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Mark Mallman may be out touring the West Coast and Heartland right now, but that doesn’t stop him from releasing this kick-ass campy vid for the title track to his new record. In fact this video just goes to show that with the help of Blaine Marcy, not even Mark Mallman can stop Mark Mallman. [...]

Rhymesayers Entertainment keeps on releasing those videos from P.O.S.‘s manic week of filming for the Never Better record. This video is fourth of six out there and stars South Minneapolis, Uptown and fans at a garage party just about as much as Stef Alexander himself. “Purexed” was the key to the album as a whole [...]

City on the Make are about to drop Keep This on Fire, their second full-length record and the follow up to last year’s critically acclaimed $1,000,000 EP. If you haven’t already heard by now, you need to see this band. They are a monster live, they breath fire, they are acrobats and clowns, it’s a [...]

Pick up a copy of City Pages this week and you’ll find two EP reviews from yours truly. In print! Remember that thing? Thought not. Whatever. Bloggers are just jealous anyway that their work won’t get scrapbooked home to Mom or left in a public restroom. ‘Cause who’s gonna leave their Macbook in a Port-O-Potty? [...]

Gospel Gossip officially released their Dreamland EP (Guilt Ridden Pop) last Friday night, the middle show of a two-day, three-show extravaganza. Earlier in the day Friday the trio played at Carleton College in Northfield where they met and they closed it out with an all-ages freebie at Treehouse Records on Saturday. The Turf Club show [...]

Here We Go Magic‘s set may have been my favorite part of the Grizzly Bear show two weeks ago at the Cedar Cultural Center. It was certainly the liveliest part, not perfect by any means, but more endearing for the imperfection, awash in warm, well-meaning psychedelia. Luke Temple’s outfit are definitely benefiting from the exposure [...]

There are reasons that I shouldn’t write this. Chris Riemenschneider got the dirt and Andrea Swensson nailed the new record, The Overhead Left. After the release party at the Varsity last Friday, I guess that leaves me poetry, and history. Because of those two things, there is nothing that I can say here that would [...]

If it’s ever gonna come, summer’s gonna come grinding in like a fixie skidding in sideways. ‘Til then, City on the Make will make you reminisce with this totally Super 8 and Super 80s looking vid for “Chicks on Bikes”. Reminisce and look forward- the crew has a new record being pressed right now with [...]

Attending Highland Park Senior High School right around the turn of the millennium, Eyedea’s battle talent was hallway legend, a little silver screen shine in dull linoleum and lockers. Eyedea & Abilities’ 2001 record First Born kept me company out in Los Angeles and was a better philosophical humanity primer than 101 Mythology classes I [...]

Rhymesayers Entertainment announced May 8th that they would be creating a new imprint to showcase up-and-coming independent talent. Which is a bold thing, since Rhymesayers was formed not too long ago to give up-and-coming independent talent a home to begin with. Shows how far they’ve come. So do the hordes of kids holding up When [...]