It’s supposed to get up into the 80s tomorrow in the Twin Cities, so what better way to celebrate our first hot day of the season than by watching a video of someone snowmobiling across a frozen tundra? Aero Flynn This video is SO WISCONSIN. Or at least what other people must think it’s like…

Billboard reports that this week at Paisley Park, Prince recorded a new song that’s a “tribute to all the people of the city of Baltimore.” Release plans have not yet been announced, but Prince has shared the song’s artwork—above. “It’s understood,” according to Billboard, “that the track will address Freddie Gray’s death in Baltimore police…

Bono has given the New York Times an update on his slow recovery from the serious bicycle accident he suffered last November in Central Park. He still can’t move two fingers on his right hand, and remains unable to play guitar. It will take over a year to know how fully he’ll be able to…

Last year, local rapper P.O.S curated a miniature music festival deemed “The F***ing Best Show Ever” (TFBSE) after successfully undergoing a kidney transplant. The show is now back for a second year, this time hosted at the Familia Skate Park in Northeast Minneapolis on June 13. The show will include performances by P.O.S himself, Big…

You can get a high school diploma by spending only nine days in high school—if, that is, you’re country great Merle Haggard. The superintendent of the Bakersfield, California school where Haggard spent his very brief secondary education career presented Haggard with a diploma before the “Mama Tried” singer played a show on Saturday at the nearby Fox…

Web of Sunsets: Steel New Days Members of the acid-country trio Web of Sunsets come from many corners of the musical world, but the title track of their new Steel New Days EP centers on a droning jangle. Slowly but surely the song takes flight and before you know it, your feet are far from…

Approximately 6:30 p.m. Saturday evening in a grassy patio behind a bar in downtown Winona, patrons busted out kubb. “This game is nonsensical,” I said. “That’s the best kind of game,” replied a long-haired gentleman in a leather jacket, a natural at the stick-throwing Nordic lawn sport. The saxophonist for People Brothers Band teamed with the…

Blur‘s first New York show featuring the band’s classic lineup since 2000 will be totally free, thanks to Converse. The tickets will go fast, though; if you want to throw your hat in the ring to see Blur at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Friday night, you can RSVP here starting at 11:00 a.m.…

The snow was falling hard and fast in fat, sloppy flakes the night I pulled into Mankato, Minnesota, to see Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. It was the kind of storm that we’ve been getting a lot of this spring; one that starts suddenly and dangerously but then dissipates, leaving everyone confused and the streets…

Amy Winehouse‘s family have issued a statement saying they wish to “disassociate” themselves from Amy, a forthcoming documentary about the late singer. The family cooperated with the filmmakers during the production of the documentary, but having seen the finished film, the family feels that it “is both misleading and contains some basic untruths.” Specifically, the family say that the…