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Features

What's $elling

Top 10 Sellers at Cheapo Uptown

What's Playing

Top 10 spins this week at 93X, KXXR

5ingles by Ray Cummings

The Songs We Can’t Escape

Of Pot Shots and Grayshot by Michael L. Walsh

Concert Highlights for the Week of Sep. 5 - Sept. 11 by CP Staff (Music A-List)

This Week: Roma di Luna(CD-release show), Jon Langford, Concrete and GrassFestival, Haystak, A Tribute to Bob Feldman, Flaming Lips, Animal Collective

Corey Harris: Zion Crossroads by Mikael Wood (CD Review)

Capaciti & A-Scratch: The Blind Cinema Sessions by Nate Patrin (CD Review)

Minnesota Mix

Rush: Snakes & Arrows by Mikael Wood (CD Review)

Various artists: Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul by Edd Hurt (CD Review)

VHS or Beta: Bring on the Comets (CD Review)

Previous Features

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)

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