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    May 25, 2012

    The Cavalier Crooks on Southern rock tradition and Tombstone Bullets

    On their new album Tombstone Bullets, The Cavalier Crooks have produced an album that grabs hold with dusty, writhing fingers, and won't let go. It's rare to find a band that manages to wholly inhabit a different degree than the masses, and even rarer to find one that makes music in that place tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    RIP Jim Marshall: Interview with the Marshall stack cake baker

    Jim Marshall, the man behind one of the most iconic images in rock history, died on Thursday at the age of 88. His black Marshall amplifiers were corded to some of the greatest guitarists to pick up the instrument: Jimi Hendrix, the Who's Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, and countless others. And then ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    Roger Daltrey's 'Tommy' show bumped to tomorrow night to make way for the Lynx

    ​Minnesota sports fans are finally getting some good news this year with the success of WNBA team the Lynx, who are playing in the finals for the first time in their franchise's history. The team are already up 1-0 over the Atlanta Dream (the finals are a best out of five competition), and will fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    The Rapture's Vito Roccoforte chooses Laser Eyes

    Photo by Ruvan Wijesooriya ​Forty-eight minutes into the interview with Vito Roccoforte, there's a pause. The drummer of The Rapture says to hold on, and the phone crackles as it shift hands. You can hear a quiet conversation, Vito asks someone a question, a woman laughs, and 45 seconds later he's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    5 Woodstock performances we're glad we missed

    ​The original Woodstock Music And Art Fair kicked off on this date in 1969, in a large farm located in Bethel, New York (which is technically about a half-hour southwest of Woodstock proper). And while much has been made and mythologized about the overwhelming feeling of peace and love that permea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Tommy Stinson at First Avenue, 5/20/11

    Photos by Steve Cohen​Tommy StinsonMay 20, 2011First Avenue, MinneapolisThese are strange times we're living in, so the modest turnout at Friday night's Tommy Stinson show shouldn't have come as a surprise. But scanning the Mainroom this weekend, it was hard not to think back to last fall's Replac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Heart at Mystic Lake Casino, 12/18/10

    Photo by Nikki Miller​Heart December 18, 2010 Mystic Lake Casino The power balladeers of my childhood, hard rock queens of my mother's adolescence, Heart weren't just role models for generations of young American women - they helped define for me and likely for many others the role of sexual ... More >>

  • Music

    November 24, 2010

    The Arms Akimbo expand their Britpop sound

    Self-titled longplayer to debut at Cause

  • Music

    August 4, 2010

    Chromeo, Glamorama, Psalm One, and more: Critics' Picks

    Self-titled longplayer to debut at Cause

  • Calendar

    July 28, 2010

    Bettye LaVette

    Self-titled longplayer to debut at Cause

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    The Top 9 sellingoutest musicians in pop history

    ​ Proudly gay pop icon Elton John last month played Rush Limbaugh's most recent wedding, obviously bringing into question Elton's valuation of morals over-- do we really need to spell this out for you? Bottom line is it was a sellout for the record books. Here's some other sad cases of how th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2010

    Al Kooper

    ​ Proudly gay pop icon Elton John last month played Rush Limbaugh's most recent wedding, obviously bringing into question Elton's valuation of morals over-- do we really need to spell this out for you? Bottom line is it was a sellout for the record books. Here's some other sad cases of how th ... More >>

  • Music

    April 28, 2010

    Amos Lee, the Bangles, Apples in Stereo: Critics' Picks

    ​ Proudly gay pop icon Elton John last month played Rush Limbaugh's most recent wedding, obviously bringing into question Elton's valuation of morals over-- do we really need to spell this out for you? Bottom line is it was a sellout for the record books. Here's some other sad cases of how th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Al Kooper talks Dylan, Conan, Hendrix, and lifetime in the music business

    All photos courtesy AlKooper.com​INTERVIEW BY RICK MASONKeyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and producer Al Kooper's uncanny presence and participation in landmark musical events over the past half-century have made him the rock equivalent of Forrest Gump or Zelig. His long association with Bob Dyl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Ben Ivascu on crushing the drums: Nine bands, no waiting

    Photo by Erik Hess​"Ben is kind of The Dude....he's a maniac and he holds it down so hard." High praise from Stef Leron "POS" Alexander, but drummer Ben Ivascu lives up to the hype every single time he plays. And chances are that he's playing right now. In a set of cities blessed with some o ... More >>

  • Music

    April 21, 2010

    Yeasayer, Gogol Bordello, and more

    Photo by Erik Hess​"Ben is kind of The Dude....he's a maniac and he holds it down so hard." High praise from Stef Leron "POS" Alexander, but drummer Ben Ivascu lives up to the hype every single time he plays. And chances are that he's playing right now. In a set of cities blessed with some o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Spontaneity in televised musical performances, R.I.P.

    ​This won't be an anti-American Idol blog post, but I am taking aim at American Idol; it won't entirely condemn Rihanna, but it will subject Ri-Ri to some tough love. Idol and Rihanna are a mere jumping-off point, because watching the results show Wednesday night made me really confront something ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Revisiting Reissues: Hits and misses from re-releases in the '00s

    A sampling of what made (re)collecting the old faves so fun, and frustrating, in the aughts.

  • Unknown

    August 29, 2007

    Culture Jamming

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

  • Music

    August 1, 1979

    The Cars Shift Into Overdrive

    Originally printed in Sweet Potato, vol. 1, issue 1, August 1979

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