Paul Westerberg recalls Prince watching the Replacements in the Entry.

The Minneapolis music scene and MTV get an enjoyable look back in a clip recently unearthed marking First Avenue's 20th anniversary. Hosted by British VJ Dave Kendall, the segment features plenty of vintage footage of Prince, the Replacements, Soul Asylum, the Mighty Mofo's, Man Sized Action, and more luminaries from the Twin Cities' past.

"Like CBGB's in New York, the First Avenue club in Minneapolis has served as one of America's most important clubs," Kendall says. With interviews with Kevin Cole, Steve McClellan, Bob Mould, and Paul Westerberg, this is an engaging snapshot of a hot time in our city's history. Remember Glam Slam?

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Photo by Anna Gulbrandsen

Just like we did last year, here are a selection of GIFs highlighting the many unforgettable sights of Rock the Garden 2013. As it turned out, the Walker Art Center's lawn and parking garage, thanks to Dan Deacon, proved crucial to this year's event.

Photographer Anna Gulbrandsen braved the puddles, the crowds, and drones to get a variety of awesome moments featuring Metric, Silversun Pickups, Bob Mould, Low, and Deacon that will repeat eternally here on Gimme Noise. 

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Slideshow: Rock the Garden, People and Scenes

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A still from Polica's "Tiff" video

This new Polica video for the group's "Tiff" collaboration with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon is quite a brutal one. In it, singer Channy Leaneagh subjects her captive to beatings by hammer and fist, and there's even a simulation of waterboarding torture. According to press materials, she describes this clip as "a portrait of a woman as her own worst enemy," which makes sense since her victim is herself.

All signs point to a noisy roll-out of Polica's second album, Shulamith. The name conjures the moniker of a "black and comely" princess detailed Song of Songs in the Bible's Old Testament, and also the feminist author Shulamith Firestone, who argued in The Dialectic of Sex that childbearing has been a catalyst for the continued oppression of women. The album, which follows last year's Give You the Ghost, is due this fall via Mom+Pop.

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Last week, Gimme Noise debuted the first installment of Ian Rans's new documentary series, One Men. In sum, Rans decided to find the most interesting stories lurking within the culture of one-man bands in the Twin Cities. To quote ourselves, it's "This American Life for lounge lizards." Hunan Garden star Ray Evangelista kicked off the sequence in style.

Today, we return with episode two, which focuses on One Man Dan, the lo-fi rock project of St. Paul's Dan Davila. As you will see, innovation and audience participation are key to his artistry. His latest album was created with Ol' Yeller's Rich Mattson.

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Photo by Erik Hess

Juicy J and his bottle of juice at Soundset 2013.

Soundset 2013 was the biggest of them all. With 28,000 bodies in attendance and Snoop Dogg gracing the stage, Rhymesayers Entertainment showed unprecedented growth for the sixth running of their yearly rap extravaganza at Canterbury Park.

And what better way to capture the spirit and randomness of Soundset than an array of GIFs, courtesy of photographer Erik Hess. Within, you'll see the images of Atmosphere, Snoop, Juicy J, and plenty of audience members caught in decidedly flattering sequences.

Note: Several of these GIFs are presented out of chronological order for our editorial amusement.

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We're ecstatic to announce that Gimme Noise is the exclusive launching pad for a brand-new music documentary series. One Men delves into the lives and inspirations behind a grouping of one-man bands performing here in the Twin Cities. It's This American Life for lounge lizards.

These compelling stories come courtesy of former Drinking With Ian host Ian Rans. Shot and produced solo, Rans's show takes the one-man idea seriously for these touching, funny, and wide-reaching biographical sketches. In its first installment, we're whisked to the Hunan Garden in St. Paul for Ray Evangelista's 20-year Thursday night residency. Heck, if you love what you see, you should go check him out tonight!

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"The one and only Prince described it well with Purple Rain/ Where Bob Dylan spent his days before he caught the New York Train."

If you haven't gotten your band written about in the Twin Cities, one semi-surefire approach is to pen a fawning song about us. (And then have your publicist send out emails emblazoned "KODALINE WRITES A SONG ABOUT MINNEAPOLIS!! THE BAND CHALLENGED THEMSELVES TO WRITE A SONG FOR EVERY CITY THEY PLAY IN!") That was the approach that Irish band Kodaline decided to take, anyhow. The band is out on the road with the Airborne Toxic Event, and they're taking a page out of mid-aughts Sufjan Stevens' playbook and writing a whole bunch of songs about cities. The inspiration? Their tour routing.

So, here's the first one, the seemingly earnest "A Song for Minneapolis," as filmed in a truck stop selling body-slimming cream. Unfortunately, Kodaline was here on Tuesday, so there's no hope of going out to see them play this locally for a while. Knowing the Twin Cities' proclivity for local pride that occasionally borders on navel-gaze, this Mumfy-esque and acoustic approach could help this band gain some traction here eventually.

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Here's Har Mar talking with his hands.

Your day will improve measurably to see the on-camera interactions between Har Mar Superstar and future talk show host Leo Lorge. Initiated by MTV Hive, the interview occurred as part of a Kidrockers show (more on that here) recently in Brooklyn.

The young and bold Lorge holds his own asking moderately tough questions of Har Mar, including some in-depth inquiries about an appearance on the George Lopez's talk show Lopez Tonight. Compared to many of the conversations that are surrounding this week's release of Bye Bye 17, Sean Tillmann's new Julian Casablancas-facilitated transformation into a soul singer, this shows an undeniably softer side.

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Photo by Erik Hess

One of Prof's biggest weekends ever just wrapped. He was on the cover of City Pages and commanded two sold-out shows at First Avenue. Erik Hess was at Friday's show, and in addition to taking some vibrant shots of the night, he had GIFs on his mind. Here are ten moments from the night that will repeat forever.

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