Friends Sites we read, trust, and tip our hats to Twin Cities Racket Worker-owned Twin Cities news, culture, and music — the spiritual successor to City Pages. UndercurrentMPLS DIY documentation of the Minneapolis punk and underground scene — thousands of live videos since 2011. The Current MPR's essential Twin Cities radio station and local music blog, from local to legendary. Minneapolis Music Blog Twin Cities concert photography, album reviews, and video from across the upper Midwest. Mostly Minnesota Music, art, and performance around Minnesota, plus a weekly WMCN radio show. Midwestern Social Research Archival Twin Cities band videos from the 2000s. Beyond the Twin Cities Aquarium Drunkard LA music magazine spanning psych, folk, jazz, and the avant-garde — deep archives and Lagniappe Sessions. The Quietus UK independent music and culture criticism — long-form, fearless, and resolutely uncommercial. Foxy Digitalis Experimental and outsider music in the DIY tradition, championing the fringes since the mid-90s. Fluxblog The original MP3 blog, running since 2002 — daily curation that helped define online music writing. IDIOTEQ No-ads DIY webzine covering independent and hardcore punk, championing lesser-known artists worldwide.