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The Golden Bubbles : A Good Time Had By All

So I’m standing in my kitchen browning ground turkey to put in some Hamburger Helper (who says you have to use hamburger?), and my three year-old son comes running in and begs me to turn on the stereo. He is my son, after all. I flip through the discs that came in the mail that read more..

Aeroplane Pageant : Stars Still Pretty Video

It’s off Aeroplane Pageant’s new Even The Kids Don’t Believe Me on Stormy Ice Records. dig it? download it here: Aeroplane Pageant : “Stars Still Pretty” (mp3)

Nick Hensley writes Love Songs for Angry Men

Perhaps the most overused lovers’ line ever used is “You had me at hello.” Saint Paul songwriter Nick Hensley, former lead singer of The District, has struck out on his own and recently shipped me his debut solo effort. And if Love Songs for Angry Men was a Jerry Maguire movie, it would be more like: read more..

Dengue Fever, Inara George tackle Donna Summer’s I Feel Love

Dengue Fever announced today the July 14 digital-only release of a four-track EP, Radio Dance Floor, featuring a collaboration with the Bird and the Bee’s Inara George on lead vocals on the disco classic “I Feel Love” made famous by the lovely Donna Summer. “Inara George and I grew up together in Topanga Canyon, California and read more..

Military Special, Man Is Doomed, Nobot @ 501 Club, Thursday, July 2

All Smiles new Oh For The Getting And Not Letting Go is just okay

The new All Smiles (aka Jim Fairchild of Grandaddy and Modest Mouse fame) album is out today. It’s Fairchild’s second full-length and is called Oh For The Getting And Not Letting Go. After listening through a few times, I can testify the album is a safe, unobtrusive, shoulder-shrugging effort. If this was baseball, OFTGANLG would read more..

Open the door, get on the floor. Everybody walk the dinosaur.

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Bobby Evans :”Freak-A-Zoid Robotz” Video

From the press release: Director Marcus Herring: “The visual look of the video was inspired by the beauty of low resolution pixel art in classic arcade games. I was intrigued by the idea that a face can still look beautiful even when it is scaled down to a resolution of 12 pixels tall.” As Delicious Vinyl read more..

Trainwreck Riders : “Chug Along” (mp3)

San Fran’s Trainwreck Riders are sharing “Chug Along” off their new EP, The Perch (Alive Records). It’s an unobtrusive meandering soundtrack suited for a cloudy Monday morning recoviering form a weekend of exhaustive extended family visits and chores. Trainwreck Riders : “Chug Along” (mp3) The band plays a house show in Minneapolis on July 29 with Pretty read more..

It’s Silversun Pickups, Manchester Orchestra ticket day!

Silversun Pickups, Manchester Orchestra and Cage the Elephant will play Minneapolis’ State Theater on August 10. These are three great bands, and it’s safe to say I’m fairly psyched for this show. Tickets go on sale at noon. Silversun Pickups are touring on their new album, Swoon, which has already surpassed the 100k sales mark. Lead read more..

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The Mars Volta – “Since We’ve Been Wrong” Video

The Mars Volta – “Since We’ve Been Wrong” fr. Octahedron

Get Gospel Gossip’s Dreamland at Turf Club tonight

Saint Paul band Gospel Gossip sent me their full length this week. Huzzah. Dreamland features big, loud guitars with sloppy sustain building a junior wall of sound — a lush reverb mess serving as a backdrop for Sarah Nienaber’s pensive, sometimes entitled lyrics. Gospel Gossip “Nashville” (mp3) Don’t get me wrong — I really like this. read more..

New classic rock that doesn’t suck: The Lonely H (Lee’s Liquor Lounge tonight)

I keep getting pitches for a Seattle-based classic rock quartet The Lonely H, and just the phrase “Seattle-based classic rock quartet” continued to puzzle me enough to finally open the CD and give it a spin. Turns out The Lonely H are, in fact, the real deal (and you were thinking closeted sweater-wearing grungeheads). Schooled read more..

Douglas Armour : “Flushed & Flamelike, Themselves” Video

Check out this Daft Punk-produced video for Douglas Armour’s “Flushed & Flamelike, Themselves” Douglas Armour “Flushed & Flamelike, Themselves” from daft arts on Vimeo.

The Story of The Yardbirds : The Documentary (DVD)

If not love, at the very least The Yardbirds demand your respect. Born in an early-60s period when blues was fresh, psychedelica hadn’t dropped its first tab and peers in the British club scene included The Rolling Stones and The Animals, The Yardbirds went on to birth three of the greatest guitarists ever: Eric Clapton, read more..

Junkyard Empire write the soundtrack for Rebellion

Junkyard Empire, the Minneapolis-based 5-piece with a focus on political content and aggressive hip hop-jazz feel, have a new EP coming this fall, Rebellion Politik, on the LA start-up label, MediaRoots. Never shy about a conflict, JE tackles topics like the Israeli-Palestine conflict and Manifest Destiny. Just try not to shake your fist while listening read more..

The best Jamaican dancehall music for sorting your e-mail

It’s my first day back after two weeks of paternity leave, and I got my 1000+ unread e-mail box down to 67 unread, actually important e-mails to tackle. That’s pretty damn good if you ask me. Today’s e-mail reading soundtrack was brought to me by beer — or more accurately, the folks at Red Stripe, read more..

Makes me want to go camping

These Are Powers‘ new video for “Easy Answers.”

BetterThanTheVan.com seeks donations to pimp their whips

We first wrote about BetterThanTheVan.com, a free online community connecting bands needing a place to crash when touring with kind souls offering places to stay, nearly a year ago. And since then the site has helped countless bands avoid sleeping in their tour van, parking in closed big box parking lots, or worse, being forced read more..

Northern Outpost : Episode 12 : Speed’s the Name

NORTHERN OUTPOST – Episode 12 – 6/19/09 – Speed’s The Name from Northern Outpost on Vimeo. Check out previous episodes here.

Elizabeth & The Catapult : “Taller Children” Video

Elizabeth & The Catapult :: TALLER CHILDREN Elizabeth & The Catapult seem to think we’re all just taller children. But what if children are just shorter adults? Huh. Yeah, that’s what I thought.

The Get Rites on PBS

Check. it. out. The Get-Rites have posted multiple “Short Sets” videos on their YouTube channel and now feature a link to their Wisconsin PBS visit last year.

Stone Arch Festival, your Rock the Garden preparty or alternative

It’s a huge weekend for music. Most notably, there’s Rock the Garden at the Walker featuring Solid Gold, Yeasayer, Calexico and The Decemberists. But guess what’s free, starts before noon and not sold out? The Stone Arch Festival of the Arts, which runs along the Minneapolis Riverfront by St. Anthony Main and takes place Saturday and read more..

RIAA earns itself $1.92 million in MN court case

From the Star Tribune (via Metblogs): Woman ordered to pay $1.92M in music downloading case Jammie Thomas-Rasset, 32, a Brainerd mother of four, was found liable for downloading and distributing more than 1,700 songs on Kazaa, an Internet file-sharing network. …a federal jury in Duluth found her liable up to $220,000 for copyright infringement of the 24 read more..

The Main Drag cover LCD Soundsystem, play Fine Line June 23

Boston’s The Main Drag are sharing a cool cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends.” LCD Soundsystem : “All My Friends” (cover by The Main Drag) They’ll be playing Minneapolis’ Fine Line Music Cafe on June 23. Btw, all the members of the Main Drag work at Harmonix — the developers of the Rock Band and Guitar read more..

The Wooden Birds, Other Lives, Paragraphs @ 7th Street Entry, Friday, June 19

If I didn’t have a tiny fresh baby at home, I would absolutely be at this show: The Wooden Birds, Other Lives and Paragraphs at the 7th Street Entry this Friday, June 19.

Wicked Celtics “I Don’t Wanna Hear Your Band” Music Video (Director’s Cut)

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The Arms Akimbo, Fools & Horses, Akai @ Fine Line, June 19

Brand new Minneapolis based indie/rock trio The Arms Akimbo. dropped us a note about a few of their upcoming gigs and plans to record their debut EP later this summer. First gig is this Friday at the Fine Line Music Cafe. Stream three of their tracks on MySpace.