A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 09/30/26.

On June 26, Toilet Rats released Black Cats into the sewers of the music world, unleashing a brand of synth punk that walks the line between socially conscious and blissfully absurd.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 09/23/26.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 09/16/26.

How is it September already?! To help you navigate those end of Summer Blues or get ready for your Pumpkin Spice Dependency Season, we’ve got a great chat with songstress Leslie Vincent.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 09/2/26.

What does it mean to belong? What if you don’t want to belong? Where do you place yourself among others? Ghosting Merit explore these concepts with grace and depth in their new album BELONGING .

We’re keeping it going with the one and only Katy Vernon. A beloved member of the Minnesota music scene, she talked with host Andy Ellis about her new band Favourite Girl, their debut self-titled albu...

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 08/12/26.

Indulgence in the creation and consumption of art belonging to the grotesquerie form, is to hold a mirror up to modern life. As is the aim of Minneapolis death metal sextet Nothingness. True to that a...

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 08/05/26.

It’s episode 30! With a guest like Zippy Laske you know this is going to be a great episode. Host Andy Ellis got to chat with Zippy Laske about her most recent project, her self-titled EP released las...

On July 8th over a closed-doors conference call, Deputy-mayor of St. Paul Cedrick Baker announced a plan to permanently close all three unhoused encampments in the city, beginning with the largest cam...

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 07/22/26.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 07/15/26.

Today’s episode is a rarity. Our host Andy Ellis was able to chat with clovers daughter, about her two most recent projects: the debut full-length Am I Worth It? and her raw EP Fragile Feeling .

Musically, “ spitball girl ” is intimate and powerful, wavering between genres, sounds, and tempos as naturally and effortlessly as singer-songwriter Hayley Anne describes the “spitball girl” of the s...

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 06/24/26.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 06/17/26.

The summer is here, and so is another episode of the Melodic Noise Insider podcast. For this latest episode I had a long in-depth chat with Joe Capacete and Brian Perry of Threads Electric.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 06/10/26.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 06/03/26.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 05/27/26.

Flowers for Winnie is a serene tour of Winnie’s mind as a lyricist and as a musician. It takes you down winding hallways of wandering interludes and lyrics that are both quippy and personal. This al...

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 05/13/26.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 05/06/26.

In Lieu are practitioners of extremity, and on their latest full length offering Hooligan , sound as if they are out for blood. The band's home-base tends to be atonal riffing, voracious amounts of u...

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 04/22/26.

Minnesota musicians have responded to the trauma of Operation Metro Surge the way artists often do when communities are hurting: by making music. After one of the darkest, heaviest winters in recent m...

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 04/15/26.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 04/08/26.

If anyone asked me what I’ve been listening to most lately, I’d excitedly tell them about Ungrateful Little String Band’s Tired of Being Relevant. There’s so much going on in this folk-punk powerhou...

So many great artists have come out of Minnesota, here are our favorite 100 in order!

We’re back! Kicking things off for 2026 our host Andy Ellis sat down with his good friends the Devon Worley Band.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 03/25/26.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 03/18/26.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 03/11/26.

A review of the visualizer for “Blickback“ Essjay The Afrocentric Ratchet. A song where she gets things off her chest and throws shade at her opponents and rivals.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 02/25/26.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 02/18/26.

This article explores RZ Shahid’s performance in the music video “Progression,” where pain is transmuted into forward motion.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 02/11/26.

A short review of six songs featured on the Melodic Noise Media: Minnesota playlist 01/28/26.