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Bettye LaVette

Swallows releasing rootsy new album Witching & Divining at Amsterdam Bar on Saturday night

Since releasing the 2010 EP Clear Sky Relapse, Swallows has honed it's live act, allowing new members to settle in while evolving into a complex combination of American roots and Old World folk music. Their new LP, Witching & Divining, captures them like a firefly trapped in a jar. Each song i ... More >>

Kill the Vultures

Kill the Vultures

Buck 65

Top 20 best Minnesota songs: The complete list

Related:Top 20 best Minnesota musiciansFirst Avenue's 20 best concertsFirst Avenue's 20 best concerts: Readers' picks50 cool facts about the Minnesota music sceneCountless songwriters have found inspiration in the Land of 10,000 Lakes over the years, and even more have hit upon something revelatory ... More >>

Top 20 best Minnesota songs: #10-1

Related:Top 20 best Minnesota songs: #20-11Top 20 best Minnesota musiciansFirst Avenue's 20 best concertsCountless songwriters have found inspiration in the Land of 10,000 Lakes over the years, and even more have hit upon something revelatory about Minnesota without ever becoming full-time residen ... More >>

James Leg & Molly Gene One Whoaman Band

C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band

A Tom Waits visual tribute in honor of the release of Bad As Me

​Tom Waits' twentieth album, Bad As Me, was released today on Anti- records to almost epidemically feverish anticipation from fans. (Gimme Noise's collective thermometer reads 106!) So what better way to pay tribute to everyone's favorite growling crooner than with some choice YouTube clips t ... More >>

Mark Mallman tour diary, Vol. 7

​A millionaire friend once told me, "Mallman, you have two options in this world: crazy busy or dead poor." I corrected him: "Try the music business, you'll be both." 

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 >>

Weekend Checklist: Haley Bonar, Duran Duran, My Lady Four, Black Lips

​"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture." - Steve Martin

From Kanye to the Kinks: A very hipster Christmas mix

​For lack of a better word, sure--this mix is pretty hipsterish. But if you're sick of all that traditional crap that's been jammed down your throat since you were five, check out this mix of seasonal cheer--equal parts tongue-in-cheek and sentimental. Pair these songs with some homemade fudge an ... More >>

Eels

The Current's Steve Seel on dining at 5 a.m.

Get this man some Fritos​If you wake up to The Current during weekday mornings, then you probably have breakfast with Steve Seel, who hosts the 6-10 a.m. show with Jill Riley. But what does Seel, a guy who gets up before the sun, nosh on?

Best of Hot Dish: August 30-September 3, 2010

It is the time for the season of loving. And picking stuff.​ Hi, happy harvesters. Is this weather making you dream of Sunday afternoons watching football, crockpots full of soup, leaves falling from the sky, and apples in little grapevine baskets (or your own variation on that theme?) Yeah, us to ... More >>

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Bouncer Fighter: Satirical Spirituals

Mashups of the Week: Daft Punk & classic rock

New mashups including Daft Punk vs. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Deep Purple vs. Usher, the Doobies vs. Air France and more!

Top 10: Songs with sexually suggestive food metaphors

"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard," "My heart is like an artichoke," and "I want a little sugar/in my bowl..."

Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses

Gogol Bordello; Man Man

Rickie Lee Jones

The Popstream's Soundet '09 A/V Supplement Super-Spectacular

A brief selection of just a few of the underground rap superstars who'll rock Canterbury Park this Sunday.

Backyard Tire Fire

Kill the Vultures

Tom Waits to star in Hughes brothers' bizarro western

The Book of Eli might play out like deleted scenes from The Road, but at least you've got Waits to sit and snicker at.

Shrek the Musical cast recording to be unleashed March 24

Nevermind the fart gags-- Shrek the Musical is a tragedy that would make the Great Bard himself gnash his teeth.

House of Mercy

Breakfast of Champions 5/29: Radio waves

How Atmosphere Went Electro

Why Lemons is like Tom Waits for Prince Fans

Back to the Terrordome: Peter S. Scholtes reviews Chuck D and Slug

Big Trouble featuring Crescent Moon

Crescent Moon Is in Big Trouble

Nanci Griffith & Blue Moon Orchestra

Warm Beer, Cold Women

Culture Jamming

A super Star Wars parody tops this week's pop culture picks

Culture Jamming

Dirty pictures top this week's pop culture picks

Jessica Hoop

Kismet

Bard of the Boneyard

Seekers of the sublime find the familiar in new Tom Waits multi-disc release

The Big Chill

Kill the Vultures prepare for winter in a Midwestern river town

Tom Waits: Real Gone

A Movie Under The Influence

'Coffee and Cigarettes' catches a momentary buzz

Solomon Burke: Don't Give Up on Me

Gomez: Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline

9th & Hennepin

various artists: Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones: Experimental Musical Instruments

Frank Pahl: In Cahoots