Here we go again. For the fourth straight season, at least one Minnesota native will compete on NBC’s talent show The Voice—and this time the frontrunner is a relative unknown in the local scene, 19-year-old Hopkins native Holly Henry. Ms. Henry, known to her friends and family here in Minnesota as 2012 Hopkins High grad…

If you missed the Suburbs’ celebratory, soaring performance at this year’s Minnesota Music-on-a-Stick show at the State Fair, you have another chance to catch them in action this week—and for free, no less. The band just revealed that they’re playing a last-minute gig at St. Paul’s Amsterdam Bar and Hall tomorrow night (Tuesday, September 24)…

We got a few little hints about Mason Jennings’ next record when he played Minnesota Music-on-a-Stick last month, and today he made the news official: Always Been, his 10 full-length album, will drop on November 12. Each of his’ past few albums have stood out from his catalog for various reasons—2009’s Blood of Man was…

If you ask me, there’s not much that beats fall in Minnesota. There’s no humidity, it’s good sleeping weather, and it’s a time when bands in the Twin Cities start cranking out new music at a breakneck pace, as if they’re trying to cram as many new albums as possible into the end of the…

Have you heard? With his big sold-out show at First Avenue tonight, Har Mar Superstar Day has been declared in Minneapolis by Mayor R.T. Rybak. Given Har Mar’s antics and unparalleled live performance skills, this proclamation opens the door for all kinds of debaucherous celebrations. So just how does one observe a holiday as glorious…

Over the past few months, two remarkable things have happened in the Minnesota hip-hop scene. The first came with news that Hip Hop Harambee, the first block party of its kind, was so successful last year that it would be returning for an even bigger second installment at the Nomad Pub. And the second happened…

Wednesday, September 18 Jonny Lang State Theatre, Minneapolis 7:30 p.m., $43.50-$53.50, all ages The Fargo-born, Minneapolis-reared guitarist returns home to play the State in support of his first album in seven years, the adult contemporary, pop, and blues leaning Fight for My Soul. Read up on the latest in Jonny’s life in the Star Tribune. Thursday, September…

Chances are, if you’ve purchased an album released by a local band over the past few years, the good folks at Noiseland Industries have had something to do with getting the album pressed and into the hands of area music lovers. The boutique LP and CD manufacturer located in NE Minneapolis has been servicing the…

After a successful tour in support of their 11th studio album, Love, Cloud Cult are taking it down a notch for a series of more intimate acoustic shows that will culminate in a live recording here in Minneapolis. “This is a totally different kind of Cloud Cult performance that has been feeling really spiritually rooting…

It’s been three weeks since the Replacements played their first reunion show in Toronto, and since that time I’ve been trying to figure out how to describe just how special that night was. I knew it was hyperbolic, but I found myself saying things like, “I don’t know if I’ll ever experience something like that…