THE 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,…

THE 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…

JOE 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…

HUSKER 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…

DANNY 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…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE……with ROCKPILE, a band that featured old pals Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds cranking out the rootsy pub rock. They seem to be lip-synching o­n “Teacher, Teacher” and “If…

CAT POWER: Now that Chan Marshall is almost sober, she tells The New York Times that she's not sure what she wants to do next — Her next album, Sun, is already…

SO, DID YOU MISS US? You are so sweet! If you missed Tuesday's entry, just keep scrolling!THE PIPETTES take a comic turn in their latest video, “Judy.”INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY…

FIRST OF ALL, Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day, me hearties!R.E.M. REUNION: I had the audio yesterday, but now you can see Bill Berry reunited with Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and…

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS played Chicago's Empty Bottle Saturday and were quite good. John Darnielle had the crowd in the palm of his hand, and used it to his best advantage. He introduced…