Artist: Mark Mallman

​Your guide to all the best musical events happening on New Year's Eve.

​The game is won on the field. Some bits of advice are impossible to follow to fruition. "The game is won on the field, Mallman." This is the kind of hodge-podge rhetoric that makes so much sense, you

Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: Mark Mallman Video: 'Minneapolis' Highlight: "When I was a kid, space ships in movies always looked like upside-down cities to me," Mallman tells Spinner. "I used to lay on my driveway trying to send messages with my brain to alien ships. So when the director asked for a creative way 'Minneapolis' could appear, I told him, 'A spaceship. I want to phone home to Minneapolis from way out in the farm land.' I wrote the [...]

​Days of no consequence. Minneapolis edged November. My turmoil was a batholith hidden deep within. The new record was closer to "The Red Bedroom" than anything I'd written in 10 years. Brad was force

For anyone who has ever seen Mark Mallman perform, it is quite clear that he loves both music and the Twin Cities. Now Mallman has blended the two, making that deep affection for our music scen

​Paul Schrader wrote the script to Taxi Driver while living in a station wagon. Such is the myth of the suffering artist. But beautiful crazy Van Gogh bastard established the archetype. We might stumb

​Ok, ok, one more Halloween post and then WE ARE DONE. Until next year.First Avenue's Mainroom was packed to the rafters last night for their annual Halloween bash, and we had photographers roaming th

Photo by Erik Hess​Local indie superhero Mark Mallman tweeted on Monday that his song "Light the Dynamite and Run" (from 2009's Invincible Criminal) would be featured on Thursday night's season f

​A millionaire friend once told me, "Mallman, you have two options in this world: crazy busy or dead poor." I corrected him: "Try the music business, you'll be both."

Electric Six didn't come out in speedos a la their "Gay Bar" video, but they definitely did not disappoint.

​Jared Diamond says the success of a given civilization is based on three things: "Guns, Germs, and Steel." What he means is, dont open your surf shop in Gary, Indiana, and dont dig for gold in your l

​I don't know about you, but usually the first thing I say in the morning is some inflection of the word "fuck."

​To be honest, my plan was to quit. To remove the "Minneapolis" song from the spring 2012 album and release it as my swan song single in fall, go to Louisville in November and finish the record, then

​If you were to watch the Wizard of Oz in its entirety only backwards, that might properly demonstrate what the road is like. You start at home, then slowly lose contact with your friends following a

​The zombie apocalypse might very well begin in Des Moines, IA. I can see em all now, loping out of the cornfield, eyes glaring like lost Wal-Mart dads. This guy at the show the night before claimed I

Photos by Mark Mallman​The demo recording of "Let it Be" starts with Paul McCartney talking to the sound engineer. He says "This is going to knock you out, boy," and then proceeds to perform one of r

​Here's a not-so-secret fact about Minnesota music: People love to talk about how much they love the scene here. Musicians from both out-of-state and the Twin Cities have gone out of their way to pen

​Vega Productions just took things to whole other level. While their upcoming Rock the Boat cruise of the Mississippi River already sounded pretty wicked -- they're planning to hitch two riverboats to

Well, well, well....What to say about how lucky we are to have Mark Mallman grace the Shitty Barn? This Milwaukee-born comic-book-hero of rock has made art his life and his life a work of art. By day he composes scores for major motion pictures, but as evening falls, he slips into a moving vehicle, dons his 70's glam rock garb and hits the stage to tease quirky, extravagant pop from his keyboard. It's not uncommon to hear Mallman's stage presence compared to Johnny Rotten AND Elton John. By all reports, he gives and gives and gives to his audience. Come [...]

​True music fans should take a moment today to celebrate the birthday of Les Paul. The pioneering guitar virtuoso would have been 96 years old today, and without his forward thinking and technical exp