dozens of local bands holed up in the early- to mid-'90s to record their work, has gone out of business once and for all and the property is now for sale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Top 10 Christmas weekend shows and events

    ​Most offices may be closed tomorrow for Christmas Eve, but the clubs will still be hopping all weekend long with some great holiday-themed events. Here's a rundown of the nine best excuses to sneak out of the house this week (plus one reason to stay in), starting with a few gigs that are slated f ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 22, 2010

    The Bad Plus

    ​Most offices may be closed tomorrow for Christmas Eve, but the clubs will still be hopping all weekend long with some great holiday-themed events. Here's a rundown of the nine best excuses to sneak out of the house this week (plus one reason to stay in), starting with a few gigs that are slated f ... More >>

  • Music

    December 22, 2010

    Grant Cutler & the Gorgeous Lords, the Bad Plus, and more

    ​Most offices may be closed tomorrow for Christmas Eve, but the clubs will still be hopping all weekend long with some great holiday-themed events. Here's a rundown of the nine best excuses to sneak out of the house this week (plus one reason to stay in), starting with a few gigs that are slated f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    Love-cars reuniting for 'Rent Party!' at the Turf tonight

    ​It all makes sense. For those wondering how local musicians like James Diers, Haley Bonar, Jeremy Ylvisaker, JT Bates, Jake Hanson, and Mike Lewis find the time to spawn so many amazing, collaborative projects, the answer is simple: They all share a practice space. And unfortunately, that practic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    The Bad Plus announce September release for Never Stop

    ​The Bad Plus have spent the last decade being known as one of the country's brightest lights in modern jazz, pulling inspiration from all musical sides for their originals and casting a refractory lens on some pretty extraordinary covers of popular songs along the way. For their eighth record the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Explore Minnesota Radio streaming all-local playlist

    ​Explore Minnesota, a site dedicated to attracting tourism to our fair state, has teamed up with 89.3 the Current to create an all-local playlist of streaming music that spans from the Castaways and the Trashmen to Dessa, Peter Wolf Crier, and Owl City. The mix, naturally, is bent toward radio-fri ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 10, 2010

    Dave King

    ​Explore Minnesota, a site dedicated to attracting tourism to our fair state, has teamed up with 89.3 the Current to create an all-local playlist of streaming music that spans from the Castaways and the Trashmen to Dessa, Peter Wolf Crier, and Owl City. The mix, naturally, is bent toward radio-fri ... More >>

  • Music

    March 10, 2010

    Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Afrika Bambaataa, and more

    ​Explore Minnesota, a site dedicated to attracting tourism to our fair state, has teamed up with 89.3 the Current to create an all-local playlist of streaming music that spans from the Castaways and the Trashmen to Dessa, Peter Wolf Crier, and Owl City. The mix, naturally, is bent toward radio-fri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    The Walker plans two-day Dave King celebration

    You know you've made it in the local scene when the Walker plans not one, but two days in your honor.

  • Calendar

    December 23, 2009

    The Bad Plus

    You know you've made it in the local scene when the Walker plans not one, but two days in your honor.

  • Music

    December 23, 2009
  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Christmas weekend concert guide

    A jam-packed lineup to keep you sane over the holiday weekend.

  • Calendar

    December 16, 2009

    Atlantis Quartet (CD-Release)

    A jam-packed lineup to keep you sane over the holiday weekend.

  • Calendar

    October 21, 2009

    James Sewell Ballet: Moving Works

    A jam-packed lineup to keep you sane over the holiday weekend.

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Point of Departure: Is jazz dead?

    Or is it just dead tired? A new Gimme Noise contributor asks the tough questions.

  • Calendar

    August 12, 2009

    Square Lake Music and Film Festival

    Or is it just dead tired? A new Gimme Noise contributor asks the tough questions.

  • Calendar

    July 15, 2009

    Christopher O'Riley

    Or is it just dead tired? A new Gimme Noise contributor asks the tough questions.

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    Gimme News Weekly Wrap-Up: May 8-14

    Dinkytowner to close, Mallman to release a new album, Stone Arch details, Art-a-Whirl & next week's best new releases.

  • Music

    May 13, 2009

    The Bad Plus: For All I Care

    Dinkytowner to close, Mallman to release a new album, Stone Arch details, Art-a-Whirl & next week's best new releases.

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    May 8, 2009: The Bad Plus & Muja Messiah

    Muja Messiah honored in URB's "Next 100," NOMO hits Radio K, video of the Bad Plus at the Cedar.

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2009

    April 21, 2009: Green Day & Bob Dylan

    Bob Dylan releases new music video, Green Day schedule TC date & Sick of Sarah plans national tour.

  • Calendar

    December 24, 2008

    The Bad Plus

    Bob Dylan releases new music video, Green Day schedule TC date & Sick of Sarah plans national tour.

  • Music

    December 24, 2008

    Mark Mallman, Eyedea & Abilities, and more

    Bob Dylan releases new music video, Green Day schedule TC date & Sick of Sarah plans national tour.

  • Calendar

    July 23, 2008

    10,000 Lakes Festival

    Bob Dylan releases new music video, Green Day schedule TC date & Sick of Sarah plans national tour.

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2008

    Reporter's Notebook: Dosh

    Bob Dylan releases new music video, Green Day schedule TC date & Sick of Sarah plans national tour.

  • Feature

    April 30, 2008

    Dosh's World

    Electronic one-man band Martin Dosh steps out of the background and into the spotlight

  • Calendar

    December 26, 2007

    The Bad Plus

    Electronic one-man band Martin Dosh steps out of the background and into the spotlight

  • Unknown

    June 20, 2007

    Concert Highlights for the Week of June 20-26

    Electronic one-man band Martin Dosh steps out of the background and into the spotlight

  • Music

    May 9, 2007

    The Bad Plus: Prog

    Electronic one-man band Martin Dosh steps out of the background and into the spotlight

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2005

    Happy Apple scores favorable review from the Times

    Electronic one-man band Martin Dosh steps out of the background and into the spotlight

  • News

    December 15, 2004

    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.

  • Arts

    August 11, 2004

    End of the Road, End of the Rods

    They got hassled by the FBI. Todd Rundgren drank all their Foster's. And now they're breaking up. After teetering on the edge of big-time success for over a decade, 12 Rods remember what it's like to be a popular Twin Cities band--and what it's like to pa

  • Music

    May 19, 2004

    Brad Mehldau: Anything Goes ; Frank Kimbrough: Lullabluebye

    They got hassled by the FBI. Todd Rundgren drank all their Foster's. And now they're breaking up. After teetering on the edge of big-time success for over a decade, 12 Rods remember what it's like to be a popular Twin Cities band--and what it's like to pa

  • Music

    April 7, 2004

    Here Comes Your Youth

    Our teenage American alt-rock dream: The triumphant return of the Pixies

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    Top-Ten-o-Matic

    City Pages scribes chime in with their top tens

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    The Soundtrack of Our Lives

    The Best Albums in the World Ever!! Okay, Maybe Just in This Town, Circa 2003

  • Music

    December 10, 2003

    Music To Make Love To Your Alien By

    Halloween, Alaska play electronic pop to seduce the cylons

  • News

    April 30, 2003

    Best of the Twin Cities: The Winners

    Halloween, Alaska play electronic pop to seduce the cylons

  • News

    April 9, 2003

    Bad Luck!

    How three Midwestern boys reached jazz nirvana

  • Music

    March 5, 2003

    All That Jazz

    How three Midwestern boys reached jazz nirvana

  • Music

    July 10, 2002

    Is All That Jazz?

    Savoring the variably spicy JVC jazz festival

  • Music

    June 26, 2002

    New Standards: The Bad Plus

    With Minneapolis's Dave King on Drums, an Irreverent Trio Turns ABBA and Aphex Twin Into All That Jazz

  • Music

    June 26, 2002

    Jazz Notes: Omar Sosa Octet

    A Cuban Musician and His Band Give Their Audience Multicultural Jazz--and Multifarious Gimmickry

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