Dave Pirner

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Tennessee Finance Commissioner Dave Goetz said on Friday the state Legislature will have to act immediately to deal with a pending crisis related to the funding of lottery scholarships. Read More

Hickory Hawg get the ribs, expensive but falling off the bone and damn good ! been there… - mr dave 17 North Dinner tonight was awesome. Read More

With three critically acclaimed records under his belt over the past three years and boasting an impressive lineup of contributing artists -including Ani DiFranco, Glen Phillips, Dave Pirner and Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello), Jason Karaban reveals new single, "Succeed 101," out now courtesy of New Model Music. Read More

"I must learn to pretend that these dreams are not killing me/I will study what is real," sings Matt Wilson on "Dreams," the opening track of The Twilight Hours' shimmering debut, "Stereo Night." Read More

The first Upland Music & Arts Festival should be one of the most happening places in the IE. Read More

Spawned from the early '80s pre-alternative music scene in Phoenix, Ariz., the Meat Puppets were the ultimate musicians' musicians. Read More

10:24 Singer Ashleigh Still and a girlfriend walk in but turn on their heels immediately to catch Hookers & Blow at another bar, because the Uptown doorman "was mean to us." 10:25 Joe Henry, from California, via Facebook: "My best night in collaboration with the Jayhawks was a night at The Uptown ... freezing cold out, fur hats on stage ... pulled a drunken Dan Murphy on stage to sing happy birthday to him, but we launched into [Soul Asylum's] 'Cartoon' instead." 10:30 Chatter in the back booth turns to bulldozed-but-not-forgotten Twin Cities music landmarks Jay's Longhorn, The Prom Ballroom, Goofy's Upper Deck, Duffy's, etc. 10:31 The Tisdales kick off their set with a blistering kick drum-guitar combo as Hallett tells a friend, "The thing I'll miss most about this place is seeing Tommy Stinson play here every New Year's Eve." 10:32 "When I moved here in 1989, this was the place in town," says a sweaty Rob Rule, still amped from his set with the Mammy Nuns. "You could see the Cows and Freedy Johnston and the Gear Daddies and Babes In Toyland. No cover, great food, shitty sound. It was awesome." 10:33 Woman to man in booth: "You like a contrary woman, don't you?" 10:34 "We came here looking for guys with feathers in their caps," says Uptown newbie Margaret Campbell. Read More

I wanted to give it time to grow and find itself, make sure it didn't turn into one of those on-off affairs that buys a whole bunch of advertising, makes an enormous deal of its own grandeur and symbiotic relationship with New Orleans culture and then folds after a year or two because it never resonated with the populace. Read More

He was the face of Soul Asylum, gods of the "modern rock" radio format, back when there was modern rock -- and radio, for that matter. Read More