Tonight @ Minneapolis’ 501 Club: Western Fifth & the Parlour Suite – 8:00, free + drink specials.

The Current & Culture Bully present No Bird Sing’s CD release show @ the Triple Rock (09/12/2009).

As fans continue to wait for Tapes ‘n Tapes’ forthcoming third album, the band has just announced that it will be hitting up its hometown with a rare series of intimate shows in October which promise to deliver big things.

Nile’s “Those Whom The Gods Detest” tour is the first scheduled and likely most satisfying brutal metal tours to make rounds in all of 2010.

Mos Def will be returning to the Twin Cities to perform at Minneapolis’ First Avenue this coming August.

Kanye West will play St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center as one of his many fall dates with Lady Gaga.

múm has just announced 15 North American dates, scheduled for the fall of 2009.

The UK’s Daily Mirror is reporting that Michael Jackson’s body will be buried prior to his brain being returned from examinations (and conspiracies follow).

Download of Atmosphere’s latest free EP, “Leak At Will.”

Jack Peñate will play Minneapolis’ 7th St. Entry this coming September 26.

Dinosaur Jr. will be playing Minneapolis’ First Avenue this coming November 18 as one of over 30 dates on the band’s fall tour.

As part of the band’s forthcoming 21 date tour, Sunny Day Real Estate will be performing at Minneapolis’ First Avenue September 23.