We’ve been up to our eyeballs in new music videos this week, with both Father You See Queen and Tiny Deaths premiering new videos (coincidentally, for two different songs titled “Ocean”) and Noisey dropping a 9-minute little documentary about the Minnesota music scene. You’d think we’d be light on videos for the Friday Five this week……

Prince is our Local Current Artist of the Month this July, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Purple Rain. When Haim visited the Current’s studios in May, Este and Alana Haim talked about their passion for Prince—Este goes so far as to call it an “obsession”—and the time Alana thought the band were about to…

Precision has long been an important part of Trampled by Turtles’ live show. The Duluth quintet have built their reputation on playing lightening-quick, shredding string music that tests the limits of bluegrass and pushes it toward heavy metal, and one of the most fascinating parts of watching them perform has been seeing how responsive they…

Tiny deaths began as a collaboration between Claire de Lune and Grant Cutler back when Claire’s trio the Chalice—with Lizzo and Sophia Eris—were the toast of the local live music scene. Now the Chalice is on hiatus as its members focus on other projects: Lizzo’s solo career; GRRRL PRTY featuring Lizzo and Sophia Eris; and,…

For the Love, a new festival featuring a lineup stacked with local hip-hop acts—featuring the reunited Micranots as its headliner—will take over St. Paul’s Lowertown neighborhood this weekend. Presented by ACEntertainment, the fest will run from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Saturday, July 12. The festival will mark the Micranots’ second show in ten years; I…

A strange thing happened when I sat down to write the review for this week’s CD of the Week, which is Lana Del Rey’s latest album, Ultraviolence. I typed a few paragraphs, looked back at what I’d written, and realized that I hadn’t yet said a single thing about her music. I’m a big fan of the…

When Cause Spirits & Soundbar suddenly announced, last month, plans to close after their fifth anniversary show this Saturday, it was unclear what would take its place. We now know: Vita.mn reports that the space will become a sports bar called the Iron Door Pub. The new owners “plan to knock out the wall separating the…

Set aside nine minutes of your day today to watch “Made in Minnesota,” a mini-documentary on the Minnesota music scene by Vice’s music channel Noisey. As opposed to the MTV feature on Minneapolis that came out last year, which focused on what’s happening here and now, the Noisey doc offers a more historical look by…

The Cabooze, a rock club that’s become a West Bank music institution, has announced plans to celebrate its 40th anniversary with a special series of concerts. Shows announced so far include Lamont Cranston and Friends, the Butanes Soul Revue, and a tribute to reggae legend Peter Tosh, among others. The Cabooze opened in July 1974. The first musical act…

13,000 live music videos—from classic rock to current indie bands—have been published on YouTube by the intrepid bootleggers of Wolfgang’s Vault. Local music fans will dig finds like this ’82 vid of Prince playing “Controversy.” (Local Current) The vault also includes this footage of Bob Dylan singing “Forever Young”—which will be covered by Idina Menzel (!?)…