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Columnist/Reporter | Local Music

Phone: 612-673-4658

Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough to earn a shout-out from Prince during “Play That Funky Music (White Boy).” The St. Paul native was also a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman for five years.
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Local music notes: Another hot January chill

The Current's birthday bash and the Cedar's 416 Commissions are among highlights in local gigs this month.

Updated: January 04, 2013, - 11:19 AM

Best in show and on record

Our music critics agreed on Springsteen and Alabama Shakes, but otherwise they saw 2012 from distinctly different perspectives. Compare your picks with theirs

Updated: December 30, 2012, - 05:05 PM

Somali children's center is likely to replace 400 Bar

The venerable nightspot may get a new lease on life in new location.

Updated: December 28, 2012, - 11:11 PM

Local music: Meet the new kid in Soul Asylum

Justin Sharbono has big shoes to fill - never mind that they happen to be his distant cousin's.

Updated: December 27, 2012, - 03:54 PM

The replacement

Soul Asylum's new guitarist, Justin Sharbono, grew up with "Grave Dancers Union."

Updated: December 27, 2012, - 10:42 AM

Proud to 'live here'

At a time when so many other rappers only see in dollar signs and name brands, Stefon Alexander made a hip-hop album denouncing the material world and the corrupt, broken capitalist society behind it. "I'm not invited / I'm not crying / Calling out crimes," he says on behalf of the 99 percent. If that doesn't sound radical, then get a load of the envelope-pushing music in such dance-floor ignitors as "Get Down" and "F--- Your Stuff," each a wild mish-mash of electronic dance beats and punky mayhem helmed by Kanye West cohort Andrew Dawson, German producer Boys Noize and Doomtree's Lazerbeak. Rarely do records provoke this much thought while prodding so much movement. (216 voter points)

Updated: December 23, 2012, - 04:48 PM

Pop/rock spotlight: Minnesota covers '69 Love Songs

MINNESOTA COVERS '69 LOVE SONGS' Saturday: In one of the more ambitious and certainly the most heavily populated tribute projects from...

Updated: December 22, 2012, - 02:47 PM

Leah Rule, who made Turf Club an institution, dies at age 44

Leah Rule "had the biggest smile of anyone in the Twin Cities music scene," said Martin Devaney, one of the countless musicians who came up under Rule's wing at the Turf Club, a rock 'n' roll haven in St. Paul. Those musicians suffered a somber blow just before the holidays when they learned that Rule, who helped book bands at the Turf for a decade with her husband, Rob, died early Friday after a nearly two-year battle with ovarian cancer. The Twin Cities native was 44.

Updated: December 21, 2012, - 11:10 PM

Twin Cities Critics' Tally

The top local albums of 2012, voted on by 23 Twin Cities music writers and pundits.

Updated: December 21, 2012, - 12:15 PM

Twin Cities Critics’ Tally: Best local albums of 2012

Our 11th annual Twin Cities Critics’ Tally makes a big statement about what P.O.S.’ art meant in this community. TCCT 2012 also speaks to the ever-deepening pool of young talent in the Minnesota music scene.

Updated: December 21, 2012, - 10:47 AM