Legendary jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck passed away earlier today in Norwalk, Connecticut at the age of 91, just a day shy of his 92nd birthday. Brubeck wrote and played on numerous indelible jazz numbers throughout his distinguished and prodigious musical career. And with his landmark Time Out album in 1959, which prominently featured the smash hit "Take Five," the first jazz single to sell a million copies, Brubeck and his talented band mates gave many novice jazz fans a welcome entry point into the occasionally inscrutable genre.

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The expression "one of the hardest-working bands" gets tossed around a lot, but Michigan natives Every Avenue truly are one of the hardest-working bands. The group came through the Twin Cities as many as three times in one year -- a fine line to walk between working the market and over-saturating yourself as an artist. After almost ten years together, the band has decided to call it quits and move on to different projects, but not before playing a farewell tour.

Gimme Noise spoke with lead singer David Strauchman before the band's show at Mill City Nights about what he will miss most about being on the road and what's next for him.

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Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" is not a song that Minneapolis Southern-rock band The Rockford Mules will be covering anytime soon. The band will be releasing their fourth album, an EP titled O Tulip I Told You So, that has evolved in sound as much as the band has in itself. O Tulip includes tracks that while cleverly constructed, ebb-and-flow without a lack of pretention, all the while tell a heartbreaking story.
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