Prince

When you think of Prince, three things probably come immediately to mind – incredible music, the color purple, and his hometown of Minneapolis. SoundAround’s Prince tour in Minneapolis and its surrounding suburbs tells the story of not simply a remarkable, outsize talent, but also how he is inextricably linked to the story of this city […]

Musical Minneapolis

Minneapolis may not be the first place that springs to mind when you think of the history of music in America. But without the sounds that grew from the city’s Battle of the Bands contests, cafés, record shops and lesser-known studios, the world would not have had much of the music of the late 20th […]

The Minneapolis Sound

What is The Minneapolis Sound? You definitely know it when you hear it: drum machines, intense synth sounds, heavy rock guitar solos and funky bass lines with a dash of jazz sprinkled on top. Many point to Prince’s third studio album, Dirty Mind (1980), as the first time all elements of The Minneapolis Sound collided, […]