This week marks the 35th anniversary of the fifth full-length album by The Replacements, Pleased To Meet Me. As a Midwestern male of the Gen X persuasion, this qualifies as a holiday. And, as is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With support from local label Twin/Tone amid a thriving Minneapolis music scene which also spawned Hüsker Dü and Soul Asylum, the ...

The Replacements have announced a sprawling box set of their 1985 album Tim, featuring a completely remixed version of the LP. Titled Tim: Let It Bleed Edition, the four-CD and one-LP set also ...

The Replacements have announced a "Deluxe Edition" box set of their 1981 debut album, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash. The collection, which celebrates the album's 40th anniversary, will be ...

When The Replacements put out their sixth album, Don’t Tell A Soul, in February of 1989, it didn’t set the world on fire. By the following year, the band’s reluctant frontman and genius ...

Back in 1987, Minneapolis rock and roll renegades The Replacements famously stole their Twin/Tone master tapes and threw them in the Mississippi River. A year later—while wrapping up work on their ...

Four young dudes perch on a South Minneapolis rooftop overhang—slightly startled, it seems, to have been captured in their natural habitat. Dressed in denim jeans, jackets, and Chuck Taylor sneakers, ...

For a few years in the late ’80s, R.E.M. and the Replacements were running neck-and-neck as the most lauded bands to emerge from the American underground. The two groups shaped the decade’s ...

The University of Minnesota’s office for Student Unions and Activities (SUA) recently took down two photos of the seminal Minneapolis rock band, The Replacements. The photos had previously been ...