Today, Paisley Park announced that it’s adding some new elements to its museum tour experience to highlight Prince’s memory in April, the one-year anniversary of the music icon’s death. A new memorial fence will be built on Paisley Park’s grounds to “display archived fan-donated memorial messages and artifacts originally attached to the exterior perimeter fence…

Today, the Palace Theatre announced three shows that will serve to officially open the downtown St. Paul venue in March. First up: Atmosphere are the first act to headline the newly renovated Palace Theatre on Friday, March 10 as a part of their Welcome to Minnesota 2017 tour. Pre-sale tickets ($25) are on sale now…

Guitarist Tommy Allsup has died, of complications from a hernia operation, at age 85. A longtime performer and producer who worked with artists including Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel, Allsup remains best-known for losing a coin toss to Ritchie Valens on Feb. 3, 1959: “the Day the Music Died.” Winning the coin toss, Valens climbed aboard a…

Local singer-songwriter Mary Bue has been awarded a residency from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation to live and work in Taos, N.M. for three months. Before she goes, she’ll play a jubilant sendoff show with Alan Sparhawk (Low, Retribution Gospel Choir) and Molly Maher (of Disbelievers fame) at Icehouse on Saturday, Jan. 14. I caught up with…

Tyte Jeff, “1952” Who is the giant figure hulking around Minneapolis, and why isn’t Tyte Jeff frontperson Jeff Allen running away from it instead of striding through alleys? The song title “1952” is a hint. The band bring what looks like the Flatwoods monster to downtown in a video conceived and directed by Paul Danhauser. Tyte Jeff (Jeff…

Everyone’s wondering when we’ll hear more music from Prince’s legendary vault, but the late icon’s archives also include a lot of video — and Paisley Park has been using its weekly movie nights to showcase some rare concert footage. Last month the venue screened a 2012 Australia concert, and just last week visitors were able to…

Taylor Harris is Lady Lark, a pop/soul artist making her Entry debut on Monday. Her music is bouncy, playful, and slinky, cut out for the roller rink or a Mayer Hawthorne fan’s playlist; Harris is playful, too, but as Lady Lark, she ups the ante, becoming a compelling, commanding bandleader. She and her fellow songwriters,…

Throughout the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, folk and blues duo Spider John Koerner and Willie Murphy toured the country, making stops at top folk clubs like Boston’s Club 47. Known today as prominent shapers of the West Bank music scene, the two are credited with influencing acts like Bonnie Raitt and recent Nobel Prize…

Many see the turn of the new year as a time to reflect and process, but Ness Nite (whose preferred genre description is “braless”) has had little chance at that. In August, she released Nite Time, her first EP, and headlined at the Entry. She performed at First Avenue’s Mainroom twice in December — once to…

We may as well go ahead and declare January the month of the residency in Minneapolis and St. Paul. In addition to the Fog frontman’s month-long “Andrew Broder and People” residency at the Turf Club and the six-show “House of Dosh” residency kicking off on January 19, Chastity Brown will be taking over Icehouse every…