Music

Approximately 200 concert-goers from last night’s Rage Against the Machine concert at the Target Center organized themselves into a march down 7th Street in downtown Minneapolis, in defiance of Minneapolis Police. The march ended at the corner of 2nd Avenue and 7th Street when riot and bicycle police corralled around 50 marchers onto the curb and made arrests. Minnesota Public Radio reported that 102 total arrests were made in Minneapolis last night, at multiple locations. MORE »

Our story so far: In 1988, a freshly-scrubbed idealist leaves the cornfields of rural Minnesota and travels to the Cities in search of his beloved punk rock. Answering an ad, he finds himself working at “Prince’s Club”, minus the Prince… MORE »

Growing up in rural western Minnesota in the 1970’s, I enjoyed all the cultural benefits you would expect when living only minutes from Fargo, ND. I’m no music snob – I loved the classic rock that formed the soundtrack to my childhood but like Ian Dury said, “You’ll see glimpses.” It was Bowie, Alice Cooper and Cheap Trick that stood out. My older brother played them too loud in a ’74 AMX that he drove too fast and when you slammed the door, it sounded like…America. MORE »

The Minnesota Vikings dropped Aug. 23rd’s preseason game against The Pittsburgh Steelers by a narrow 12-10 score. The pregame show on the Metrodome plaza, though, was a hands-down hit starring Twin Cities R&B soul-stirrers the New Congress. MORE »