Owl City’s Adam Young is the rare Minnesota-born musician whose star has risen so quickly and whose music frolics so unapologetically into the mainstream that his relationship with his home state is all but nonexistent.  That detachment from any particular geographic location may be part of his widespread appeal. His MySpace popularity propelled him out…

With the Pizza Lucé and Pride Block Parties on hiatus for 2012, the Bastille Day celebration outside of Barbette was one of the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis’s only chances to take in some free live music outdoors this summer. The block party’s organizers seemed to recognize this fact and consequently booked one of their strongest…

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Local music notes from the week of July 9-13

We’re living in an era of hyper-connectivity, where every factoid we could possibly imagine is just a quick Google away. But with this unquantifiable rolodex of information at our fingertips, it can be hard to remember that there are just as many pieces of history that have gone undocumented. This pool of un-Googleable data runs…

Low ticket sales are to blame for the last-minute cancellation

Dueling festivals offer eclectic lineups this weekend

Local bands that deserve must-hear status this week

It’s been six months since we last heard from Dream Brother, the experimental recording project helmed by One For the Team’s Ian Anderson. Back in January, Anderson released a pair of tracks that found him collaborating with Paul Sprangers of Free Energy and John Vanderslice; this time around, Anderson teamed up with Grant Cutler (formerly…

Local music notes from the week of July 2-6