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Rocktober: October 7, 2024

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07 Oct 2024 Alessandro Cortini with Aida Shahghasemi, Jeremy & Max Ylvisaker at Cedar Cultural Center Read More NIN Former Nine Inch Nail keyboard player James Woolley also died at the age of 49. Woolley was with NIN when they recorded one of their biggest hit album The Downward Spiral. The cause of death has not been release ....

07 Oct 2024 Monday

Alessandro Cortini
with Aida Shahghasemi, Jeremy & Max Ylvisaker
at Cedar Cultural Center
thecedar.org

Italian musician, instrument-builder, producer and composer Alessandro Cortini (who is probably better known for being a touring member of Nine Inch Nails) will be headlining the Cedar Cultural Center in support of his latest release Nati Infiniti.

This show is co-present by the Cedar and Drone Not Drones as part of their “Dronetober” event.

Aida Shahghasemi and Jeremy & Max Ylvisaker to open.

Tour dates:

9/5/2024 – Reykjavik, Extreme Chill IS

9/19/2024 – Glasgow, Sonica Festival UK

10/3/2024 - Albany, NY, Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center

10/4/2024 - Queens, NY, Knockdown Center

10/6/2024 - Boston, MA, Sonia

10/7/2024 - Minneapolis, MN, The Cedar Cultural Center

10/9/2024 - Chicago, IL, Empty Bottle

10/10/2024 - Austin, TX, Central Presbyterian Church

10/11/2024 - Seattle, WA, Age Of Reflections at Seattle First Baptist

10/12/2024 - Portland, OR, Age Of Reflections at Trinity Cathedral

10/13/2024 - Los Angeles, CA, Teragram Ballroom

11/20/2024 – Brussels, Bozar BE

12/6/2024 – Berlin, Silent Green DE

1/17/2025 - Paris, Trabendo FR

07 Oct 2024 Kate Bollinger with Sharp Pins at 7th St Entry Read More Kate Bollinger Opening the show was Charlottesville’s Kate Bollinger, who was last in town in February 2022 with Faye Webster. Bollinger is joined on stage with a full band, featuring Jacob on drums, Noah on bass, and Chris on guitar. If I misheard …

07 Oct 2024 Monday

Kate Bollinger
with Sharp Pins
at 7th St Entry
first-avenue.com

Kate Bollinger is touring in support of her new album Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind (Ghostly International). The tour will stop by the 7th Street Entry on October 7, 2024.

Kate Bollinger at First Avenue (08 April 2023)

We saw Bollinger in April 2023, and wrote, “She covered a French song called “J’aime Les Filles”, originally by Jacques Dutronc. Translated to English, it means “I like the girls…” and the lyrics continues that he likes the girl in Castel, he likes the girls in Régine, he likes all girls. The lyrics are simple and silly, but Bollinger treats the song so seriously.”

Sharp Pins (not to be confused with PINS) to open.

Tour dates:

10/5 - Boulder CO - eTown Hall

10/7 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry +

10/8 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall +

10/10 - Toronto, ON - Longboat Hall +

10/11 - Montreal, QC - Petit Campus +

10/12 - Boston, MA - Arts at The Armory +

10/13 - Brattleboro, VT - Stone Church +

10/15 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg +

10/16 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg #

10/17 - Philadelphia, PA - Ukie Club #

10/18 - Washington, DC - Black Cat #

10/19 - Charlottesville, VA - The Southern #

10/21 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle (Back Room) #

10/22 - Asheville, NC - Eulogy #

10/24 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl ^

10/25 - Nashville, TN - Third Man ^

10/26 - St Louis, MO - Off Broadway ^

10/28 - Fayetteville, AR - George's Majestic Lounge ^

10/29 - Oklahoma City, OK - Resonant Head ^

10/30 - Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves

11/12 - Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst Atrium %

11/14 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom %

11/15 - Seattle, WA - Madame Lou's %

11/16 - Vancouver, BC - Fortune Sound Club %

11/17 - Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern %

11/20 - Sacramento, CA - Starlet Room %

11/21 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent %

11/22 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom %

+ Support from Sharp Pins
# Support from The Beak Trio
^ Support from Anastasia Coope
% Support from Tchotchke

07 Oct 2024 John Early at Fine Line Read More Comedy One of our favorite comedians of all time. We have watched most of his standups and appearances on tv shows multiple time. He is always always hilarious. If you love Rodney the way we do then you need this album in your collection. …

07 Oct 2024 Monday

John Early
at Fine Line
first-avenue.com

Multi-talented actor, comedian, writer and producer, John Early is headlining the Fine Line on Oct 7, 2024, as part of the album release for Now More Than Ever (out September 13th via Lookin' For My Denim Records/Thirty Tigers).

Tour dates:

Sept. 9 - San Diego, CA @ The Casbah

Sept. 10 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox

Sept. 12 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall

Sept. 13 - San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo’s 365 Club

Sept. 17 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether

Sept. 18 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom

Sept. 20 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada

Sept. 21 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk

Oct. 2 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop

Oct. 3 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House

Oct. 4 - Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig

Oct. 5 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall

Oct. 6 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre

Oct. 7 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Fine Line

Oct. 13 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts

Oct. 14 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall

Oct. 15 - Boston, MA @ The Wilbur

Oct. 16 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat

Oct. 19 - Nashville, TN @ The Basement East

Oct. 20 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl

Oct. 21 - Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall

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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Hatis Noit at Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis (07 Apr 2024)

04/07 Hatis Noit with Chama Devora at Cedar Cultural Center Tour Dates 04.11 MUTEK Barcelona 2024, Barcelona, Spain 05.24 Druga Godba Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia Read More Hatis Noit Japanese voice artist Hatis Noit is currently on tour in support of Aura. The tour will stop in at the Cedar Cultural Center, on April 7, 2024. Director David Lynch is a big fan of Hatis Noit, personally ...

Japanese voice artist Hatis Noit ended her USA tour in support of Aura at the Cedar Cultural Center, on April 7, 2024.

Opening the show was Chama Devora, a duo featuring Crystal Mysaljek and Liz Draper. According to the Cedar’s introduction, they’ve participated in the Drones Not Drones charity show to raise money for doctors Without Borders. The Drone’s unified 28-hour song (yes a 28-hour song) features many local musicians and have become a local fan favorites. Fans, knowing the endurance of the show, will often bring their own sleeping bag and find a spot to set up to enjoy the day and a half show.

With that said, based on their adaption and extended experimental music, Chama Devora would fit right in the drone show.

Hatis Noit came on stage, walking through the audience, singing in the dark, before going on stage. When you first hear the singing, you couldn’t quite make out where it was coming from, because the venue was in darkness.

This concert is like no other. Hatis Noit wears a flowing dress with a feather nose piece. There are no bands, no instruments… instead all the music were created using her voice (with one exception, but we’ll get to that later).

The songs were created live using a machine called a Looper, which we’ve seen demonstrated by other musicians in the past … but usually those one-man-band are using the looper to loop music notes that they play as a backing track. With Hatis Noit, it’s pure vocal.

As I previously mentioned, there is one exception, and that is for the song “Inori” (Prayer), in which she played a recording of the sound of the ocean at Hiroshima.

Hatis Noit at Cedar Cultural Center (07 Apr 2024)

Hatis Noit at Cedar Cultural Center (07 Apr 2024)

Hatis Noit at Cedar Cultural Center (07 Apr 2024)

Chama Devora at Cedar Cultural Center (07 Apr 2024)

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Minneapolis: January 29 - January 31, 2015

Here are some shows taking place in Minneapolis/St Paul from January 29 to January 31, 2015.

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Read More Extreme Extreme II: Pornograffitti (A Funked Up Fairy Tale) first came out on A&M Records in August 1990, the follow-up to the band’s 1989 debut. The album is considered, according to the newly penned liner notes ...

EXTREME
at Mill City Nights
Thursday 01/29/15, 8pm ($49.95)
millcitynights.com

"More Than Words" by Extreme was the #1 song of 1991 Summer. I can distinctively remember so many of my school classmates (especially the girls) were into these guys.

Like many bands from the 90s, Extreme is back, this time touring in support of their 25th anniversary of their most popular album Pornograffitti (which featured "More Than Words"). The rock band will be performing the entire album front to back, plus a few other surprises.

I have seen some of these album tours before, they can be somewhat challenging to the performers because they have to change various instruments (or have a dedicated pre-tuner) when they switch songs.

If you can't make it to a show, the band recently announced Extreme II: Pornograffitti (A Funked Up Fairy Tale) will be re-issued as a deluxe edition. You know, I love my Deluxe Editions, so this album is on my radar. Extreme II: Pornograffitti (A Funked Up Fairy Tale) will be out this January 20th and will contain the full second album, plus rare mixes and b-sides (re-mastered from the original tapes).

Since it's 25 years later, don't expect slow burning cigarette lighters at their shows, but instead, a lot of camera phone lights slowly waving in the air...

Pornograffitti tour dates:

01/18/15 Poughkeepsie, NY The Chance Theatre
01/20/15 Englewood, NJ Bergen Performing Arts Ctr.
01/21/15 Boston, MA House Of Blues Boston
01/22/15 Jim Thorpe, PA Penn's Peak
01/24/15 Westbury, NY The Space At Westbury
01/25/15 Baltimore, MD Baltimore Soundstage
01/27/15 Cincinnati, OH Bogart's
01/28/15 Chicago, IL House Of Blues
01/29/15 Minneapolis, MN Mill City Nights
01/31/15 Battle Creek, MI FireKeepers Casino

design by Sonny Kay Read More Low Low came on stage as ZZ Top, complete fuzzy guitars and horseshoe moustache on drummer Mimi Parker. The band Duluth band have been busy playing support dates for Slowdive on this current tour .... BNLX Minneapolis’ own BNLX took the stage at NYC’s Pianos Thursday night, playing a 45-minute set for a small, but engaging audience. The backroom of Pianos where the band played is of … Flavor Crystals Flavor Crystals were up next, they played hard psych rock in poor lighting. Very little lyrics, but lots of high energy guitar playing with emphasis on psych and kraut rock. …

DRONE NOT DRONES
at Cedar Cultural Center
Friday 01/30/15, 6pm ($20)
thecedar.org

A list of who's who in Minneapolis will be at this Drone Not Drones charity show, to raise money for Doctors Without Borders. The unified 28-hour "song" will feature everyone from Alan Sparhawk (of Low), Brokeback (ft. members of Tortoise & The Sea and Cake), Drone Man Winter (ft. members of Trampled By Turtles & Dead Man Winter), Food Pyramid, P.O.S. (drone set), BNLX, Moss Folk, Paul Metzger, Dosh, Invisible Boy (Poliça, Vampire Hands), Flavor Crystals, Chatham Rise, Jet Legs (Hammerhead, Seawhores, The Cows) and more.

Tentative schedule (subject and likely to change!):

07:00p: International Novelty Gamelan
07:30p: Jesse Petersen
08:00p: Food Pyramid
08:45p: BNLX
09:15p: Flavor Crystals + BNLX
09:30p: Flavor Crystals
10:00p: Drone Man Winter
10:45p: Alan Sparhawk (of Low)
11:30p: Michael Lewis
12:15p: Pagoda ov Thunderboldt
01:00a: Jet Legs
01:30a: Chatham Rise
02:00a: Old Moon
02:30a: Dead Gurus
03:00a: Dosh
03:30a: Comb Boats
04:00a: Transitional Species
04:45a: Andy Nuebauer
05:30a: Ghostband
06:00a: Aklo, Brainscratch, Cyclomite
06:30a: Pandemonium Defender
07:00a: Nightingale #3
07:30a: Paul Metzger (sunrise)
08:00a: John Zuma Saint-Pelvyn
08:30a: HOLDING HANDS / MQ-1
09:00a: Jeremy Ylvisaker
09:30a: TYTE JEFF
10:00a: Finger Pressure
10:30a: Sativa Flats
11:00a: Ventures Cover Band
11:30a: DKO
12:00n: DT Phone Drone
12:30p: Drone Strike Mike & the Bates Bombers
01:00p: Sagitta Gone
01:30p: Les Trembleurs
02:00p: The ---- (unconfirmed)
02:30p: (ALANS)
03:00p: Roy Orb, D.MT.
03:30p: 555
04:00p: Solar Pawn
04:30p: Tim Kaiser
05:00p: P.O.S
05:30p: Robot Rickshaw (drone robots)
06:00p: Noise Quean Ant
06:30p: StoLyette
07:00p: Invisible Boy
07:30p: Paris 1919
08:15p: Makr
08:45p: American Cream
09:30p: Brokeback
10:15p: Moss Folk

Read More Saint Motel Opening up for the Arctic Monkeys was Saint Motel. I had low expectations, but by the first song, they had already won me over with their brass / dance / pop / Caribbean / jazzy sound. … Moth & the Flame On their brief set, TMTF played tracks from their debut 2011 album and also some tracks from their Ampersand (&) EP, including "Sorry" and "Wishing Well". ....

SAINT MOTEL
at 7th Street Entry
Saturday 01/31/15, 8pm ($10)
first-avenue.com

Touring on their way to Coachella 2015 (and I'm assuming they'll likely play SXSW 2015 as well), Saint Motel will be stopping by Minneapolis' 7th Street Entry on Saturday, January 31st.

You may recall that we caught them with Arctic Monkeys last year and was blown away by their performance.

Saint Motel's latest release is My Type EP, which came out mid-August last year via Parlophone UK.

Jess' favorite band in the world The Moth And The Flame will open the show. We've been writing about TMATF since 2012, but finally got a chance to see them in person last year (their first time in Minneapolis).

Tour dates:

01/22/15 Scottsdale, AZ Pub Rock
01/23/15 El Paso, TX Lowbrow Palace
01/24/15 Austin, TX Stubb's Bar-B-Q
01/25/15 Dallas, TX Three Links Event Center
01/27/15 St. Louis, MO The Demo
01/30/15 Chicago, IL Schubas Tavern
01/31/15 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
02/03/15 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
02/04/15 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
02/07/15 San Francisco, CA The Chapel
03/06/15 Amsterdam Kleine Zaal At Paradiso
04/12/15 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
04/19/15 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival

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