When you’re planning to shoot a coffee commercial featuring a pair of trapeze artists, who’s the first vocalist you think of to sing the jingle? Of course the answer must be Paul Stanley, the guitarist/”Starchild” of KISS. The commercial, which was shot in 2000 but never aired, has long been sought by KISS fans. The ad has now…

You never know quite what to expect from the Replacements, and sometimes that thing you get without expecting it is a 25-minute improvised jazz jam called “Poke Me In My Cage.” The 24-minute-and-22-second track—recorded at Woolly Mammoth Sound in Waltham, Mass., reports Pitchfork—was uploaded to the band’s Soundcloud, complete with porcupine artwork. Scroll down to…

English rock singer Joe Cocker, best known for his iconic covers of the Beatles’ “With a Little Help From My Friends” and Billy Preston, Bruce Fisher, and Dennis Wilson’s “You Are So Beautiful,” passed away today following a battle with lung cancer. Born on May 20, 1944, in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, he was 70 years…

As a special treat this Christmas week, Tim Mahoney and Robert Robinson have shared their new cover of “Put a Little Love in Your Heart.” The song was first released in 1969 by Jackie DeShannon, and became closely associated with the holiday season two decades later when a cover by Annie Lennox and Al Green…

According to Hip Hop Hall of Fame chairman JT Thompson, $50 million has been raised towards an $80 million goal to open two museum sites in New York City: a central site in Midtown and a “satellite museum” in Harlem. Thompson, producer of BET’s Hip Hop Hall of Fame Awards Show from 1992-97, has been trying…

As a live music enthusiast who’s also a high school senior trying to figure out how to pay for college, I have become very good at finding affordable shows. This is a list of eight great places to hear live music on the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities campus. This list includes a wide variety of venues, prices, and…

It’s that most wonderful time of the year, when sleigh bells are ringing and in-laws are descending and everyone’s making one last mad dash toward the malls to finish up their shopping in time for the holidays. If you’re like me, you’ve probably waited until right about now to start seriously thinking about what you’re…

Happy Friday! We’ll kick off this week’s new video roundup with a pair of releases from two of Minnesota’s biggest and longest-running hip-hop crews… Doomtree’s ducks What, did you think Doomtree was going to slow down now that they’ve wrapped up the 10 consecutive events of their Last Blowout Ever? With a new full-crew album…

Way back in the day, before the White Stripes blew up, Jack White worked as an upholsterer. Later, White and his fellow upholsterer Brian Muldoon formed a duo who called themselves—wait for it—the Upholsterers and cut a couple of songs. One of those songs, “Apple of My Eye,” was released commercially in 2000. The second, “Your Furniture Was…

‘Tis the season for holiday music, and of course for us that means holiday music by Minnesota’s many talented artists. There are lots of opportunities for you to listen local this holiday season—including six very special hours this coming Monday, Dec. 22. The seasonal sounds have already begun on Wonderground, where Barb Abney has been curating…