It's another great evening of free music and food at the Electric Fetus.

Minneapolis newest entry into Brit-Pop comes courtesy promising cool kids Idle Hands . "Loaded" is off their debut The Hearts We Broke On The Way To The Show ,out on Sept. 15th. Recommended for those craving Echo & The Bunnyman. via Bona Fide Darling Idle Hands with Magic Castles Electric Fetus Thur. Aug 13th Idle Hands - "Loaded" -mp3 Magic Castles - "10,100" -mp3
Friday, July 3, 2009 8:30 PM Magic Castles // Dark Dark Dark // Paul Metzger @ The Entry 9:00 PM Chris Thomson Quartet @ Cafe Maude 9:00 PM Dante & The Lobster @ Triple Rock 9:00 PM Lookbook and Ghost In the Water @ 331 Club [...]

Today 5:00 PM Gospel Gossip @ Treehouse Records 7:30 PM The Avett Brothers @ Minnesota Zoo 8:00 PM Charlie Parr & Dave Simonette (Trampled By Turtles) @ The Cedar 8:00 PM Digitata / Marijuana Deathsquad @ First Amendment Art Gallery 9:00 PM [...]
K'naan to return to the Twin Cities in July, Heliotrope coverage & photos, videos and reviews from recent TC shows.
Two of Minneapolis' more promising psychedelically-inclined bands (and that's saying something, considering you've got Daughters of the Sun and Vampire Hands running round the MPLS) have recently uploaded new music to their MySpace profiles. For Magic Castles, the new songs represent a substantial sampling of their upcoming second record, the self-recorded, self-released Dreams of Dreams of Dreams . Based on the wide variety of mellow psych-rock presented by the band (including the Mamas and Papas-esque "Letterbox," and the comperatively uptempo, shuffling "The Ones We Love") the reality of [...]
Bob Dylan releases new CD info, Reznor vs. Cornell, Black Lips play Turf & next week's best new releases.
DOOM and El-P announced for Soundset 2009, news on Dylan's new album, Tricky at the Fine Line & new Muja Messiah
Something old and something new-- in addition to announcing forthcoming album, the local pscyh-rockers make their 2008 album available for download.

If the most recent post on MPLS-based neo-psychedelic quintet Magic Castles' MySpace page has shown readers anything, it's not the size of the post, but the...motion of the information ocean? While I work on my analogies, I'll point out the fact that the band announced that A) their 2008 release, The Lore of Mysticore , is now available on digital outlets, including Amazon and iTunes. So, if, for whatever reason, listeners haven't gotten the chance to check out the reverb-heavy, self-released debut from the band, now they can. Additionally, those [...]

Sat January 31st Kitty Cat Klub The Alpha Centauri @ 11:30 ( myspace.com/thealphacentauri ) Dallas Orbiter @ 10:30 ( myspace.com/dallasorbiter ) Magic Castles @ 9:30 ( myspace.com/themagiccastles ) $5

Every Thursday this month will feature Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles as well as many other radical bands. They are all FREE EVENTS!!!!! The first edition of "The Minnieseries" is tomorrow and will feature... Poor Nobodys @ 9:30 LM/VL @ 10:30 Bitch N' Brown @ 11:30

Want to email somebody a link to this photo? Friday Oct. 3rd @ The Triple Rock Social Club Magic Castles, The Dad In Common, Marvelle, The Knotwells 21+ Mere, $5 Doors @ 9 Music @ 10 4th On- MAGIC CASTLES : Self proclaimed proponents of the "Mysticore" genre, delicious psych. rock. [...]

Download: Marvelle - "Dark Matter" Friday, October 3rd Magic Castles The Knotwells The Dad In Common Marvelle 9 p.m. $5 Triple Rock (Jonathan Graef) jon@minneapolisfuckingrocks.co m
Today 7:00 PM more cowbell's mixed bag series...Red Pens / Ballast / Sharp Teeth / Total Babe / DemiEtoile @ Acadia Cafe 8:30 PM Nobot / Sovietpanda / We Are Wolves @ Triple Rock 9:00 PM Friends Of Burt Reynolds @ Kitty Cat 9:00 PM The Blind Shake & Magic Castles @ Turf Club [...]

Here is a sneak preview of the poster for the weekend (eclipse records)... Particularly excited for Noah Paster's (second?) show on drums w/ Lazer Forever. The whole lineup so far has been insane and tonight is a great showcase. Crossing Guards Magic Castles To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie Lazer Forever Communist Daughter All Ages, starting around 7pm, $4 or $5 cover.

Thursday August 21st Superhopper Seawhores The Danforths Falcon Crest Building Better Bombs Friday August 22nd Dosh Jindra Alpha Consumer Ghostband Saturday, August 23rd Crossing Guards Magic Castles To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie Lazer Forever Communist Daughter All shows All Ages, starting around 7pm, $4 or $5 cover. BE THERE!

Magic Castles - "Emory's Memories" ( via ) The Minneapolis-based quintet, who at times recall a psychedelic version of Belle & Sebastian, Magic Castles , who recently released The Lore of Mysticore (read Reveille's review here ) recently stopped by the studios of Radio K to conduct a live session. The band recorded 5 songs, 4 of which you can stream over at the K's multimedia page . The fifth, "Emory Memories", has been made available for download. Either download it at the Multimedia page, or listen to it at [...]