07/07/11 Youth Lagoon: "Montana" Youth Lagoon is Trevor Powers, a 22-year-old multi-instrumentalist from Boise who records indie rock that sounds way too epic to be the work of one dude in his bedroom. After building up a nice amount of buzz thanks to his Bandcamp page -- his song "July" recently landed in our Best New Tracks section-- Powers has signed to Fat Possum . The label will release his debut ...
06/22/11 Deerhunter: "Cool" (Pylon Cover) On June 28, DFA will release Cover + Remix , a 7" split single featuring Deerhunter and Calvinist (aka music critic Sasha Frere-Jones) covering tunes by noted Athens, Georgia post-punkers Pylon . For the A-side, Deerhunter offer up a cover of "Cool", taken from Pylon's 1980 debut LP Gyrate ; that song is available for you to check out above. Frere-Jones turns in ...
06/21/11 A limousine van carrying Ricky Rubio, his family and several Timberwolves officials had pulled away from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport 15 minutes earlier on Monday afternoon, and Derek Sprang, an 18 year-old college freshman from New Brighton, was still trying to get a grip on his brush with greatness.
06/12/11 The Minnesota Zoo is still defending its decision to shoot and kill an endangered wolf that escaped its enclosure on Wednesday, and some wildlife experts are pointing to a similar incident in Ohio where officials captured an escaped wolf in Columbus.
06/10/11 Nation Digest: Somali man faces terror-related charges in Minnesota; 1 dead, 4 wounded in shooting at New York boardwalk
06/10/11 WASHINGTON - Leon Panetta, President Barack Obama's choice to head the Pentagon, predicted Thursday that Iraq will ask the United States to keep some American forces in that country beyond year's end, the current departure date.
06/09/11 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - USA Hockey today announced the 40 skaters invited to take part in its National Junior Evaluation Camp this August in Lake Placid, N.Y. The players will be auditioning for a spot on the U.S. National Junior Team that will ...
06/09/11 RED BANK, N.J. -- Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. , a leading national homebuilder, announced that senior management will be presenting at the Deutsche Bank 2011 Global Industrials & Basic Materials Conference on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.
06/02/11 That headline's the question every Wolf Parade fan must be asking themselves after a gig the band played in Vancouver on Monday, which they'd dubbed their "final show."
05/18/11 Responding to high customer demand, CookingGames.net launches offering popular cooking games for girls. Featured game titles available at no charge include Barbie Burgers, Justin Bieber Pizza Pasta, and the Pizza Cooking Game.
05/12/11 Artist: Gardens & Villa Album: Gardens & Villa Release Date: July 5 Label: Secretly Canadian
05/12/11 Photo by Sanchez and Kitahara Next Monday, May 16, UK dubstep laboratory Hessle Audio releases an expansive label comp called 116 & Rising . One especially bright spot in the Hessle catalogue came by way of three early EPs from James Blake , whose Bells Sketch highlight "Give a Man a Rod" will be featured on the comp in its second, currently-unreleased iteration. Check out the clean, drop-free ...
05/12/11 Back in March, the Mountain Goats auctioned off a single-song demo tape to aid the post-earthquake Japan relief efforts. (That auction raised $3,350 for Doctors Without Borders .) Now, the group has another benefit project underway. They're offering up a prize pack for raffle , with proceeds going to the Women's Medical Fund .
05/12/11 Photo by Rodrigo Ferrari On Tuesday night, Kanye West performed at the Party in the Garden, a benefit show at New York's Museum of Modern Art . These days, Kanye doesn't play too many small shows, and he took the opportunity to switch up his usual performance. He opened with a cover of Stevie Wonder 's "They Won't Go When I Go" , a song from his 1974 album Fullfillingness ' First Finale . Below ...
05/11/11 The Elected have announced US tour dates in support of their forthcoming album
05/06/11 Delano Farmers Market THROUGH OCTOBER - The Delano Farmers Market will be open from 2 to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays at Flippin Bill's, 8045 County Line Road. The Farmers Market runs from May through October, weather permitting.
05/05/11 Police in New Brighton are issuing a public alert after a reported sexual assault Wednesday.
04/29/11 Postal Credit Union. Annual meeting. Registration, noon; business meeting, 1 p.m.; dinner at 2 p.m, Prom Center, 484 Inwood Ave., Oakdale. $10. 651-770-7000.
04/28/11 Duane Wraalstad, Wins Grand Prize in the First Annual Twin Cities Gateway Photo Contest
04/27/11 Remains were found in Brooklyn Park nearly four years later, and now prosecutors have charged a homeless man with killing her. | 
