David Byrne has released a remix of his 2007 song “How Does the Brain Wave” — a collaboration with keyboardist Bernie Worrell and DJ Prince Paul — to support Worrell, who has been diagnosed with prostate, liver, and lung cancer. Worrell, a member of Parliament-Funkadelic, played extensively with Talking Heads in the 1980s. On Monday night, a New York…

From the burgeoning punk scene in Detroit where his antics shocked and awed an entire generation of impressionable kids to being Bowie’s right-hand man during their respective Berlin periods in the late ’70s, Iggy Pop is rock’s versatile black cat, granted many more lives than anyone would have thought the godfather of punk would survive.…

You’ve been able to hear the Beatles catalog on your favorite streaming service for over three months now — but not quite the whole Beatles catalog. Those of you who were dying to be able to stream “Free as a Bird,” plus the six discs’ worth of rarities and alternate takes that constitute the mid-90s Anthology series will be…

Toki Wright and students from St. Paul’s McNally Smith College of Music have created a hip-hop mixtape called Watch the Stove, featuring contributions from Bobby Raps (thestand4rd) and DJ Tiiiiiiiiiip. As you might guess from the song titles — including “In Love with the Glove,” “Food for Your Soul,” and “Hamburger Helper” — the project was sponsored by…

Each week on the Local Show, we’ll meet a new person from the Minnesota music community who has some fresh discoveries to share in a feature called “Ask a Cool Person.” These people will come from all corners of the scene, including record store clerks, recording studio engineers and producers, artists, writers, bookers, photographers, and…

For decades, hundreds of vinyls and tapes sat untouched following the 1979 suicide of Audiotek Systems, Inc. owner Dan Holmes. Now, 260 reel to reel tapes from the Minneapolis record label and studio are on eBay for $19,900. ASI originally operated at 711 W. Broadway Ave. until Holmes moved the business to a studio attached to his…

When Kelsey from the Current emailed me and asked me if I wanted to be the Local Current’s DJ in Residence, I had to read it a few times. I initially thought she was asking me to help her find someone to do it (which would have been cool too). But after re-reading and confirming…

Hank Williams’s life and career were tragically short, but unfortunately all you get from Marc Abraham’s new biopic is the “tragically” half of that equation. Sorely lacking in narrative drive, I Saw the Light seems to go on forever as we’re dragged through one sad moment after another in the life of this flawed genius. It’s too bad that I…

Thursday night features the first of two concerts in tribute to the late David Bowie. The show, live from Carnegie Hall is being streamed – for a recommended donation of at least $5 – via Skype. Access to the stream can be found at musicofdavidbowie.com. The show, however, appears to be going on without the…

Local writer, historian and doodler Andy Sturdevant strikes again. In his semi-regular MinnPost feature, “The Stroll,” Sturdevant takes Bob Mehr’s Trouble Boys as a “star map” of sorts to the old stomping grounds of The Replacements. While it recounts some of the more familiar landmarks chronicled elsewhere, the article draws a strong connection between the…