Black Lips - Official Site
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Fine Line Music Cafe: 7:00 doors $20 18+ SOLD OUT
The Kooks - Official Site
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The Morning Benders “Boarded Doors” (mp3)
The Morning Benders “Crosseyed” (mp3)
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Perhaps better known as emcee Cresent Moon, Moon Casselle threw a curveball at the indie-rap community back in 2005 by playing a series of acoustic folk shows along with his wife, Channy. Their love of early folk and country music blossomed into Roma di Luna, which has since grown from a duo into a [...]

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Kanye West: (Official) (MySpace) (Wikipedia)
Kanye West “Graduation” (album)
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Also: (“Homecoming” Video) (Kanye West @ The 50th Annual Grammy Awards) (Kanye West & Daft Punk @ The Grammy Awards) (Kanye West on SNL) (Spike Jones Spends Saturday with Kanye West)

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First Avenue: 8:00 doors $22 18+
The Breeders - Official Site
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The Montana Boys - Official Site
The Montana Boys - MySpace Site

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[photos: Jon Behm]

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[by Jon Behm]
Afternoon Records describes Haley Bonar’s new album as “like a Cormac McCarthy short story: simple on the intake, but revealing universal truths with a powerful emotional impact as it sinks in.” Never mind that McCarthy doesn’t write short stories, the quote is quite correct in establishing that Big Star demands more than [...]

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7th St. Entry: 8:00 doors $6 18+
“Baby Guts CD Release Show”
Baby Guts “Staple Gun” (mp3)
Baby Guts - Official Site
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The Chambermaids “Park” (mp3)
The Chambermaids - Official Site
The Chambermaids - MySpace Site
The Chambermaids - Minnewiki Site
The Sleaze - MySpace Site
The Vignettes - MySpace Site

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Tricky “Puppy Toy (05/23/2008)” (mp3)

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Approach Influenza as a series which serves to help give insight as to where music is born; these are the thoughts, influences and the inspirations directly from the mind of the artists. In this edition Nick Leet, from the Minneapolis-based quartet High on Stress, describes the evolution of “Cop Light Parade.” Written by Leet [...]

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Black Kids - Official Site
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Previously: Black Kids on Later…with Jools Holland

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Triple Rock Social Club: 9:00 $14 21+
M83 - Official Site
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M83 - MySpace Site
The Berg Sans Nipple “Mystic Song” (mp3)
The Berg Sans Nipple “Ghosts” (mp3)
The Berg Sans Nipple “Along The Quai” (mp3)
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Ghost in the Water “Clean Sinks and Folded Laundry” (mp3)
Ghost [...]

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An album loosely seeded in countless stages of pop music from the past thirty years, Santogold is a determined effort that shamelessly caters to trend while also defying its own predictability. Here are four reactions, four impressions, four takes on Santogold’s Santogold.

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First Avenue: 8:00 doors $25 18+
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic - Official Site
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George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic - MySpace Site

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The Kooks “Always Where I Need To Be (05/21/2008)” (mp3)
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Triple Rock Social Club: 5:00 $12
The Queers “Psycho Over You” (mp3)
The Queers “It’s Cold Outside” (mp3)
The Queers “Don’t Want To Live On The Moon” (mp3)
The Queers - Official Site
The Queers - Wikipedia Site
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Lemuria - Official Site
Lemuria - MySpace Site
Bomb The Music Industry “Jobs Schmobs” (mp3)
Bomb The Music Industry “493 Ruth” [...]

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Triple Rock Social Club: Wednesday, May 28 - 9:00 $14 21+
Devouring M83’s recently released Saturdays = Youth involves little effort, its twelve tracks electing to browse through the last twenty some years of ambient while failing to neglect the lighthearted side of post punk. Take such a sound and the feelings that result, transpose [...]

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Atmosphere “You (05/21/2008)” (mp3)
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Atmosphere “When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold” (album)
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Previously: Atmosphere “Guarantees” Video
Previously: Atmosphere “Shoulda Known” Video

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Metrodome: 11:00 am gate $25
“Soundset 2008”
Atmosphere “Shoulda Known” (mp3)
Atmosphere “Don’t Stop” (mp3)
Atmosphere “Lyndale Avenue’s User’s Manual” (mp3)
Atmosphere - Official Site
Atmosphere - Wikipedia Site
Atmosphere - MySpace Site
Dilated Peoples - Official Site
Dilated Peoples - Wikipedia Site
Dilated Peoples - MySpace Site
Aesop Rock “None Shall Pass” (mp3)
Aesop Rock “39 Thieves” (mp3)
Aesop Rock “Citronella” (mp3) [...]

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