Proclaiming to be better than both birthday cake and birthday parties, the local duo Birthday Suits blow out the candles with their heavy hitting noise-rock.

Named after a Neutral Milk Hotel song, Communist Daughter is the newest project from the former front-man of Friends Like These, Johnny Solomon.

Local indie rockers One For The Team have done it again. Their third full length release "Ghosts" is a collection of heavy hitting pop anthems.

She & Him, the duo of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel, is an auspicious match for many reasons.

Brothers Dan and Matt Wilson have been playing together since they were kids. They've both had successful careers in bands like Semisonic, Trip Shakespeare, and Twilight Hours as well as solo work. But they've never shared the stage for a solo show before. They will later this month, when they play a show at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis.

The Clientele are a London-based British band that originally formed in 1991, under the name The Butterfly Collectors. However, it wasn't until 2003 that their first album, "The Violet Hour" was released which saw great acclaim but little commercial success.

The four-piece that call themselves Field Music began in Sunderland, in northeast England in 2004 and has played with the likes of Maximo Park and the Futureheads.