Minneapolis sextet The Ashtray Hearts played Pete’s Candy Store and Sin-e on the New York leg of their summer 2005 tour of the eastern U.S. Below are a few images from the Sin-e date.

My hometown, Minneapolis, made it onto Rolling Stone’s list of “Schools That Rock.” For those of us who shuttled between the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood and the West Bank day after day, there’s nothing in this blurb that we don’t know already. Note that two mentions are missing important information: Let It Be records is closing (and [...]

Thanks to one artist’s fairly brilliant idea, informational outlet C-SPAN can finally fulfill its destiny as an interactive music video channel. Perhaps. Media artist Barbara Lattanzi created a free software program that mashes up archived video from C-SPAN and karaoke songs found on the Internet, CNET reports. On her web site, Lattanzi writes: “While you [...]