Tuesday, July 30 Moon & Pollution (opening for Heloise & the Savoir Faire) 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis 8 p.m., $10, 18+ It says a lot about the strength of Moon & Pollution that the only gig they’ve played to date was opening for Atmosphere and Trampled by Turtles at Bayfront Park in Duluth. The new…

News broke this morning that the Fine Line Music Café, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary hosting live music and events in Minneapolis’s Warehouse District, has been sold to the newly branded Minneapolis Event Centers arm of entertainment company Entourage Events Group. Fans of the Fine Line are already speculating what this will mean for…

Foxygen’s first headlining show in Minneapolis was as brief as it was dramatic. According to several reports from the scene, the Pitchfork-blessed, performance-challenged band only made it about halfway through their opening song, “On Blue Mountain,” before singer Sam France climbed up onto a monitor on the front of the stage and toppled down into…

It’s been a long transition period for Minneapolis expat James Brooks, one-half of now defunct group Elite Gymnastics. After receiving a great deal of attention and accolades for their hazy and buoyant electro-pop, Brooks and his Gymnastics bandmate Josh Clancy parted ways last year and Brooks carried on alone, releasing music sporadically and using his…

I have quite the grab bag for you this week, with a pair of new hip-hop videos and a new offering from singer-songwriter Dan Israel, plus a clip from this morning’s edition of The Daily Circuit on the local music scene and a mind-bending tour of Curtiss A’s basement. Enjoy! And be sure to get…

When the end of the year rolls around and people start casting their ballots for best local album, one band might be criminally overlooked. It’s not because of widespread accessibility issues or anything – nope, it’s  just because the record came out early in January. That time is usually a graveyard for releases unless you’ve…

MTV recently launched a new series called “This Is the Place,” which zooms in on particular music scenes and explores what each city has to offer. For their third episode, they ventured into the heart of Minneapolis, where they discovered that everyone is in everyone else’s bands. Watching this video, a few things jumped out…

  Text by Andrea Swensson and Steve Cohen Research and “Now” photos by Steve Cohen Now that every address is available with a quick Google search and every concert is Instagrammed from 100 angles, it can be hard to remember a time when things weren’t so heavily documented. Even massive concerts like the Beatles’ visit…

Whether you attend shows all the time or only make it out every now and again, chances are you’ve noticed some changes going down at First Avenue. The big star repainting that happened in 2010 caught a lot of people’s attention (and led to some outcry, as fans questioned which artists would remain and which…

It’s been a big year for the Secret Stash Soul Revue. Still riding high off the release of the Twin Cities Funk & Soul: Lost R&B Grooves from Minneapolis/St. Paul 1964-1979 compilation, groups like the Valdons and Sonny Knight have continued making appearances around town, selling out venues like Icehouse, the Dakota, and First Avenue, where…