The Jayhawks (Band)

On the Replacements' long shadow, and achin' to be out of it

Makes No Sense At All captures the visions, ramblings, and memories of Chris Strouth, a Twin Cities-bred master of music, film, and everything else.The Catholic Church figured out something during the middle ages: If you build a church to look like a castle, the serfs will feel safe in its massive ... More >>

SXSW 2013: A handy Minnesota music guide

The South By Southwest Music Conference seems perfectly timed each year with the exact moment when bands and music fans from the North have reached their collective breaking points with the interminable winter months, and communally head down to Austin, Texas in a grand, musical migration. Despite ... More >>

Local Frames: New videos from Cloud Cult, the Ocean Blue, Enemy Planes, and more

As the Twin Cities music scene grows, more and more artists are creating music that demands our attention. Combine the music with talented filmmakers locally and beyond, and you have a fruitful mix of distinct skills that generates more locally connected music videos than ever before. While it's im ... More >>

Why Muzak, as a concept at least, will never die

Muzak just joined the ranks of words like aspirin, brassiere, cellophane, escalator, granola, kerosene, linoleum, trampoline, yo-yo, & zipper. These were brands that became the colloquialism for the thing itself, and the word lives on well after the brand itself has gone to that great Piggly Wi ... More >>

Critics Picks: Summit Backyard Bash, Metric, and more

Concrete and Grass Lowertown Music Festival

Gary Louris to headline 6th annual Concrete and Grass Lowertown Music Festival

See Also: Music In Mears kicks off free summer concert series in St. Paul tonight The Jayhawks family tree: From Gary Louris to the Jonas Brothers in three moves or less The Jayhawks play A Prairie Home Companion, release reunion record Mockingbird Time As the ninth successful season of Music In Me ... More >>

Southeast Engine on Woody Guthrie, Barack Obama, and historical songwriting

Southeast Engine is an Ohio alt-country band that charges down the open highway pinned between grit and grace. Singer Adam Remnant's voice is one-of-a-kind in that it has an everyman's quality -- even if you're hard-pressed to find anyone who sounds quite like him. For those enraptured by the vocal ... More >>

Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner on Delayed Reaction and all that jazz

Release shows at 7th St. Entry and First Avenue

Paul Westerberg collaboration appears on Kevin Bowe's new record

As Twin Cities music fans wait patiently for any sign of stirring from Paul Westerberg, there is a small bit of creative activity from the former 'Mats frontman on the forthcoming new record from renowned Minneapolis songwriter/producer/guitarist Kevin Bowe and his band the Okemah Prophets. Bowe ... More >>

First Avenue's 20 best concerts: The complete list

Related:First Avenue: An archived history via flyers, riders & contractsFirst Avenue's 40 years of rock 'n' rollTop 20 best Minnesota musicians: The complete listFirst Avenue is undoubtedly among the premier rock clubs in the country -- possibly the world. Since 1970, the building at the interse ... More >>

First Avenue's 20 best concerts: #10-1

Related:Slideshow: First Avenue: An archived history via flyers, riders & contracts First Avenue's 20 best concerts: #20-11First Avenue's 40 years of rock 'n' rollTop 20 best Minnesota musicians: The complete list10. Basement Jaxx, First Avenue, 10/08/01Basement Jaxx's first appearance in Minne ... More >>

Top 20 best Minnesota musicians: #20-11

​Minnesotans need to remember to exhale sometimes -- especially fresh on the heels of being ranked as the number two music scene in the country. Shouldn't it be enough to simply enjoy a rich history of quality musicians blossoming from fertile local soil? For those times that worrying that people ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Schoolboy Q, Dr. Dog, Yacht, and more

The Jayhawks

The Jayhawks play A Prairie Home Companion, release reunion record 'Mockingbird Time'

Photos by Steve Cohen​With only a couple of weeks left until the release of their reunion record, Mockingbird Time, the Jayhawks are flying into overdrive with a series of promotional shows, downloads, and appearances, including a recent stop at Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion last wee ... More >>

A Prairie Home Companion

Peter Jesperson talks about the early days at Twin/Tone Records

Jennifer Jesperson​Peter Jesperson's resume includes stints with Oar Folkjokeopus (now Treehouse Records), Jay's Longhorn Bar, Rev 105, and myriad other music-related jobs. Perhaps best known for co-founding Twin/Tone Records with Paul Stark and Charley Hallman, Jesperson signed such seminal ... More >>

Dan Israel talks 'Crosstown Traveler' and staying grounded amid life's traffic jams

Photo by Steve Cohen​Dan Israel has been a constant in the Twin Cities roots music scene for over a decade now, and has proven himself to be a consistently high-quality songwriter and a witty, self-deprecating performer. Israel is getting ready to release his 11th album, Crosstown Traveler, a ... More >>

Golden Smog

Golden Smog book two nights at the Fine Line

​Longstanding Twin Cities-based supergroup Golden Smog have announced a two-night stand at the Fine Line, Friday, April 15 and Saturday, April 16. According to a press release from the Fine Line, the performance will feature all of the band's core members: Marc Perlman and Gary Louris (The Jayhawk ... More >>

The Jayhawks at First Avenue, 1/29/11 and 1/30/11

Photos by Steve Cohen​The JayhawksJanuary 29 and 30, 2011First Avenue, MinneapolisAfter easing into their set on Saturday night, the Jayhawks were off and running for a two-night stand that found them finishing with a double-encore on Sunday evening and looking hesitant to leave the stage that the ... More >>

The Jayhawks family tree: From Gary Louris to the Jonas Brothers in three moves or less

​We're pretty damn excited about this weekend's back-to-back Jayhawks shows at First Avenue, which will find the reunited band revisiting their two most seminal albums, Tomorrow the Green Grass and Hollywood Town Hall.In anticipation of the shows this weekend, we thought it would be fun to see jus ... More >>

The Jayhawks, Best New Bands, Lyrics Born, and more

The Jayhawks

Twin Cities bands to listen for in 2011

Mally, Pink Mink, Grant Cutler, and more

First Avenue's 40th Birthday Party, 12/15/10

Photos by Tony Nelson​First Avenue's 40 Birthday PartyDecember 15, 2010First Avenue's Mainroom & 7th St. EntryNow that is how you throw a birthday party. On a night meant to honor some of the bands and the people who have made the Twin Cities music scene what it is and those that will see it i ... More >>

Twin Cities Year in Music 2010: The highlights

Prince, Gayngs, Gigamesh, and many others dot the calendar

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 >>

Dar Williams

The Suburbs' Chan Poling and the Jayhawks' Gary Louris perform together for Sound Unseen

Photos by Steve Cohen​As this year's Sound Unseen festival wrapped up at the Southern Theater with a screening of Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?, the festival organizers pulled out all the stops to make it a special night. Harry's daughter Annie was in attendance, ... More >>

Mark Olson

Many Colored Kite (Rykodisc)

Sound Unseen announces its 11th season

​The Sound Unseen festival, which celebrates independent films about music, will celebrate its 11th season with a dozen films at three separate locations October 6-10. This season, the festival will show a selection of films at the Southern Theater on the West Bank in addition to hosting events at ... More >>

Behind the scenes with the Jayhawks in Minneapolis

Photos by Steve Cohen​The Jayhawks blew us away when they played their three-night stand at First Avenue earlier this month, but their performances in the Twin Cities weren't limited to the Mainroom; the band also rehearsed together for the few days leading up to their shows, performed an in-studi ... More >>

The Jayhawks: Here today, gone tomorrow

Photos by Steve Cohen​We'll have a full recap of all three Jayhawks shows at First Avenue tomorrow, but for the time being: If you aren't already planning on going tonight, GO TONIGHT. Last night's performance veered toward transcendence several times, as the band played a lengthy regular set in a ... More >>

The Jayhawks prepare for big weekend at First Avenue

Photo by Steve CohenThe Jayhawks, rehearsing at Gary Louris's home yesterday​It's an historic weekend for the Jayhawks, who are preparing to play four Twin Cities shows in a row with a lineup that has only played in the United States once in the last 15 years. On the heels of last summer's extraor ... More >>

Gary Louris and friends play intimate show in Wabasha

Photos by Steve Cohen​On May 22, Gary Louris returned to home to Minnesota from a solo acoustic tour, joined by friends Marc Perlman & Tim O'Reagan (The Jayhawks), Jim Boquist (Son Volt, Paul Westerberg) and vocalist Janey Winterbauer (Astronaut Wife, Janey and Marc) at the Broadway Theater in ... More >>

Gary Louris and friends playing in Wabasha tomorrow

Photo by Amanda Farah​Gary Louris is playing a show in Wabasha, Minnesota tomorrow night (about an hour and a half out of the Twin Cities), and it's turning out to be quite the Jayhawks-centric shindig. Louris originally booked the show as a way to practice a few newer songs he wrote over the wint ... More >>

Nero's Neptune

Treehouse Records owner Mark Trehus's new record label is a labor of love

Mark Olson to release solo album this summer

​Jayhawks fans have a lot to celebrate in the coming months: In addition to reissuing the out-of-print The Jayhawks album on May 18, the band will reunite with lead singers Mark Olson and Gary Louris to play three nights at First Ave June 19-21, and Olson will release a new solo album later this y ... More >>

The Jayhawks planning three-night stand at First Ave

Photo by Steve Cohen​Anyone who made it out to the Basilica Block Party last summer to catch the Jayhawks reunion show can attest that there was something otherworldly at play when founding members Gary Louris and Mark Olson sang their old songs together again. It had been 14 years since the two f ... More >>

The Year in Music: The Best Albums of 2009

The Year in Music: P.O.S., Solid Gold, and Owl City break through

Losses include the Suburbs' Bruce Allen, Dinkytowner, and Myth

Jayhawks Karen Grotberg, Tim O'Reagan, Marc Perlman make special appearance

Three-fifths of the Jayhawks reunited at the 318 Cafe in Excelsior Saturday night.

Wilco rocks the Roy

Six guys, 100 guitars and Gary?

Basilica Block Party announces set times

Start planning for next weekend's big block party.

Jayhawks flock together to rock Basilica block party

Summer Guide: Events

Gary Louris

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion

Gary Louris