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Run the Jewels at First Avenue, Minneapolis (23 October 2015)

Run the Jewels Setlist     Intro: Queen's "We Are the Champions" Run the Jewels Oh My Darling Don't Cry Blockbuster Night, Part 1 Banana Clipper 36" Chain DDFH Sea Legs Close Your Eyes (And Count to F**k) Pew Pew Pew Lie, Cheat, Steal Early with BOOTS All Due Respect Love Again (Akinyele Back) Get It A Christmas F**king Miracle -- Encore -- Angel Duster Read More Run the Jewels Megahot rapper/producer duo Run The Jewels' long sold out show at First Avenue is taking place next Friday (October 23rd). Expect to hear some preview from their highly anticipated Run ...

Run the Jewels played a sold-out Mainroom at First Avenue last night.

This is just a quick post to get some basic information, tour dates, photos, and setlists online, as soon as possible.

Cuz Lightyear

There was a consistent haze to the room, and surprisingly not caused by whatever the audience may have been using.  Lights were sparse and dim for most of the evening's sets and the sold-out crowd was rowdy, head-bobbing and completely won over.

Cuz Lightyear opened with a brief 15 min. set and the crowd chanting "whut up, Cuz?"

Fashawn

Fashawn, in his brief twenty minutes, brought out both Prof and Brother Ali for separate duets and showcased DJ Fresh who twirled the knobs on a mixer embedded in a giant boombox.

BOOTS

BOOTS changed the mood to one of more moody electronica in his thirty minute set and returned to help RTJ on the song "Early".

Run the Jewels excelled in concert (many hip-hop acts can be dodgy when seeing them live) and co-MC EL-P, himself a longtime indie rapper, gave local indie hip-hop collective Rhymesayers its due respect in a speech, and dedicated their last song and set to Eyedea, who passed away almost five years ago.

Trackstar the DJ

For Run the Jewels ticketholders who stuck around, there was an Afterparty, featuring Trackstar the DJ.

More info to come...

Run the Jewels' Run the Jewels 3 will be coming out in 2016 via Mass Appeal / RED.

Tour date:

10/24/15 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
10/30/15 Manchester Warehouse Project
10/31/15 Pitchfork Music Festival Paris
11/21/15 Corona Capital Festival
12/30/15 Reaction New Year's Eve
01/28/16 "X Games" (Aspen)
01/29/16 Aspen, CO Belly Up Aspen

Run the Jewels at First Avenue, Minneapolis (23 October 2015)

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Rocktober: October 23 - October 24, 2015

Read More Run the Jewels Movie projections on a screen behind them but the images enhanced their set, especially during the hip-hop verse portion of ‘Revolution Indifference’, their collaboration with Run the Jewels. ...

Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from October 23 to October 24, 2015.

Read more Minneapolis Music Guide.

RUN THE JEWELS
at First Avenue
Friday, 10/23/2015, 8pm ($25/Sold Out)
first-avenue.com

Megahot rapper/producer duo Run The Jewels' long sold out show at First Avenue is taking place next Friday (October 23rd). Expect to hear some preview from their highly anticipated Run the Jewels 3 due for release in 2016 via Mass Appeal / RED.

Show up early to check out Mike 2600, Trackstar the DJ, Cuz Lightyear, Fashawn, and Boots.

Boots recently announced his debut album AQUΛRIA for November 13th on Columbia Records, which will feature Angel Deradoorian (The Dirty Projectors) on vocals for the title track. We previously caught Boots with fka twigs in November 2014.

Tour dates:

10/17/15 Treasure Island Music Festival
10/18/15 New Noise Block Party
10/18/15 New Noise Santa Barbara
10/20/15 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
10/21/15 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
10/22/15 Kansas City, MO Arvest Bank Theatre
10/23/15 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
10/24/15 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
10/30/15 Manchester Warehouse Project
10/31/15 Pitchfork Music Festival Paris
11/21/15 Corona Capital Festival
12/30/15 Reaction New Year's Eve
01/28/16 "X Games" (Aspen)
01/29/16 Aspen, CO Belly Up Aspen

Read More Matisyahu We've written about Matisyahu a few times, it looks like he will be back in Minneapolis at First Avenue this August 27th with a reggae/rock band called Rebelution. I'm thinking he will be playing songs off his last album …

MATISYAHU
at Pantages Theatre
Saturday, 10/24/2015, 8pm ($32.50)
hennepintheatretrust.org

Matisyahu will be back in Minneapolis next Saturday, October 24. Billed as "An Intimate Evening with Matisyahu", expect this to be slightly toned down compared to his Live at Stubb's album (now celebrating its 10th anniversary). Be sure to pick up his latest live album Live at Stubb's III on this tour.

Tour dates:

10/18/15 "Rock N' Roll Marathon" (Denver)
10/18/15 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre
10/20/15 Aspen, CO Belly Up Aspen
10/22/15 Wichita, KS The Cotillion
10/23/15 St. Louis, MO Sheldon Concert Hall
10/24/15 Minneapolis, MN Pantages Theatre
10/26/15 Madison, WI Majestic Theatre
10/27/15 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater
10/28/15 Des Moines, IA Hoyt Sherman Place
10/29/15 Skokie, IL North Shore Ctr
10/30/15 Cincinnati, OH Live at the Ludlow
10/31/15 Iowa City, IA Englert Theatre
11/04/15 Arcata, CA John Van Duzer Theatre
11/05/15 Sacramento, CA Crest Theatre
11/06/15 San Francisco, CA Herbst Theatre
11/08/15 Riverside, CA Fox Performing Arts
11/10/15 San Luis Obispo, CA Fremont Theatre
11/11/15 Rohnert Park, CA Green Music Center
11/12/15 Agoura Hills, CA The Canyon
11/13/15 San Juan Capistrano, CA Coach House
11/14/15 Los Angeles, CA Luckman Fine Arts
11/15/15 San Diego, CA Balboa Theatre
12/03/15 Festival Of Light
12/04/15 Ithaca, NY State Theatre
12/05/15 Providence, RI The VETS
12/06/15 Concord, NH Capitol Center
12/08/15 New Brunswick, NJ State Theatre
12/09/15 North Bethesda, MD Music Center
12/10/15 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live!
12/11/15 Glenside, PA Keswick Theatre
12/12/15 Wilmington, DE Grand Opera House
12/13/15 Durham, NC Carolina Theatre
12/15/15 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
12/16/15 Orlando, FL Plaza Live Orlando
12/17/15 Tampa, FL David A. Straz Jr. Center
12/18/15 Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Ponte Vedra
12/19/15 Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Ponte Vedra
12/20/15 Melbourne, FL King Center
12/29/15 Miami, FL The Adrienne Arsht Center
12/30/15 West Palm Beach, FL Kravis Center
01/21/16 Santiago, Chile Teatro Cariola

Read More Meg Myers The first non-local band to play was Los Angeles, by the way of Tennessee, Meg Myers, who we previously saw with Royal Blood at Mill City Nights in 2014. Like her last appearance, she is accompanied …

MEG MYERS
at Fine Line Music Cafe
Saturday, 10/24/2015, 8pm ($15)
finelinemusic.com

We previously caught Meg Myers at Go Fest 2015. If you missed her last August, she'll be back in Minneapolis at the 7th Street Entry next Saturday. Once again, radio station Go 96.3 is sponsoring the event.

Brisbane based artist Jarryd James will open, in support of his debut EP on Interscope Records. The lead single from the EP, “Do You Remember”, debuted at number one on the Hype Machine and Australian iTunes charts.

Tour dates:

10/17/15 Toronto, ON Adelaide Hall
10/19/15 Detroit, MI Shelter
10/20/15 Cincinnati, OH The Ballroom
10/22/15 Chicago, IL Metro
10/23/15 USO Red Rock & Blue
10/24/15 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line
10/27/15 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
10/29/15 San Francisco, CA SF Masonic
10/30/15 Pomona, CA Fox Theater Pomona
11/01/15 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theatre
11/03/15 Austin, TX Stubb's Bar-B-Q
11/04/15 Houston, TX Revention Music Center
11/05/15 Dallas, TX South Side Ballroom
11/07/15 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
11/08/15 Kansas City, MO Arvest Bank Theatre
11/10/15 Philadelphia, PA Fillmore Philadelphia
11/12/15 Cambridge, MA Middle East Downstairs
11/13/15 New York, NY Marlin Room
11/17/15 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre
12/11/15 WLUM Big Snow Show

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Road to Paid Dues Tour at Fine Line Cafe, Minneapolis (03/02/13)

Paid Dues Tour 03/03 - Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre 03/05 - St. Louis, MO - The Gramophone 03/06 - Lawrence, KS - Granada Theatre 03/07 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room 03/08 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theater 03/09 - Salt Lake City - Kilby Court Gallery 03/11 - Boise, ID - The Neurollux 03/12 - Missoula, MT - The Badlander 03/14 - Vancouver, BC - Fortune Sound Club 03/15 - Bellingham, WA - Wild Buffalo 03/16 - Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe 03/17 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre 03/20 - Reno, NV - 1Up Bar 03/21 - Sacramento, CA - Harlow's 03/22 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's 03/23 - Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst 03/24 - Fresno, CA - Fulton 55 03/26 - Bakersfield, CA - B Ryders 03/27 - San Luis Obispo, CA - SLO Brewing Co 03/28 - Santa Barbara, CA - Velvet Jones 03/29 - La Jolla, CA - Porter's Club 03/30 - San Bernardino, CA - NOS Events Listen Read More Paid Dues Festival Somehow, this Paid Dues Festival goes hand-in-hand with the Smokeout Festival (see next item). More artists to be announced later, but in the meantime legendary Wu-Tang Clan is headlining.…

Paid Dues is the annual independent hip hop festival that started in 2006. Last year, I mentioned the festival because they had one of the biggest and best lineup that year: Wu-Tang Clan and Odd Future. The problem with these festival is that you have to live within the San Bernardino area. So the good news is that Paid Dues is taking some of their acts on the road to a city near you.

Murs is the headliner, and he's brought together Fashawn, Black Cloud Music, and our friend Kosha Dillz to the Fine Line Music Café in Minneapolis last night, March 2nd.

BLACK CLOUD MUSIC

After DJ Kid Disko spun some tunes to a darkened Fine Line, Noa James and Curtiss King came on stage. They are two of seven members of Black Cloud Music - however, I could have sworn I saw David May on the sideline.

Anyway, the two seems like an unlikely pair as they traded singing duties. They ended their set with "OhMyGod".

KOSHA DILLZ

Kosha Dillz (real name: Rami Even-Esh) was next. Although he was allocated a thirty-minute set (as were all the openers), he did not jump straight into his set. Instead, he had a listening party and played two of his favorite songs to get us pumped up.

Set included: "Everything is Kosha", "Cellular Phone", "Garage Sale", "Hangin' Out", "They Don't Know", (freestyle), and "The Future".

My favorite was the freestyling portion. This is the part of the show where audience members were encouraged to put whatever they have in their pockets on stage and Kosha Dillz would just come up with raps off the top of his head based on those objects.

FOSHAWN

I've never heard of Fashawn, but I can tell he was a big deal. The audience was clearly there for Murs and Fashawn and loved all the songs about weed and how it never rains in "Sunny California."

Incidentally, when I found out that he was from Fresno, I kept thinking about "Fashawn" Fair. That's a joke for any Fresnian.

Finally the man of the hour closed off the night. DJ Foundation introduced Murs as he came on asking "whatupdawg?"

While most people will probably list "I Used to Love H.E.R." or the Nate Dogg homage as their favorite of the night, I was more drawn to the funnier "67 Cutlass." According to Murs, this is based on a true story that happened to him. I did think he embellished the story a little, but the more factual aspect is that he had a pipe dream of making mad money by buying two pounds of pot in Mexico and driving back to Los Angeles with intent of selling and distributing. Of course, a sheriff pulls him over. The song takes it on a more comical point of view.

Road to Paid Dues is the tour. If you can't make it to the big music festival this year, catching the Road to Paid Dues is a pretty good indication of what you'll get at the stadium show - but on a smaller and more intimate scale.

BONUS: Be sure to listen to my interview with Rami, aka Kosha Dillz. He confirmed on the recording that his new project will be under Rami Rules name. The name has a double meaning, that he "rules"/awesome/in charge and that there are "rules" you follow.

Murs at Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis (03/02/13)

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