THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:…with the HOODOO GURUS: Check out the Hoodoo hairdos on their US debut single, “I Want You Back,” then watch them rock the joint in Ann Arbor, MI with…
Read MoreSUSANNA HOFFS: The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles has a cool profile that asks: “How did a nice Jewish girl from Santa Monica become a rock star?” As Hoffs is big into…
Read MoreTHE BEATLES: A “new” album of Beatles music mixed by their legendary producer George Martin and described as a new “way of reliving the whole Beatles musical lifespan”, will be released in…
Read MoreROGUE WAVE held its benefit concert for their drummer Pat Spurgeon, who is in desperate need of a kidney transplant. The benefit concert featured performances by Rogue Wave, Ben Gibbard (Death Cab…
Read MoreSITE NEWS: Lance moved the site to a major hosting service over the weekend. We hope this will help speed things up a bit. Lance is continuing to tinker a bit and…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE……with SOUL ASYLUM, completing my Twin Cities trilogy. Let's start with a medley from 1986 Minneapolis Music Awards, which begins with the title track of Made To Be Broken,…
Read MoreTHE DECEMBERISTS: You can stream The Crane Wife album in advance from MTVu.com. But first, enjoy the band's encore cover of ELO's “Mr. Blue Sky” in San Francisco, just about a year…
Read MoreJOE JACKSON is always fond of re-arranging his first hit, “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” This version from The Arsenio Hall Show seems to date to the Body and Soul…
Read MoreHUSKER DU: Having recently posted the Replacements' network TV debut, I thought I should give equal time to the other Monsters of Mpls., so here is the power trio's appearance on The…
Read MoreDANNY FLORES, who played the saxophone and shouted the title of the 1950s hit song “Tequila!”, has died of complications from pneumonia at 77. The song became popular with a new generation…
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