The Soundset hip hop festival in Shakopee, Minn. looms large this Sunday, and unlike previous years, it’s supposed to hit 80 degrees and be partly sunny. The concert staple has grown in size...

The Haim sisters are forces of nature, the “Witchy Wom[e]n” Don Henley sang about years before their birth, and are highly in tune with the fiendish aspect of hard rock, which they masterfully...

Classic R&B is characterized by its raw authenticity that communicates primal urgency rarely felt in the saccharine, soulless pseudo-R&B of today.  Old school R&B is romantic music; instead...

For Minneapolis native Jason “Ecid” McKenzie, growing up on gangster rap was just as natural as breathing. Starting out in high school as Dice the Greedy Player, McKenzie felt it necessary...

Releasing an artist’s music posthumously raises questions of authenticity.  The doctored-up restorations of their songs may not represent what the artist had intended the original mixes to become,...