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Lights at Varsity Theater, 5/8/13

Lights with Pat BrownVarsity Theater, MinneapolisTuesday, May 8, 2013Contrast plays a lot into what Canadian artist Lights does. The singer appeared onstage at the Varsity Tuesday night with a head of silver hair and a stripped down set of songs, the exact opposite from the last time she was in town ... More >>

New Year's music is far better than Christmas music

Back in 1788, poet Robert Burns wrote an anthem that's still more ubiquitous than Montell Jordan's "This is How We Do It" at New Year's. The lines to the kazoo-friendly "Auld Lang Syne" have summed up the "drinking to forget" philosophy ever since. What came in ensuing years is more complex. Now, w ... More >>

Hey, new bands: Stop putting out albums

Ask a Failed Musician is a new column from our sister music blog at Dallas Observer, in which Daniel Hopkins helps struggling musicians make sense of their careers and offers advice. Whether or not it will work, who knows? It obviously didn't work for him. But then again, he was on Kimmel once, so t ... More >>

SoundTown 2012 has been canceled

See Also:SoundTown 2012 statement: Ticket threshold wasn't metSoundTown 2011: A first-ever adventure in SomersetSoundTown 2012 lineup: Jane's Addiction, Florence the Machine, & moreMore cancellation news coming across today: SoundTown 2012 is indeed not happening, and artists are starting to s ... More >>

Snow Patrol/Ed Sheeran

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 >>

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96.3 NOW shifts to adult top 40 station K-TWIN

​Are you keeping up with all this? Just a short year and a half after switching from B96 to the less rap-heavy top 40 pop station 96.3 NOW, the station's owners made another shift this weekend and launched K-TWIN, which abandons "rhythmic" pop all together in favor of a format called Adult CH ... More >>

Twin Cities Year in Music 2011

Howler, Astronautalis, Pink Mink, and more

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KT Tunstall

The Week That Was: U2 to work with Danger Mouse, Mark E. Smith slags Mumford & Sons

​And just like that, as if by magic, we awaken into a world where Russell Brand and Katy Perry can flaunt an Indian marriage license, where Brett Favre got whipped in his old backyard, where the Yankees aren't headed to the world series, and where world peace remains as elusive a possibility as ev ... More >>

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Bettie Serveert

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Michele Bachmann still thinks U2 sank a troop ship

Photo: xrayspxU2: These guys do not captain a German submarine​Michele Bachmann still doesn't get it: Bono and the boys were not around during World War II and they can't be held responsible for the sinking of the troop ship Dorchester. She repeated her confusion about Irish rockers and Germa ... More >>

Michele Bachmann accuses U2 of sinking troop ships

Michele Bachmann flubs military history... again​Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is giving supporters a mouthful this summer and somehow mega-popular Irish band U2 have become entangled in her "facts". She  has  been caught on tape confusing the rockers with attack submarines while invoki ... More >>

Bono back injury puts MPLS U2 concert date in jeopardy

David ShankboneThe professional difference-maker himself​News has come out of Berlin (via MPR) that Bono of U2 and Africa-centric charity fame has hurt himself "preparing for" the band's upcoming tour. No specifics of how the injury occurred were released, but at age 50 the number of ways you can ... More >>

Bob Dylan left off of Vatican newspaper's list of best albums of all time

Perhaps he didn't forbid condom use enough for their taste?

Imagination Movers

School of Seven Bells

Conversation Piece: Brian Eno and Jon Hassell

Conversation Piece: Brian Eno and Jon Hassell

Gimme News Weekly Wrap-Up: Feb. 20-26

Blitzen Trapper FAIL, Element closes, Atmosphere announce tour & news on next week's new releases

Gimme News Weekly Wrap-Up: Jan. 30-Feb. 5, 2009

New Brother Ali, Baby Guts and Gospel Gossip in the news and next week's new releases including Lily Allen & Dan Auerbach

The Songs We Can't Escape

Inaugural Bike Valet

The Songs We Can't Escape

Kings of Leon: Only by the Night

Matthew Ryan

Band of Horses

Culture Jamming

5ingles

The songs we can't escape

Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome: 10 Best Moments

Various artists: Spider-Man 3 Soundtrack

1/30 Morning Communiqué

Sound Team: Movie Monster

4/25: Morning Communique

Top 10 Albums of 2005

Katrina tra-la-la-la: Hip-hoppers rock you like a...

Dance with me

Christmas of the Pod People

What are those little white boxes with wires telling us to do?

Last Year a DJ Saved My Life

Radio Gaga's 10 best pop singles of 2004

Burn Down The Record Stores!

The Walkmen make you stop thinking in terms of "albums." This music is made for a mix.

Taking Care of Business

Faux Jean applies for the job of Best Band in the World

Rock around the doc

U Film's "Sound Unseen" festival projects our mythologies of music onto the screen

Corporate Rock Still Sucks

How much worse can Modern Rock radio get? You have no idea...

Semisonic Feeling Strangely Fine

Becoming X by Sneaker Pimps

Can Do