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Yeah, I'm a bit jaded. When you write about music, you have to actually listen to it.

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The Replacements initially formed in 1979, when Paul Westerberg joined a garage punk band formed by brothers Bob and Tommy Stinson and drummer Chris Mars.

As unlikely as it seems now, there was a brief time when Bob Mould's music was getting big-time attention from the mainstream.

Someday, when everything in the world is right, Ed Cole's pop will be the world standard.

When Antares Audio Technologies founder Andy Hildebrand filed for the patent for his digital pitch correction technology more than ten years ago, I wonder if he ever thought that it would be such an inescapable and controversial part of modern music.

Out of all of the bands that made SST Records a towering force in the American underground during the mid-'80s, the Meat Puppets lasted the longest, surviving where other bands fell apart.

Circuit parties have a vicious connotation to them. The words meat market, pretentious and having a focus on the young and pretty boys are all things people sometimes think of when looking at circuit parties.

Released: Sep 1985 Genre: Alternative Rock Label: SST Records Number Of Tracks: 14 Flip Your Wig is a 1985 album by the American punk rock band, Husker Du, and their last release on SST Records.

I'm not a wrestling guy. It's never been my thing and, in all honesty, probably never will be.

Guitarist/singer/songwriter Bob Mould was initially a member of Husker Du, one of the most influential American bands of the '80s. Husker Du was a post-hardcore punk band that helped define the sound and ideals of alternative rock.

This week, we were blessed with a concert announcement sure to please fans of the brilliantly bizarre.

Grant Hart has never been a political songwriter - at least not in an obvious way.

This week, while interviewing yet another of my punk rock heroes, the legendary Grant Hart of Minneapolis punk-poppers Husker Du, the conversation turned to the inevitable: will there be a Husker Du reunion? You can read next week's Live in the Clubs story to find out the answer to this question, although the following quote from him, about band ...

Brad Paisley's 7:30 p.m. Aug. 14 show at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, previously available as part of the Country Megaticket package, is now on sale as a single show.

Perhaps the only thing more unlikely than releasing a rock opera in 2009 is unveiling a rock opera written and recorded by Green Day.

Perhaps the only thing more unlikely than releasing a rock opera in 2009 is that it's a rock opera written and recorded by Green Day.

Here are some CDs I recently acquired. The Hold Steady: "Almost Killed Me" I've become a fan of The Hold Steady during the past year, but the only album I've heard in its entirety is the band's most recent album, "Stay Positive." "Almost Killed Me" is the band's first album, and it was recorded live.

Bob Mould from Husker Du isn't happy with gay music taste. . . Tonight I was joined by Ruth Barnes to talk music and Britain's Got Talent.

A couple of citizens of the nation formerly known as Alternative Rock have remerged at time when 90s music could be getting its second wind.