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Q & A: Jeremy Messersmith
With his lush sophomore album celebrating its CD release party Thursday at the Varsity, one ...
The Hold Steady at First Avenue
Hometown heroes make triumphant return during sold out main room gig.
River Rocks Ticket Giveaway
The McNally Smith River Rocks Music Festival will be held at Harriet Island in St. Paul on Friday, September 19th and Saturday, September 20th. The lineup features a number of great national and local acts, Enter to win a pair of tickets!
Q & A: Ross Flournoy of the Broken West
The leader of L.A.’s finest power pop combo talks with Rob van Alstyne about shifting artistic directions and the trials of opening band duty.
Warp + Weft: Sucking in ’77
1977 was a terrible year for American popular music—but was it the worst year for music ever?
Warp + Weft: John Mayer – Room For Squares
That’s right, motherfuckers: John Mayer, with almost no Jennifer Aniston content.
Warp + Weft: Romantica – ‘Ixcatan’
If you can find me a more brilliantly crafted, thoroughly evocative narrative in a pop song, I’ll kiss you. On the mouth.
Warp + Weft: David Banner :: The Greatest Story Ever Told
How do you solve a problem like David Banner?
Further Consideration Of The EP
Over on the site proper, I just posted a column about the EP, but I wanted to open up the discussion over here on good to great EPs, because I know I already left off a bunch both new and old. Here are some of the ones I didn’t end up writing about, but seriously […]
Warp + Weft: Consider The EP
Let’s be clear: Of the tens of thousands of bands out there right now, the majority will never write even one truly great song. A couple thousand might come up with one amazing tune, and several hundred might make a great full-length record, but right up in between those two groups is the group that […]
Warp + Weft: ‘On Being Cool’
I didn’t get to go backstage at the Foo FIghters show, but maybe I got a little something better.