Venerable retailer Hymie’s Records is launching its very own in-house record label with vinyl releases by Ben Weaver and Brian Laidlaw & the Family Trade. It will celebrate taking the plunge with an Oct. 10 show at the Cedar Cultural Center featuring both artists. The vintage vinyl lover’s refuge opened more than a quarter-century ago. Since its…

The epic music news of the past 24 hours was the surprise release—for free—of U2‘s new album Songs of Innocence, announced at the Apple event announcing the Apple Watch and iPhone 6. Here’s more on that story, and here’s a huge story that was buried by the U2 news: Apple has discontinued the iPod Classic, the…

It’s been a banner year for Minnesota musicians on late-night television, with both Trampled by Turtles and Jeremy Messersmith performing on The Late Show with David Letterman in recent months and the Replacements making their triumphant return to NBC Studios to perform on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Tuesday night’s appearance on the show…

Music fans who thought they could snooze through today’s überhyped “Apple Event” were caught by surprise when U2 pulled a Beyoncé and dropped an entire new studio album, with no warning, after performing at the Cupertino press frenzy that also saw Apple announce the Apple Watch and iPhone 6. Oh…and it’s free. The new U2 album, Songs…

The ascending teen garage punk group Stereo Confession will play an all-ages show on Sunday, Oct. 12 at the 7th St. Entry. The show comes in anticipation of its new album, No Coast, to be released Oct. 14. The band signed this month with Susstones Records and recorded the full-length debut at producer Ed Ackerson’s…

Tickle Torture: Spectrophilia Your new favorite dance-pop pants-dropper, Elliott Kozel a.k.a. Tickle Torture, is at it again. Spectrophilia is being released online today. Standout track “She’s In My Blood” has the heavy groove you would expect, but sprinkles in psychedelic oddities for good measure. The 8.5-minute track builds to some intense screaming above the incessant guitar…

If your favorite band is Radiohead, the Strokes, or the Smiths, a guy from your favorite band has his second solo album coming out. Radiohead drummer Phil Selway just released “It Will End in Tears,” the first single from his upcoming second solo album Weatherhouse. Julian Casablancas of the Strokes has been playing new material from his upcoming sophomore album Tyranny (due Sept.…

In preparation for the release of his self-titled album tomorrow, Ryan Adams unleashed a promotional video in which he and Bob Mould appear in a studio trying to record music insightful enough to kill a parakeet. We are cautioned that the 14th album from the former Whiskeytown frontman is “not for the birds.” A second video,…

You’ve heard that 3D printers are becoming more affordable—you might even have one yourself, or you might have one at work. If so, put it to good use and print your very own Daft Punk robot helmet! Here’s a how-to video, thanks to “DIY electronics” purveyors Adafruit Industries. Bruce Springsteen will make a cameo in…

Less than a week before their extremely sold-out show at Midway Stadium in St. Paul, the Replacements have announced, they will be Jimmy Fallon’s musical guests on The Tonight Show. The Minnesota music legends will appear on the show next Tuesday, Sept. 9 along with interview guests Debra Messing and—yes—Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. The…