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Girls Girls Girls: Chastity Brown, Marisa Monte, Whitmore Sisters

03/12 Chastity Brown at The Woman's Club Read More Chastity Brown Chastity Brown played almost everything from her Back-Road Highways album, as you can see from the setlist. The band is joined on stage by Aby Wolf (for "Solely" and "Slow Time") and Hummingbirds (for "Say It" ...

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Chastity Brown
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Minneapolis, by the way of Tennessee, Chastity Brown will be one of the headlining artist in a new music series called The Music & Storyteller Sessions, presented by Sue McLean & Associates.

The music session offers fans a rich experience with some of today’s most prolific singer/songwriter. What that means is that fans will have the opportunity to interact with the musicians, which they can submit their questions and have the artist answer from the stage. This is very appealing to fans.

The Chastity Brown show will take place March 12th, 2022, at the The Woman's Club of Minneapolis.

The next The Music & Storyteller Sessions will feature New York-based performer Eric Hutchinson on April 1st, 2022.

All tickets (including Limited VIP packages) are available from suemclean.com.

Chastity Brown tour dates:

May 11 Ferndale, MI, US The Magic Bag
Mar 12 The Woman's Club, Minneapolis, MN, US
May 13 Cleveland, OH, US Beachland Ballroom
May 14 Columbus, OH, US The Athenaeum Theatre
May 15 Outdoor Indianapolis, IN, US Hi-Fi Annex
May 20 Minneapolis, MN, US Pantages Theatre
Jun 2 Thetford, UK Red Rooster
Jun 8 London, UK The Water Rats

03/12 Marisa Monte at State Theatre Read More Putumayo Brazilian Café comes with a massive 35-page booklet, devoting two pages to each artist spotlighted on the disc (I am assuming these are standard in most of Putumayo's releases). Each entry is written in English, Spanish, and French ...

Marisa Monte
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In her first major USA tour, Brazilian singer/songwriter Marisa Monte, will stop by the State Theatre in Minneapolis on March 12th. The tour is in support of her 12th album Portas (Phonomotor/Sony Music).

If you’re not familiar with the singer, she sold 10 million albums in 2011, won numerous awards, including four Latin Grammys, seven Brazilian MTV Video Music Awards, nine Multishow de Música Brasileira awards, 5 APCAs, and six Prêmio TIM de Música.

Rolling Stone Brasil considered Monte, the second greatest singer, behind only Elis Regina.

Since COVID-19 had unexpectedly stopped Monte from touring, so 2022 couldn’t come fast enough for the singer. She said, “I’m super-happy to come back to the road. I’ve never spent so much time without singing live. I’m very glad to have the opportunity to go to the United States and sing in many cities where I’ve never performed. It’s nice for me after 35 years to have this chance.”

Tour dates:

Mar 6 Atlanta, GA The Buckhead Theatre
Mar 10 N. Bethesda, MD Strathmore
Mar 12 Minneapolis, MN State Theatre
Mar 15 Chicago, IL The Vic
Mar 17 Stamford, CT The Palace Theatre
Mar 19 & 20 Boston, MA Berklee Perf. Ctr
Mar 22 & 23 New York, NY The Town Hall
Mar 25 Berkeley, CA The UC Theatre
Mar 27 Los Angeles, CA Royce Hall

03/08 The Mastersons with Whitmore Sisters at Hook and Ladder Read More The Mastersons Dickenson was supposed to tour with The Bones of J.R. Jones and The Mastersons, but unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, dates were cancelled and postponed. ...

Whitmore Sisters
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Sibling duo The Whitmore Sisters will be stopping by the Hook & Ladder in Minneapolis on March 8th, in support of their new album Ghost Stories (Red House Records). The sisters is opening for The Mastersons. Tickets are available on thehookmpls.com for $15-$20.

Associate Press praised The Whitmore Sisters, saying “Sibling harmony can be a contradiction in terms. It also makes for lovely music, and that’s the case here. The sisterly sonorities of Eleanor and Bonnie Whitmore mesh beautifully on their duo debut, the voices are easy to differentiate but complementary as they explore a range of styles.”

Tour dates:

Mar 8 Tue Hook & Ladder Minneapolis, MN
Mar 9 Wed Sioux City, IA
Mar 10 Thu Duluth, MN
Mar 11 Fri La Crosse, WI
Mar 12 Sat Appleton, WI
Mar 14 Mon Chicago, IL
Mar 16 Wed Newport, KY
Mar 17 Thu Spring Lake, MI
Mar 18 Fri Worthington, OH
Mar 21 Mon Philadelphia, PA
Mar 23 Wed City Winery Washington, DC
Mar 24 Thu The Tin Pan Richmond, VA
Mar 26 Sat Greer, SC
Mar 28 Mon Eddie's Attic Decatur, GA
Mar 29 Tue Charlotte, NC
Mar 30 Wed Nashville, TN
Mar 31 Thu Little Rock, AR
Apr 1 Fri Denton, TX
Apr 2 Sat Tulsa, OK
Apr 3 Sun Upstairs at Ponyboy Oklahoma City, OK
Apr 5 Tue Houston, TX, United States
Apr 6 Wed 04 Center Austin, TX
Apr 7 Thu Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe Galveston, TX
Apr 17 Sun Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery Santa Fe, NM
Jun 14 Tue Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center Chester, NY

If your band is coming to the Minneapolis/St Paul area, please email details to [email protected] with a good lead time. Thank you.

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Horsing Around

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Read More I Break Horses The good news is that I Break Horses will be back in Minneapolis this Saturday, April 26th, at The Triple Rock Social Club. The band will likely play tracks from their new second album Chiaroscuro, out now. …

I BREAK HORSES
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Swedish indie rock band I Break Horses recently released Warnings via Bella Union. The duo (Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck) took their name from the song by Bill Callahan.

Despite being around since 2008, Warnings only marked the duo’s third album. Maria Lindén explains, “It has been some time in the making. About six years, involving several studios, collaborations that didn’t work out, a crashed hard drive with about two years of work, writing new material again instead of trying to repair it. New studio recordings, erasing everything, then recording most of the album myself at home…”

I Break Horses at Triple Rock (26 April 2014)

You might recall that we saw the band in April 2014 and noted that they had equipment failures, “As you can see from their setlist, they had wanted to play much longer, however, after "Berceuse" was played, they confessed that they could not get their synthesizer to work. The next song on their set ("Weigh True Words"), the synth was crucial to the song, so while the sound tech was trying to fix it, they had a few fans from the audience "tell jokes" on stage. Since they never got it to work, the band decided to just end their set with "Faith". With the late running time, the sound problem, they decided to also end their show with just one song for encore, instead of the intended two.”

JETSTREAM PONY
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Brighton and Croydon’s Jetstream Pony will be releasing their self-titled album on May 22, 2020, via Shelflife Records.

The band started their life with singer Beth Arzy and guitarist Shaun Charman from their former band The Fireworks . After recruiting bassist Kerry Boettcher on bass, and drummer Hannes Müller, they named their band after a retired racing greyhound.

Jetstream Pony’s self-titled debut studio album is set for release on vinyl and CD by Shelflife Records in the US and Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten in Germany. There might be a tour coming… but with the current COVID-19 climate, we’ll wait and see.

PALE HORSEMAN
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Chicago’s sludge doom metal band Pale Horseman is releasing their fifth album, For Dust Thou Art on 31 July 2020.

Pale Horseman are:

Rich Cygan -Bass (ex-Couldron)

Jason Schryver -Drums (Making Ghosts)

Eric Ondo -Guitars, Vocals (ex-Couldron, ex-Maimed, Johnny Vomit)

Andre Almaraz -Guitars, Vocals (Deepspacepilots, ex-Abortus, ex-Couldron, ex-Souls Demise, ex-Dogflesh)

MEGAN THEE STALLION
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Megan Thee Stallion (real name Megan Jovon Ruth Pete) first came to our attention when she appeared on hip-hop/rapper Tyga’s single “Freak”.

Now, Megan Thee Stallion recently teamed up with Diplo’s Major Lazer for a remix of her breakout single “Savage”. The original single is already Megan’s highest charting solo song.

Incidentally, there is also a “Savage Remix” (feat. Beyoncé), which benefited The Bread of Life, Inc. in downtown Houston in their response to Covid-19.

V.V. LIGHTBODY
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Chicago multi-instrumentalist V.V. Lightbody (aka Vivian McConnell) single single is called “Horse On Fire”.

Vivian McConnell explains, ““Horse on Fire” was initially written from a place of anger. I was pissed. It’s about someone in my life who did something almost unforgivable and then skipped town - not giving anyone time to understand what happened, heal, or forgive. How can you love someone who messed up like that? How did you not see this coming? “Horse on Fire” works through that feeling while also reflecting on the more tender moments of a deep friendship. “Horse on Fire” is the most indulgent track on Make a Shrine or Burn It: excessive saxophone, a disco-esque bass line, and a double Farfisa solo. I let this song be a loose cannon as a response to frustration, and that’s where the song wanted to go.”

The single is taken from V.V.’s album Make A Shrine Or Burn It.

JARROD DICKENSON
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Nashville, by the way of Texas, Jarrod Dickenson is returning with Ready The Horses (Hooked Records). The record comes out May 22, 2020.

The album was recorded live, straight to 2” tape in a studio on the southeast coast of England. It was inspired by the legendary music of Stax and Muscle Shoals in the ‘60s.

Dickenson was supposed to tour with The Bones of J.R. Jones and The Mastersons, but unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, dates were cancelled and postponed.

YETI ON HORSEBACK
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London Ontario’s Yeti on Horseback released their new song “Nothing”, over at No Clean Singing (nocleansinging.com).

The band said, “Since the release of 'The Great Dying' in 2016, we as a band have gone through member changes, birth, death and a plague, and still we were able to record 'Nothing' . 'Nothing' is bleak and unrelenting. It is the soundtrack to what is real in this human life: Misery, suffering and death. We are not special. We will not be remembered. Life is nothing.”

No Clean Singing wrote, “this group from London, Ontario, Canada, haven’t softened their stance or become mellower with the passing years. Their new single “Nothing“, which we’re premiering today, is stunningly dark and dauntingly massive, and dynamic in a way that only reveals different dimensions of devastation, shaking the earth and the soul in equal measure.”

VONN KISS & THE DARK HORSES
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Rising country music stand-out Vonn Kiss & The Dark Horses released their latest single “Struggle”. The single streamed over 140k on social media, and over 50k on Spotify and Apple Music.

“Struggle” was produced and co-written by Greg Archilla and stays true to Vonn’s signature classic country style. Vonn explains, “The song ‘Struggle’ is basically what it says for every artist out there just chasing a dream. It's trying to find a balance between living the dream, spending time with family and friends and the music business as a whole.”

The single is a glimpse of what we can expect from their highly anticipated album, set for a Fall 2020 release.

DEAD PONY
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Glasgow’s post-punk quartet Dead Pony (Anna Shields, Blair Crichton, Liam Adams, and Aidan McAllister) recently announced the arrival of their new song, “Everything Is Easy”. The song released on May 1, 2020, via LAB Records.

Frontwoman Anna Shield talked about the song, “‘Everything is Easy’ is a take on how simple childhood experiences can be soured as you grow older. Lyrically, we tried to capture that feeling of betrayal you feel as a young, naïve child when you find out Santa isn’t real or that your conception wasn’t via your Dad finding a snotter on the wall and raising it to become you. We came up with this idea after having discussed how ridiculous the things were we believed as children.”

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