King Buffalo, a pych rock trio from Rochester, N.Y., returns to Saint Paul’s Turf Club Tuesday, Jan. 18. The show tops Jam in the Stream editor Javier Serna’s Minnesota live music picks this week. Find out what other shows are happening.

The Headhunters, which Herbie Hancock formed in 1973, play the Dakota Tuesday night, topping Jam in the Stream’s weekly live music picks in Minnesota. Read more about The Headhunters and other live music options this week.

Hotel Minnesnowta got off to a rousing start Thursday night with Minneapolis’ TWINE and Duluth’s Saltydog kicking off the event, with the two bands co-mingling at Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West’s Creekside Lounge. Read a short writeup of the show and check out a photo gallery from Jam in the Stream editor Javier Serna. Also, find a ticket link to the final night of the hotel fest, which closes with a late, late-night jam featuring The Johnson Brothers and Ryan David Young of Trampled by Turtles.

Jeff Franca of Thievery Corporation will perform alongside Momentary Lapse of Floyd at the three-day Hotel Minnesnowta music fest at Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West in Plymouth. The hotel fest tops Jam in the Stream’s weekly music picks. Find out what other live music is happening in Minnesota this week.

Jam in the Stream has a special, Year End edition of the weekly Minnesota live music pics. There’s a lot of good music options from now until the end of the year. The editor is hoping he’ll be up for a trip down to Winona on New Year’s Eve to catch one of his faves: Duluth’s Saltydog.

Saltydog’s sendoff of Duluth’s Ripple Bar is No. 11 on Jam in the Stream’s list of a dozen memorable shows in 2024. Read more about what made that show special.

It’s another busy week on Minnesota’s live music scene, with the GZA and a backing band with a fiddler at the Dakota, Saharan desert blues pioneers Tinariwen at the Cedar. Get the details on those and more shows at Jam in the Stream’s weekly live show picks article.

MonoNeon tops Jam in the Stream’s live music picks this week in Minnesota, but find out what other shows come highly recommended.

Crumb’s show at the Varsity Theater Friday tops Jam in the Stream’s list of live music picks this week in Minnesota. Read the fully story at www.jaminthestream.com

Etran de L’Äir, known for a brand of “dessert blues,” is playing Turf Club Wednesday, the first of several live music picks this week from Jam in the Stream. Find out more about the band from Niger, and the rest of Jam in the Stream’s show recommendations.

Check out Jam in the Stream’s live music picks for this week in and around Minnesota.

Duluth’s SaltyDog released Pepper on June 3. Jam in the Stream reviews the band’s second LP, which features solid song writing, lyrically, as the band has grown to include a pair of guitarists, a hand percussionist and a keyboardist, the latest addition to the band, Jam in the Stream’s verdict: Go buy this album, which includes songs such as “Barfly,” “Yeehaw,” and “Farmer Norm,” among others.