For a city of its size, the music scene in Minneapolis is remarkably cultivated and sustained. There have been many waves and incarnations. In the 1980s, The Replacements and Husker Du played blistering rock with his funky purple majesty Prince reigning over the charts. The 1990s saw Soul Asylum and...
Minneapolis, the Mini Frozen Apple, has a long and much venerated punk rock aesthetic. The fertile Twin Cities art scene has bred such punk heroes as Husker Du, the Dillinger 4, the Replacements, and the Hold Steady. With that scene and its commitment to the protestant work ethic comes an innumerable...
Minneapolis indie rock band The Hold Steady are known for their rabid fanbase. One local music website, More Cowbell , put together the pleasantly obsessive Hold Steady Guide to the Twin Cities , which is exactly what it sounds like: An interactive map to (nearly) every local spot referenced in the band's...
Past the mustache, under the cowboy hat and below the gravelly voice, Bob Dylan is still Robert Zimmerman from Hibbings, Minnesota. A new exhibit at Minneapolis's Weisman Art Museum drives home the point with a panoply of Dylan related relics. Here's the tambourine said to inspire that most-insiped...