RacketCast, Ep. 5: Meet MN's Best New Music Act - Racket
1 day ago · In this edition of RacketCast, get to know Racket’s first-ever Picked to Click winner: Papa Mbye!. A terrific new album, Parcelles 16, helped vault the Senegal-born, Minneapolis-based musician to the top of the poll, and deservedly so.The music he makes—drawing from rap, electronic music, and indie rock—would have been unthinkable when the original P2C launched in 1991, and he’s only ...
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This Week's Open Thread Question: What Now? - Racket
1 day ago · I'm sure this has been a tough week for Racket readers—we've been wobbling along and doing our best over here. It's always horrifying to be reminded how many people are either fine with or actively engaged in sending the world further in a catastrophic, authoritarian direction. So let me ask, for this week's Open Thread: How are you coping?
Picked to Click 2024 No. 6: Prize Horse - Racket
5 days ago · 12:15 PM CST on November 4, 2024. Kinkade Ruppert. When Jake Beitel spoke with Racket in 2022, it was the first interview the Prize Horse guitarist and vocalist had ever done. The three-piece was on its first tour, holed up in Indiana at a house belonging to an uncle of a member of one of the other bands. “Feels like a long time ago,” he ...
Walz Watch: What Now? - Racket
3 days ago · Walz Watch: Walz Still Watchable. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz lost his bid for VP last night but, in a way, he kinda won? Local strategists and DFL leaders seem to agree that Walz was overall good for Kamala Harris’s campaign. “There’s no doubt that Gov. Walz helped energize the ticket and bring voters into this coalition,” DFL Party Chair ...
Papa Mbye Is Racket’s First-Ever Picked to Click Winner
5 days ago · Picked to Click often sucked at predicting the future. But when it came to capturing the present, it was unrivaled. Which brings us to our own current moment, and Racket’s first Picked to Click winner. A terrific new album, Parcelles 16, helped vault this year’s winner, Papa Mbye, to the top of the poll, and deservedly so.
Podcast Archives - Racket
Oct 25, 2024 · RacketCast, Ep. 4: Ghost Hunting feat. the Twin Cities Paranormal Society. Learn how to deal with your ghost problems and so much more. 7. Racket Staff. October 25, 2024. Podcast. RacketCast, Ep. 3: Meet St. Paul’s TikTok-Famous Teacher feat. Mandi Jung (@sabocat) As recently seen on John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight.'.
Music Archives - Racket
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About Us - Racket
About Us. Racket is a writer-owned, reader-funded website founded by a group of former City Pages editors in 2021. We trade in the same fun and fearless journalism CP specialized in since 1979: Twin Cities news, politics, music, arts, culture, civic oddities, food and drink, and theater, plus local angles galore.
The 10 Most-Read Racket Stories of 2023 - Racket
Dec 12, 2023 · Never equate pageviews with effort. When stories pass through the mysterious vortexes of Google algorithms and social shares, the amount of work put into 'em goes out the window. In any event, our most-read stories of 2023 span all sorts of spectrums—fun, helpful, serious, silly, bloggy, longform ...