Left to right: John Munson, Jacob Slichter and Dan Wilson of Semisonic performing at The Current's 18th Anniversary Weekend on Jan. 27 at First Avenue in Minneapolis. NINA MOINI: Well, if you haven't ...

Semisonic, the Nineties rock outfit behind the perennial late-night anthem “Closing Time,” are back with a new song, “The Rope,” which will appear on their first album in over 20 years, Little Bit of ...

Wilson has maintained a forward-facing ethos over the past decade-plus: After the band’s 2001 record, All About Chemistry, he developed a second career as a Grammy-winning songwriter and producer, ...

Semisonic hasn’t released new music in almost two decades. But today (June 26), that has all changed as the band from Twin Cities, Minn. have just dropped “You’re Not Alone.” “I wrote ‘You’re Not ...

The post Laufey on “From the Start,” Pop-Leaning Jazz, and Working with Semisonic’s Dan Wilson appeared first on Consequence. The Icelandic singer-songwriter explores the story of the new record, how ...

The GRAMMY-winning songwriter Dan Wilson released his new EP Dancing On The Moon. The six song EP is his first collection of solo material since his 2017 album Re-Covered and follows his band ...

Semisonic, the Minneapolis rock band behind the hit ‘90s song “Closing Time,” returned to the First Avenue Mainroom on Jan. 27-28 for the first time in about five years.. Their Minneapolis comeback ...

After 19 years of waiting, John Munson says the question of whether or not Semisonic should finally release new music in 2020 was answered by a sign. A cardboard sign. "I was driving around St. Paul ...

On Summerfest's penultimate night, Skillet and Atmosphere thrilled overflow crowds, while Semisonic proved that a friendly approach has staying power. More than 20 years after its alternative-rock ...

The frontman of Semisonic and Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson will perform at Duluth’s Sacred Heart Music Center next week. Wilson spent his childhood and some post-college years in ...

As local psychedelic pop group Trip Shakespeare was falling apart in the early ’90s, band members Dan Wilson and John Munson started playing music with drummer Jacob Slichter. The trio called ...

As we know by now, the Trump administration’s grasp of popular music is literal at best, nauseating at worst, and confusing always. After a summer of President Trump dancing to “YMCA”—but not doing ...