Throngs of people, diverse lineups and a big ol’ hill: It’s Rock the Garden 2015. The two-day music festival had a little something for everyone this year — Minneapolis doesn’t...
In high school, Ryan Traster traded his trumpet for a bass guitar and didn’t look back. Over past decade, the singer-songwriter has lived and played in New York, Portland, Los Angeles and...
As a McNally Smith College of Music 2005 graduate, Alison Scott entered a singer-songwriting competition and unwittingly kicked off the rest of her music career.
Since winning the contest...
Though artists Krista Franklin and Gloria Talamantes-Data (aka Gloe) both live in Chicago, they first met at Intermedia Arts’ B-Girl Be Festival.
Now the two will collaborate as featured...
The Twin Cities’ version of the P-Funk family is Black Market Brass. Like the ’70s progenitors of funk, the ensemble’s defining characteristics include their horn-heavy hits and ever-changing...
When Jonathan Krentz returned from his six-year service in the National Guard band, he joined the first country band he could find.
When that band fell apart, he and bassist Drew Sherman started...
In the midst of the ’80s new wave craze, a group of Minneapolis teenagers took a stab at punk rock.
Soul Asylum was born.
“When Soul Asylum started out, we were a real punk rock...
As a young boy, Cadillac Kolstad’s father snuck him into bars on the West Bank of Minneapolis to give him his first exposure to live music.
Now an established musician, Kolstad brings...
As a college freshman in 2007, Lee Henke tracked down the music resonating through his dorm’s hall and found guitarist Ryan Acker, his future bandmate.
The two have been playing music...
