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May 19, 2017

People are seeing Prince in an image of a majestic cloud, taken Tuesday night at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The sky over the Minneapolis Airport tonight! @prince @drfunkenberry pic.twitter.com/pAXOPtPQ6o — Jill Smith (@jillkins9) May 17, 2017 Jill Smith got the picture from her coworker, Tiffany Mattick, who says she was driving down 494 towards…

People are freaking out about this Minneapolis cloud that looks like Prince

People are freaking out about this Minneapolis cloud that looks like Prince

Jackie Renzetti • May 19, 2017

People are seeing Prince in an image of a majestic cloud, taken Tuesday night at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The sky over the Minneapolis Airport tonight! @prince @drfunkenberry pic.twitter.com/pAXOPtPQ6o — Jill Smith (@jillkins9) May 17, 2017 Jill Smith got the picture from her coworker, Tiffany Mattick, who says she was driving down 494 towards…

Friday Five: WINGMAN, Heiruspecs, and more new Minnesota music videos

Friday Five: WINGMAN, Heiruspecs, and more new Minnesota music videos

Cecilia Johnson • May 19, 2017

Video premiere: WINGMAN, “Giant Microphone” WINGMAN (Connor Davison and Daniel Stewart, featuring Levi Stugelmeyer and Steve Bosmans) share a video from their debut album Honcho, which came out in 2016. The band teamed up with director Eric Pierson and a whole team of pros to create this goofy blast from the past. Heiruspecs, “Relativity” Heiruspecs‘s new single/video, “Relativity,” addresses…

Watch Sen. Tim Kaine jam with Tommy Stinson on ‘This Land Is Your Land’

Watch Sen. Tim Kaine jam with Tommy Stinson on ‘This Land Is Your Land’

Jackie Renzetti • May 19, 2017

Well folks, it’s finally happened. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) joined Tommy Stinson’s band, Bash & Pop, on Thursday night for a harmonica solo in “This Land Is Your Land.” “You know who this is?” Stinson asked the Brooklyn, New York crowd, while instructing the former vice presidential candidate to keep playing. “He can wail on the harp.”…

Jack White announces children’s book titled ‘We’re Going To Be Friends’

Jack White announces children’s book titled ‘We’re Going To Be Friends’

Jackie Renzetti • May 19, 2017

Named after the sentimental White Stripes song, Jack White has announced a children’s book: We’re Going To Be Friends, due out this November. With illustrations from Elinor Blake, the book tells the story of “Suzy Lee as she goes to school with her books and pens, looks for bugs, shows and tells, and finds a friend.”…

What is hip-hop? Minneapolis dancers challenge stereotypes, raise questions in ‘MIXTAPE’

What is hip-hop? Minneapolis dancers challenge stereotypes, raise questions in ‘MIXTAPE’

Jackie Renzetti • May 19, 2017

Having received his Master’s in hip-hop pedagogy from the University of Minnesota this spring, veteran B-Boy Jason Noer (who performs as J-Sun) is one of the biggest hip-hop experts in the Twin Cities. In his 15 years as a teaching artist at the Cowles Center, he’s worked to create space for hip-hop artists in Twin Cities…

Watch: Wendy and Lisa pay tribute to Chris Cornell during ‘Sometimes It Snows In April’

Watch: Wendy and Lisa pay tribute to Chris Cornell during ‘Sometimes It Snows In April’

Jackie Renzetti • May 19, 2017

In the wake of grunge icon Chris Cornell’s death, performers and fans are paying tribute around the world, sharing cherished memories on social media or delivering their own renditions of his songs. The Revolution, who are in the middle of a North American tour, wove a tribute of their own into “Sometimes it Snows in April”…

Music News: Chris Cornell remembered by peers and fans

Music News: Chris Cornell remembered by peers and fans

Jay Gabler • May 18, 2017

The music world is mourning Chris Cornell, a "singular and unmatched talent."

Hear Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit's Tender Ballad, 'If We Were Vampires'

Hear Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit's Tender Ballad, 'If We Were Vampires'

Ann Powers • May 18, 2017

Wedding songs are hard, but marriage songs are harder. In this new one from Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Isbell confronts reality, the downsides of shared days and the resilience that helps a couple overcome them. Listen to the new song.

Gaelynn Lea to play the State Department

Gaelynn Lea to play the State Department

Jackie Renzetti • May 18, 2017

Since winning NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest in 2016, Duluth violinist and singer Gaelynn Lea has landed gigs across the country, including a TEDx Talk at Yale University and in-studio performances at public radio stations. Her venues have ranged from schools to restaurants to a decommissioned Masonic temple. Last summer she played with Murder of Crows bandmate…

Review and photos: The 1975 bask in the love at Roy Wilkins Auditorium

Review and photos: The 1975 bask in the love at Roy Wilkins Auditorium

Maia Jacobson • May 18, 2017

Besides getting recognized by three people as the “girl with all the glitter” from a recent Hippo Campus concert, seeing the 1975 at Roy Wilkins Auditorium last night was exactly what I expected it to be. I remember first hearing about them from some cool girls in high school, but I didn’t love their first single “Chocolate,”…

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