When you go to the airport, you expect to check your bags, go through security, and wait around for a couple hours for your flight. If you’re flying out of Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport (MSP), though, you’re about to really start seeing some changes in the way travelers experience the airport. The Arts and…

Alex Collyard and Philip Simondet were music fans long before they were improv comedians, and they’ve now combined their two passions in a series called “the Local Music Scene.” “As a kid, whenever I’d get a new CD I’d listen to it three times in a row, following along with the lyrics every time,” Collyard said. That intimate…

As First Avenue continues to recover from its recent roof collapse, the beloved Minneapolis venue will be hosting its first-ever garage sale (at least, the first one “that’s actually in our garage”) on Sunday in association with Open Streets Minneapolis. The venue will be selling First Avenue & 7th Street Entry and Turf Club merchandise and “some odds and ends you…

When Wilco released a surprise, free album titled Star Wars, many assumed that the band must be fans of the 1977 blockbuster. Au contraire, says Jeff Tweedy: he’s not a fan, and in fact he didn’t even know there was a new Star Wars movie coming out “until my lawyer told me.” In an interview with Rolling Stone,…

It’s been exactly a week since a portion of First Avenue’s ceiling collapsed during a show by Theory of a Deadman, resulting in at least two minor injuries to crowd members and a swift evacuation of the entire property. Since that event, demolition crews have working around the clock to deconstruct the damage and begin to…

On Sunday evening, Lucius were scheduled to play Mayo Park in Rochester with opener Henry James Patterson. Mark Wheat, who always enjoys hanging out with our Rochester audience, was on hand for what promised to be a great show. Unfortunately, severe weather cut the show short—but the gracious members of Lucius helped make it up to…

After nearly two years playing with the reunited Replacements, Tommy Stinson is returning to his solo career with a series of new releases and tour dates, starting with a charity single recorded in London. All proceeds from Stinson’s new single “Can’t Be Bothered” will be donated to the Roundhouse Trust: a fund providing creative opportunities…

Will Brooker, a professor of film and cultural studies at Kingston University in London, has announced plans to dress like David Bowie every day for the next year. Which Bowie? Why choose? Brooker will make his way through numerous different periods of Bowie’s life, as part of what he’s calling a research project. “The idea is…

The A.V. Club, the arts and culture site that’s part of The Onion’s digital network, invited Hippo Campus in to participate in their “Undercover” series. Each year, the A.V. Club makes a list of songs and invites bands into their Chicago office to cover them. Once a song is picked, it gets scratched off the list, so the later…

CHVRCHES have released an evocative new video for their song “Leave a Trace.” The song will appear on the band’s new album Every Open Eye, due out Sept. 25. (Pitchfork) After the video’s release, frontwoman Lauren Mayberry responded forcefully to negative comments made by some users of the site 4chan regarding Mayberry’s appearance in the video.…