Andrew Bird's bandmates talk about Dan Deacon and appearing on The Colbert Report

Booking/sound guy Trevor Engelbrektson talks memories and local music

In addition for being the inspiration for Jeremy Messersmith’s morbid-chic pop album The Reluctant Graveyard back in 2010, the Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery in South Minneapolis is also one of Minnesota’s 10 Most Endangered Places. Messersmith himself performed a benefit concert for the cemetery last summer with Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles, and the…

Over the next five days, you are going to hear an awful lot about the South by Southwest festival, particularly the music portion as it officially kicks off tomorrow. The Current will be journeying to Austin, Texas to report on the festival live, and I will be working alongside The Current’s program director Jim McGuinn…

Local bands that deserve must-hear status this week

Walking into the Amsterdam Bar & Hall on Saturday night was an immediately disorienting experience. At one end of the room, the Le Cirque Rouge Burlesque troupe was wrapping up a cabaret show, their house band giving the darkened space a speakeasy vibe while a woman performed a 3D striptease from behind a sheet. In…

The Local Show wants to hear your memories and questions about one of Minnesota's most famous musicians

On Thursday night, March 8, local musicians affiliated with the Last Triumph collective performed at a SXSW send-off party at the Cabooze in Minneapolis. Read the full story on the Last Triumph collective and their involvement with a new Minnesota-based musical video game project here. ALL PHOTOS BY BEN CLARK.

Local developers Zivix throwing unique parties at SXSW

Local music notes from the week of March 5-9