Happy Friday, party people! I have lots of goodies to share with you today, including videos that preview a pair of brand-new EPs that are going to sneak their way onto store shelves before the year is through. Happy holidays, and hope to see you out at the clubs.   1. Heiruspecs MC Felix steps…

Former Turf Club manager, St. Paul Music Club co-founder, and Mammy Nuns bass player Leah Rule passed away this morning after a two-year battle with cancer. She was 44. Leah’s husband Rob Rule broke the news on her Facebook page and Caring Bridge site today. “Early on this morning of the winter solstice, Leah left us. She…

Love it or hate it, we’ve gotten around to that time of year when seasonal music is all but unavoidable. Thankfully, we have plenty of musicians here in the Twin Cities who are revamping the holiday canon and updating the classics for a new generation of music fans. Here’s a look at some of the…

Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles have a new session up on the Rock Island, Ill.-based Daytrotter site today, offering fans a handful of acoustic renditions of the songs off their latest full-length, Heat. In typical Daytrotter fashion, the band is depicted in a watercolor-style portrait on the site and their session is accompanied by…

As Nicholas David would say, “Holy buckets!” It was another long, drawn-out elimination process on NBC’s The Voice, as Eagan’s Nicholas David (who we know as Nick “The Feelin” Mrozinski) performed as one of three final contestants. But as the last minutes of the season ticked by, host Carson Daly revealed that our homeboy placed…

Minnesota musicians have banded together to pay tribute to the Magnetic Fields by covering all 69 tracks from their three-disc concept album 69 Love Songs. “The band is an indie rock institution, and it’s their most classic album,” Matt Latterell recently told the Local Show. Latterell worked with Chuck Terhark to assemble the compilation, build…

I don’t know about you, but I will use any excuse possible to do my shopping online and in independent stores instead of facing the malls at this time of year. And lucky for us, we live in such a fertile music and arts community that there’s really no reason to patronize those overcrowded big-box…

The big theme for concerts this week is the so-called end of the world, which the Mayans predicted to take place on Friday, December 21, 2012. Just in case, there are lots of events planned for the Saturday and Sunday of this weekend as well. Tuesday, December 18 Lady Heat Hot Soul Party Holiday ShakedownIcehouse,…

Bob Mould is the latest musician to use Reddit to host an AMA (ask me anything) with his fans, and today’s conversation provided quite a few little tidbits—the most timely of which was a preview clip of his new concert DVD, See a Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob Mould, which…

PHOTOS BY NATE RYAN/MPR Last week—which suddenly feels so very long ago—I wrote a post reflecting on Doomtree’s new documentary, Team the Best Team, and specifically the unparalleled energy that the crew harnesses as a unit. “A sum greater than its parts” is a phrase that has appeared in countless reviews of Doomtree’s work, and…