People have a habit of falling hard for Now, Now. The on-the-rise local trio—née Now, Now Every Children—expanded…
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Attempting to succinctly categorize local songstress Chasity Brown’s boldly style-blurring tunes invariably…
Luke Redfield may have been born in Duluth, but he calls the open road his home. In between bouts of cross-country…
Rising up like an electro-pop phoenix from the ashes of local folk-rock outfit Roma Di Luna, Polica finds the…
Hatched on sleepless nights during the final days of Peter Pisano’s prior band, The Wars Of 1812, Peter Wolf Crier…
Caroline Smith And The Good Night Sleeps won over Minnesotans in 2008 with a winsome, instantly ingratiating…
When lauded indie-pop quartet The Glad Version decided to go on extended hiatus in July 2009, the Twin Cities lost…
Heartbreak sucks. Throw in Minnesota’s blisteringly cold winters, and you’ve either got the recipe for…
After logging time on the local scene providing capable sideman duty in bands like The Exchange and Flin Flon…
An album full of first takes and tangled electric guitars, Blood Of Man sounds like the work of a wild-eyed newcomer…
Of all the neo-flower children strumming acoustic guitars and lumped together under the “freak-folk” banner, Alela…
Sounding like an unplugged version of The Arcade Fire fronted by a less-manic David Byrne, London orchestral-pop…
You might have thought you knew Amy Millan, but you were wrong. You had her pegged as the resplendent disco queen…
For a woman with a lot to be happy about—serious six-string skills, an increasingly high profile on the national…
After spending more than a decade fronting drone-pop wonders The American Analog Set, a band always just on the cusp…
Setting tightly harmonized Appalachian hollers atop a shifting sea of folk-pop, back-porch blues and jazz-influenced…
Despite roots in Los Angeles’ indie music scene, Sea Wolf is the inverse of its sunny and bustling birthplace: It is…
Setting tightly harmonized Appalachian hollers atop a shifting sea of folk-pop, back-porch blues and jazz-influenced…
For young musicians, “potential” is a weighted word, simultaneously carrying tantalizing hope and the possibility of…