Mayor Emily Larson said it, speaking to 5,000 attendees at the All Pints North beer festival in Bayfront Festival Park. I said it, speaking to anyone who would listen. It just rolls off the tongue, the phrase popularized by a local blog: Saturday was truly a perfect Duluth day. 120 Minnesota breweries and cideries lined […]
Gully Boys – “Neopet Graveyard” Gully Boys — aka rockers Kathy Callahan, Nadirah McGill and Natalie Klemond — gallivant around the Mall of America in their first-ever music video. Filmed by Keegan Burkhard, “Neopet Graveyard” sees the Boys explore the Sea Life aquarium, the Old Time Photos studio, and the theme park formerly known as […]
Almost every single seat in the Xcel Energy Center was filled Thursday night while the Electric Light Orchestra’s iconic spaceship hovered on screens above the stage, the audience awaiting the British rock band that’s been rolling since the ’70s. The crowd rose from their seats to applaud the shadows gliding on stage, accompanied by a […]
Last weekend’s Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago was an intimate encounter with the elements. Each change in the weather — from blistering heat to storms that prompted a temporary mid-festival evacuation, to the restorative breeze that billowed during Robyn’s closing set — affected the way I internalized the wide-range of music. Some songs, like those […]
Update: July 23, 2019, 12:20 p.m. We’ve got our first taste of the new mix. The Replacements shared the Matt Wallace Mix of “Talent Show” from Dead Man’s Pop. You’ll hear a lot more goofball antics… and a banjo? Here’s the original version What’s the Replacements’ best-selling album? Not their critically-acclaimed Let It Be, not […]
Cory Wong – “Cosmic Sans (feat. Tom Misch)” Guitarist/producer Tom Misch joins Vulfpeck’s Cory Wong on “Cosmic Sans,” a track from Wong’s upcoming album Motivational Music for the Syncopated Soul. “We hung out just as a couple of guitar players who wanted to jam,” Wong writes in a press release. “I had a couple chord […]
Earlier today, FX announced the new cast members who will join Chris Rock in the fourth season of the TV show Fargo. The list includes actors like Jason Schwartzman and Ben Winshaw — and musician Andrew Bird. Production begins this fall, and the season will air on FX in 2020. Bird will join the murder-filled […]
It’s an understatement to say it’s been an eventful first half of 2019 for the multifaceted Minneapolis musician Eric Mayson. In just a few months, Mayson released his newest albums, Op-Nope and It’s All Real It’s All Fake, worked on a play and a dance piece, quit smoking, and got hitched. Up next for Mayson is…flight […]
The game, as well as our collective mind. Whether you were at Target Field or watching TV when the Twins faced off against the New York Mets, Jack White and his bandmates were hard to miss sitting right behind home plate in the Thomson Reuters Champions Club section. The Raconteurs played the Armory on Monday, […]
The day of a concert, I’ll usually find myself refreshing Twitter to see what the Internet has to say about the performer who’s about to stop into town. It was no surprise to me when I opened my feed to a flood of tweets about how people were preparing to cry to Snail Mail at […]
