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Minnesota composers adjust to life in a minor key: 'Music makes humans better'
For Minnesota composers, the pandemic has brought a host of changes, not all of them bad.
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Minnesota music vets Hicks and Munson have one of year's most charming albums
Dylan Hicks got John Munson to do more than just produce his new song collection.
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Lissie to play five outdoor October concerts at Icehouse in Minneapolis
The Midwest folk-rocker will play some shows solo, some with her band
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VocalEssence choir to launch its virtual season with a celebration of women's suffrage
The Minneapolis choral group's new on-demand site will include family-friendly programs as well as concerts.
Inspired
George Floyd's death inspires Minnesota violinist to create 'video meditation'
"How Many Breaths?" will premiere online Sunday.
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Massive reissue of Prince's best album shows he had 'no time for self-pity' in 1987
The super-deluxe reissue of "Sign o' the Times" shows the masterwork still holds up — and then some.
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First Ave adding George Floyd star, 'Purple Rain'-era marquee in latest repainting
The once-a-decade paint job on the rock club's iconic facade was otherwise scaled back.
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MPR reporter quits, saying bosses stalled for DJ accused of misconduct
MPR President Duchesne Drew said editors decided a story about sexual misconduct allegations against a Current DJ was "not ready to run because it does not meet our journalistic standards" and they were blindsided by reporter Marianne Combs' resignation.
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Bob Mould is on fire with new album echoing his Hüsker Dü years
The ex-Minneapolitan's burning rager "Blue Hearts" will be followed Oct. 23 with a massive 24-CD box set.
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17 Minn. musicians explore sexual harassment, abuse in '#MeTooMpls' album
The new compilation album "#MeTooMpls" explores the movement through the songs of 17 Minnesota singers. All of them have stories.
Local
School music programs play on, despite the pandemic
From specialized masks to band practice in the gym, music programs adapt
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Influential Twin Cities radio DJ John Pete dies at age 82
On free-form KQRS, he introduced Twin Cities music lovers to Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Steely Dan and Shawn Phillips.
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- Q&A: Phish's Trey Anastasio on playing the Sphere, and keeping the creativity going after 40 years
- Protests, heightened terror threat mean tight security at Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden
- Kate Hudson had a lifetime to make a record. The result is 'Glorious,' out in May
- ABBA, Blondie, and the Notorious B.I.G. enter the National Recording Registry
- Visa fees for international artists to tour in the US shot up 250% in April. It could be devastating
- Music Review: Jazz pianist Fred Hersch creates subdued, lovely colors on 'Silent, Listening'
- At birthplace of Olympics, performers at flame-lighting ceremony feel a pull of the ancient past
- What to stream this week: Conan O'Brien travels, 'Migration' soars and Taylor Swift will reign
- Maggie Rogers on 'Don't Forget Me,' the album she wrote for a Sunday drive
- Belarus convicts a famous dissident rock band and sentences its members to correctional labor
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- The Big Gigs: 10 best concerts to see in the Twin Cities this week
- City of Minneapolis launches new census to better plug in to its music scene
- NPG vets Michael Bland and Sonny Thompson extend their brotherhood into a post-Prince duo
- St. Paul Chamber Orchestra enlists a host of intriguing musicmakers for its 2024-25 season
- Twin Cities jazz trio Rio Nido will swing once more at the Dakota
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