Setlist
Tour Dates
06-13 - Portland, OR - Holocene
06-14 - Seattle, WA - Barboza 06-16 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop 06-17 - Los Angeles, CA - The Moroccan Lounge 06-18 - Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room 09-22 to 09-25 - Dover Heights, DE - Firefly 10-04 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel 10-06 - Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl 10-07 - Richmond, VA - The National 10-09 - Boston, MA - Roadrunner 10/11 and 10/12 - New York, NY - Terminal 5 10-15 - Toronto, ON - Danforth 10-16 - Toronto, ON - Danforth Read More
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Opening the show was 22 year old New York-based, Chinese/Vietnamese-American singer Harrison Li, under his stagename Harry Teardrop. It’s his first time in Minneapolis, and he seemed to really dig the city.
Based on their live set, which heavy high energy with brief interludes of calmness. You can tell that they’re getting more into punk/pop of Blink-182, but emphasis on guitar-driven bands like The Strokes.
The band played several tracks from their debut EP 1000 Backyard Pools, like “Strawberry” and “Soft Serve”.
Harry Teardrop’s most recent single, $2 Bill, which was inspired by the “$2 Bill” concert that The Strokes played on MTV in 2002, featured double singles “Riley” and “Above Or Below”… both were played early in their set.
You did get the impression that Teardrop seemed to like it here and planned on coming back to the area. Word of advice, don’t come in the winter!
Also, wide-eyed and in Minneapolis for the first time was 21-year-old Jordana… who is also heavily influenced by the Strokes (but we’ll get to that a little later). Jordana’s been the music industry since she was 18, when she released Classical Notions of Happiness, which got her signed to record label Grand Jury. The label re-released the album in 2020. Since then, Jordana’s been busy working with TV Girl, and releasing her new single “Catch My Drift”… which eventually lead her to the latest album Face The Wall (which came out in May 2022).
Jordana is joined on stage by guitarist/sometime keys Hayden, guitarist Sagiv Rosenstock, and drummer Blake. Working the merch table, was Jordana’s aunt Barbie.
The band was plagued by technical difficulties early in the set, when Jordana’s distortion pedal pump was not working. They may have had to drop off a song off their set, I know that “F*** You” was not played.
Looking over her setlist, you can tell she’s heavily into her recent collaboration with TV Girl, playing four songs from their EP Summer’s Over.
The Strokes cover was “Hard to Explain”, followed by the last song on the Face The Wall album “Why”… with her good luck charm Gumby on the mic stand.
There was no encore, instead the band left Jordana, where she closed the show with a cover of Coldplay’s “Sparks”.
Jordana’s latest album Face The Wall is out now on Grand Jury.
Harry Teardrop |
Jordana at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (10 June 2022) |
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