​St. Paul singer/songwriter and guitar-wizard sideman Terry Eason has two big landmarks to celebrate this week. Not only is he turning 50, but he will be completing his massive "Song-A-Day" project that he has successfully kept up this past year.

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​Minnesota artists are releasing music videos at such a fast clip these days that we can barely keep up with posting the best ones. Just yesterday, three separate videos from Twin Cities artists were lighting up our Twitter feeds and Facebook pages, and one was even debuted by Rolling Stone magazine's blog. More >>

​The Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery in Phillips has been getting a lot of play these days. Not only was it the inspiration for the theme of Jeremy Messersmith's last album, The Reluctant Graveyard, but it was also the site of a unique outdoor show Messersmith played this summer with Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles. Today, the graveyard is getting some love again in the newest video from Solid Gold, which was recorded as part of Dan Huiting and MPLS.TV's City of Music series to help promote their track on the Minnesota Beatle Project, Vol. 3 compilation.More >>

​It's hard to believe it was already 10 years ago that George Harrison lost his battle with cancer. Most people remember where they were when they learned that Kurt Cobain committed suicide or the Challenger space shuttle fell out of the sky; for whatever reason, I remember the exact moment that I heard about George's death. He had always been my favorite Beatle, so much so that I celebrated his birthday (February 25) every year as a teen, and as soon as I heard the news coming over the car radio I couldn't help but break down and cry.More >>

​Craig Finn sure has been busy lately. In addition to putting the finishing touches on his first solo album, the "Friday Night Lights" inspired, Clear Heart Full Eyes, and plotting a subsequent solo tour, he and guitarist Tad Kubler took part in a Replacement's tribute show Wednesday night at Bowery Electric in New York City in advance of The Hold Steady's big show in town tonight.

They do a cover of the subdued Hootenany classic, "Within Your Reach," with Finn (proudly sporting a rad Minnesota Twins track jacket) even waxing nostalgic about getting introduced to the 'Mats through that album when he was a tennis playing 7th grader. 

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St. Vincent at the Walker Art Center earlier this month

​It's about lunchtime, right? Well, best go get your lunch outta the fridge and come back to your desk, because you're going to want to devote 15 uninterrupted minutes to this video. For those unfamiliar with the 4AD Session series, it's one of the finest high-quality performance video series on the web right now, and gives an up-close view (closer than a front-seat view... think crouching at the performer's feet in awe) of some of the most talented indie artists performing today.More >>

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​Ok, so no one can ever really star in a Beyoncé video besides Beyoncé herself (even guest J. Cole has to share most of his screentime with the bodacious leading lady), but Minnesotan accessory designers Coco & Breezy, who left Minnesota recently to work it in New York City, make a pretty sweet cameo in this video for B's new single "Party."More >>

​So just when you'd managed to excise every last trace of the lava-bed crunch-munch of plodding, misanthropic metal mayhem that is The View from your cranium, shameless hambone thespian William Shatner crashes the random-heavy-metal-news-sweepstakes party with what's gotta be the most cringe-worthy version of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" ever committed to tape.

Before Gimme Noise goes any further, you should probably just, um, click "Play" and leap headfirst into... this.

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​Because nothing says "Let's get ready for some college football!" like a vintage 1986 R&B jam, the University of Minnesota decided to pair up footage of Goldy the Gopher running around the TCF Stadium with the music video for Midnight Star's "Midas Touch" to create one of the weirdest promo videos in recent memory.

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Paul Simon at First Avenue last May

​It's been an onslaught of 9/11-related material this week, but here's the saddest/only video you really need to see: Paul Simon singing "The Sound of Silence" at Ground Zero yesterday as part of the 10-year anniversary memorial services honoring the lives lost in New York City.

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