Lady Midnight – “Bloodsong” Lady Midnight, clear-eyed and regal, communes with the cosmos in “Bloodsong.” Teddy Grimes and MacKenzie Owens directed this gorgeous Death Before Mourning video, and MMYYKK produced the track. Lady Midnight will appear at her record release show at the Turf Club on August 9. DENNY – “Insurgents By The Poolside” DENNY…

Prince’s 1996 albums Chaos and Disorder and Emancipation, as well as the rare Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) mixtape from 1995, will be reissued on vinyl and CD on Sept. 13. It will be the first vinyl release for each, and the first CD release for the mixtape. Ironically, the reissue doesn’t include a cassette release for The…

The weather was so gorgeous last night, Tame Impala would’ve had to lock Kevin Parker in the tour bus to ruin the mood at Minneapolis’s Surly Festival Field. Luckily, the project’s frontperson/auteur was in no such bind, striding to the front of the stage and staying there while he sang hits from 2015 album Currents…

Har Mar Superstar performed a nearly hourlong set inside a Minneapolis Wendy’s last night. It was his “first OFFICIAL Baconcert,” the artist tweeted on Monday. I arrived on the scene at Lake Street and 26th Avenue just before the show’s start time. Not knowing what to expect, I was honestly a bit nervous walking up…

In 1984, Laura LiPuma Nash was a fresh hire in the art department of Warner Bros. studios when a twist of fate landed the twentysomething a spot working with the label’s biggest artist. “I was kind of the new kid on the block,” she said. “One day, the boss comes running into the art room…

Mayor Emily Larson said it, speaking to 5,000 attendees at the All Pints North beer festival in Bayfront Festival Park. I said it, speaking to anyone who would listen. It just rolls off the tongue, the phrase popularized by a local blog: Saturday was truly a perfect Duluth day. 120 Minnesota breweries and cideries lined…

Gully Boys – “Neopet Graveyard” Gully Boys — aka rockers Kathy Callahan, Nadirah McGill and Natalie Klemond — gallivant around the Mall of America in their first-ever music video. Filmed by Keegan Burkhard, “Neopet Graveyard” sees the Boys explore the Sea Life aquarium, the Old Time Photos studio, and the theme park formerly known as…

Almost every single seat in the Xcel Energy Center was filled Thursday night while the Electric Light Orchestra’s iconic spaceship hovered on screens above the stage, the audience awaiting the British rock band that’s been rolling since the ’70s. The crowd rose from their seats to applaud the shadows gliding on stage, accompanied by a…

Last weekend’s Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago was an intimate encounter with the elements. Each change in the weather — from blistering heat to storms that prompted a temporary mid-festival evacuation, to the restorative breeze that billowed during Robyn’s closing set — affected the way I internalized the wide-range of music. Some songs, like those…

Update: July 23, 2019, 12:20 p.m. We’ve got our first taste of the new mix. The Replacements shared the Matt Wallace Mix of “Talent Show” from Dead Man’s Pop. You’ll hear a lot more goofball antics… and a banjo? Here’s the original version What’s the Replacements’ best-selling album? Not their critically-acclaimed Let It Be, not…