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Music

How Psychostick's hats stay on while performing is a mystery for fans.

Holiday psychosis

by Spencer Doar
Published December 11, 2012
Psychostick wants the audience laughing while they mosh.
Artistic director Ben Riggs leads the members of the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus in vocal exercises. Riggs started as the artistic director in August.

His first noel

by Lucy Nieboer
Published December 7, 2012
The Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus welcomes a new artistic director and a new take on Christmas music.

Lethal Injection

by Spencer Doar
Published December 6, 2012
Kansas City rapper Mac Lethal is in the game too deep to get out now.
Sarah Edwards, creator of the I AM MPLS! variety show, shown in her downtown office at Pixel Farm in Minneapolis on Friday. The variety show features passionately creative people from Minneapolis at the Varsity Theater at 7 p.m. on Thursday.

Who is Minneapolis: I AM MPLS!

by Shannon Ryan
Published December 6, 2012
Collaboration creator Sarah Edwards talks the past, present and future of the Minneapolis variety show.

Album Review: “Eclipsing“ by Dream Boat

by Shannon Ryan
Published December 4, 2012
The band’s debut LP “Eclipsing” is composed of dreamy music bathed in equal parts candy and noir.
"Dirty Baby" presents a melding of the works of artist Ed Ruscha, poet David Breskin and musician Nels Cline without a beatnik playing the bongos, as Breskin explained. Here they stand by a few barbecues for some reason.

Parental control

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 29, 2012
“Dirty Baby,” the offspring of a Wilco guitarist, a poet and an iconic pop artist strives to be a “loveable mutt” of a performance — not some purebred golden retriever.
Alan Sparhawk met his future wife and Low collaborator Mimi Parker at the age of nine and began composing music at age 13.

Lowdown

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 21, 2012
Alan Sparhawk gives the lowdown on working with Jeff Tweedy and white guys singing about their feelings.

Energy transfusion

by Spencer Doar
Published November 15, 2012
Soul searching pushed Kinetix off their rock trajectory back to their funkier roots.
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Q & A: Aimee Mann

by Lucy Nieboer
Published November 15, 2012
A&E talked with the indie world’s most charming singer-songwriter.

Testing his metal

by Spencer Doar
Published November 13, 2012
Brendon Small dishes about the success of “Metalocalypse” and Dethklok’s tour.

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