A Minneapolis house once used for a legendary album cover continues to attract fans and music history buffs from around the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published in 2016, Trouble Boys takes a definitive approach to how it chronicles the history of the Replacements, from their early ...
I bought my first copy of Let It Be when I was 15 and it unlocked my lifelong love of the Replacements. Soon I was hunting down albums, bootlegs, zines, T-shirts—I even agreed to clean my high school ...
Both collections featured a remastered version of the original album, 14 rare live, studio, and home-demo recordings from the band’s Let It Be era, and a previously unreleased 28-song performance ...
A hootenanny may be heading to the big screen, as Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard is reportedly developing a film about The Replacements. Wolfhard, who was recently in Minneapolis performing with ...
Back in the ’80s, when slick pop and hair metal began to consume all, a hard-drinking group of ragged Minnesotan rockers continued to show up some nights ready to play and some nights not. They were a ...
The Replacements’ third album, 1984’s Let It Be, is an ’80s indie rock classic. Now, over 40 years later, the project is getting a comprehensive and massive deluxe edition reissue. Aside from the ...
Write what you know, that’s what our teachers always told us. Paul Westerberg understood the neighborhood bar scene very well, in large part because he and his band The Replacements often frequented ...
The Replacements were a Minneapolis-based rock band (known initially for punk rock, and then as major players in the shift from punk to alternative rock) that rose to prominence in the 1980s and ...
The Replacements at First Avenue in Minneapolis, 1984. Pictured are (left to right) Tommy Stinson, Chris Mars, and Paul Westerberg. From First Avenue: Minnesota’s Mainroom (Minnesota Historical ...
Rock and roll is a business largely founded on a kind of voyeuristic cannibalism: Take the most vulnerable, volatile performers you can find, place them in the most intense circumstances imaginable, ...