Bob Dylan has been named 2015 MusicCares Person of the Year by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. The Minnesota-born music legend was chosen for the honor because his “body of creative work has contributed to America’s culture, as well as that of the entire world, in genuinely deep and lasting ways,” said MusiCares CEO…

Toki Wright and Big Cats: Pangaea Toki Wright is back and this time he brings company: Minnesota producer Big Cats. Wright and Spencer Wirth-Davis, a.k.a. Big Cats, drop Pangaea today after two years of hard work in the studio. Wright and Big Cats joined David Campbell last week for an in-studio performance of the new…

It’s funny how many routines from our childhood stick with us into adulthood. For me, I don’t know if I’ll ever shake the feeling that fall means it’s time to start a new school year. As soon as Labor Day slides by and the temperatures start to dip under 60 degrees, I start examining my…

Pink Floyd have confirmed details and cover art for their new album: The Endless River will be released on Nov. 10. It will be a four-sided instrumental album built on tracks recorded with keyboardist Rick Wright, who died in 2008. The current incarnation of Floyd, led by guitarist David Gilmour, does not include founding vocalist/bassist/mastermind Roger Waters. (Rolling Stone) According…

This spring, Trampled by Turtles finalized plans to host a new music festival, featuring a hand-picked lineup of nine local and national acts, headlined by the Duluth folk-rockers themselves. Months later, on Saturday, Sept. 20, the fledgling Festival Palomino finally saw daylight…and storm clouds and lightning and wind. Despite challenging weather that revealed the venue’s Achilles’s…

Twin Cities singer-songwriter Dan Rodriguez is warming YouTube’s heart with a song he wrote for a Budweiser commercial promoting responsible drinking. The advertisement tells the story of a guy with a loving Labrador Retriever waiting for him to come home after a night out drinking with his human pals. Rodriguez lends his introspective, echoey vocals…

It’s not much, but for fans who have been waiting with bated breath for the reunited Replacements to release a new album, it’s more than enough to make Monday exciting: “the Replacements say they’ll likely make an album at some point in the future,” writes Rolling Stone‘s Jon Dolan in a profile of the band that…

On Saturday at the annual Pop Vs. Jock charity basketball game organized by Win Butler of Arcade Fire, Butler and other members of Arcade Fire joined forces with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver—as well as Nikolai Fraiture of the Strokes—to perform as “the Pop All Star Band.” They played covers of Phil Collins‘s “In the Air Tonight” and the White Stripes‘ “Seven Nation…

Who is David Bowie? The reporter sitting next to me asked me that question. She had heard his name, but she didn’t know anything about him. She thought he was a painter (for good reason—she had seen his artworks the night previously). “He does make art,” I said, “And he’s famous for his great music.…

As anyone who attended the big Replacements show at Midway Stadium can attest, one of the coolest parts of the event was reveling in the anticipatory excitement that was coursing through the parking lot before the show. Lawn chairs were unfolded, grills were fired up, beers were cracked, and Replacements songs blared from every angle. Even…