Woody McBride

Summer Set Festival 2012 lineup

The 2012 Summer Set Music and Camping Festival arrives in late August, and the lineup is a doozy. Combining the powers of jam bands, electronic music, hip-hop, reggae, and all of the confluences that exist between these many worlds, this year's edition should be a shock to the system. To say nothing ... More >>

Bassgasm 6 ready to rattle First Avenue

Woody McBride's thunderous series returns

Bassgasm 6 approaching: Giving away 7 pair of tixx now

​ To those of us who know what a Bassgasm looks and feels like (OK, now that just sounds dirty), the thought of six of them might seem exhausting. It's a good thing they're spread out over a year --  two annually at First Avenue since Woody McBride launched them in the winter of 2010.Well, no ... More >>

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 >>

Bassgasm 4 set times announced

McBride at a rave in 2009​Techno DJ and Twin Cities promoter Woody McBride announced set times for what he's calling "The Twin Cities Biggest Funnest Electronic Dance Music Super Event" taking place tonight at First Avenue. The event begins at 5 p.m. and ends at 2 a.m.As of right now, McBride is s ... More >>

Bassgasm 4 brings one loud blast from the past

​Minneapolis was a raver playground back in the late '90s. Flyers for illegal dance parties littered the sidewalks outside of downtown clubs and sat in messy stacks atop bass-rattled countertops at the Lake Street deejay den Cynesthesia, much-missed vinyl haven Let It Be Records, and raver-run Fus ... More >>

Pixies, TV on the Radio, Rusko, and more

​Minneapolis was a raver playground back in the late '90s. Flyers for illegal dance parties littered the sidewalks outside of downtown clubs and sat in messy stacks atop bass-rattled countertops at the Lake Street deejay den Cynesthesia, much-missed vinyl haven Let It Be Records, and raver-run Fus ... More >>

Bassgasm 2 at First Avenue, 7/23/10

Photos by Denis Jeong Plaster​Bassgasm 2July 23rd, 2010First AvenueYou could feel it before you walked through the door.  The low end was turned up as far as it would go, reverberating through the black brick of First Ave, making the concrete tremble beneath the feet of all the boys and girls ... More >>

Bassgasm 2, Gaslight Anthem, Squeeze, and more

Photos by Denis Jeong Plaster​Bassgasm 2July 23rd, 2010First AvenueYou could feel it before you walked through the door.  The low end was turned up as far as it would go, reverberating through the black brick of First Ave, making the concrete tremble beneath the feet of all the boys and girls ... More >>

Mathstatic, Time Squid & more: Twin Cities' live visual jockeys talk shop

​Maybe you've seen them, wild-eyed and laser-focused behind a rig with a million glowing things. Somewhere in the room the image of a log floating through space gets metamorphed into a burst of geometric shapes in time with the music and you think "holy shit." We wanted to get into the heads of th ... More >>

Bassgasm 2

​Maybe you've seen them, wild-eyed and laser-focused behind a rig with a million glowing things. Somewhere in the room the image of a log floating through space gets metamorphed into a burst of geometric shapes in time with the music and you think "holy shit." We wanted to get into the heads of th ... More >>

Meet your Bassgasm DJs, Vol. 1: Easyrider, Aaron Bliss & Kittybump

Bassgasm 1 - Denis Jeong Plaster for CP​There are a lot of reasons people go to parties, but just one that will unite hundreds of dance music fans from around the Midwest for one of Woody McBride's legendary massives -- and that, dear friends, is the muthaf**ing bass. Packing 60-some odd DJs and ... More >>

DJ Spree to play farewell Minneapolis performance at Bassgasm (free DJ mix)

DJ Spree, the number one happy hardcore DJ in the US, plays his final Minneapolis DJ set at Bassgasm tonight.

Bassgasm

DJ Spree, the number one happy hardcore DJ in the US, plays his final Minneapolis DJ set at Bassgasm tonight.

Dre Day, Bassgasm, and more

DJ Spree, the number one happy hardcore DJ in the US, plays his final Minneapolis DJ set at Bassgasm tonight.

Slideshows: A Prairie Home Companion, Stachefest, and more

Photos from over the weekend.

Frankie Bones

Photos from over the weekend.

Brother Ali, Dinosaur Jr., John Fogerty, and more

Photos from over the weekend.

Diplo, DFA among Top 10 Dance Collections of 2008

The After Party

Country living and carrot juice with DJ Woody McBride

Minnesota's Fifty Greatest Hits

The greatest Minnesota-made records of all time

DJ ESP Woody McBride: I'm Psychic You Know

The greatest Minnesota-made records of all time

A Local Music Yearbook

Two cities, twelve months, a million reasons to rock!

Picked to Click XII

Hail the Conquering Heroes: Polls and Praise for This Year's Best New Artists

The Mouse That Roared

James Lindbloom brings eclectic sounds to his Roaratorio record label

The Road to 'Redemption'

Chris Sattinger Returns to the Minneapolis That Made Him Timeblind

Hail the Sun God

As DJ Apollo, Dory Kahale tries to leave the ghetto-house scene for good. But the dirty beat wants him back.

Sound Check

As DJ Apollo, Dory Kahale tries to leave the ghetto-house scene for good. But the dirty beat wants him back.

Sound Check

As DJ Apollo, Dory Kahale tries to leave the ghetto-house scene for good. But the dirty beat wants him back.

Sound Check

As DJ Apollo, Dory Kahale tries to leave the ghetto-house scene for good. But the dirty beat wants him back.

A Power of Ten

Slug's love bug, Kat Bjelland's exorcism, Dave Pirner's throbbing shins: Ten years of local music served on ten great platters.

Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge

Slug's love bug, Kat Bjelland's exorcism, Dave Pirner's throbbing shins: Ten years of local music served on ten great platters.

Scene Not Heard

Computer wizards leave their bedrooms, rappers reach the stage, and the Mason Jennings Band creates the bar buzz of the decade. In the ninth annual City Pages New Music Poll, 60 local music fans pick the bands that made the biggest noise.

The Last Days of Disco

Open playlists. Mixed audiences. Women's mud wrestling. Ample coke. What ever happened to the Minneapolis club scene?

Over the Counter

Staffed by DJs and rockers, indie record stores are selling a scene

Greatest of E's

Waxing words of wisdom: Let It Be's vinyl expert and club sensation DJ E-Tones

Strangely Arranged: Volume 1

Waxing words of wisdom: Let It Be's vinyl expert and club sensation DJ E-Tones

ODDS & ENDS

Ridin' Out the Karma: Walt Mink's Candice Belanoff and John Kimbrough

Music vs. Aids

Ridin' Out the Karma: Walt Mink's Candice Belanoff and John Kimbrough

Woody McBride

Ridin' Out the Karma: Walt Mink's Candice Belanoff and John Kimbrough

Plugged In

Ridin' Out the Karma: Walt Mink's Candice Belanoff and John Kimbrough

Circuit Cities

Sampling the Local Electronic Underground

Who Are These Girls & Guys?

That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.