Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s/Dinosaur Feathers/Whispertown at Triple Rock, Minneapolis (05/11/12)

Tour Dates 05/12/12 Des Moines, IA Wooly’s * 05/13/12 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room* 05/15/12 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge * 05/16/12 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge * 05/17/12 Boise, ID Neurolux * 05/18/12 Seattle, WA The Crocodile * 05/19/12 Vancouver, BC Media Club * 05/20/12 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge * 05/22/12 San Francisco, CA Great American* 05/23/12 Los Angeles, CA Bootleg Theater * 05/24/12 Santa Ana, CA Constellation Room * 05/25/12 San Diego, CA The Casbah * 05/26/12 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom * 05/27/12 Albequerque, NM Launchpad * 05/29/12 Austin, TX Mohawk * 05/30/12 Dallas, TX Trees * 05/31/12 Oklahoma City, OK Opolis* 06/01/12 St. Louis, MO Firebird * 06/02/12 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall* * w/ Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s Read More Whispertown Whispertown is on tour. New to them? Check out this Getting To Know Morgan Nagler.

Margot & The Nuclear So and So's with Dinosaur Feathers and Whispertown stopped by Minneapolis at the Triple Rock Social Club last night, May 11th. This is an interesting teamup, bands from Indiana, Massachusetts, and California. There's a joke to be had in there somewhere.

Dinosaur Feathers

Funny enough, I once reviewed Dinosaur Feathers in in 2009 and called their EP "pots & pans". There's still that odd wonky bass and experimental side, but they've become evolved into a jam band. Someone in the audience said they reminded them of Vampire Weekender. They seem to be having a good time on stage. They ended their set with "Surprise".

Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

As for Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, I didn't know what to expect. Actually, I was expecting a woman singer, a woman, perhaps named Margot? Nope, this alt-rock (they sound like a band that Alternative Press magazine would love) is a rather big band. The big band is reduced to keys and acoustic for two songs, "A Journalist Falls in Love with Deathrow Inmate..." and "Broadripple Is Burning" (which I think might I prefer when they're more low-key because you can hear singer Richard Edwards' vocals more clearly).

So again, there was no Margot in the band.

I was there to cover Whispertown, aka Whispertown2000, so I took notes on the band. The band is traveling light, reducing them to just Morgan Nagler and her guitarist (sorry, she never introduced him). They did a standard opening short thirty minute set, consisting of seven songs.

I didn't know them well enough to tell you all the songs, but what I can tell you is that they started off with two songs from Parallel ("Open The Other Eye" and "Time Will Welcome Anything"), followed by 'old' songs, "Erase The Lines", "Restless". They ended their set with "The Everybody".

Banter was kept to a minimum; they said they were last in Minneapolis with Margot at the same venue, Triple Rock. They also, apparently, hit a deer, driving up here. I guess they're not used to deer on the roads in California.

This was the second stop in their month-long tour schedule, so check them out if they're coming to your town. Whispertown's Parallel is out now via Acony Records.

Whispertown at Triple Rock, Minneapolis (05/11/12)

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