Dada Trash Collage CD release party WHEN: Saturday, May 8, 9 p.m. WHERE: 7th Street Entry, 701 First Ave. N., Mpls. TICKETS: $7 Despite praise for his Adderall -enhanced stocking ability, Dada Trash CollageâÄôs...
WHAT: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Live WHERE: Pantages Theater, 805 Hennepin Ave. WHEN: Thursday, April 29, 8 p.m. TICKETS: $26.50 Ten years ago, Dave Willis co-created a show about a milkshake, French fries...
Fusion Address: 2919 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis, Minn. Hours: 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Prices: $8 - $16 ItâÄôd be masturbatory to further extol the cultural death rattle of Uptown, so letâÄôs just...
Communist Daughter ALBUM: âÄúSoundtrack to the EndâÄù LABEL: Grain Belt Records The Current is spinning Communist DaughterâÄôs âÄúNot the KidâÄù on high rotation,...
If warmer weather means one thing, itâÄôs the erectifying emancipation of beach-stallionsâÄô rippling pectorals. That, and ice cream! Combining the two by watching a shirtless stud tease...
What: Black Lips When: Saturday, April 3, 8 p.m. Where: Varsity Theater Tickets: $15 Atlanta-based Black Lips might very well be the best band in indie rock. The wild quartet functions under the self-tabbed...
âÄúHot Tub Time MachineâÄù DIRECTED BY: Steve Pink STARRING: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke RATED: R SHOWING AT: Area theaters When a movie is titled âÄúHot...
A&E had the opportunity to chat with the âÄúHot Tub Time MachineâÄù cast in a roundtable setting during a March 14 press junket in Lake Tahoe, Nev. Sadly, John Cusack was amiss. Highlights...
RateMyProfessors.com is an excellent resource for students to get a user-rated gist of what their prospective professors are all about. But the site doesnâÄôt just score teaching ability; it gauges...
For a band that no one has heard, Gayngs (pronounced âÄúgangsâÄù) is getting plenty of press, locally and nationally. Even Pitchfork has posted their upcoming track list. So what is Gayngs?...
WHAT: The Heiruspecs Scholarship Fund Concert FEATURING: Sims, Adam Levy, Carnage, Mayda, Lucy Michelle, Martin Devaney, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m. WHERE: Central High...
Shearwater ALBUM: âÄúThe Golden ArchipelagoâÄù LABEL: Matador RELEASE: Feb. 16 digital, Feb. 23 CD/vinyl When an ornithology-rooted band releases a concept record about real/metaphorical...
Adam Svec ALBUM: âÄúRarefactionâÄù LABEL: Draw Fire Records âÄúRarefaction,âÄù local singer/songwriter Adam SvecâÄôs sophomore LP, is not beach music. Passive listeners...
Awesome rapper turned atrocious rocker Lil Wayne will avoid his jail cell until March 2. The reason? A bum tooth.
Wayne was expected to enter prison today after pleading guilty to a 2007 attempted weapons...
Over bandmate Big Cats!âÄôs layered, dark beats, rapper Guante is an avalanche of words. Throughout âÄúAn Unwelcome GuestâÄù âÄî the local hip-hop duoâÄôs recent...
WHAT: Andrew Bird WHEN: 8 p.m., Dec. 10-12 WHERE: St. MarkâÄôs Episcopal Cathedral, 519 Oak Grove St. TICKETS: $29 - $34 Andrew Bird wonâÄôt be playing cuts from his catalogue of adored...
WHAT: A Tribute to The Replacements: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of âÄúLet It BeâÄù and the paperback release of "The Replacements: All Over But The Shouting." FEATURING: Covers by...
The matchup: Emo is a dirty, filthy word amongst connoisseurs of âÄúgoodâÄù music, but that doesnâÄôt change the fact that it charts remarkably well. ThatâÄôs either the...
The Mountain Goats âÄî an alt-folk group that serves as a vehicle for dynamic singer and songwriter John Darnielle âÄî impressed with their intimate show at The Cedar Cultural Center Saturday...
First the expensive condos infiltrated. Then it was The North Face store. Then Victoria's Secret. So on, so forth. The cultural sea change of Uptown has been underway for years and this past weekend another...
âÄúHere Come the RegularsâÄù AUTHOR: Ian Anderson PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber PAGES: 176 PRICE: $15 Most articles about Ian Anderson begin with a list. For the sake of tradition, here goes:...
WHAT: St. Paul Scotch and Whiskey Fest WHEN: Sat., Oct. 24 WHERE: The Happy Gnome, 498 Selby Ave., St. Paul TICKETS: $10 If America is about one thing, it's about whiskey. From our surliest cowboys to...
Before emo was a filthy, dirty, awful word, The Get Up Kids were a band.
For ten years their fresh take on the then-obscure genre established them as cult favorites before a 2005 break-up.
Now older, reunited...
âÄúGood HairâÄù DIRECTED BY: Jeff Stilson STARRING: Chris Rock RATED: PG-13 SHOWING: Area theaters In any other hands, âÄúGood Hair,âÄù the light yet compelling new Chris...
WHAT: Grant Hart (CD release show) WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 15, 8 p.m. WHERE: Seventh Street Entry, 701 First Ave. N. TICKETS: $8 When touring bands come through Minneapolis, one thing is inevitable. At some...
The Idle Hands ALBUM: âÄúThe Hearts We Broke on the Way to the ShowâÄù LABEL: Pretty Kids Collective If Minneapolis has a shortage of engaging frontmen âÄî and it does âÄî...
$17. Two good bands (Murder by Death/the Loved Ones). One kick-ass band (Gaslight Anthem).
+18 (don't get too drunk, those of you 18-20, the Minneapolis City Council will use it to destroy these shows).
Doors...
WHAT: Hanson WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 3, 5 p.m. WHERE: First Avenue, 701 First Ave. N. TICKETS: $27.50 advance/$30 door For the sadist pop culture obsessives of the world, nothing electrifies the palate like...
A star-studded indie rock brawl featuring Wavves' Nathan Williams and Black Lips' Jared Swilley? You bet.
Due to Black Lips being entirely bad-ass and Williams being somewhat of whiner; go Jared!
Pitchfork,...
WHAT: âÄúnobodyâÄù world premiere WHERE: State Theatre, 824 Hennepin Ave. WHEN: Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m. TICKETS: $16.50 âÄî $26.50 The greatest thing about Minneapolis is how weâÄôre...
Minneapolis' second-best emcee (behind P.O.S.) is back.
Check out Brother Ali's Myspace for a full stream of his latest record, "Us."
"Us" goes on sale next Tuesday (Sept. 22).
For fans of good music, this is good news. Pavement rules. And they've toyed with hearts before.
Check out the big news: HERE
The seminal indie group broke up in 1999. Since then, the blogosphere has erupted...
The Butcher Block WHERE: 308 Hennepin Ave. E. PRICE: $14 - 17 Hot-shot chefs? Check. Prime location? Check. A menu that throws carbs to the wind in favor of organic, grass-fed flesh from all sorts of creatures?...
With First Ave. sweaty and absolutely stuffed full with Atmosphere fans from all walks (fan-boys, groupies, drunks, ect.), Slug didn't disappoint.
The group, hallmarks and grey beards of the underground...
Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles ALBUM: âÄúSpecial Party Time for EverybodyâÄù LABEL: Self-released Throughout their charmed local existence, Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles...
The Scene This past Sunday, upon entering Canterbury Park amid a sea of fellow race-goers, one motherâÄôs enthusiastic declaration to her toddler son rang true: âÄúGo ostriches! Right,...
For legions of ‘Mats fans still clinging to the hope of a reunion – Tommy Stinson has bad news for you. The current GNR bassist and onetime Replacements bassist/drunk little kid issued...
If it could not be gathered from the headline (and it almost certainly could not), the purpose of this blog is place A&E's skinny finger on the pulsing music vein of you - The University of Minnesota...
When members of established bands deviate into the always iffy side project territory, the results often vary. There are the hyper-indulgent (De Facto, Neon Blonde) and the superb (Ugly Casanova, Desaparecidos)....
"Conor Oberst" Artist: Conor Oberst Label: Merge Records Conor Oberst will never get a focused review. There's too much weight to that name. Every critic is sure to contrast the material to Bright Eyes,...
Yer Cronies Album: When I Grow Up Label: Unsigned What is there to say about a band with one release, no label and little name recognition? Well, in the case of Yer Cronies, quite a bit. Already being...
The term "Going Green" is facing some well-deserved backlash these days. There's absolutely nothing wrong with attempts to lessen one's carbon footprint, but when Target starts to market sassy/insufferable...
Become an Instant Music Snob: Haley Bonar Hometown: Rapid City, SD. Current Scene:Minneapolis Genre(s): Folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter, alt-country Releases: "âĦ The Size of Planets"...
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"Step Brothers"
Directed by: Adam McKay
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly
Rated: R
Showing at: Area Theatres
ill Ferrell, you perennial tease, you. A scant few comic actors possess his talent, but...
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Black Kids
ALBUM: "Partie Traumatic"
LABEL: Columbia Records
"At least in dying you don't have to deal with New Wave for a second time."
The above wisdom was sung/spoke by The Hold Steady's front...
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"Modern Guilt"
Starring: Beck
Co-starring: Chan Marshall (Cat Power)
Directed by: Beck and Danger Mouse
lot: Almost 40 and with seven albums under his belt, Los Angeles native Beck would appear to have...
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Less Than Jake
When: Thursday, July 3
Where: First Avenue
ollege newspapers serve as a credibility soapbox, of sorts. Music critics the country over pen sprawling slobber-sessions on hyped, blogged-about,...
If you wouldn't trust someone to pick out a playlist for a party, would you trust them to lead the free world?
Logically, policy questions trump most others in the lead-up to any major election. That's...
Paul F. Tompkins When: Saturday, June 21, Where: The Triple Rock Last Saturday a comic by the name of Paul F. Tompkins arrived via airplane in Minneapolis. If that name strikes you as familiar but you...
With a new season upon us, thoughts will inevitably shy away from school and focus in on greener and less mind-enriching pastures. While those pastures may materialize in the form of jobs, booze, beach...
Kung Fu Panda Directed by: Mark Osborne and John Stevenson Starring: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Angelina Jolie Rated: PG Distributed by: Dreamworks Celebrity-voiced CGI animal adventures have rightly...
Another summer means another slew of bands doing the one profitable thing left to do (if you're on the Hub as you're reading this line, for shame) as a recording artist: tour, tour and tour. What is work...
Bob Dylan Sound-Alike Contest WHEN: May 23 WHERE: The 400 Bar As a casual Bob Dylan fan and cover song enthusiast, I decided it might be worth a go to visit the 400 Bar's annual Bob Dylan Sound-Alike contest....
Now that you've made it past the abrasive and shocking title of the article, you're thinking one thing: "Oh no, some pretentious indie-kid is going to barrage me with buzz-bands from atop his vapid pretention-horse."...
Spring Jam '08 was a busy one for Ben Kweller. While students (namely those living on a certain block or "row," if you will) started their boozin' in the morning and dizzily pissed away the day in the...
In case you haven't heard, Bob Saget (TV's Danny Tanner) swears and talks about having sex with things these days. If that was news to you, you'll have 'til the end of this paragraph to process the shock...
You're reading the words I'm typing right now because I cannot sing, dance, play instruments or rap. I love music, but the aforementioned skills have eluded my gangly white self. If possible, I would trade...
Bombastic. Grandiose. Theatrical.
The above words do not describe indie rock bands. They certainly don't describe unsigned and barely-out-of-college indie rock bands.
But then again, there is The XYZ Affair.
The...
>Editor's Note: As with any band profile involving an extensive interview with that band, many questions were asked of The Owls, which means many responses were omitted in order to distill their seemingly...
SHaving a rock band is a joyous thing in and of itself. But having the grammatical wherewithal to include a definitive article before the name of said band? Classic. The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones...
Everyone loves a treasure hunt! From the hyper-marketed characters of Disney pirate blockbusters to the cripplingly lonely old-timer at the beach; searching for rare gems is always a treat. But the truth...
."We all used to like Ben Kweller a lot. Him and The Faint," recounts The Battle Royale keyboardist/vocalist Mark Ritsema on his band\'s early influences.
The Battle Royale
Album: Wake Up, Thunderbabe
Label:...
