Now that bands have the ability to record a track in their basement and upload it to Soundcloud instantly, it’s easy to forget how common it once was for bands would gig for years before laying something down on tape. Such was the case for the God Damn Doo Wop Band, who burst onto the…

The Internet did a collective spit-take Tuesday night when the @3rdeyegirl account on Twitter — used primarily for promoting Prince’s new band of the same name — posted this: PRINCE'S 1ST TWEET… TESTING 1, 2… — PRINCE 3RDEYEGIRL (@3rdeyegirl) August 14, 2013 About a minute later, an uninspired, yet playful second tweet: PRINCE'S 2ND TWEET.…

On this week’s Local Show, we devoted most of the two-hour episode to spinning cuts of many of the big Minnesota releases due out this fall. If you missed it, you can listen to the entire show archived here, or browse many of the highlights below—complete with streams of the songs we played on the…

Happy Friday! If your day is anything like mine, then you’re itching to get up out of your swivel chair and into the sunshine at one of this weekend’s many outdoor shows. Here’s a handful of fresh local videos to help make the time creep by a little faster… Jack Campbell Something tells me there’s…

Text by Andrea Swensson and Steve Cohen Research and “Now” photos by Steve Cohen Now that every address is available with a quick Google search and every concert is Instagrammed from 100 angles, it can be hard to remember a time when things weren’t so heavily documented. Even massive concerts like the Beatles’ visit to…

Have you heard of Step Rockets? If you haven’t, then you’re probably not alone—the band has maintained a low profile in the local music community since starting out last year. But two weeks ago, Indie Shuffle wrote about what I would consider their first real debut single “Kisser.” And since then, the track has amassed…

Here in the Twin Cities, we like to talk about how we have an especially interconnected scene, with so many different bands overlapping, breaking up, and reforming into new groups. But it’s something that’s always been incredibly hard to describe, or to make any sense of on paper. Yeah, these bands are all connected, but…

Tuesday, August 6 Jeremy Messersmith 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis 7:30 p.m., sold out, 18+ With his new record in the can, recent Glassnote Records signee Jeremy Messersmith will showcase some of his new material at the Entry tonight. The album’s title and full track listing hasn’t been revealed, so the show will offer up one…

Last year, the local team at The Current stumbled across a slew of high-school bands by chance, and a few of them ended up becoming quick sensations in the community (see: John Mark Nelson and Bomba De Luz). We figured there was a lot of talent brewing in those school hallways, so we aired the…

There was already a pretty good reason to head down to the Bachelor Farmer tonight for their outdoor street fair, Kraftskiva, with the Cloak Ox playing their first show in about 18 months. But this morning, the event’s organizers sweetened the deal by adding the Shouting Matches, fresh off playing a show at First Avenue…