Joe Henry

Who will nab the bids when the nominees for the 52nd Grammy Awards are announced on Dec. 2? Read More

"Mark Growden was amazing last night at the Crux." It was always at the Crux—some last-minute show or loose party performance at the now-defunct art gallery. Read More

And after the release last spring of another critically acclaimed record, Middle Cyclone , Case's career arc shows no sign of waning -- as her gig at the 1,300-seat Knight Theater on Nov. 18 would suggest. Read More

Rod Stewart, whose rock lineage goes back to the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces, had the greatest voice of all the British Invasion frontmen. Read More

When a stage magician makes a flourish, causing a puff of smoke and a flash of light to appear, there's a reason for it. Read More

Nearly a year after George W. Bush's Republican party was voted out of office, and at least five years after reports first surfaced that music was being used in "War on Terror" facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo as part of a package of "enhanced interrogation technique," — which, in any world other than the reality-defying one inhabited by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, would have been defined as torture — several noted musicians have spoken out to condemn the practice. Read More

Dozens of musicians endorsed a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the National Security Archive, a Washington-based independent research institute, seeking the declassification of all records related to the use of music in interrogation practices. Read More

A handful of musicians have joined up with the movement to close Guantanamo, protesting the reported use of loud music to soften up detainees for interrogation. Read More

The last of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson's scripts takes place in 1997 and, like so many of the late writer's works, centers on the Hill District of Pittsburgh, where he grew up. 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