What covers of Replacements songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

This weekend is insane. And the big sold-out Replacements show at Midway Stadium is just the icing on a big ol’ musical cake—there are also big release shows happening Friday and Saturday with Maria Isa and PaviElle, not to mention P.O.S.’s triumphant return to the stage with his first headlining show in two years tomorrow in downtown…

The Target Corporation’s annual meeting—in Target Center, natch—is one of the biggest private music shows in Minnesota each year; it’s up there with the annual Starkey Foundation benefit, where Garth Brooks and Miley Cyrus have shared a stage with Bill Clinton and Meat Loaf. At Wednesday’s meeting, an arena full of Target employees clad in…

What demos and alternate takes of familiar Replacements songs would you like to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

The term “old soul” gets thrown around a lot when trying to describe people who seem wiser than their age or experiences can account for. But for vocalist and songwriter PaviElle French, who performs as PaviElle, the words “old soul” describe her not just figuratively but also literally. A native of the Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul, PaviElle has…

Maria Isa’s performances have taken her from St. Paul’s West Side to Puerto Rico and, more recently, to Hollywood. Her new album Valley of the Dolls, which she will release this Friday with a show at the Dakota Jazz Club, proves her music has grown throughout her travels into a confident assertion of identity and…

The Jackson Five got animated, Bowie and Bing got together, and Peter Gabriel got a Moon Man Today in Music History.

1991: The Year Punk Broke, the year Nirvana released Nevermind, the year N.W.A. reached the top of the album charts and imploded, the year Jane’s Addiction called it quits and gave us Lollapalooza as a consolation. Are you too young to have experienced 1991 firsthand? Are you old enough but understandably worried that life and…

“This is our first gig, so hold on—we’re just learning how to do this.” Last night at Bob Mould’s Bowery Ballroom show in New York, Ryan Adams came onstage to join Mould for an encore filled with Hüsker Dü songs. According to jambands.com, the songs included “I Apologize,” “Celebrated Summer,” “Something I Learned Today,” and “New…

In honor of the upcoming Replacements show at Midway Stadium, artist Kevin Cannon and writer Pat Ganley have created a remarkable hand-drawn map of ‘Mats landmarks in Minneapolis—from the CC Club to First Ave to the Bob Stinson Memorial Bench—based on Jim Walsh’s book All Over But the Shouting. Here’s a preview; see the full-size map,…