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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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Fall pop: From Madonna to the Monkees

MADONNANov. 3-4 at Xcel Energy CenterFinally. After 25 years. That's three lifetimes in a pop music career. Madonna last performed...

Updated: September 07, 2012, - 01:35 PM

Music + Clubs: Enduring Soul

Soul Asylum returns to First Ave, offers its first new disc in six years.

Updated: September 07, 2012, - 10:46 AM

Movies: 'Living with Neil'

New documentary is intimate, raw.

Updated: September 07, 2012, - 10:42 AM

Metric by a mile

With her Toronto band jumping out ahead of the indie pack, singer Emily Haines talks of Lou Reed, Robert Pattinson and youth.

Updated: September 06, 2012, - 06:30 PM

Metric's system

Before playing the State on Tuesday, Metric's Emily Haines talks fame, Lou Reed and "Twilight."

Updated: September 06, 2012, - 12:35 PM

Hometown hits

An all-local State Fair grandstand lineup triggered pride, smiles.

Updated: September 05, 2012, - 11:46 PM

Fair concerts end with a Wiz, bang

The grandstand's first hip-hop concert since 1991 broke attendance records.

Updated: September 03, 2012, - 11:18 PM

Pop spotlight: Summit's Backyard Bash

SUMMIT'S BACKYARD BASH Saturday: The first in a busy month of local beer celebrations (also: Surlyfest, Autumn Brew Review, Harriet's Rauchfest),...

Updated: September 01, 2012, - 03:20 PM

Smiles all around for State Fair's all-state show

Different eras and genres blended like butter at Friday's gig with Semisonic, the Jayhawks, Dessa and Messersmith.

Updated: September 01, 2012, - 07:01 AM

Local music notes: Ben Rosenbush, Grant Hart and more

Another folky male singer/songwriter with a flair for orchestral arrangements, Ben Rosenbush proves he's anything but run-of-the-mill on his second album, "A Wild Hunger." The Duluth-bred part-time cellist boasts a nearly operatic voice that brings to mind Andrew Bird and Rufus Wainwright, and his songwriting style has all the drama to match. "This Fire" builds from a flicker to an inferno with help from his band the Brighton and additional guitarist Jacob Hanson (Halloween, Alaska), while the slower-burning gem "Running on My Knees" has a Jeff Buckley-wavering, haunting quality. Violinist Kip Jones, who has also worked with Rogue Valley, helps lay out an elegant layer of strings all over the 12-track collection. It should all sound pristine inside the Cedar Cultural Center, where Rosenbush and his crew have their release party Thursday with two other orchestral-folk openers, Rogue Valley and John Mark Nelson (7:30 p.m., $10-$12, all ages).

Updated: August 31, 2012, - 03:04 PM