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Best of the Twin Cities 2007
The best in arts and entertainment, restaurants, clubs, bars, retail, and more
Dark Star
Wrong image, wrong religion, wrong city: Meet Brother Ali, hip hop's unlikely savior
The Next Big Thing
Little Man singer Chris Perricelli takes his shot
Reggaetón Animal
Immigrant dreams, dirty dancing, and the revolution: Meet the new Latin hip hop of Maria Isa and Danny y Elliot
Out Loud
They scream. They wear tacos for underwear. Meet Faggot, rock's next big gay thing.
First Avenue: An Oral History
The legendary bands. The terrifying toilets.
One Nation, Invisible
The untold story of local hip-hop: 1981 to 1996
I Buried Paul/Let the Bad Times Roll
Paul Westerberg talks about drinking, depressed fans, and finding a reason to live
Peter S. Scholtes's All-Ages Club Guide
A comprehensive list of all-ages clubs and resources in and around Minneapolis/St. Paul
Top 10 Sellers at Cheapo Uptown
Top 10 spins this week at 93X, KXXR
The Songs We Can’t Escape
This Week: Roma di Luna(CD-release show), Jon Langford, Concrete and GrassFestival, Haystak, A Tribute to Bob Feldman, Flaming Lips, Animal Collective
Minnesota Mix
5ingles (Music - 8/29/2007)
Mr. Blue Sky
Local Music’s Most Optimistic Fan Joins the Current
(Music - 8/29/2007)
Whats Playing and What$ $elling (Music - 8/29/2007)
Concert Highlights for the Week of Aug. 29 - Sept. 4
This Week: The Detroit Cobras, Velvet Revolver, B.B. King Blues Festival, Stereo Total, Chamillionaire, Def Leppard with Styx and Foreigner, David Bazan
(Music A-List - 8/29/2007)
Glad Pastures
The Rural Pop and Android Fuzz of They the Down Low
(Mash Notes - 8/29/2007)
Minnesota Mix: Best Friends Forever (CD Review - 8/29/2007)
Caribou: Andorra (CD Review - 8/29/2007)
Derailers: Under the Influence of Buck (CD Review - 8/29/2007)
M.I.A.: Kala (CD Review - 8/29/2007)
Pantha du Prince: This Bliss (CD Review - 8/29/2007)
UGK: UGK (Underground Kingz) (CD Review - 8/29/2007)
Rock the Bells (Wu Tang)
Better Than: A sharp stick in the eye, as I always say.
(Galleries - 8/29/2007)
5ingles (Music - 8/22/2007)
For Whom the Bottom Line Tolls
Hip Hop's Big Rock-the-Bells Thinkers Break Free from Industry Shackles.
(Music - 8/22/2007)
What's $elling (Music - 8/22/2007)
What's Playing (Music - 8/22/2007)
Concert Highlights for the Week of August 22 - 28
This Week: Hilary Duff, The Bangles, Kevin Saunderson, Carbon Carousel, Subhumans, Queens of the Stone Age, Fergie, Fountains of Wayne/Suicide Commandos
(Music A-List - 8/22/2007)
Rain Man
Who Is Tay Zonday, and Why Is He the Hottest Thing on the Internet?
(Mash Notes - 8/22/2007)
Brad Paisley: 5th Gear (CD Review - 8/22/2007)
Carnage Featuring Booka B: Sense of Sound (CD Review - 8/22/2007)
James Blackshaw: The Cloud of Unknowing (CD Review - 8/22/2007)
The Puppini Sisters: Betcha Bottom Dollar (CD Review - 8/22/2007)
Naughty By Nature
Better Than: watching 50 Cent do pushups in your parent's basement.
(Galleries - 8/22/2007)
5ingles
The songs we can't escape.
(Music - 8/15/2007)
What'$ $elling
Top 10 sellers at the Electric Fetus.
(Music - 8/15/2007)
What's Playing
Top 10 spins this week at 89.3 the Current.
(Music - 8/15/2007)
What's the View Like from Jimmy Page's Pants?
Pamela Des Barres makes a case for the groupie as muse.
(Music - 8/15/2007)
Concert Highlights for the Week of August 15 - 21
This week: YO! the Movement's 6th Annual Twin Cities Celebration of Hip Hop, Best Friends Forever, Kelly Willis, Cougar, Arms and Sleepers, Mark Olson, Perry Farrell's Satellite Party, Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective
(Music A-List - 8/15/2007)
My Place or Yours?
Go home with Mise en Place, wake up in Edina.
(Mash Notes - 8/15/2007)
Interpol: Our Love to Admire (CD Review - 8/15/2007)
Kelly Rowland: Ms. Kelly (CD Review - 8/15/2007)
Lubomyr Melnyk: KMH (CD Review - 8/15/2007)
Paul Cebar: Tommorow Sound Now for Yes Music People (CD Review - 8/15/2007)
Wise Intelligent: The Talented Timothy Taylor: Back 2 School (1st Period) (CD Review - 8/15/2007)
Mood Indigo
Some Days, You Wake Up and Feel Like Changing the World.
(Music - 8/8/2007)
Concert Highlights for the Week of August 8 - 14
This week: Booker T. & the MGs, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Son Volt, Mickey Avalon, T.I., Marilyn Manson and Slayer, Wilco
(Music A-List - 8/8/2007)
Tinkerer, Tailor, Ditherer, Sailor
Andrew Broder joins a rock band (it used to be his).
(Mash Notes - 8/8/2007)
Cool Cee Brown: Magnificent Bastard (CD Review - 8/8/2007)
The Alarmists: The Ghost and the Hired Gun (CD Review - 8/8/2007)
ZibraZibra: 777 (CD Review - 8/8/2007)
Patti Smith covers Dylan to Cobain
Patti Smith at State Theatre, August 6, 2007
(Galleries - 8/8/2007)
The Cool Kids put a fresh spin on old school hip-hop
The Cool Kids at the Foundation, August 5, 2007
(Galleries - 8/8/2007)
Music Is (Still) the Weapon
Femi Kuti makes Afrobeat for today's world.
(Music - 8/1/2007)
Purple Drizzle
Prince's fair-to-middling latest is a sad sign o' the times.
(Music - 8/1/2007)
Concert Highlights for the Week of August 1 - 7
This week: Kings of Leon, WE Fest, The Ladybug Transistor, OBCT, Cool Kids, Patti Smith, and Hank III & Assjack
(Music A-List - 8/1/2007)