Spotlighting Minnesota Music from the Basement Up.
In Lieu are practitioners of extremity, and on their latest full length offering Hooligan, sound as if they are out for blood. The band's home-base tends to be atonal riffing, voracious amounts of unruly effect pedal freak outs, stutter-stop rhythms, and atop the deluge, an almost inhuman sounding shriek serving as furious mouth piece.
Read MoreA short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 04/22/26.
Read MoreMinnesota musicians have responded to the trauma of Operation Metro Surge the way artists often do when communities are hurting: by making music. After one of the darkest, heaviest winters in recent memory, marked not only by brutal cold but by intense ICE raids, peaceful protests by tens of thousands, and the tragic deaths and detentions of community members at the hands of federal agents, local artists have turned to song not only as protest, but as a form of healing.
Read MoreA short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 04/15/26.
Read MoreA short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 04/08/26.
Read MoreIf anyone asked me what I’ve been listening to most lately, I’d excitedly tell them about Ungrateful Little String Band’s Tired of Being Relevant. There’s so much going on in this folk-punk powerhouse album that one write-up cannot even do it justice, but I want to point out some of the things I’d say to anyone who’d ask.
Read MoreSo many great artists have come out of Minnesota, here are our favorite 100 in order!
Read MoreWe’re back! Kicking things off for 2026 our host Andy Ellis sat down with his good friends the Devon Worley Band.
Read MoreA short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 03/25/26.
Read MoreA short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 03/18/26.
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