Justin Vernon, the Eau Claire, Wis., native behind Bon Iver, managed to win two of the four awards he was nominated for at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, including best new artist and best alternative album. The wins are especially impressive considering that his two losses came against the night's top winner Adele, who took home six trophies, and that Bon Iver bested Top 40 megastars Nicki Minaj, J. Cole and others for best new artist.

"It's really hard to accept this award," the trembling Vernon said in his acceptance speech, sporting a brown Dunderdon suit from St. Paul menswear boutique BlackBlue. "There's so much talent out here on the stage and there is a lot of talent that's not here tonight."

The real fun came from the Web reactions to Vernon's unlikely wins, a collective "Who???" from mainstream music fans. A "Who is Bon Iver?" Tumblr page quickly popped up, aggregating tweets and Facebook comments from baffled Grammy viewers. Among the choice entries, from tweeter @riccyGee: "What the fuck is a Bon Iver? Sounds like a fucking appetizer at Red Lobster and shit." And from @TDice4: "Bon Iver?!? Are you joking me?? Who is that? He looks like a lumberjack, go back to Canada!"

A slightly more adorable meme was spawned from a large crop of confused viewers who seemed to think something called "Bonny Bear" was taking home awards. "This Bonny Bear character needa shoot his barber," tweeted @KoolAidKleff, in reference to Vernon's thick, full beard.

This marks the second year in a row that indie music fans have found cause for cheer at the Grammys, while less familiar viewers have been confused. Last year Canadian rockers Arcade Fire won album of the year for "The Suburbs."

It was like the "Chinese Democracy" of cocktail bars. After multiple delays, craft cocktail enthusiasts were wondering if they would ever get a chance to taste the hotly anticipated libations being dreamed up for Eat Street Social. Lucky for us, the restaurant and bar finally opened Feb. 9 in the old Taco Morelos and Caterpillar Lounge spaces. Eat Street Social is an offshoot of the Northeast Social in northeast Minneapolis. For their venture on Nicollet, owners Joe Wagner and Sam Bonin hired the Bittercube maestros Nick Kosevich and Ira Koplowitz to oversee the bar.

Cocktail fans know Kosevich from his years at Town Talk Diner. After moving to Milwaukee, he created Bittercube with Koplowitz, an acclaimed former Chicago bartender. Bittercube has made a lot of noise around the country as a cocktail-consulting company and the maker of some really great bitters.

Six years after she took fifth place on the CBS show "INXS: Rock Star," Twin Cities singer Jordis Unga is back on a TV music competition and poised to maybe do even better this time. The former Fighting Tongs singer, 29, sang Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed" Monday night on NBC's "The Voice" and earned some truly amazed-sounding raves. Celebrity judge Blake Shelton hit his chair's turn-around button -- "The Voice's" version of a thumbs-up -- seconds into her performance, and Cee-Lo and Christina Aguilera joined him midway through the song. As the performance ended, Unga's hands visibly shook and she started crying. Her Tongan dad danced excitedly backstage alongside her Swedish mom, residents of Forest Lake.

"You're the type of person that I have been sitting here waiting for," country-music star Shelton told Unga. "You're the type of singer that makes me excited about what I do. Your voice makes me want to push myself to be that much better of a singer."

Since her "Rock Star" run, Unga has been in something of career limbo. The show earned her a contract with Epic Records in 2006, and she recorded demos with some reportedly big-name collaborators in Los Angeles. However, Epic downsized soon thereafter and nothing came of the work.

Last week, the Decentralized Dance Party officially added Minneapolis to its "Strictly Business" tour for April 7 at as-yet-undisclosed locations. What is the DDP? Here's how it works: For each city on the tour, two guys from Vancouver named Tom and Gary post a notice for the party on the fundraising website Kickstarter.com. Once the DDP reaches its $1,000 goal (31 backers helped Minneapolis meet that amount last Friday), the guys travel to the city, one with an FM transmitter broadcasting a custom dance-music playlist. The night of the party, people from all over the city come with boomboxes tuned in to the station and create a coordinated musical posse that romps around town all night. For the "Strictly Business" tour, attendees are encouraged to dress up in business attire. More than 675 people have already committed on the event's Facebook page. The meeting point will be revealed on the night before April 7.

Concert promotions giant AEG Live last week formally announced the first batch of shows for its new downtown Minneapolis rock club, the Brick. In addition to the previously revealed March 19 opener with Jane's Addiction ($49.50), the 2,100-capacity venue -- still under construction in the former Club 3 Degrees space -- will host indie-rock heroes the Shins on June 1 ($35), guitar god Slash on May 14 ($33), '90s alt-rockers Incubus on May 9 ($55) and several lesser-known acts in the spring. Tickets for all these shows will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday on www.thebrickmn.com. A limited number of tickets for each concert will also be available in person at the Electric Fetus. As we reported last month, the Brick could be stiff competition to First Avenue, but except for the Shins this first batch of shows doesn't seem to be taking away much from Minneapolis' famed independent rock haven.