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How did Lizzo's post-breakout Armory set compare to her Palace gig in May?
The wild, nonstop audience participation may have made the biggest difference in her first of two sold-out shows this time around.
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Trump rally spurs First Ave to donate Thursday profits to Planned Parenthood
Across the street from Target Center, the club's two concerts and its restaurant the Depot Tavern will be impacted by traffic and protests that night.
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Prince haunts Morris Day's new memoir: 'I still hear his voice in my head'
"Purple Rain" co-star and Time leader Morris Day details his long friendship with Prince in a memoir that brings him home to the Twin Cities this week.
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Minnesota Opera's 'Elektra' is a bold re-imagining for the modern age
REVIEW: Minnesota Opera uses digital technology to re-imagine Strauss' work as an opera within a movie.
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Minneapolis music 'wizard' and Polara frontman Ed Ackerson dies at 54
Frontman for the bands Polara and BNLX helmed recordings by the Replacements, Jayhawks, Soul Asylum and Motion City Soundtrack at his Flowers Studio in Uptown.
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Fans are jumping on the 'Bandwagon' of this late-blooming Minneapolis singer
With a new album that's aged to perfection, Minneapolis singer Kiki Lane's 1970s AM pop may be out of date — or right on time.
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Twin Cities concerts of the week: Jade Bird, Aaron Neville, Stereolab & Lizzo
The big gigs for Oct. 4-10, also including Jon Pardi, Stereolab, Tech N9ne, Sam Fender and release parties by Dan Israel and MaLLy.
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Bon Iver offers a mellow but intense answer to arena rock in St. Paul
Fans intently absorbed the mellow tunes as Wisconsin's Justin Vernon hit Xcel Center.
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Gaelynn Lea plans a showcase that's accessible in more ways than one
The Minnesota tunesmith is rounding up other physically challenged musicians, and wants us all to come.
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Pick Six: Praise for Farm Aid, Mark Knopfler, 'Mean Girls,' more
Pick Six is a half-dozen cool things in music, from two points of view.
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Nick Cave sheds light on his dark depths in Q&A-filled Minneapolis appearance
The shadowy Australian rock legend took questions in tragedy-tinted Pantages show.
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Using movie technology, Minnesota Opera stages a plugged-in 'Elektra'
High-tech wizardry adds buzz to the seething Strauss work that opens Minnesota Opera's season.
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Show-biz veteran named new executive director for Prince's Paisley Park
Alan Seiffert takes over today after experience at NBC, the NBA and Viacom.
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No joke, '80s stars Toto are back on top as they come to Minneapolis
Bound for Minneapolis, the 1980s hitmakers are having a pop culture resurgence thanks to "Africa."
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