P.O.S. and Doomtree keep hip-hop real, no matter what the critics say.

Children's games supply ample metaphors for Detachment Kit.

"Crossfaded" presents an album of loosely related music from the Twin Cities.

Musical highlights from the past month.

Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers offer an engaging blend of pop influences.

Back in Minneapolis, The Strike want you to do something about politics.

The Wrens just keep plugging away at their ongoing elegy to New Jersey.

Real tragedy and pop tragedy clash in Xiu Xiu's lyrics.

Technique's rhymes straddle the line between oppression and liberation.

Aesthetic Apparatus takes their do-it-yourself ethos to the Ox-Op.