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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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Pop/rock spotlight: Cash Only XIII

CASH ONLY XIII Friday: It's a lot cheaper than the new 63-disc boxed set from Columbia Records, and this...

Updated: January 12, 2013, - 02:52 PM

The 'legend' of Jim Ruiz continues

Loungey pop singer Jim Ruiz releases his first album in 14 years.

Updated: January 11, 2013, - 04:55 PM

Jim Ruiz: Return of a 'Legend'

Loungey pop singer Jim Ruiz was a quirky favorite of the Twin Cities music scene in the mid-'90s. Then things got really weird.

Updated: January 11, 2013, - 04:55 PM

First Ave's Best New Bands of 2012

Meet the other six Best New Bands, according to First Ave.

Updated: January 11, 2013, - 01:17 PM

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