The Lumineers, Matchbox Twenty and the Strokes will headline the third annual Minnesota Yacht Club Festival, which returns to St. Paul’s Harriet Island Regional Park July 17 through 19.

Ticket prices start at $150 for a single day general admission and $275 for all three days, with numerous other options available including VIP, Riverboat VIP and Platinum. A presale starts at 10 a.m. Thursday and concertgoers can sign up for a code at minnesotayachtclubfestival.com.

The festival debuted in 2024 with headliners Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gwen Stefani and Alanis Morissette and was a hit with critics and crowds. It returned in July with an expanded three-day lineup led by Green Day, Hozier and Fall Out Boy. The festival has drawn about 35,000 people each day.

The Lumineers filled the former Xcel Energy Center in July and Matchbox Twenty nearly sold out the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand in August 2024. The Strokes played the biggest stage in the metro when they opened for Red Hot Chili Peppers in April 2023.

Local and other acts

Semisonic is the biggest local name in the lineup. The “Closing Time” trio was booked to play the festival last year, but had to cancel after bassist John Munson suffered a stroke. Other Minnesota acts on the bill include Marcy Playground, Night Moves and Prize Horse (July 17); Yam Haus and Porch Light (July 18); and Atmosphere and Heart to Gold (July 19).

Other highlights include the Black Keys, Mt. Joy, Lord Huron, Cage the Elephant, Passion Pit and Geese, whose fourth album “Getting Killed” generated plenty of buzz this year.

As in previous years, the festival will feature two stages and 10 hours of music each day.

Live Nation owns 51 percent of Yacht Club organizers C3 Presents, an Austin, Texas, company that’s also behind Austin City Limits Music Festival, Voodoo Music + Arts Experience and the modern-day Lollapalooza. But Live Nation apparently allows C3 to follow its own path and use a more personal touch in staging festivals. Concertgoers have praised much about the festival, but complained about long concessions lines and inflated prices for beer and alcohol.

Minnesota Yacht Club Festival lineup

The full 2026 lineup includes:

Friday, July 17: The Lumineers, the Black Keys, Mt. Joy, the Fray, Dashboard Confessional, Shakey Graves, Marcy Playground, Night Moves, Prize Horse and Pat Kennedy.

Saturday, July 18: Matchbox Twenty, Lord Huron, Geese, the All-American Rejects, Lucy Dacus, Matt and Kim, Jensen McRae, Devon Gilfillian, Yam Haus and Porch Light.

Sunday, July 19: The Strokes, Cage the Elephant, Atmosphere, Passion Pit, Semisonic, Dope Lemon, Die Spitz, Couch, Heart to Gold and Common People.

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With the Gophers men’s basketball team playing at Purdue on Wednesday, new head coach Niko Medved shared an old story this week about an interaction with legendary Boilermakers coach Gene Keady.

In 1994, Purdue traveled to Minneapolis on the eve of a Big Ten Conference game. A late flight and scheduling conflict kept them from practicing at Williams Arena, so Medved, then a Gopher student manager, had to open up the Bierman Athletic Building for the Boilermakers to hold a practice.

Purdue assistant coaches and players went to watch film beforehand, leaving Keady and Medved on the court alone. They started playing a game of H-O-R-S-E.

“I’m gonna say that I had the lead,” Medved shared on the KFAN coaches show recorded Monday. “… I had maybe ‘H,’ and he had, like ‘R,’ and then the team came out, so I was gonna win.”

Medved’s own coaching career wouldn’t start for a few years, while Keady was in his 14th year at Purdue and was routinely making NCAA Tournament appearances. Keady would go on to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2023, but Medved said wasn’t nervous that night.

“It would have been awesome. I would have taken pride, absolutely,” Medved said, then joked. “I might have even talked a little trash.”

Medved doesn’t remember what he and Keady talked about between shots, but the experience left a lasting impression on him. He recalls how Keady might have been “grumpy” about the scheduling changes.

“I do remember that as a young guy in the business, you’re kind of starstruck,” Medved told the Pioneer Press. “He is one of the best coaches. It’s also, for me, going through the experience and getting to meet all those guys, what you really realize is people from the outside can seem larger than life, but what you really realize is they’re just human beings like everybody else.”

That Keady team in 1993-94 was led by Glenn “Big Dog” Robinson, and Purdue went on that spring to win the first of three straight Big Ten regular season championships.

This year, Purdue (8-1, 1-0 Big Ten) is ranked sixth in the nation, but were No. 1 before a 81-58 home loss to then-No. 10 Iowa State on Saturday. Keady was in attendance at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind.

Last Wednesday, Medved led Minnesota (5-4, 1-0) to an upset of then-22nd-ranked Indiana 73-64 for their first win in a Big Ten opener since 2017.

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Rebecca Noecker officially announced her campaign on Tuesday for the District 5 seat on the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners.

St. Paul City Council member Rebecca Noecker, Ward 2. (Courtesy of the City of St. Paul)

Noecker, who is currently the president of the St. Paul City Council, will have to unseat longstanding Commissioner Rafael Ortega to win the District 5 seat next November. The district covers Mac–Groveland, Highland Park, West Seventh, downtown St. Paul, Battle Creek and the West Side.

Noecker, who was first elected to the city council in 2015, issued a written campaign announcement on Tuesday calling herself a “collaborative leader” and said she is running to “bring additional transparency, renewed partnership and urgent action to the work of the county.” She said her top priorities include economic and workforce development, downtown revitalization, transportation, childcare and housing.

Ortega, who has expressed his intent on running for re-election next year, was first elected to the county board in 1994, which marked the first time a person of color had ever served on the board.

The seven-member board oversees the county budget, which includes spending for the county sheriff’s office and county jail, the county attorney’s office, Ramsey County Social Services, the county’s suburban library system, Public Works and other departments.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI said Tuesday it has picked Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue, a message to wary investors that the ChatGPT maker is serious about making a profit from its artificial intelligence technology.

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OpenAI said Dresser will oversee global revenue strategy and “help more businesses put AI to work in their day-to-day operations.”

Dresser had already spent more than a decade at Salesforce when the software pioneer announced in 2020 it was buying work-chatting service Slack for $27.7 billion. She helped integrate Slack into the software company before Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff picked her as CEO in 2023.

Salesforce said in a statement that it was “grateful for Denise’s leadership during her 14 years at Salesforce.” Rob Seaman, Slack’s chief product officer, will take over her responsibilities on an interim basis.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman earlier this month set off a “code red” alert in an internal email to employees to improve its flagship product, ChatGPT, and delay other product developments.

OpenAI first released ChatGPT just over three years ago, sparking global fascination and a commercial boom in generative AI technology and giving the San Francisco-based startup an early lead. But the company faces increased competition with rivals, including Google, which last month unleashed Gemini 3, the latest version of its own AI assistant.

Altman has said ChatGPT now has more than 800 million weekly users. But the company, valued at $500 billion, doesn’t make a profit and has committed more than $1 trillion in financial obligations to the cloud computing providers and chipmakers it relies on to power its AI systems.

The risk that OpenAI won’t make enough money to fulfill the expectations of backers like Oracle and Nvidia has amplified investor concerns about an AI bubble.

OpenAI makes revenue from premium subscriptions to ChatGPT, but most users get the free version. OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, in October, an attempt to compete with Google’s Chrome as more internet users rely on AI to answer their questions. But OpenAI hasn’t yet tried to sell ads on ChatGPT, which is how Google makes money from its dominant search business.