It’s been quite the year for internet memes in Minnesota. Last month, over 10,000 people gathered on the Walker Art Center’s lawn for the first-ever Internet Cat Video Film Festival, while a group of aspiring young rappers from North Minneapolis started burning up the internet with their irresistable ode to snacks, “Hot Cheetos & Takis.”…

A transcript of Vernon's chat from this week's Local Show

Local music notes from the week of September 17-21

When old-school ’60s and ’70s soul fans gather at the Cedar Cultural Center tomorrow night to celebrate Secret Stash Records’ new compilation, it’ll be far from your average album-release show or listening party. Rather, Saturday’s show will be the culmination of a year and a half of researching, interviewing, rehearsing with, and otherwise coaxing the…

It’s been a big week for Minnesota music icons re-emerging out of the blue with new material. First we were treated to a new, surprisingly likeable jam from Prince, “RNR Affair,” and today we were directed to local blog I Will Dare for a download of Paul Westerberg’s new “My Road Now.” The song features…

Hear new music from Adelyn Rose, Sloslylove and Wisconsin Built

The 13th season of the Sound Unseen Film, Music & Art show is coming up fast, with events happening October 10-14. This year, their films-about-music screenings will be paired with free live music at Harriet Brewing’s Tap Room in South Minneapolis, and they’ve booked a promising lineup of local DJs and live acts that includes…

Mark Mallman’s longest nonstop performance yet, Marathon 4, pulled into Minneapolis yesterday evening and called on a handful of Twin Cities performers to keep the music going. This time around, instead of performing from inside a local rock club, Mallman has made a 1992 GMC Vandura van his venue and has played one long, mostly…

St. Paul native Nick Mrozinski, who performs locally as soul singer-songwriter “The Feelin’,” will compete on prime-time NBC talent show The Voice this season and receive training from one of the show’s four celebrity coaches, Cee Lo Green. Mrozinski appeared on the show Monday night as part of the fourth round of blind auditions, and performed…

With just over a week left until the launch of his Welcome 2 Chicago residency, Prince is working the national media circuit today. He was a guest on talk show The View this morning (coincidentally, on the same episode that featured former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura), chatting up Barbara Walters and the show’s other hosts…