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We♥KC- July 1-8, 2022 Upcoming Shows (Kansas City / Lawrence KS)

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This weekend it’s fireworks, picnics, barbecues, and summer heat- some additional heat and fireworks are supplied from upcoming concerts including the Arrowhead takeover of No Shoes Nation as Kenny Chesney and friends bring their big show to the fabled football stadium.

A couple arena shows, and some fine club/theater gigs make it a week to get out and support the return of live music.

Here’s what’s happening in the Kansas City/Lawrence, KS metro July 1^st – 8^th

(Several artists are still requiring precautions for entry, so check with the venue and/or assume vaccination proof, might still be required)

Friday July 1

Bright Eyes w Hurray for the Riff Raff, Uptown Theater, $42-$47

It’s been a busy year for Bright Eyes fans as leader Conor Oberst and group have re-released their first albums, alongside a newly recorded six-song EP for each, with the first batch of three, out last month. The last new album was 2020’s Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, which was their first in nine years.

With his core band on an extended hiatus, we caught Oberst solo as part of Rock the Garden 2015 and a memorable gig with Dawes both opening and serving as backup band, as well as his super-secret project with Phoebe Bridgers, Better Oblivion Community Center.

Be aware that vaxx proof is required and masks worn unless drinking. Hurray For the Riff Raff, the project of Alynda Segarra, opens the show who we’ve caught live with City and Colour and also as part of the Festival Palomino and has new album, Life on Earth to support.

Howard Hewett, Miki Howard and more, Music Hall, $61

A night of smooth and classic R&B – with performances by Hewett, Howard, Alexander O’Neal, Cherrelle, and Keith Washington and sounds by DJ Fresh.

Saturday July 2

Kenny Chesney w Dan + Shay, Old Dominion and Carly Pearce, Arrowhead Stadium. $40-$455

The big one! The 8-time CMA and Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year brings his Blue Chair Bay Rum Presents Here And Now 2022 Tour Fueled by Marathon to conquer Arrowhead, after selling out most shows since the trek began in late April.

This tour features 126 cutting edge overhead LED lights and a 220-foot-wide stage, with a strut into the sandbar area, with some nineteen trucks (sustainably down from 24) hauling everything across the country.

Support from rising female vocalist Carly Pearce, five-time ACM / four-time CMA Group of the Year Old Dominion and four-time GRAMMY winners Dan + Shay, make this a full evening and a true highlight of the summer concert season. Scattered storms are in the forecast, so pack a poncho.

Aldous Harding, Granada Lawrence. $22/$25

The beguiling New Zealand singer-songwriter returns with new song, “Old Peel” and new album Warm Chris, released in late March on 4AD. We caught her live most recently as a headliner in 2019 where we heard that new single, years before its eventual release.

Cardiff Wales singer-songwriter H Hawkline to open what will no doubt, be a very interesting show.

Tab Benoit, Knuckleheads, $35-$45

Louisiana-raised Delta Blues guitarist returns to the area with support from fellow guitarist and Deep Blues artist Lightnin Malcom to transform the venue into a true juke joint.

Liily, Bottleneck-Lawrence, $15-$18

Los Angeles alt-rock shoe gazers come to River City in support of debut record TV or Not TV. We caught the band live last fall in Minneapolis and wrote, “Singer, Dylan Nash, reminds me of a stoic Ian Brown, while the band, guitarist Sam De La Torre, bassist Charlie Anastasis, and drummer Maxx Morando, play post-punk, art-rock music.” Brooklyn’s Catcher, another new post-punk band, to open.

Sunday July 3

Todd Rundgren, Uptown, $39-$79

The prolific Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is out across America promoting his next album 'Space Force' on his Unpredictable Tour featuring band members Jesse Gress, Kasim Sulton, Prairie Prince and Gil Assayas. Rundgren spent much of last year on his The Individualist, A True Star tour performing a full side of his classic album A Wizard, A True Star plus a set of career-spanning hits, and he’s been entertaining every time we’ve seen him previous.

Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls w/The Bronx, Liberty Hall, $35-$50

UK folk punk singer-songwriter has emerged from the pandemic as more ambitious than anyone else touring – in support of new album FTHC, he'll play all 50 states this summer, calling it the 50 States in 50 Days tour, which does allow for a few days off, but not many, “Well, I've been unable to tour properly for a couple of years now, and always said that when I could get back to it I'd do it properly."

We caught him live in 2019 and KC / Missouri fans won’t be left out either, as he’s scheduled a free 30min in-store at Mills Record Co. in Westport, that afternoon before the Lawrence show. The Bronx and Pet Needs are support acts.

Dirty Heads with Soja, GrindersKC. $49.50-$90

Dirty Heads have announced their 2022 US headlining tour titled “Let’s Get It Kraken” featuring special guest SOJA running through August. Last summer, they released their The Best of Dirty Heads, featuring new collaborations with Travis Barker and Aimee of The Interrupters. Band guitarist Duddy B also co-hosts The Rome and Duddy Show on the Consequence Podcast Network and (of course) has a new line of CBD products launching.

Rod Wave and friends, T-Mobile Center, $49-$275

Rod Wave (aka Rodarius Marcell Green) dropped his third album, Beautiful Mind, ahead of this tour and is bringing along Moneybagg Yo, Big Latto, Sleazy & Friends, for this last show of the leg.

His first album, Ghetto Gospel, reached number ten on Billboard's Top 200, and second album 2020’s Pray 4 Love, peaked at number two. Recent audience fights at some East Coast shows have not stopped the momentum of this popular arena show.

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After the first few songs, the band is joined on stage by none other than Brandi Carlile! Carlile actually sang backup on many of Ray's songs, including the encores.

Monday July 4 (Independence Day)

Tuesday July 5

Wednesday July 6

Brandi Carlile w Tanya Tucker, Katie Pruitt, July 6, Starlight. $29.50-$175

Minneapolis developed into a strong market for the six-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter, performer, and author, and so we were happy to watch that develop- seeing her in small clubs in 2007, having her play two of the most crowded Leinie Stage nights ever then eventually graduating to the Grandstand at the MN State Fair, and also headlining at the Basilica Block Party.

Since then, it’s been even more success and the Beyond These Silent Days summer tour stops in Kansas City, and is bring along country legend Tanya Tucker, who collab’d on 2019 hit album While I’m Livin’ with Carlile and Shooter Jennings, and just finished its follow-up.

Nashville singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt to open, in support of 2020’s Expectations, and who also recently released a couple of vintage Neil Young covers.

Thursday July 7

Strfkr with The Undercover Dream Lovers, and Das Kope, Granada. $27

Being No One, Going Nowhere is the title of the new fourth album with band leader Joshua Hodges considering it an invitation to get blissfully insignificant. That’s what he aimed to do when he exiled himself to the desert to create this record. And you’ve never heard Cyndi Lauper’s signature hit song live until you’ve heard the Portland indie band ‘s version of it.

Openers The Undercover Dream Lovers are the brainchild of LA-based psych indie DIY artist Matt Koenig, known for tracks "Good Luck" and "Come Home" and full-length album It's All in Your Head.

Das Kope is a LA-based, Brazilian born, visual artist/musician whose debut album ‘Where I Live’, was self-released in 2020

Chris Isaak and Lyle Lovett, Starlight. $35-$159.50

Platinum-selling, GRAMMY-nominated musician and actor Isaak and four-time GRAMMY-winning singer, composer, and actor Lovett and his Large Band combine forces for a formidable double bill.

Isaak's best-known song is "Wicked Game," and he has acted in several films, also starring in his own TV series while Lovett, who also acts, has recorded thirteen albums since his debut in 1986. Live reports are that Lovett has stepped in for a song in Isaak’s set, which we love the interplay on a bill like this with two such respected longtime artists.

Bobby Rush, Knuckleheads, $20-$35

Blues Hall of Famer, six-time Grammy nominee, and 13-time Blues Music Award winner Rush has been making records for nearly 70 years, has more than 400 recordings, 75 career releases, 27 studio albums, and has an autobiography just out.

Rush, who is 87, is not done yet. 2020 album Rawer Than Raw was an all-acoustic effort that paid tribute to the blues history of Mississippi and won Best Traditional Blues Album.

July 8 Machine Gun Kelly T-Mobile Center.

Friday July 8

Machine Gun Kelly with Avril Lavigne and Iann Dior, T-Mobile Center. $29.50-$129.50

On top of the charts (and gossip columns with partner Megan Fox) album Mainstream Sellout released in March featuring singles “Ay” with Lil Wayne, “Emo Girl” with WILLOW, and “maybe” featuring Bring Me The Horizon.

His 52-stop first arena headlining tour includes special guests Avril Lavigne (who’s on a big comeback herself) and iann dior for this stop. MGK has amassed over 15.5 billion streams online, selling over 10 million album units, and we caught him before his big breakout success, opening for Imagine Dragons at a 2018 Super Bowl week show.

Ozark Mountain Daredevils w Kentucky Headhunters, Uptown Theater, $25-$75

With hits that include "Jackie Blue" and "If You Want To Get To Heaven," the Springfield, MO-based Daredevils have sold more than two million records since their early 70’s formation. Support from country rockers The Kentucky Headhunters and The Comancheros.

Man Man, Bottleneck, $20

Philly experimental rockers return in support of 2020’s trippy Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between and even had a song in the Cyberpunk 2077 game. Live, when we saw them in 2015, it was uniquely a bit hard to define, saying you should just experience it, and we think the new show is probably similar. LA duo Hard Tays Night to open.

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05/25/2022

We♥KC - May 25-31, 2022 Upcoming Shows (Kansas City / Lawrence KS)

Dying Fetus, Granada

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The Dying Fetus and Thy Art Is Murder co-headlining tour started a few days ago... and they’ll be in town this March 22nd at the Skyway Theatre in Minneapolis. …

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Coming up on the Memorial Day holiday weekend slows things down a bit, but the month ends on an exclamation, with another hard decision on which show to attend.

Don’t think there’s an overabundance of musical panhandlers in Lawrence this weekend either, it’s the annual Busker Festival downtown, or there’s always that Top Gun sequel (35+ years later!) at the cinema.

Here’s what’s happening in the Kansas City/Lawrence, KS metro MAY 24-31

(Several artists are still requiring precautions for entry, so check with the venue and/or assume vaccination proof and possibly a mask, might still be required)

Wednesday May 25

Dying Fetus with Chelsea Grin, Bodysnatcher more, May 25, Granada. $27.50

Maryland death-metal rockers will bring the heavy to LFK as part of the back half of a 33-date tour. It’s been since 2017 since their last album, but they are promising new music later this year.

Chelsea Grin is Salt Lake City deathcore, while FL band Bodysnatcher has new album, Bleed-Abide, out now.

Starset, May 25, Truman, $25-$50

The Ohio electronic/prog metal band has been around a decade now, out on their Horizons Tour from the album of the same name. The tour starts in KC with support from Red, Fame on Fire, and Smash into Pieces for a full evening of cutting-edge rock.

George Lopez, Prairie Band Casino- Mayetta

Thursday May 26

George Lopez (comedian), May 26, Prairie Band Casino- Mayetta, SOLD OUT

The longtime Latino comedian returns to the road with a new tour, another TV series on the way, and a role in DC’s upcoming Blue Beetle movie.

A Place to Bury Strangers, Bottleneck- Lawrence

Friday May 27

A Place to Bury Strangers w SONA May 27, Bottleneck- Lawrence, $18-$20

The Brooklyn noise rock band has new album, See Through You, just out with frontman Oliver Ackermann still leading the band despite recent lineup changes.

Arrive early for Tampa, FL synth-rock openers Glove, who have a new album, Boom Nights, out now and hearken back to the modern goth nu-wave dystopian bliss of late ‘80s bands (that we like!).

5/25 update: Glove is experiencing transportation issues so is likely off the tour for the next few stops, including this one. :( Local shoegaze, post-punk band SONA will be opening.

Mewithoutyou, May 27, Granada. $30

After over two decades, the Philadelphia indie-rock band is calling it a day, out on their Farewell Tour. Spoken-word vocals are often very spiritual in theme and the band has seven studio albums under their belt.

Saturday May 28

Animal Collective, The Truman

Animal Collective w Spirit of the Beehive, May 28, The Truman, POSTPONED

5/27 Update: Show now Postponed for Covid-related reasons.

The Baltimore experimental pop art band is back on the road on their Time Skiffs Tour, named after their Feb-released new album, which featured the return of member Deakin, who had sat out the previous release. We last saw them at the Desert Daze Fest in 2019.

Opening on this solid double-bill is Philadelphia’s Spirit of the Beehive, supporting fourth album, Entertainment, Death, which came out last summer and they play somewhat similar psychedelic, experimental pop rock.

Still Woozy, May 28, Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland. $39.50

Bay Area (by way of Portland) bedroom dream pop artist is fresh from playing both weekends at last month’s Coachella in support of his 2021 Interscope release, If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is.

Bastille, Uptown Theater

Sunday May 29

Bastille, May 29, Uptown Theater, $39.50-$75

We’re fans of this London electro-pop band whose newest record, Give Me The Future, came out in Feb. and they broke out with early single, “Pompeii”. We caught them live back in 2016 in MN, headlining a multi-act radio show and have been impressed ever since.

The new album is a bit of a concept record so expect interludes during the live show, along with previous hits, including “Happier” which was a smash Marshmello collaboration.

Texas indie singer-songwriter Sarah Jaffe is support for this first leg of the tour. Golden Aquarians is a project done with longtime drummer Roberto Sanchez and they released the new Night Drive just last month. She's worked on numerous soundtracks as well but might be best known for co-writing and singing on Eminem's "Bad Guy". We were talking about her ten years ago, back when she was fronting a band called The Dividends.

5/27 Update: Sarah Jaffee is unable to join the tour "due to family emergency"

Young Oklahoma multi-instrumentalist Josh Fudge now tapped to open.

Tori Amos, KC Music Hall

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Phoebe Bridgers, Starlight

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Monday May 30 (Memorial Day)

Tuesday May 31

Tori Amos, May 31, KC Music Hall, $46-$86

The piano songstress has returned, out on her Ocean to Ocean Tour supporting her sixteenth studio album. Written during lockdown in Cornwall, it reflects the isolation and then trying to renew yourself feeling of the current times. Amos usually changes it up slightly night to night, but expect some (but not all) of the hits, a solo portion, and a lively encore with maybe a cover version mixed in. We last saw her twice back in 2014.

Phoebe Bridgers, May 31, Starlight, $39.50-$69.50

Consider us big fans of California indie-rock darling Bridgers, still out on her Reunion Tour, in support of 2020’s acclaimed Punisher album, though she has released some new songs since, including last month’s “Sidelines” from the Conversations with Friends soundtrack.

Bridgers also keeps herself busy with side projects boygenius (w/ Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus) and the super-secret Better Oblivion Community Center (w/Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst) who we were thrilled to catch live back in 2019.

She’s also founded her own record label, Saddest Factory and arrive early to see one of her first signees and childhood friend, Charlie Hickey perform in support of his EP, Count the Stairs and now first full-length, Nervous at Night, just out last week (and who might just join Phoebe on stage for a song, skeleton one-sie optional).

Girl Ultra, May 31, Bottleneck. $20

The Mexican R&B/pop artist had her first full length, Nuevos Aires released in 2019 and draws influences from Beyonce/Destiny’s Child and recently played huge outdoor festival stages in Chile, Mexico and Argentina, so within the relatively small confines of the Granada might be a rare treat.

Suffocation, May 31, Granada. $20

Out on their Forces of Hostility Tour, the technical death metal band put out a second live album, Live in North America, late last year. Atheist, Soreption, and Contrarian round out this early show and full evening of head banging.

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03/07/2022

Minneapolis: March 23 to March 25

03/23 Bright Eyes with Christian Lee Hutson at Palace Theatre

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07/23/2019

Minneapolis: July 28 to July 31, 2019

Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from July 28 to July 31, 2019.

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Tame Impala at Palace Theatre

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+ Velvet Negroni
Surly Brewing Co. Festival Field
Tue 07/30/2019 (4:30pm/$55/Sold Out)
Wed 07/31/2019 (4:30pm/$55/Sold Out)
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Australian psychedelic group Tame Impala is doing some selective U.S. Summer Music Festival (having just played Coachella)… and they are headlining a couple of Surly Brewing Festival (at the Surly Brewing Co. Festival Field). Both shows have sold out.

We last saw the group at Desert Daze 2018, they only played a few songs: “Tame Impala started their set off strong with the groovy tune Nangs off of 2015’s al-bum Currents. Let it Happen was next, and from the pit I heard the eruption of “Whoa” and “Wow’s” from the crowd, and at first it seemed like it was maybe in response to the trippy background effects behind lead singer Kevin Parker. I quickly realized it was the sky illuminating with lightning bolts above us. Sure enough, halfway through Sundown Syndrome (ironic much), a producer came out and announced that they had to stop. Kevin kind of shrugged and said “I guess we gotta stop.” and they all ran off the stage.”

Velvet Negroni to open.

Tour dates:

July 19-21 - Splendour In The Grass - Wooyung
July 26 - Budweiser Stage - Toronto, Ontario
July 27 & 28 - Mo Pop - Detroit, MI
July 30 & 31 - Surly Brewing - Minneapolis, MN
August 01-04 - Lollapalooza - Chicago, IL
August 13 - Parkbühne Wuhlheide – Berlin
August 08 - Oya Fest - Oslo
August 09 - Flow Festival - Helsinki, FINLAND
August 14 - Pukkelpop - Hasselt, BELGIUM
August 15 - La Route Du Rock - Rennes, FRANCE
August 16 - Lowlands Festival - Walibi Holland
August 21 - Madison Square Garden - New York, NY
August 23 - The Mann Center - Philadelphia, PA
August 24 - The Anthem - Washington D.C.

Other shows in the area:

Music in the Zoo 2019

Hibou at 7th Street

New Years Day at Amsterdam Bar

Altin Gun at Turf Club

Tenacious D at Palace Theatre

Tessa Violet 2019 Tour

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Tenacious D

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+ Joanna Sternberg
Weesner Family Amphitheater
Sun 07/28/2019 (7pm/$46)
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Conor Oberst (aka Bright Eyes) is the next musical guest at the Music In the Zoo series. Oberst was recently in town on Mar 2019 as Better Oblivion Community Center (the collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers), which we wrote, “We may only be a few months into the year, but Better Oblivion Community Center seems like rock’s current hottest ticket, and with good reason. Though most shows have been upgraded (still subsequently selling out) this is one “meeting” worth chasing a ticket for, and attending at your local “community center”.”

Joanna Sternberg to open.

Tour dates:

7/20/19 - Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater
7/21/19 - Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall
7/23/19 - Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell's Beer Garden
7/24/19 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
7/25/19 - Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre
7/26/19 - Bloomington, IN @ The Castle Theatre
7/27/19 - Maquoketa, IA @ Codfish Hollow Barn
7/28/19 - Minneapolis, MN @ Weesner Family Amph

HIBOU
+ Why Not, Immaculate Beings
7th St Entry
Mon 07/29/2019 (7pm/$12)
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Seattle indie-pop singer Hibou (the project of musician Peter Michel) will be headlining the 7th St Entry in support of their upcoming album Halve (July 26th via Barsuk Records).

Why Not and Trevor DeVine & The Immaculate Beings (billed as The Immaculate Beings) will open.

Tour Dates:

07/24/2019 Chop Suey Seattle, WA
07/29/2019 7th St Entry Minneapolis, MN
08/04/2019 Ortlieb's Jazz House Philadelphia, PA
08/05/2019 Cafe Nine New Haven, CT
08/06/2019 The Mercury Lounge New York, NY
08/10/2019 New Orleans, LA
08/14/2019 Rebel Lounge Phoenix, AZ

NEW YEARS DAY
+ Diamante, Savage After Midnight
Amsterdam Bar and Hall
Mon 07/29/2019 (7pm/$18)
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New Years Day is headlining the Amsterdam Bar and Hall on Monday, July 29th. The show was a rescheduled show, so if you had tickets to the original July 15th date at the Fine Line Music Café - those tickets will be honored at this Amsterdam Bar show.

Tour Dates

07/23 - New York, NY - Beacon Theatre
07/24 - Oxon Hill, MD - MGM Nataional Harbor
07/26 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Casino
07/29 - Minneapolis, MN - Amsterdam
08/02 - Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheater
08/03 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
08/05 - Sacramento, CA - Holy Diver
09/06 - North Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues
09/10 - Dothan, AL - The Plant
09/12 - Houston, TX / House of Blues
09/13 - Corpus Christi, TX - Concrete Street
09/15 - San Antonio, TX - Aztec Theater
09/27 - Louisville, KY - Louder Than Life
09/28 - Greensboro, NC - Greensboro Coliseum

ALTIN GÜN
Thunderbolt Pagoda, DJ Lodos
Turf Club
Tue 07/30/2019 (7pm/$15)
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Psychedelic Turkish folk rock group Altin Gün are on their first-ever U.S. tour… stopping by the Turf Club on July 30th. The group’s sophomore album Gece is out now on ATO Records.

Tour dates:

7/22 - Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
7/24 - Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
7/25 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
7/26 – Kingston, NY @ The Anchor
7/27 - Washington, DC @ Rock 'n' Roll Hotel
7/29 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
7/30 - Minneapolis, MN @ TURF Club
8/03 & 8/04 - Portland, OR @ Pickathon
8/05 - Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
8/08 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
8/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theater
8/10 - San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands

TENACIOUS D
+ Wynchester
Palace Theatre
Tue 07/30/2019 (6:30pm/$59.50/Sold Out)
Wed 07/31/2019 (6:30pm/$59.50/Sold Out)
palacestpaul.com

Comedy rockers Tenacious D (featuring actors/comedians Kyle Gass and Jack Black) is stopping by the Palace Theatre in St Paul, as part of their “Tenacious D In Post-Apocalypto The Tour 2019” this July 30 and 31. Both dates are sold out.

Wynchester to open.

Tour Dates

7/25/19 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheater
7/27/19 Kansas City, MO Starlight Theater
7/28/19 Lincoln, NE Pinewood Bowl Theater
7/30/19 Saint Paul, MN Palace Theatre
7/31/19 Saint Paul, MN Palace Theatre
8/2/19 St. Louis, MO Stifel Theatre
8/3/19 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
8/4/19 Nashville, TN Ascend Amphitheater
8/5/19 Atlanta, GA Coca Cola Roxy Theatre
9/28/19 Rio de Janerio, Brazil Rock In Rio
10/1/19 Bogotá, Colombia El Campin Stadium
10/15/19 New Orleans, LA The Fillmore
10/16/19 Houston, TX Revention Music Center
10/17/19 Austin, TX ACL Live*
10/19/19 Dallas, TX The Bomb Factory
10/20/19 Oklahoma City, OK The Criterion
10/21/19 Tulsa, OK Brady Theater
10/23/19 Phoenix, AZ Comerica Theatre
10/25/19 San Francisco, CA The Masonic
10/26/19 Reno, NV Grand Theatre
10/27/19 Santa Barbara, CA Arlington Theatre
10/29/19 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern

TESSA VIOLET
+ Chloe Lilac
7th St Entry
Wed 07/31/2019 (7:30pm/$15/Sold Out)
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Indie pop singer and YouTube star Tessa Violet will be stopping by the 7th Street Entry on July 31st. The show is sold out. This will be her first headlining tour.

17-year-old Chloe Lilac to open.

Tour dates:

July 25-Boise, ID- Neurolux
July 27 - Fort Collins, CO - Hodi's Half Note
July 28- Denver, CO - UMS Festival
July 30- Omaha, NE - Slowdown
July 31- Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry
August 2 – Chicago, IL- Lollapalooza
August 5 – Columbus, OH - The Basement
August 7 - Cleveland Heights. OH - Grog Shop
August 9 – Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair
August 10- Providence, RI - Alchemy
August 11-Hamden, CT- The Ballroom
August 13 – Brooklyn, NY - Baby's All Right
August 14- Philadelphia, PA - Voltage Lounge
August 15 – Washington, DC - Rock & Roll Hotel
August 16- Durham. NC - Motorco Music Hall
August 17 – Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
August 20- Orlando, FL- The Social
August 21- Tampa, FL- The Crowbar
August 22 – Gainesville, FL - High Dive
August 23 – Jacksonville, FL - Jack Rabbits
August 24 – Pensacola, FL - Vinyl Music Hall
August 27 – Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
August 2 – Austin, TX- Stubb's Indoors
August 29 – Dallas, TX- Cambridge Room
September 3- Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar
September 4 - San Diego, CA - Voodoo Room
September 5- Santa Ana, CA- Constellation Room

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03/25/2019

Better Oblivion Community Center at First Avenue, Minneapolis (22 March 2019)

Better Oblivion Community Center at First Ave

Better Oblivion Community Center Setlist

My City
Big Black Heart
Sleepwalkin’
Forest Lawn
Dylan Thomas
Bad Blood (Bright Eyes song)
Exception to the Rule
Service Road
Little Trouble
Chesapeake
Can't Hardly Wait (The Replacements cover)
Lua (Bright Eyes song)
Funeral (Phoebe Bridgers song)
Didn't Know What I Was in For

-- Encore --
Scott Street (Phoebe Bridgers song)
Easy/Lucky/Free (Bright Eyes song)
Dominos

Lala Lala Setlist

intro song
Siren 042
Water Over Sex
F**k With Your Friends
Spy
Lala Song
Copycat
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When You Die
?
Slip Away (Perfume Genius cover)
Destroyer
See You at Home

Better Oblivion Community Center Meetings

23-Mar Chicago - Lincoln Hall
24-Mar Chicago - Lincoln Hall
25-Mar Cleveland - Agora Theater
26-Mar Pittsburgh - Mr Smalls
28-Mar Boston - The Sinclair
29-Mar New York - Bowery Ballroom
30-Mar Brooklyn - Music Hall of Williamsburg
31-Mar Providence - Columbus Theater
01-Apr Brooklyn - Brooklyn Steel
02-Apr Philadelphia - Union Transfer
03-Apr Washington DC - Black Cat
04-Apr Carrboro - Cat's Cradle
05-Apr Asheville - Grey Eagle
06-Apr Atlanta - Terminal West
07-Apr Nashville - Cannery Ballroom
09-Apr Austin - Stubbs
10-Apr Dallas - Trees
12-Apr Santa Fe - Meow Wolf
13-Apr Phoenix - Crescent Ballroom
29-Apr Helsinki - Tavastia
01-May Oslo - Rockefeller
02-May Stockholm - Berns
03-May Copenhagen - Vega
05-May Berlin - Columbia Theater
06-May Cologne - Kantine
07-May Amsterdam - Paradiso
08-May Antwerp - De Roma
10-May Bristol - Academy
11-May London - Shepherd's Bush Empire
12-May Manchester - Ritz
13-May Dublin - Vicar Street
09-Aug Los Angeles - The Wiltern

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Conor Oberst

Phoebe Bridgers

In the age of the internet and social media, it's incredibly hard to keep a big secret, but that's just what singers Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers pulled off …

Lala Lala

Chicago’s Lala Lala (Lillie West, Karla Bernasconi, Abby Black) opened up the show. The band had a DIY girl rock sound to them and their music seemed to fit in really well with the Girlpool audience. …

Before it was First Avenue, it was a danceteria called Uncle Sam’s, and before that, a Greyhound bus station, but for one night only, the venue was transformed into a community center for a long sold-out “meeting”--

The occasion was the first area performance from Better Oblivion Community Center, a new project teaming singer-songwriters Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers, and who defied modern odds by forming the group and recording and releasing their album, completely by surprise.

After first announcing at the Fine Line Music Cafe, the show sold out immediately (a similar story in other major cities) and then was upgraded to the bigger Mainroom at First Avenue… which completely sold out immediately as well. The “meeting” was a hot ticket.

The first act of three to take the stage was singer/songwriter Christian Lee Hutson. Hutson is a Los Angeles-based musician, just releasing a new single, ‘Northsiders’ (which Bridgers produced) from his upcoming third full-length, which will be his first in five years. Hutson, who has played with Bridgers and Jenny Lewis, did double-duty, playing also in BOCC and charmed the crowd with his well-thought out acoustic songs and deadpan humor.

In addition to the new single, Hutson (who pricked up local ears by appearing along with Bridgers at last year’s Eaux Claires Festival) lightly introduced another song by explaining it was about some friends of his that had formed a band, and bought all the latest gear, but would never leave their mother’s garage, to actually go and play a live show somewhere.

Chicago indie-rock trio Lala Lala was next, in support of last September’s full-length The Lamb (on Hardly Art Records) and a just-released new single, ‘Siren 042’, a collaboration with WHY? The band, led by Lillie West, had just played the next-door 7^th Street Entry at the end of January, and we’d seen them last with Girlpool in late 2017.

The band’s downtempo sound amid often dark lyrics is still evolving and hearing the new single early in the set, helped prove that. West reminisced after playing it, about coming to Minneapolis just after forming the band, and playing a memorable house party, marked by someone casually walking around in a Mozart costume.

Their namesake ‘Lala Song’ was played mid-set with its repeated lyric, “I'm not even listening, you're not even nothing” effectively shutting down a lot of random crowd chatter and the threesome even managed to work in a Perfume Genius cover towards the end of their forty minutes.

Entering in front of a backdrop painted to look like a patio area and smoking deck with the ominous phrase “it will end in tears” at the top, Better Oblivion Community Center entered to begin their eighty-minute headlining set. A calming taped voice intro’d the concert, welcoming everyone to a “celebration of sound and light- We are one”, the voice reassured us. “Confusion is overrated, truth can be fun” the voice continued before the band turned their volume up, re-shuffling their setlist from recent shows, to open with ‘My City’ (which would have been more suitable if it opened their previous show, in Oberst’s Omaha).

It was immediately apparent, that the meshing of these two alternative voices, he of Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos, and The Faint among others, over the last two decades and she the Los Angeles-based buzzing solo artist, who also made a recent splash with trio boygenius, was a harmonic match in indie-heaven. The music moved from traditional alt and indie-rock to touches of country, folk, fuzz, and even electro, resulting in a sound that was often different from anything each other had previously released individually.

The band is out playing these “meetings” in support of their eponymous debut album (on Dead Oceans Records) and after a building ‘Forest Lawn’ (“You used to say you wanted to end up in Forest Lawn, the two of us side by side asleep“) things really picked up with the album’ first single, ‘Dylan Thomas’.

From there, not only was almost all of the new record played, they also dipped into each other’s catalogs, beginning with 2002’s ‘Bad Blood’ which Bridgers ended up mostly singing. Things became a bit laid back for the electro ‘Exception to the Rule’ as lights dimmed further and Oberst leaned back on a low beach chair as red and white beach balls were tossed around the room.

A brisk and authentic mid-’80s Replacements cover version (hinted at in the previous song played ‘Chesapeake’ with its lyric, “I can’t hardly wait for someone to replace”) seemed perfect played from the same stage the originals did it so many times, followed by a tender ‘Lua’, a song Oberst and Bridgers would often duet together during his Ruminations Tour, when she opened for him. Oberst took lead for the Bridgers solo song, ‘Funeral’ and the five-piece would complete the main set with ‘Didn't Know What I Was in For’, the first song they wrote together and the new album’s opener.

Things were switched up again on the three-song encore, beginning with Oberst taking the lead on Bridgers’ own ‘Scott Street’ and both traded verses on a 2005 Bright Eyes song, with Bridgers singing at her loudest, by song’s end. ‘Dominos’, the new album’s closer, would also finish the evening, reassuring all in that community center way, that “if you’re not feeling ready, there’s always tomorrow.”

We may only be a few months into the year, but Better Oblivion Community Center seems like rock’s current hottest ticket, and with good reason. Though most shows have been upgraded (still subsequently selling out) this is one “meeting” worth chasing a ticket for, and attending at your local “community center”.

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Christian Lee Hutson

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Better Oblivion Community Center Setlist

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Better Oblivion Community Center at First Avenue, Minneapolis (22 March 2019)

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03/13/2019

Minneapolis: March 21 to March 23, 2019

Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from March 21 to March 23, 2019.

Read more: Minneapolis Music Guide.

Oh Pep! 2019 Tour

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Oh Pep!

Australian duo Oh Pep! (Olivia Hally and Pepita Emerichs) will be headlining the Cedar Cultural Center next Tuesday, July 12th, in support of their debut album Stadium Cake (out now on Dualtone). ....

OH PEP!
+ Naia Izumi
7th St Entry
Sat 03/23/2019 (8pm/$15)
first-avenue.com

Oh Pep! (short for Olivia “Oh” Hally and Pepita “Pep” Emerichs) will be back in Minneapolis, at the 7th Street Entry this Saturday, March 23rd. The Australian duo’s new album I Wasn't Only Thinking About You... is out now on ATO Records.

We caught the band a few times, on tour for their debut record Stadium Cake in July 2016 and, again, in Feb 2017, writing, “The evening began with a playful and sublime forty-minute set from Melbourne, Australia folk duo, Oh Pep! (aka Pepita Emmerichs and Olivia Hally) who released their debut, Stadium Cake last June on Dualtone Records. Their blend of harmonic pop (with Hally on guitar and Emmerichs alternating between mandolin, bouzouki and violin) has proved irresistible and is recommended for fans of Indigo Girls and First Aid Kit, with a tender and relaxed sound to their music, the new album recorded in Nova Scotia.”

Crowned winner of the 2018 Tiny Desk contest Naia Izumi to open.

Tour Dates:

03/15 - Great Scott - Allston, MA
03/20 - El Club - Detroit, MI
03/21 - Schuba's - Chicago, IL
03/22 - Back Room - Milwaukee, WI
03/23 - 7th St. Entry - Minneapolis, MN
03/24 - The Raccoon Motel - Davenport, IA
03/25 - Reverb - Omaha, NE

Other shows in the area:

Quinn XCII 2019 Tour

Tori Kelly at Palace Theatre

Better Oblivion Community Center at First Ave

Mark Mallman at 7th Street Entry

Ghost Light at Turf Club

Stephen Kellogg at Turf Club

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Tori Kelly

The girl with the big hair, and potentially as big future, Tori Kelly comes to The Varsity in Minneapolis for what will no doubt be a sold out show as part of her Where I Belong tour. One of MTV’s Artists to Watch …

Conor Oberst

Mark Mallman

Did you miss Mark Mallman’s double appearances at the Icehouse last March 25th and 26th? No problem, catch him again at the Icehouse this upcoming Saturday, July 9th. …

QUINN XCII
+ Ashe
Myth
Thu 03/21/2019 (7pm/$28)
mythlive.com

Genre-bending artist Quinn XCII will be headlining the Myth on Thursday, March 21st, as part of his “From Michigan With Love” tour.

Tour dates:

03/14/2019 20 Monroe Live Grand Rapids, MI
03/15/2019 The Fillmore Detroit Detroit, MI
03/19/2019 The Pageant St. Louis, MO
03/20/2019 Riviera Theatre Chicago, IL
03/21/2019 Myth Saint Paul, MN
03/23/2019 Fillmore Auditorium Denver, CO
03/26/2019 Revolution Concert House Garden City, ID
03/29/2019 Showbox SoDo Seattle, WA
03/31/2019 McMenamins Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR
04/02/2019 Ace Of Spades Sacramento, CA
04/03/2019 The Masonic San Francisco, CA
04/06/2019 The Wiltern Los Angeles, CA
04/09/2019 Comerica Theatre Phoenix, AZ
04/12/2019 South Side On Lamar Dallas, TX
04/12/2019 South Side Ballroom Dallas, TX
04/13/2019 House Of Blues Houston, TX
04/17/2019 Austin, TX
06/15/2019 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
06/23/2019 Firefly Music Festival

TORI KELLY
Palace Theatre
Thu 03/21/2019 (7pm/$18)
palacestpaul.com

Tori Kelly is currently on her “Acoustic Sessions” tour and she’ll be stopping by the Palace Theatre in St Paul on March 21st.

Tour dates:

3/14 Seattle WA Paramount Theatre
3/16 Vancouver BC Queen Elizabeth
3/17 Portland OR Crystal Ballroom
3/19 Denver CO Paramount
3/21 St. Paul MN The Palace
3/22 Omaha NE Holland
3/24 Kansas City MO Midland Theatre
3/26 St. Louis MO The Pageant
3/28 Indianapolis IN Murat Theatre
3/29 Columbus OH Express Live
3/31 Toronto ON Roy Thomas Hall
4/2 Boston MA House of Blues
4/3 Brooklyn NY Kings Theatre
4/5 Philadelphia PA The Fillmore
4/6 Lynchburg VA Liberty University
4/9 St. Petersburg FL Mahaffrey Theater
4/10 Orlando FL Hard Rock Live
4/13 New Orleans LA The Fillmore

BETTER OBLIVION COMMUNITY CENTER
+ Lala Lala, Christian Lee Hutson
First Avenue
Fri 03/22/2019 (7pm/$25)
first-avenue.com

In the age of the internet and social media, it's incredibly hard to keep a big secret, but that's just what singers Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers pulled off, recording a secret album and debuting a brand new band called Better Oblivion Community Center.

The band was originally booked locally at the Fine Line Music Cafe, which immediately sold out (like most of their tour), then was upgraded to the larger Mainroom at First Avenue... which immediately sold out. First single, "Dylan Thomas" is burning up the alternative airwaves. Book a "meeting" if you can.

Better Oblivion Community Center Meetings

19-Mar Salt Lake City - Metro Bar
20-Mar Denver - Gothic Theatre
21-Mar Omaha - Slowdown
22-Mar Minneapolis - First Ave
23-Mar Chicago - Lincoln Hall
24-Mar Chicago - Lincoln Hall
25-Mar Cleveland - Agora Theater
26-Mar Pittsburgh - Mr Smalls
28-Mar Boston - The Sinclair
29-Mar New York - Bowery Ballroom
30-Mar Brooklyn - Music Hall of Williamsburg
31-Mar Providence - Columbus Theater
01-Apr Brooklyn - Brooklyn Steel
02-Apr Philadelphia - Union Transfer
03-Apr Washington DC - Black Cat
04-Apr Carrboro - Cat's Cradle
05-Apr Asheville - Grey Eagle
06-Apr Atlanta - Terminal West
07-Apr Nashville - Cannery Ballroom
09-Apr Austin - Stubbs
10-Apr Dallas - Trees
12-Apr Santa Fe - Meow Wolf
13-Apr Phoenix - Crescent Ballroom

MARK MALLMAN
+ 26 Bats!, Gabe Barnett
7th St Entry
Fri 03/22/2019 (8pm/$12)
first-avenue.com

We love local singer/songwriter Mark Mallman.

Mallman wrote a book called The Happiness Playlist (Think Piece Publishing) and he’ll be playing songs and promoting the book on Friday, March 22nd at the 7th Street Entry.

GHOST LIGHT
Turf Club
Fri 03/22/2019 (7:30pm/$15)
turfclub.net

The secrect’s out: Ghost Light, featuring guitarists/singers Tom Hamilton and Raina Mullen, pianist Holly Bowling, bassist Dan Africano, and drummer Scotty Zwang, will be stopping by the Turf Club in St Paul on Friday, March 22nd, in support of their debut album Best Kept Secrets.

Tour dates:

3/20 - Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
3/21 - Milwaukee, WI - Colectivo
3/22 - St. Paul, MN - Turf Club
3/23 - Chicago, IL - Chop Shop
3/25 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown
3/27 - Frisco, CO - 10 Mile Music Hall
3/28 - Crested Butte, CO - Center for the Arts
3/29 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
3/30 - Denver, CO - Cervantes
4/2 - Kansas City, MO - Knuckleheads
4/4 - Austin, TX - Antone’s
4/5 - Dallas, TX - Deep Ellum Art Company
4/6 - Houston, TX - Last Concert Café
4/9 - Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge
4/10 - St. Louis, MO - Old Rock House
4/11 - Columbus, OH - Woodlands Tavern
4/12 - Louisville, KY - Zanzabar
4/13 - Covington, KY - Madison Live
4/16 - Nashville, TN - Basement East
4/17 - Asheville, NC - Asheville Music Hall
4/18 - Charleston, SC - Pour House
4/20 - Charlotte, NC - Visulite Theatre
4/27 - New Orleans, LA - Republic NOLA
5/10 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl
5/24 - 5/26 - Chillicothe, IL - Summer Camp Music Festival
6/6 - 6/8 - Wellston, MI - Camp Greensky Music Festival
6/27 - 6/30 - Rothbury, MI - Electric Forest Festival
7/18 - 7/21 - North Plains, OR - Northwest String Summit
7/25 - 7/28 - Scranton, PA - Peach Music Festival

STEPHEN KELLOGG
+ Pete Muller
Turf Club
Sat 03/23/2019 (7pm/$20)
turfclub.net

Stephen Kellogg (formerly of Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, who we wrote about in 2011) will be doing a solo appearance at the Turf Club on Saturday, March 23. Kellogg’s new album Objects In The Mirror is out now via Kellogg Family Store.

Tour dates:

03/20 — Music Box Supper Club — Cleveland, OH
03/21 — The Ark — Ann Arbor, MI
03/22 — Lincoln Hall — Chicago, IL
03/23 — Turf Club — St. Paul, MN
03/25 — The Bartlett — Spokane, WA
03/26 — Triple Door — Seattle, WA
03/27 — Wonder Ballroom — Portland, OR
03/28 — Swedish American Hall — San Francisco, CA
03/29 — Bootleg Theater — Los Angeles, CA
04/06 — Bluebird Theater — Denver, CO
04/09 — Sons Of Hermann Hall — Dallas, TX
04/10 — 3TEN ACL Live — Austin, TX
04/12 — The Basement — Nashville, TN
04/13 — Red Clay Music Foundry — Atlanta, GA
04/14 — NPR Mountain Stage — Charleston, WV
04/16 — Radio Radio — Indianapolis, IN
04/17 — The Soundry — Baltimore, MD
04/18 — The Barns at Wolf Trap — Washington, DC
04/19 — The Sinclair — Boston, MA
04/20 — White Eagle Music Hall — Jersey City, NJ

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08/21/2017

Minneapolis: September 1 to September 7, 2017

Here are some concerts taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from September 1 to September 7, 2017.

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Dent May

Dent May knows he sorta-kinda-maybe sounds like Jens Lekman, thank you very much. He also gets the Stephen Merritt reference, and although the mild-mannered Mississippi native is flattered by the association, …

Suzie

And also local artist Suzie, aka Mark Ritsema, with his new album Born Single. Tour Dates 10/04 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street ....

DENT MAY
at 7th Street Entry
Friday 09/01/2017 (8pm/$10)
first-avenue.com

Dent May is headlining the 7th Street Entry on Friday, September 1st, in support of his new record Across The Multiverse (Carpark Records).

The record is described as being written and recorded in a sunny bedroom in Los Angeles’ Highland Park neighborhood, with Dent producing and playing nearly every instrument himself.

Suzie and Devata Daun (aka Nikki Pfeifer) to open.

Dent May 2017 Tour

8/23: Rickshaw - San Francisco, CA
8/24: Miniplex - Arcata, CA
8/25: Revolution Hall Roof Deck - Portland, OR
8/26: Central Saloon - Seattle, WA
8/27: The Cobalt - Vancouver, BC
8/29: The Palomino - Calgary, AB
8/30: Vangelis Tavern - Saskatoon, SK
8/31: Goodwill Social Club - Winnipeg, MB
9/01: 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN
9/02: The Hideout - Chicago, LA
9/03: The Loving Touch - Ferndale, MI
9/04: The Horseshoe - Toronto, ON
9/05: Casa Del Popolo - Montreal, QC
9/06: Once Lounge and Ballroom - Boston, MA
9/08: Baby's All Right - Brooklyn, NY
9/09: The Sound Hole - Philadelphia, PA
9/10: Songbyrd - Washington, DC
9/11: Strange Matter - Richmond, VA
9/12: The Earl - Atlanta, GA
9/13: Cobra - Nashville, TN
9/14: Proud Larry's - Oxford, MS
9/15: Spacecamp - Jackson, MS
9/16: Gasa Gasa - New Orleans, LA
9/18: Walter's - Houston, TX
9/19: Mohawk - Austin, TX
9/20: The Monarch - El Paso, TX
9/21: Hotel Congress - Tucson, AZ
9/22: The Bootleg - Los Angeles, CA

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Conor Oberst

Bright Eyes, brighter future. Omaha singer-songwriter Conor Oberst is back on the road, with an acclaimed new solo album, Upside Down Mountain (Nonesuch Records), a Laurel Canyon …

CONOR OBERST
at Palace Theatre
Thursday 09/07/2017 (7pm/$30)
palacestpaul.com

Conor Oberst (formerly Bright Eyes) will be at the Palace Theatre in St Paul on Thursday. Oberst recently appeared on Charlie Rose for a special interview and performance of his latest album Salutations. The new album is a stark difference from his previous acoustic record Ruminations.

Phoebe Bridgers to open.

Conor Oberst Tour Dates:

09/01 Bellingham, WA @ Wild Buffalo *
09/02 Seattle, WA @ Bumbershoot
09/03 Portland, OR @ Oregon Zoo Amph * +
09/05 Billings, MT @ Pub Station Ballroom *
09/07 St Paul, MN @ Palace Theater *
09/08 Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater *
09/09 Chicago, IL @ The Riviera *
09/10 Kalamazoo, MI @ State Theatre *
09/12 Ithaca, NY @ The State Theatre *
09/13 Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall *
09/14 Buffalo, NY @ Asbury Hall at Babeville *
09/15 Pittsburgh, PA @ Carnegie of Homestead *
09/16 Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theater *
09/17 Bloomington, IL @ Castle Theater *
09/30 Aspen, CO @ Belly Up Aspen ^
10/01 Salt Lake City, UT @ Eccles Theater ^
10/03 Nevada City, CA @ Miner's Foundry ^
10/04 Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery ^
10/07 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore ^
10/13 Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works ^
10/14 Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club ^
10/15 Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre ^
10/16 Charleston, SC @ Charleston Music Hall ^
10/17 Ponte Vedra Beach, FL @ Ponte Vedra ^
10/19 Orlando, FL @ The Beacham Theater ^
10/20 Ft Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room ^
10/21 St Petersburg FL @ State Theatre ^
10/22 Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall ^
10/24 Oxford, MS @ The Lyric Oxford ^
10/25 Baton Rouge, LA @ Varsity Theatre ^
10/26 Little Rock, AR @ Revolution Music Room ^
10/27 Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion ^
10/28 Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note ^

* Phoebe Bridgers supporting
+ M. Ward supporting
^ The Felice Brothers supporting

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Damian Marley

Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley and Stephen “Ragga” Marley will be embarking on their Catch a Fire tour –which will feature Morgan Heritage, Tarrus Riley & special guests Jo Mersa, son of Stephen Marley, and Black Am I. ...

Mark Mallman

Did you miss Mark Mallman’s double appearances at the Icehouse last March 25th and 26th? No problem, catch him again at the Icehouse this upcoming Saturday, July 9th. …

Good Night Gold Dust

Opening up the show was Good Night Gold Dust with a 30 minute set in near darkness. The local band talked about how great Laura Burhenn's Ted Talk was and urged the audience to …

Kaki King

It's been a long time since we talked about Kaki King. She recently had a successful Kickstarter project funded to bring her "The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body" project. The show is part light show, part projections (created by Glowing …

Other shows in the area:

09/01/2017 Swedish-born American singer and songwriter Anders Osborne is headlining the Cedar Cultural Center on Friday. Chris Castino to open. 7pm, $20

09/01/2017 Bob Marley’s youngest son, Damian Marley (aka Jr. Gong) will be playing Minneapolis Music Hall in Minneapolis. If you were wondering about this venue, it was previously known as Mill City Night / The Brick. 7pm, $32

09/01/2017 Fresh off her major label debut Ctrl (Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA Records), SZA will be appearing in Minneapolis on September 1st. Originally booked at the Cabooze, the show was upgraded to First Avenue’s. Smino and Ravyn Lenae to open. Note: the show is sold out. 6pm, $25/Sold Out

09/01/2017 There is a Mark Mallman and Sleeping Jesus EP Releasing show at the Turf Club on Friday, September 1st. Beasthead to open. 8:30pm, $10

09/04/2017 Eyehategod, Hive, and Cro-Mags will be triple rocking the Triple Rock Social Club on Monday, September 4th. 8pm, $22

09/05/2017 Brockhampton is headlining the 7th Street Entry on September 5th... his first official North American tour. The show is sold out, without any opening band listed. Brockhampton’s debut record Saturation is out now. 6pm, $16/Sold Out

09/05/2017 Guitar god Kaki King is playing the Dakota Jazz Club with Derek Gripper this Tuesday. Kaki King recently recorded a live album at Berklee College of Music with an orchestra. 7pm, $35

09/06/2017 The Dead South is headlining the 7th Street Entry. Show up early to check out Little Riddles. 7:30pm, $10

09/07/2017 Sydney trio Middle Kids will be headlining the 7th Street Entry on September 7th. Good Night Gold Dust to open. 7pm, $15

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09/06/2015

Minneapolis: September 13 to September 14, 2015

Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from September 13 to September 14, 2015.

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The Dear Hunter

The new album from The Dear Hunter is out today. Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise, out now via Cave & Canary Goods / Equal Vision Records, marks the long-awaited continuation of the band's six ...

THE DEAR HUNTER
at Triple Rock Social Club
Sunday, 09/13/2015, 7:30pm ($17)
triplerocksocialclub.com

Like many bands in the Midwest at the moment, The Dear Hunter is touring to or after Chicago's Riot Fest.

The band's new album Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise recently came out on Cave & Canary Goods / Equal Vision Records, and marked the long-awaited continuation of the band's six album concept series chronicling the story of a boy at the turn of the century, only referred to as "The Dear Hunter."

The Dear Hunter is multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter Casey Crescenzo, drummer Nick Crescenzo, guitars Robert Parr, bassist Nick Sollecito, guitarist Maxwell Tousseau and keyboardist Andrew Brown.

CHON and Gates to open this "triple rock" show.

"The Rebirth" tour:

Sep 11 - Akron, OH - Musica^
Sep 12 - Chicago, IL - Riot Fest
Sep 13 - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock^
Sep 15 - Ferndale, MI - The Loving Touch^
Sep 16 - St. Louis, MO - The Ready Room^
Sep 18 - Lawrence, KS - Granada Theatre^
Sep 19 - Denver, CO - Marquis Theatre^
Sep 22 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile^
Sep 23 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge^
Sep 25 - Orangevale, CA - The Boardwalk^
Sep 26 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's^
Sep 27 - Fresno, CA - Strummer's^
Sep 29 - West Hollywood, CA - Roxy Theatre^
Oct 1 - Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory^
Oct 2 - San Diego, CA - The Irenic^
Oct 3 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom^
Oct 6 - Austin, TX - The Parish^
Oct 7 - Dallas, TX - Gas Monkey Bar N' Grill^
Oct 9 - Nashville, TN - Exit/In^
Oct 10 - Atlanta, GA - Vinyl^
Oct 11 - Newport, KY - Thompson Home^
Oct 13 - Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel^
Oct 15 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer^
Oct 16 - Asbury Park, NJ - The Stone Pony^
Oct 17 - Boston, MA - The Royale^
Oct 21 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza^

^ - Support from CHON & Gates

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Desaparecidos

Surely you remember Conor Oberst (aka Bright Eyes)? His Nebraska 5-piece band Desaparecidos is heading out on tour. They also have a new 7" single "Te Amo Camila Vallejo" (backed with "The Underground Man") ...

Ripper

We first saw this local trio Ripper (although according to the details below, they are a quartet) at the Julian Casablancas show in November 2014, and I also noted that they share the same name as the metal band. …

DESAPARECIDOS
at First Avenue
Sunday, 09/13/2015, 7pm ($20)
first-avenue.com

The last time we saw singer Conor Oberst, he was rocking out at Rock the Garden 2015. Even actor Woody Harrelson showed up! Oberst's band Desaparecidos will be in town after Riot Fest to support their latest Payola (Epitaph Records).

Joyce Manor and non-metal band Ripper to open the show.

"Memorandum for the Tour":

09/10/15 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
09/11/15 Columbia, MO The Blue Note
09/12/15 Riot Fest Chicago, IL
09/13/15 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
09/14/15 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall
09/16/15 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall
09/17/15 Ithaca, NY The Haunt
09/18/15 Toronto Urban Roots Festival
09/19/15 Toronto, ON Lee's Palace
10/23/15 Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge
10/24/15 Birmingham, AL Saturn
10/25/15 Charleston, SC Music Farm
0/27/15 Jacksonville, FL Jax Underbelly
10/28/15 Tampa, FL The Orpheum
10/29/15 Orlando, FL The Social
10/30/15 The Fest Gainesville, FL
11/02/15 Oxford, MS The Lyric Oxford
11/03/15 New Orleans, LA Republic New Orleans
11/05/15 Houston, TX Numbers
11/06/15 Dallas, TX Trees
11/07/15 Fun Fun Fun Fest Austin, TX s
11/09/15 El Paso, TX Tricky Falls
11/11/15 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern
11/13/15 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory
11/14/15 San Francisco, CA Great American
11/15/15 San Francisco, CA Great American
11/17/15 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
11/18/15 Seattle, WA Showbox
11/20/15 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot
11/23/15 Los Angeles, CA Teragram Ballroom
11/25/15 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room

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Fidlar

Southern California’s FIDLAR followed, in support of their debut album on Mom & Pop, with an explosive 45min of punk/surf rock, set that threw the crowd immediately into a whipped up, sweat-dripped frenzy .…

FIDLAR
at Varsity Theater
Monday, 09/14/2015, 7pm ($15)
varsitytheater.org

Sure, FIDLAR was only in town earlier in May (selling out both nights at 7th Street), but the band is back thanks to Riot Fest... and touring in support of their sophomore album Too (Mom+Pop).

Dune Rats to open.

"Hugh Ess Toor"

09/09 - Marquis Theatre - Denver, CO
09/10 - The Bottleneck - Lawrence, KS
09/12 - Riot Fest Chicago - Chicago, IL
09/14 - Varsity Theater - Minneapolis, MN
09/15 - The Waiting Room - Omaha, NE
09/16 - Rose Music Hall - Columbia, MO
09/18 - Thompson House - Newport, KY
09/19 - The Loving Touch - Ferndale, MI
09/20 - Riot Fest Toronto - Toronto, ON
09/22 - Theatre Fairmount - Montreal, QC
09/24 - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA
09/26 - Webster Hall - New York, NY
09/27 - Boston Calling Festival - Boston, MA
09/28 - The Black Cat - Washington, DC
09/29 - Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC
10/02 - Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
10/03 - High Dive - Gainesville, FL
10/05 - Club Downunder - Tallahassee, FL
10/06 - One Eyed Jacks - New Orleans, LA
10/10 - Austin City Limits Music Festival
10/13 - 89th St Collective - Oklahoma City, OK
10/15 - Launchpad - Albuquerque, NM
10/16 - The Crescent Ballroom - Phoenix, AZ
10/17 - The Observatory North Park - San Diego, CA
10/19 - The Complex - Salt Lake City, UT
10/22 - Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR
10/23 - The Showbox - Seattle, WA
10/25 - Beach Goth Festival - Orange County, CA
10/28 - Slim's - San Francisco, CA
10/30 - The Regent Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
10/31 - The Regent Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
11/10 - O2 Academy Bristol - Bristol
11/11 - The Ritz - Manchester
11/12 - Garage - Glasgow
11/14 - The Forum - London
11/15 - The Institute - Birmingham
11/17 - Posthof - Berlin, Germany
11/19 - Trianon - Paris, France
11/21 - Sonic City Festival - Kortrijk, Begium
11/22 - AB Club - Brussels, Belgium
11/23 - TivoliVredenburg - Utrecht, Netherlands

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06/27/2015

Rock the Garden at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (20 June 2015)

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Thestand4rd	Lucius	Courtney Barnett	Conor Oberst
Ian Felice	Woody Harrelson	Stevie Jackson	Stuart Murdoch

Belle & Sebastian Setlist

Nobody's Empire
I'm A Cuckoo
The Party Line
Another Sunny Day
Cat in the Cream
Perfect Couples
Piazza, New York Catcher
The Everlasting Muse
The Wrong Girl
Dog on Wheels
Dirty Dream #2
The Boy With the Arab Strap
I Didn't See It Coming

Conor Oberst Setlist

Time Forgot
Hundreds of Ways
Four Winds
Southern State
Artifact
Cape Canaveral
Soul Singer in a Session Band
Meadow of a Dream (The Felice Brothers song)
Method Acting
Poison Oak
Easy / Lucky / Free
Milk Thistle

Courtney Barnett Setlist

Elevator Operator
Lance Jr.
An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in New York)
Canned Tomatoes (Whole)
Small Poppies
Dead Fox
Depreston
Avant Gardener
Kim's Caravan
Scotty Says
History Eraser
Pedestrian at Best

Lucius Setlist

Nothing Ordinary
Tempest
Go Home
Don’t Just Sit There
How Loud Your Heart Gets
Dusty Trails (New Song)
You Were On My Mind (Ian & Sylvia cover)
Turn it Around
Genevieve

thestand4rd Setlist

Binoculars
Stay
Wavey
Doors
Vital Signs
Blind
Decisions
Pretty
Tryna **k

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Rock the Garden

Rock the Garden returns to the Walker Art Center as a two-day affair June 20/21, with acts to be announced on-air March 31st. Wishful thinking says Belle and Sebastian w/Courtney Barnett …

Rock the Garden just took place last Saturday. This is the second year that the event was expanded to two days instead of one. The benefit to this is, of course, to bring in more bands and save money by re-using the same stage and setup.

If you missed Rock the Garden this year, you can tune into 89.3 The Current on Tuesday, June 30 and Wednesday, July 1 for the rebroadcasts of the music festival.

Additionally, you'll find our recap below. For more photos, head over to Photos: Rock the Garden (20 June 2015).

thestand4rd

thestand4rd

In only their third area performance, locals thestand4rd opened up the festival and the afternoon as the youngest act ever to play, and got the crowd going with a slow-simmering 30 min. set. MC Allan Kingdom has gathered the most buzz of the collective, being featured on Kanye West’s single, ‘All Day’ which also has Sir Paul McCartney on it, and 17 yr old Corbin has previously garnered praise under the guise of Spooky Black.

The slow, looped beats of ‘Binoculars’ were an ideal first-course to the day ahead, with tempo ramping up mid-set for ‘Vital Signs’. With producer/MC Bobby Raps giving a shout-out to his grandparents in the audience, it seemed like a chilled and relaxed performance amongst a few thousand of their closest friends.

Lucius

Lucius

There’s a mutual love affair going on, and it’s all pretty obvious. We’ve followed Brooklyn indie-pop band Lucius since their beginnings and have covered every local appearance, each time to greater numbers. So, it was more than appropriate to have them added to the roster and a bonus that they were also around to see the original painting of their album cover, a 1964 work by Belgian pop artist Evelyne Axell, which happened to be on display at the Walker Art Center.

Any lack of sunshine was more than made up for as singers Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig wore matching lemon yellow dresses and had short cropped red hairdos. They mentioned getting into town and going “straight to Nye’s - we had some pirogies and do-si-doed”, which endeared them to the few in the crowd that didn’t know them before. Their brief 40 min set consisted of much of their debut album, along with new song, ‘Dusty Trails’ and a cover of the obscure 60’s Ian & Sylvia/We Five song, ‘You Were on My Mind’.

Courtney Barnett

Courtney Barnett

Another first, Melbourne’s Courtney Barnett became the premier Australian act to grace the RTG stage, with a straight-ahead 60 min set, in support of her Mom+Pop Music/ Marathon Artists debut, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit.

Joined by Dave Mudie and Bones Sloane, the trio emerged in the hot afternoon, amidst a pumped-in fog and donned in all black, and were immediately in top gear with ‘Elevator Operator’.

Lyrically surreal but irresistible, Barnett and co. bravely took a no-prisoners approach, knowing that their stage time was limited and the ferocity of basic rock ‘n roll was the ideal prescription for a festival crowd on a warm afternoon. Slowing down only for the mid-set ‘Depreston’, she slipped a chugging ‘Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go to the Party’ into the set before radio hit, ‘Avant Gardener’, and closed with a shredding ‘Pedestrian at Best’.

Conor Oberst

Conor Oberst

Conor Oberst started his set with a few tracks from his latest Upside Down Mountain, but ended up doing a collection of old Bright Eyes songs (‘Four Winds’, ‘Southern State’, ‘Method Acting’, ‘Poison Oak’ and ‘Easy/Lucky/Free’). The audience didn't mind one bit, having a great time singing along to all these fan favorite songs.

Oberst's band was none other than The Felice Brothers, who actually played one of their song, ‘Meadow of a Dream’, midway in their set. Oberst's wife, Corina Figueroa Escamilla, joined him on stage for ‘Poison Oak’ and ‘Easy / Lucky / Free’.

While many of Oberst's songs on this set were uplifting and meant for a live audience, he decided to end with a slower song, ‘Milk Thistle’, with its haunting lyrics of like a crying baby at the bottom of a well.

Trivia: Apparently Woody Harrelson, taking a break from filming Wilson, stopped in at Rock the Garden to check out Oberst's set.

Belle & Sebastian

Belle & Sebastian

We've been steadily watching Belle & Sebastian as they made their way to Los Angeles, California (06 Oct 2014) and Sydney, Australia (29 Jan 2015)... so by the time they came here, after a nine year's absent, we kind of already knew what their set and show stopper would be. For those who didn't follow along, they were in for a treat and loving and dancing to the Scottish band.

Joining B&S on stage were Laurels String Quartet, who actually recorded tracks for the band's latest Girls in Peacetime Wants to Dance.

Several tracks from the new album were played, which went over well. Particularly ‘The Everlasting Muse’ sounded much better live, with its ups and downs, which did not translate on the studio album.

Fan invasion

Fan-favorite ‘Piazza, New York Catcher’ (dedicated to the Twins who partly sponsored Rock the Garden) was done in a totally different arrangement... which is understandable as the band probably got tired of playing the same chords. Thankfully, bandleader/singer Stuart Murdoch did not forget his lines for ‘Piazza’, unlike their 2003 appearance at Fitzgerald Theater, when he had trouble remembering the lines in the song (to be fair, that song has a gobful of lyrics).

Setlist

As you can see from their setlist, ‘The Wrong Girl’ was chosen over another Stevie Jackson-penned song ‘Jonathan David’. Personally, we preferred the latter, for sure, but that song would require fancy piano playing.

Of course, the two closing tracks, ‘The Boy With the Arab Strap’ and ‘I Didn't See It Coming’ were absolutely unforgettable. Murdoch walked on the front barrier and asked if anyone wanted to dance and encourage fans to come on stage. About thirty fans jumped to the stage and just had an absolute blast singing and dancing... and, yes, taking plenty of selfies.

NOTE: Thanks to Andrea at the Current for providing much of the set lists.

Belle and Sebastian at Rock the Garden, Minneapolis (20 June 2015)

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