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Aaron Williams
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Frogleg Comes Home to Bunkers
“You can never go home again.” It’s a cliché we’ve all heard at one point or another. Referring to the way your old hometown has...
Pert Near Sandstone and Trampled by Turtles Play Heartbeat For Hunger Show
The Twin Cities music scene, like any great music scene, is a vast and diverse web of interconnected smaller scenes and sub-scenes. Some of these...
Preview+Interview: My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel talks new album and more ahead of Turf Club Gig
Great bands come in all shapes and sizes. What makes a band like Mastodon great is very different than what made Outkast great. With that...
Tyler Childers Shares Stories and Songs at the Varsity
It is thought that the world of country music is divided into two categories: singers and songwriters. Songwriters work hard to write songs that’ll capture...
Ray LaMontagne Brings Acoustic tour to Minneapolis
Over the past few years, my music tastes have undergone a slight evolution. Where I used to listen to music primarily for the beats, rhythms,...
Umphrey’s McGee shreds all night at the Palace
Some argue that the prog and jam scenes can be excessive and overindulgent. Long jams, complicated song structures, and improvisational excess can be the norm....
The Hold Steady and more play Surlyfest 2018
Minnesotans have a lot to be proud of. Beautiful lakes. Sparkling summers. Hockey. As far as large American metropolis’ go, we’re often under-rated. The reasons...
Greensky Bluegrass Push Boundaries at the Palace
What comes to mind when you think of “bluegrass?” When confronted with that question, many think of straw hats, hoedowns and banjos. Perhaps the phrase...
STS9 Lights up First Avenue on a Sunday
Some say Sundays are for rest. Some say Sundays are for football. Many regard Sundays as a sacred religious day. It seems as if everybody...
Old Crow Medicine Show and Joshua Hedley bring the best of Nashville to the Palace
In music there’s occasionally a tension between “tradition” and “progress.” Some people who are accustomed to seeing a genre or style performed a certain way...