With Good News for Modern Man, Grant Hart pulls away from his past--while keeping an eye on the rear-view mirror

Trail of Dead revive pure punk energy with Madonna

L.A.'s Styles of Beyond make the suburbs safe for hip hop

Secret shows. Corporate gigs. Blind Dates. Why is it becoming harder for the public to get a piece of the rock?

Baritone saxophonist Fred Ho makes music for the revolution.

From Sly Stone's roughhouse to the Artist's clubhouse, groundbreaking bassist Larry Graham finds new power in Minnesota

How Amphetamine Reptile changed American music--and then went into the bar business

Dinkytown turns off the mic on local hip hop--again

On the eve of his first American tour, Brazilian cut-up artist Tom Zé talks about Tropicália and its cultural remixes

The Short Fuses play greasy punk from the wrong side of the sock hop

Honky-tonkers Accident Clearinghouse create a country for punks

This weekend's Nordic Roots Festival unearths connections to the Old World

Low have been heckled by crowds and dropped from their label. Now Minnesota's quietest band returns with its best album yet.

Twenty years ago Safety Last made rockabilly cool in the punk-rock Twin Cities. Now they're making a quiet comeback in the age of swing.

A new FCC proposal creates high hopes for local low-watt radio

Under the name Radar Threat, Benji Gross visits a retrograde world of analog instruments and the Atari 2600

Howard Stern's billboard controversy; local rockers censor themselves

From playing for the Pope to inaugurating The Body, Guinean-born master drummer Fodé Bangoura is both international legend and local discovery

With the national collapse of indie rock, 100 local music scenes bloom

Peter Guralnick chronicles a Memphis tragedy in his passionate biography of Elvis Presley