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Top 10 must-see Minnesota music videos this week

Local Frames is a weekly column spotlighting the best new music videos featuring musicians and directors with Minnesota ties. This week we lead off with another uplifting video from inspirational signer/songwriter Zach Sobiech. "Sandcastles" is a collaborative duet with Sammy Brown that only adds t ... More >>

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Night Moves' Colored Emotions is streaming

The trippy debut album from Night Moves is streaming online a week ahead of its official release. Colored Emotions is the band's Domino Records debut, and it possesses a wealth of sonic influences that hearken back to the psychedelic '70s, as well as a pretty sizable revival about a decade ago.Erik ... More >>

15 gorgeous GIFs from River's Edge Music Festival 2012

Related:10 gorgeous GIFs from Rock the Garden 2012Review: River's Edge Music Festival Day 1, 6/23/12Review: River's Edge Music Festival Day 2, 6/24/12Slideshows: Music Day 1, Music Day 2, People Day 1, People Day 2  The very first River's Edge Music Festival is now a piece of Harriet Island lor ... More >>

River's Edge Music Festival Day 2, 6/24/12

River's Edge Music Festival 2with Dave Matthews Band, The Flaming Lips, Puscifer, Poliça, Awolnation, Diplo, Mutemath, Delta Spirit, K. Flay, AM & Shawn Lee, Mexican Institute of Sound, Civil Twilight, Hey Rosetta!, Kids These DaysHarriet Island, St. PaulSunday, June 24, 2012Related:Review: Riv ... More >>

River's Edge Music Festival 2012 at Harriet Island lineup

Related:Death Cab For Cutie, Avett Brothers highlight Des Moines' 80/35 Fest line-upKid Dakota, Mayda, Bloodnstuff lead Lyn-Lake Street Fest lineupFeist, DeVotchKa, and Rufus Wainwright top Music in the Zoo's summer concert scheduleThe Live Nation-sponsored River's Edge Festival at Harriet Island ha ... More >>

Hackensaw Boys to play the Cabooze tonight

​A band that has over the years collaborated with folks who'd later appear in Old Crow Medicine Show and Modest Mouse, and has also backed the late Charlie Louvin on a nationwide tour, tonight the excellent Hackensaw Boys will be appearing at the Cabooze in Minneapolis.

The Flaming Lips working with Bon Iver, Yoko Ono, and Nick Cave on their new album

​If anyone can pull off this mad concoction it's the Flaming Lips. As if their idiosyncratic sound and the unhinged musical themes of their past albums wasn't enough, the Lips have now recruited a talented batch of disparate special guests to work with them on their new record. In addition to ... More >>

The New Standards issue holiday album to coincide with annual Fitzgerald shows

​If you've tuned into the Current at all this week, there's a good chance you've heard about this weekend's back-to-back New Standards Holiday Shows at the Fitzgerald Theater, the group's annual star-studded performances of jazz-inspired covers and holiday sing-alongs. This year, in honor of their ... More >>

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Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne ponders year-long song, gloats

​Psychedelic freak-show Oklahomans Flaming Lips are nothing if not daring and insane; winding down an autumn that's seen them release limited-edition, imaginatively packaged six and 24 hour-long songs, front man Wayne Coyne announced a series of esoteric, cracked-out extra-musical stunts for 2012 ... More >>

Top 10 concert photos of August 2011

It's been another big month for concert photography on the Gimme Noise blog and in City Pages -- so big, in fact, that one of our photographer's photos of the Flaming Lips ended up on the cover of the paper last week (well done, Erik Hess!). See that photo and nine other favorites from the month bel ... More >>

SoundTown 2011: A first-ever adventure in Somerset

The Flaming Lips headline memorable summer festival

Weekend Checklist: Jeremy Messersmith, SoundTown, West Bank Music Festival

​"Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do."-Richard Nelson Bolles

SoundTown Series: Catching up with the New Pornographers

​The New Pornographers are one of those bands that seem like they will just quietly endure, continually putting out quality from the indie-pop front lines. Since the 2010 release of their fifth studio album, Together, various members of the Canadian supergroup (a term which the band seems to p ... More >>

The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne on headlining SoundTown

Coyne talks festivals, stage antics, and what's in his fridge

The Flaming Lips, CLAPS featured in this week's City Pages

CLAPS photo by Paul Irmiter​We've been posting all kinds of SoundTown coverage leading up to this weekend's festival, and today our SoundTown Series moves into the print edition for an interview with the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, who talked to Natalie Gallagher about why he likes playing festival ... More >>

Wayne Coyne's doodles: 10 psychedelic drawings from the Flaming Lips frontman

​When Wayne Coyne was on the phone with writer Natalie Gallagher for her interview that is running in this week's City Pages, the Flaming Lips frontman mentioned that he was using his time tethered to the phone for interviews to sketch an "elaborate doodle." After their interview, Coyne uploaded i ... More >>

SoundTown ticket giveaway: Win one of 10 sets of camping and festival passes

​If you haven't heard about the SoundTown Festival yet, you obviously haven't been reading Gimme Noise -- as part of our SoundTown Series leading up to next weekend's fest, we've caught up with national performers like Delta Spirit and DeVotchKa as well as local acts the Goondas and the Ericksons, ... More >>

SoundTown Series: Delta Spirit's Jon Jameson talks about their new album and Friday Night Lights

​Roots rockers Delta Spirit are relentlessly busy. In the midst of recording their third album, they have been touring up a storm--hitting the festival circuit heavily, between Lollapalooza, the Newport Folk Festival, and now SoundTown. Gimme Noise chatted with founding member and bassist Jon ... More >>

SoundTown Series: The Ericksons teach us how to fall in love

​Sisters Jenny Kochsiek and Bethany Valentini, together with drummer Dan Kapernick, make up the Ericksons--a local roots band with hearty female vocals that lend well to their haunting Appalachian sound. The Ericksons have been around Minneapolis for less than a year, following the September r ... More >>

Marnie Stern at the 7th St. Entry, 7/3/11

Tom Pilcher​Marnie Stern July 3, 2011 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis Experimental guitar player Marnie Stern took a break from her high-profile opening gigs with the Flaming Lips on Sunday night at the Entry to burn through a shorter set of newer material with her noisy trio. Stern's impressive f ... More >>

Sound Town brings the Flaming Lips, New Pornographers, over a dozen locals to Somerset August 19-20

​With the 10,000 Lakes Festival on hiatus and Taste of Minnesota out of commission, our festival calendar was looking pretty sparse -- that is until this morning, when 89.3 the Current invited new Somerset Amphitheater partner Matt Mithun on air to announce Sound Town, a new festival coming to Som ... More >>

Ghostmouth opens for your favorite bands whether you like it or not

An exclusive interview with the band that keeps showing up outside of every one of your favorite concerts.

The Black Keys announce July 3 date at Roy Wilkins

​Grammy-winning rock duo the Black Keys, who took home trophies this year for Best Alternative Music Album, Best Recording Package, Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocals, are returning to the Twin Cities on July 3 to play the Roy Wilkins Auditorium with openers Cage the Elephant.

Weekend Checklist: Os Mutantes, Military Special, The Suburbs Suicide Commandos!

​As national acts realize that winter in Minnesota is here to stay (and subsequently stop touring our way for a few months), local bands are still playing nonstop for our enjoyment. Check some of the major billings happening this weekend from some of our best talent.

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Dada Trash Collage

Flaming Lips at Roy Wilkins, 9/19/10

Photos by Nick Vlcek​Flaming LipsSeptember 19Roy Wilkins, St. PaulOnly the Flaming Lips could get away with this shit.

The Flaming Lips, School Of Seven Bells, and more

Bonnaroo announces lineup in most annoying way possible

In tiny increments via social media.

Weekly Charts: Top songs spun on Radio K and the Current

Listen to the singles charting this week on both Radio K & 89.3 the Current.

Weekly Charts: Top songs spun on Radio K and the Current

Listen to a comprehensive list of the singles charting this week on both Radio K & 89.3 the Current.

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Here are the week's best releases from the pop culture universe

Various artists: Spider-Man 3 Soundtrack

The Umbrella Sequence: Events

Introducing the City Pages Media Taster

Space is Deep

Flaming Lips: New adventures in sci-fi

Starlight Mints: Drowaton

She Bop

It Didn't Start with Babes in Toyland: A Short and Eccentric History of Women in Local Music, 1931-Present

Unsolved mystery

Nobody: And Everything Else...

Oh my gawd: 400 hrs of the Lips?

Basket of Tears

The other night there was a party at my house

Greatest Hits, 2002

various artists: Sounds of Psychedelphia

Cry Like a Man

The Get Up Kids combine hard playing with hard feelings for a new "emo" audience

Round Robyn

English pop's square peg finds a new circle

The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin