After some worry last year that the Stone Arch Festival of the Arts would end its run on St. Anthony Main following the death of its founder, Ira Heilicher, the event has been picked up by a new owner and will return this year as the Stone Arch Bridge Festival.  “Father’s Day weekend in Minneapolis…

As reported earlier this spring, Nicollet Ave’s Yeti Records will be vacating its storefront this summer in pursuit of a mobile record shop, which would be the first of its kind on the Twin Cities festival and street fair circuit. Co-owners Lisa and Jake Luck opened their all-vinyl store in the fall of 2010, and…

This past weekend, Jeremy Messersmith brought an experiment to the Fitzgerald Theater under the guise of Muse for Music. Exploring the origins and stories behind some of music’s most famous songs, Messersmith teamed up with P.O.S. and Chastity Brown to bring new renditions of these works to a live setting.    

Local bands that deserve must-hear status this week

David Lee Roth: "We bit off way more than we could chew when it came to scheduling"

Robin Gibb, who with his brothers Maurice and Barry in the Bee Gees acored numerous hit records in the 1960s before going on to help define the disco era, has died after a long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery. He was 62 years old.

Here We Go Magic may be one of the most impressive live bands you'll ever see. Throughout the past three years, they've refined their craft for rhythm, creating a sonic landscape on stage that makes jaws drop and bodies move. The results are bombastic and genre-defying, although one reviewer recently coined their style as a blend of kraut folk rock, and that might be the closest we'll get to an appropriate description.

The Hypstrz were considered one of the purveyors of cool in the Twin Cities during the late '70s and early '80s, helping to pave the way for some of our most beloved bands like The Suicide Commandos and The Suburbs. Hypstrz had a different niche though: reworking '60s classics into an idiosyncratic, full-out garage rock and punk experiment. And while they didn't immediately get the attention they deserved, the band has now gone down in the history books of Minnesota music.

The collective is back with their sophomore release "Here," and many people will probably listen to it hoping to hear another "Home." There's no way of knowing yet, but what the album does give us is a more introspective Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros digging into their spiritual side.

The summer festival season is upon us. Though there have been a few sporadic outdoor events already (including the MayDay Hip Hop and Art Festival), this weekend really helps launch the season with events spanning several areas of Minneapolis. Starting tonight, Art-A-Whirl brings hundreds of artists and bands to Northeast for a sprawling three-day event,…