Plaster the Town 3 through August 15 |
Sure, the '60s and '80s were great for rock posters. But in the Twin Cities, no time beats the present, thanks to the likes of Aesthetic Apparatus, Amy Jo Hendrickson, DWITT, Squad19, Tooth, Adam Turm...
Posted by City Pages on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:38:00 PST |
Patti Smith tonight at the State |
It's been decades since the vaguely hostile, vaguely androgynous poet staring out from Mapplethorpe's cover photo for Horses started expanding her repertory of archetypes: Not just punk-rock shaman, P...
Posted by City Pages on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:43:00 PST |
Buddy Guy tonight at the Zoo |
When blues icon Buddy Guy moved from his native Louisiana to Chicago in the late 1950s, he took little with him apart from an innovative approach to electric guitar: piercing picked leads played with ...
Posted by City Pages on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:20:00 PST |
Hugh Masekela at the Dakota tonight |
A genuine icon of jazz and world music, and a pioneer in the creative fusion of cross-genre music, flugelhornist, trumpeter, and singer Hugh Masekela has had an expansive, four-decade career that has ...
Posted by City Pages on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:43:00 PST |
Chris Duarte tonight at Famous Dave's |
Like scores of others aspiring to the Texas guitar slinger tradition, San Antonio-bred Chris Duarte absorbed a load of influences from the likes of Hendrix, T-Bone Walker, Stevie Ray, and Johnny Winte...
Posted by City Pages on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:42:00 PST |
T-Hud (CD-Release) tonight |
If we've learned nothing else since the Clinton administration, it's that, for the most part, basketball players with mic dreams should stick to the hardwood (and vice versa—just ask the Beastie...
Posted by City Pages on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:59:00 PST |
Raspberry Festival Jul 11-15 |
When onetime Hopkins Raspberry Festival Royalty Lil Lindstrom recalled her time picking berries on her father's farm, she recounted, "Little did I think when I was picking those raspberries that I wou...
Posted by City Pages on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:50:00 PST |
Ozma tonight at the Varsity |
The combination of melodic hooks and giant, overdriven guitar riffs is more compelling than that of peanut butter and chocolate. So compelling, it's actually more like the ring from that movie—y...
Posted by City Pages on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:16:00 PST |
Roots Music Festival Jul 6-8 |
Since it first opened its doors in 1993, the Coffee Grounds has prided itself on being a center of community in the Falcon Heights area. The cafe hosts regular storytelling sessions for children; meet...
Posted by City Pages on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:00:00 PST |
Taste of MN: Tapes N' Tapes |
Taste of Minnesota began a quarter of a century ago as a celebration of all things Minnesotan—local food, local businesses. Nowadays the festival has gone a bit more corporate—the food is ...
Posted by City Pages on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:21:00 PST |
