After previously making a stop at the 400 Bar earlier this summer The National are set to return September 20th, this time around playing within the better sight lines and sounds of The Fine Line Music Cafe. (Pitchfork)
The Polyphonic Spree hit the town Tuesday night and the 23-member crew blew minds as they exhausted [...]
Penetrating all aspects of our lives it seems that you can’t go a day without being bombarded by puppet propaganda. That being said their influence in music videos has been relatively scarce, with few videos being made which include puppets and fewer being remembered. Flosstradamus‘ recent remix of Matt and Kim’s “Yeah Yea” [...]
Interpol played The Late Show with David Letterman earlier this week in support of the recently released Our Love to Admire. The track the group performed, “Heinrich Maneuver,” follows much of the album in that its lyrics make little to no sense to me. “You wear the shoes like a dove;” if only [...]
Smashing Pumpkins kicked off this week’s performances on The Late Show with David Letterman by playing the lead single from its new album, “Tarantula” Monday night. The Late Show gig marks the first scheduled televised performance by the band (in any capacity) since 2000. The group is scheduled to reappear on the [...]
More Cowbell alerts us of fall shows from Metric, Henry Rollins (spoken word) and those new pornographers Rilo Kiley; all at First Avenue. (More Cowbell)
The Dilla-less Slum Village will return to the Twin Cities Wednesday night at Trocaderos. Among the performers already confirmed to join the event: Atmosphere’s Slug, I Self Divine, Truthmaze, [...]
While the buzz surrounding Brooklyn’s Matt and Kim has come and gone, Flosstradamus‘ recent remix of the duo’s “Yeah Yea” has refueled the hype once again. The Chicago based DJs originally caught my attention last year with their mashup combining Twista and Sigur Rós and since the duo has made its rounds across the [...]
Mashuptown, in conjunction with Attuworld, Get Your Bootleg On and Starting is Easy, recently released The Number of Da Boots: The Iron Maiden Bootleg Compilation. The mashup album obviously surrounds Iron Maiden’s catalogue, but does so by unsuspectingly mashing various tracks with the likes of Public Enemy, Bob Marley, Run DMC and Beyonce among [...]
Creating a mobile unit for not simply his laptop but his remote power sources and amps, Girl Talk (in connection with Open Source Cinema) gave the crowd at his recent Montréal Jazz Festival show far more than they ever bargained for. Concluding his indoor set, and following a brief announced intermission, Girl Talk set [...]
The Current reminds us of former X member John Doe’s upcoming performance in town on July 18. A fantastic opportunity to see one of American punk’s pioneers in an up close and personal venue, the 7th Street Entry. (The Current)
City Pages has made a program available that “lets you actually hear the great music [...]
“What makes Simian Mobile Disco a better pop band than Justice or the Klaxons is their commitment to clean danceable beats,” suggests Jess Harvell in his review for Pitchfork. And throughout Attack Decay Sustain Release that thought remains a constant, with James Shaw and James Ford combining efforts to create something with its roots [...]
Twelve years ago today, July 9, the Grateful Dead played its 2314th and final show at Soldier’s Field in Chicago. It wasn’t until recently, when a friend reintroduced me to the band, a band I subsequently had little interest in historically, that I acquired an interest in the group. They had always been [...]
Fuzzy bearded electro-noise practitioner Dan Deacon stopped by Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current last week, the day after his performance at The Triple Rock Social Club. In between songs interviewer Barb Abney discussed a number of topics with Deacon including his history in classical composition and his thoughts on remixing his songs. The [...]
The show must go on, even if it starts nearly an hour after bar close. Prince took the stage this past Saturday at First Avenue for the first time in some twenty years and played to a packed house before being shut down by the police at around 4am.
“With the tightest band I have [...]
The line-up for Prince’s First Avenue show began Friday afternoon at roughly 2pm from what I was told and has only grown to the point of about 900 people at this point in time (1:20 pm Saturday), which would leave some 500 or so wrist bands still available. The moderate turnout isn’t entirely surprising [...]
I received an interesting email yesterday from Ross Raihala, pop music critic for St. Paul’s Pioneer Press. It read as follows:
“To celebrate 7/7/07 and Prince’s three shows on Saturday night, I’m doing a special project for the paper. I asked seven local musicians for their favorite Prince song and a quick explanation of [...]
[by Will McClain]
If the members of Tortoise retained anything from their kindergarten days, it is that it’s always polite to share. The band demonstrated as much in their latest tour stop at the Cedar.
[by Ryan Dunn]
Eyedea and Abilities hit the battle scene in 1997, a couple of high school friends from Minneapolis. A decade later they have been to the top, their most notable victories coming in 1999 and 2000 at Scribble Jam and Blaze-Battle Chicago.
