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Minneapolis: July 9 to July 12

07/09 Chicano Batman with Rudy De Anda at First Avenue Read More Chicano Batman Chicano Batman to open. The cape crusader was last seen at SXSW with their new song “Black Lipstick”, featuring back up vocals by Saudia Yasmein. …

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07/09/2022 Saturday

Chicano Batman
with Rudy De Anda
at First Avenue
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Los Angeles’ Chicano Batman is out on tour in support of Invisible People… the album that came out during the pandemic. The record was unanimous praise from Pitchfork, NPR, Rolling Stone, The LA Times, The Fader, and many more.

Rudy De Anda to open. Rudy De Anda’s latest single, “Cascading” (available on Karma Chief Records), is a modern take on mid-1970s Brazilian soul.

Tour dates:

Jul 7, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022 Winnipeg Folk Festival Winnipeg, MB
Jul 9, 2022 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
Jul 10, 2022 Majestic Theatre Madison, WI Rudy De Anda
Jul 11, 2022 The Magic Stick Detroit, MI Rudy De Anda
Jul 13, 2022 Ottawa Bluesfest Ottawa, ON
Jul 14, 2022 Empire Live Albany, NY
Jul 15, 2022 Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD
Jul 16, 2022 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival New York, NY
Aug 20, 2022 BeerX San Diego, CA
Aug 26, 2022 Frost Amphitheater Stanford, CA

07/11 Japanese Breakfast with The Linda Lindas at First Avenue Read More Japanese Breakfast Korean musician Japanese Breakfast (stagename for Michelle Zauner) headlined the mainroom at First Avenue, in Minneapolis, on September 19th, 2021, as part of her tour for Jubilee (Dead Oceans Records). ... Kristin Kontrol We are also very excited to see that Dee Dee (from Dum Dum Girls) will be opening for Garbage under her music project Kristin Kontrol. When we saw DDG in 2014 when .…

07/11/2022 Monday

Japanese Breakfast
with The Linda Lindas
at First Avenue
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We last saw Japanese Breakfast in Oct 2021... Japanese Breakfast is back, and this time, wearing her Time Magazine’s “Most Influential People of 2022” title proudly.

I was actually excited to see that The Linda Lindas will open the show. If I were to guess, the band is named after the Japanese film, Linda, Linda, Linda, which I wrote about in May 2007. The catchy theme song, “Linda Linda” was written by J-punk Blue Hearts.

How are the two bands related? Well, Japanese Breakfast is actually a Korean girl, while in the film, Linda Linda Linda, it’s about an all-Japanese group, who enlists a Korean singer, when they lost their lead singer. It’s all strangely related with the Japanes/Korean thing.

Anyway, The Linda Lindas is the new project from Kristin Kontrol (formerly of Dum Dum Girls).

Tour dates:

6/12 - Queens, NY @ The Governors Ball Music Festival
6/14 - Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater
6/15 - Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap Filene Center
6/16 - Charlotte, NC @ The Underground
6/17 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
7/8 - Des Moines, IA @ 80/35 Music Festival
7/9 - Winnipeg, MB @ Winnipeg Folk Festival
7/11 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue *
7/12 - Omaha, NE @ Slowdown *
7/14 - Bloomington, IL @ Castle Theatre *
7/15 - St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant *
7/16 - Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
7/17 - Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell’s Brewery *
7/19 - Toronto, ON @ HISTORY
7/20 - Montreal, QC @ Theatre Corona
7/21 - Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point
7/23 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Dell Music Center ^
7/26 - Honolulu, HI @ The Republik
7/31 - Niigata, JP @ Fuji Rock Festival
8/12-14 - Seattle, WA @ Day In Day Out Festival
8/26 - Stanford, CA @ Here And There
8/28 - Longon, EN @ All Points East Festival
9/2 - Nelsonville, OH @ Nelsonville Music Festival
9/3 - Denver, CO @ Here And There
9/15 - Louisville, KY @ Bourbon & Beyond
10/4 - Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
10/6 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl ~
10/7 - Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds #
10/8-9 - Austin, TX @ ACL Festival
10/20 - Bristol, UK @ Marble Factory
10/21 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
10/22 - Glasgow, Scotland @ Old Fruitmarket
10/24 - Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
10/25 - London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
10/26 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
10/27 - Berlin, DE @ Gretchen
11/6 - São Paulo, BR @ Primavera Sound São Paulo
11/10 - Santiago, CL @ Primavera en la Ciudad @ Blondie
11/12 - Santiago, CL @ Primavera Sound Santiago
11/13 - Buenos Aires, AR @ Primera Sound Buenos Aires

* w/ The Linda Lindas
^ w/ Yo La Tengo & Cate Le Bon
~ w/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs
# w/ Florence + The Machine

07/12 Frankie and the Witch Fingers with Hot Garbage at 7th St Entry Read More Frankie and the Witch Fingers Los Angeles psych rockers Frankie and the Witch Fingers played Friday afternoon at The Block Stage. Most of the set consisted of songs from their newest album ZAM, which came out in March .…

07/12/2022 Tuesday

Frankie and the Witch Fingers
with Hot Garbage
at 7th St Entry
first-avenue.com

Los Angeles psych-rock juggernauts Frankie and The Witch Fingers will be heading to the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis on July 12th.

Hot Garbage to open.

Tour dates:

June 21 - Barboza - Seattle, WA
June 22 - Fox Cabaret - Vancouver, BC
June 24 - Sled Island - Calgary, AB
June 25 - Lucky You Lounge - Spokane, WA
July 7 - Artifice - Las Vegas, NV
July 8 - Quarters Arcade Bar - Salt Lake City, UT
July 9 - Globe Hall - Denver, CO
July 11 - Total Drag - Sioux Falls, SD
July 12 - 7th St Entry - Minneapolis, MN
July 13 - Cactus Club - Milwaukee, WI
July 14 - Subterranean - Chicago, IL
July 15 - Healer - Indianapolis, IN
July 16 - Zanzabar - Louisville, KY
July 17 - Woodward Theater - Cincinnati, OH
July 19 - Bug Jar - Rochester, NY
July 20 - Lee's Palace - Toronto, ON
July 21 - River & Sky - Sudbury, ON
July 22 - Club SAW - Ottawa, ON
July 23 - Le Festif! - Baie-Saint-Paul, QC
July 24 - Bar le Ritz - Montreal, QC
July 26 - Rockwell - Boston, MA
July 27 - No Fun - Troy, NY
July 28 - TV Eye - Brooklyn, NY
July 29 - Mercury Lounge - New York, NY
July 30 - The Saint - Asbury Park, NJ
July 31 - Metro Gallery - Baltimore, MD
August 2 - Slowdown - Omaha, NE
August 3 - The Cave Collective - Rapid City, SD
August 5-6 - Pickathon - Portland, OR
August 8 - The Miniplex - Arcata, CA
August 9 - Starlet Room - Sacramento, CA

07/12 Mandy Moore with AHI at First Avenue Read More Mandy Moore Taylor Goldsmith explained how ‘Never Gonna Say Goodbye’ was written for his fiance after singer/actress Mandy Moore injured herself (similar worked for Chris Martin of Coldplay on ‘Fix You’ to Gwyneth Paltrow, and Bono to his wife on ‘Sweetest Thing’). .…

07/12/2022 Tuesday

Mandy Moore
with AHI
at First Avenue
first-avenue.com

Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and actress, Mandy Moore will be headlining First Avenue’s mainroom on July 12, in support of her seventh studio album In Real Life… this is her first tour in over ten years, so expect a health reaction and attendance to her million of fans.

Talking about the new album, Moore had this to say, “So much of this record came from future-tripping on the next chapter of my life and what it might look like: what parenthood would feel like, how it would change everything, and all the excitement and trepidation that comes with that. At the same time, it was about celebrating and acknowledging where we were at the moment and really trying to be completely present in the everyday—which is maybe the hardest part of the human condition.”

AHI to open.

Tour dates:

Jun 17 Outdoor Williamsburg, VA, US Williamsburg Live
Jun 18 Atlantic City, NJ, US Music Box at the Borgata
Jun 19 Boston, MA, US Royale Boston
Jun 21 Ridgefield, CT, US Ridgefield Playhouse
Jun 22 Toronto, ON, Canada The Danforth Music Hall
Jun 23 Pittsburgh, PA, US Roxian Theatre
Jun 25 Nashville, TN, US Ryman Auditorium
Jul 6 Dallas, TX, US Annette Strauss Square
Jul 7 Houston, TX, US The Heights Theater
Jul 8 Austin, TX, US Paramount Theatre
Jul 10 Kansas City, MO, US Uptown Theater
Jul 11 Chicago, IL, US The Vic Theatre
Jul 12 Minneapolis, MN, US First Avenue
Jul 14 Englewood, CO, US Gothic Theatre
Jul 15 Salt Lake City, UT, US The Depot
Jul 17 Seattle, WA, US Showbox at the Market
Jul 18 Portland, OR, US Aladdin Theater
Jul 20 San Francisco, CA, US The Fillmore
Jul 21 Solana Beach, CA, US Belly Up Tavern
Jul 22 Los Angeles (LA), CA, US Fonda Theatre
Jul 22 Newport, RI, US Newport Folk Festival

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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Desert Daze Festival 2019 - Our Modern Day Woodstock (11 Oct 2019)

Desert Daze Festival 2019 - Our Modern Day Woodstock
Oct 11th-13th- Lake Perris, CA

Animal Collective Setlist Banshee Beat Gem and I Bolder Passerby In the Flowers Cherokee 24 DownDownDownDown Grass On a Highway No More Runnin Pulleys -- Encore -- For Reverend Green Stereolab Setlist Anamorphose Ping Pong Double Rocker Fluorescences Crest Need to Be Metronomic Underground The Extension Trip Brakhage Miss Modular Percolator Blue Milk Contronatura Come and Play in the Milky Night French Disko Lo Boob Oscillator DIIV Setlist Horsehead Like Before You Were Born Skin Game Between Tides Taker For the Guilty The Spark Lorelei Blankenship Acheron Read More Desert Daze Ah, the mornings are beginning to be met by a cool autumn breeze...so this must mean desert festival season is under way! Desert Daze has been a myriad of magical atmospheric wonder along with the most entertaining of artists .... Animal Collective Experimental band Animal Collective is back on tour; their latest Painting With is out this Friday on Domino Records. The extremely popular band has already sold out .… Stereolab Headliners include ESG, The Apples in Stereo, Superchunk, Waxahatchee, Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab), Sneaks, Elf Power, The Veldt, Pylon Reenactment Society, Eureka California and Tunabunny. … DIIV The first time we saw DIIV, they were called DIVE (this was in 2012). Literally overnight they had changed their name due to dispute with another band using the 'Dive' moniker. .… Atlas Sound I got this note that Atlas Sound is heading out on tour next week -- with Broadcast! Since we haven't written about Broadcast in, like, 2007, it's good to hear about them recently. Unfortunately, they're not …

Crowds gathered seamlessly this year into the Moreno Beach area of Lake Perris for the autumn ritual of camping, yoga, swimming and the hottest bands you’ll see all year. In its 8th go-around, this was a vast improvement from the insane parking situation and nasty weather of 2018, thanks be to the gods. Desert Daze is quite often referred to as the greatest festival ever, and in all my years of music festivals (and believe me, there have been many) I have to concur that this one undoubtably tops the charts. From art instillations that will dazzle your mind to tea ceremonies in tents under the desert morning sky, this festival is for the light of heart, the TRUE music lovers, and the seekers. While I was mesmerized by the first DAZE I attended at the Metaphysics Institute in Joshua Tree in 2017, there is something magical about the festival continuing on with its desert theme while adding a sparkling lake that you can drift in whenever you please. It’s also an hour and a half away from sunny Los Angeles, so fellow Angelenos should consider themselves pretty blessed 🙏.

FRIDAY

Los Angeles psych rockers Frankie and the Witch Fingers played Friday afternoon at The Block Stage. Most of the set consisted of songs from their newest album ZAM, which came out in March. These guys are funky and amazing to see in the daylight because you can really get lost in the goofy faces of frontman Dylan Sizemore. Lead guitarist Josh Menashe donned a dope Canadian tuxedo while slaying away on his solos, and bassist Alex Bulli rocked an 80’s-esq mohawk. Dylan yelled to the crowd towards the end of their set “Thanks for putting this on Phil, it’s the greatest festival in the world!” They ended with the single ‘Tea’, a heavy-hitting single that perfectly topped the performance.

Zachary Cole Smith of Brooklyn’s DIIV announced as they came out on the Moon stage that their new album Deceiver dropped on Friday. “We’re gonna play the whole album. This is kind of a nighttime record…kind of funny to be playing it here…” as the sun was blazing down on the crowd. They went right into Horeshead, the slow, grungy track with the slightly-more-than morbid lyrics “Horsehead…I’m never quite enough…I wanna breathe in and never breathe back out…” Laughing one of the members exclaimed, “Every song is in a different tune.” Skin Game, one of the more dance-worthy songs on the album, is like if Elliot Smith, Silverchair and Explosions in the Sky had a baby, with its transcendent vocals and catchy chorus. “Thanks for coming out guys, you’re being real nice, we thought there’d be like 50 people here,” exclaimed bassist Colin Caulfield, before ending their set with Acheron.

Jessica Pratt came out decked in a black suit wearing dark shades, her blonde hair shaggy around her face as she clutched her acoustic guitar. I had never heard her music before this festival, and after giving her latest album Quiet Signs a solid listen I was beyond thrilled to find this lady. She’s a 70’s folk dream, a lullaby and a haunting figure as she strummed her guitar and mesmerized the crowd with her breathy tunes. Accompanied by Matthew McDermott on piano, the set was slow and soft, a nice sigh of air as festival goers sipped on their coconut waters and beers. Ya gotta stay hydrated in the desert, people.

Atlas Sound’s Bradford Cox came out onto the Moon stage in all of his androgynous glory in a mustard yellow blouse and Mr. Roger’s style trousers. The golden hour sun hit his shaggy brown hair just right as they went into ‘The Light that Failed’, off the album Logos. This is one of my favorite albums of all time so I was beyond stoked that they played mostly the whole thing. The crowd went nuts as Lætitia Sadier from Stereolab came out to join them in the song Quick Canal. This was one of the coolest moments in DD history, in my humble opinion…it was beyond legendary. Afterwards Bradford reapplied his lipstick and sang the lyrics ‘Everything was bathed in light…everything loved its way…everything makes sense when you look at it from another way…’ to end the set.

The group Crumb from New York was a super rad show to see as the sun started to finally give relief over the campgrounds. I believe they mostly played songs from their album Jinx, the song M.R. seeming to be the biggest hit in the crowd. Lila Ramani is hypnotic and a definite stunner, and their music is melodic and super synth-heavy thanks to Brian Aronow. These guys definitely seem to be on the rise and they had just ended a several month tour prior to the festival.

Stereolab was as delightful as I’m sure they were in the 90’s. Laetitia swayed about the Moon stage in a multi-colored dress yelling to the crowd “Let’s ping pong now!” going right into the song off the Mars Audiac Quintet album. She kept saying cute little quips to introduce songs, such as “This is, yes, it’s a love song!” or “Are we all on an extension trip? Yes, this is the future of illusion. Fantasy.” These guys rocked out while still keeping it dreamy with a sort of sprinkling of mod 60’s pop. This upbeat set under an almost full moon was otherworldly and something that is a once in a lifetime experience. Come and Play in the Milky Night and French Disko neared the end of the show, with Lo Boob Oscillator capping it off.

Although I was dying to hear My Girls, electro-psych band Animal Collective’s set did not disappoint. They opened up with the old school tune from 2005’s Feels, Banshee Beat, fronting stunning visuals of disco dancing girls and hearts. These guys played a bunch of new material, a few being “Gem and I”, “Bolder”, and “Strangers”.  Another, “DownDownDownDown” was one that was rare and unreleased. The trippy background art was ridiculous, the one with hands almost holding onto each other being my favorite. Their encore performance was “For Reverend Green”, which they hadn’t played in 12 years.

[ To be Continued … ]

Atlas Sound

Frankie and the Witch Fingers

DIIV

DIIV

Jessica Pratt

Stereolab

Atlas Sound

Crumb

Crumb

Animal Collective

Animal Collective at Desert Daze, Lake Perris (11 Oct 2019)

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Desert Daze at Institute of Mentalphysics, Joshua Tree (14 Oct 2017)

Desert Daze (14 Oct 2017) Institute Of Mentalphysics in Joshua Tree, CA Lineup: Iggy Pop Sleep Performing Holy Mountain John Cale King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Thurston Moore Group The Make-Up Terry Riley & Gyan Riley Tortoise The Gories Black Moth Super Rainbow Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton Twin Peaks Avey Tare Sunflower Bean King Woman Mr Elevator Jjuujjuu Mint Field Winter Camera Jesika Von Rabbit Frankie & The Witch Fingers Dahga Bloom Dopey’s Robe Pearl Charles Read More Desert Daze October (thank god because we would all melt in the otherwise typical days of such shenanigans) will bestow the 6th installation of the transcendent music festival Desert Daze in Joshua Tree. ....

In part one, Jess saw Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, Ty Segall, and others… This is Part Two.

    This is the mystical Desert Daze music festival that took place in the high desert of the wondrous Joshua Tree, California. Rock bands, artists, hippies and music enthusiasts gather here for a weekend of spiritual enlightenment and psychedelic tunes that make you wonder if we’re indeed in the middle of a revolution; if it’s 1969 all over again but this time evolved in a new paradigm shift of consciousness…and without the over-saturation of LSD and pot (though, of course, there was LSD and pot).

    Since it first started in 2012 it’s been the land of octagon-shaped tents, tea ceremonies and tarot readings. It’s a village filled with artist instillations and children running a muck through cacti and tiny tents made out of tapestry and bird feathers. It’s Burning Man meets Coachella, sans pretentiousness and debauchery.

    From what I experienced (and I immersed myself in all things DAZE), it was nothing but smiles, kindness and a deep, deep love and respect not only for the artists who graced us with their talent, but all the other humans who came together to create this special event that gave people one of the best weekends of our lives.

    Saturday the highlights were definitely Frankie and the Witch Fingers, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Iggy Pop.

    JJUUJJUU also rocked out (lead singer Phil Pirrone is the festival’s founder, I was soon to hear) to fans and friends while expressing a sincere appreciation to the crowd, thanking everyone from the bottom of his heart and saying what a big family everyone has turned out to be. His band was solid and pretty girls dressed in unicorn tassels and headgear danced in front of the stage to the raging tunes.

    Iggy Pop, 60’s The Stooges frontman and who some would call the Godfather of Punk, came out in all his shirtless glory and opened up with (I mean of course) I Wanna Be Your Dog, spitting bottled water and flipping off the crowd and cameras. He was bold and delightful in his  punk charm, right into Gimme Danger and The Passenger, then more Stooges’ classics like 1969. It’s sincerely hard to believe this man is in his 70’s. He had more energy than most of the bands combined, and I felt happy that I got to see him in that setting before…I mean who even knows anymore what can happen to these legends. Somewhere somebody must have kicked Iggy around some…and he’s kicking back.

To Be Concluded...

Pearl Charles

Frankie & The Witch Fingers

Frankie & The Witch Fingers

Winter

Winter

King Woman

King Woman

King Woman

JJUUJJUU

Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop at Desert Daze Festival 2017, Joshua Tree (14 October 2017)

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