On Thursday, January 15, and Saturday, January 17, Motion City Soundtrack will be performing their Epitaph Records debut, Commit This To Memory, from start to finish in honor of the album’s 10-year anniversary. To celebrate, we thought it would be a good excuse to revisit so much of the pop-punk, post-punk, and plain old punk…

At the Golden Globes Sunday night, Prince appeared to present the award for best original song to John Legend and Common for “Glory” from Selma. “I want to thank God,” said Common, “and the Hollywood Foreign Press.” (Billboard) Allison Janney: massive Prince fan. pic.twitter.com/gcOjY8UtH3 — Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) January 12, 2015 Thanks to his collaboration with Kanye West, Paul McCartney is back…

Driving down the county highway that leads to Pachyderm Studio, it’s only natural to start to imagine all of the rock stars over the past 30 years who’ve made this same curious trek. Although the drive isn’t too long, it’s far enough off the beaten path to leave the cityscape far behind in the rearview mirror—that…

Bob Dylan’s new album Shadows in the Night is coming out on Feb. 3, and it looks like Dylan’s getting ready to support the release with a new music video directed by Nash Edgerton—the Australian director who’s been Dylan’s preferred video director for the past several years. Billboard got a hold of the casting call for…

Happy Friday! After a couple of slow weeks over the holidays someone has turned the Minnesota music video faucet back on full blast, and it was tough narrowing it down to just five to feature in today’s roundup. Buckle up, bbs, something tells me we’re in for an action-packed 2015… Mike Mictlan Directed by Adam J. Dunn, this…

When Doomtree said that they were going to bring their A+ game to December’s Last Blowout Ever, they weren’t joking. “I wanted to do some special costuming for the Icehouse Blowout set,” writes Dessa on Doomtree’s blog, “something with lights. Something beautiful and spooky. I wanted our sternums to glow, and I wanted lights in…

Lizzo and Toki Wright (with producer/collaborator Big Cats) will headline a show Jan. 10 at the Varsity Theater to benefit To The Bridge Foundation. To The Bridge supports individuals struggling with addiction on their way to recovery. Proceeds from the show will go toward helping people working through chemical dependency build bridges to the next stage of their lives. Lizzo…

While he was at the Consumer Electronics Show promoting his new Pono music player, Neil Young happened to mention that he’s working on a new album with Willie Nelson‘s sons Lukas and Micah Nelson. He joked that the album is going to be about his change-of-heart regarding an agribusiness giant he’s been protesting for years. The Monsanto Years, Young said, will…

The locally-made documentary Legends of Ska will be screened Sunday at the Bryant-Lake Bowl, one of a growing number of movies to be shown at the restaurant/bowling alley/theater. Created by Minneapolis director Brad Klein, the film chronicles the history of the Jamaican art form and its roots in music culture — both in its native Jamaica and around the world. “One of my…

After being flooded off of Harriet Island and spending a year at the Carver County Fairgrounds in Waconia, the music and food festival A Taste of Minnesota is again searching for a home—but it won’t find it at the Washington County Fairgrounds in 2015. Organizers of the festival that featured Soul Asylum, Halestorm, the Castaways and Starship…