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Apparently Owatonna has a great city sewer system. This is what I learned from e-mailing with Adam Young, a.k.a. Owl City, and God bless him, it seems like he puts it to good use. Young brings his RomCom trailer background pop to the Cabooze on Saturday, and since he just blew up right in front [...]

Sphinxes in the Mainroom or Always Coming Back Home To Lucy If you live in a city like Cairo or Rome, you don’t really make a habit of going to see the Pyramids or the Colosseum. They are there, yes, they are wonderful and historic and monumental, and they are a place to take visiting [...]

You may have heard, I like theatre. Doin’ it, writin’ ’bout it, hangin’ out with the kids who do it, that kind of stuff. Unfortunately, even though we have a whole bunch of really great theatre going down in this town, we don’t really have too many people writing about it. Probably because it is [...]

I am still waiting for a rock record this year to really jump inside my head, grab my cerebral cortex and refuse to let go, but it hasn’t really happened in a while. Instead, what has happened is a slate of really terrific local hip-hop records, most of whom have rejected the rote DJ-MC relationship [...]

Looking at that headline makes me feel as though I mis-typed something. Like I meant to type “In a fervent damask damn” and got an anagram instead. The news that David Mamet, he of Glengarry Glen Ross, hardboiled American men and the injustices of workaday life, foul-mouthed as he is, is taking over a DISNEY [...]

Both these characters are dead. I’ll admit it. I spent a year in English class staring up at Claire Danes on the poster for Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet (see, the “+” makes it hip) totally smitten. To give credit where credit is due, that film was one of the main reasons I love Shakespeare’s [...]

It adds up to some destruction across the city, and not the usually pleasant rock and roll carnage experienced at the Electric Fetus. Seeing as how Staciaann was in the building when the tornado hit at around 2:20 this afternoon, I can understand her current desire to chill out tonight. Now is not the time [...]

Late night under the stars in Los Angeles a friend of mine, a talented guitar player, leaned over and told me joke- You know the Beatles? Umm, yeah. You know what was great about the Beatles? John was the brain, Paul was the heart, George was the soul and Ringo- Ringo was the drummer. Which [...]

40 years on, the memories and memorials are piling up. The Guardian has a rundown of some of the best performances of the event, as well as a recent interview with organizer Michael Lang. Over at Slate, their Magnum Photos features crowd and performance shots. The New York Times has been running a variety of [...]

The “Wizard of Waukesha” has passed away at age 94. Which is 3.5 27 Clubs, a hell of a lot of technical innovation and more founding contributions to rock and roll than you can count in record sales or chart position. Thank you sir. And instead of waiting for the obits and eulogies, just check [...]