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Minneapolis: March 12 to March 13, 2024

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03/12 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum with Dead Rider and The Kind City at Fine Line

03/12/2024 Tuesday

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
with Dead Rider and The Kind City
at Fine Line
first-avenue.com

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (SGM) reunited after 13 years to complete their fourth studio album titled Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being (available February 23, 2024) on AVANT NIGHT – a new imprint headed by Nick Ohler and facilitated by Joyful Noise Recordings.

There’s also a tour to promote the record… SGM will stop by the Fine Line in Minneapolis on March 12th, 2024.

Dead Rider and The Kind City to open.

Tour dates

02/29 - Arcata, CA - Humbrews

03/01 - Eugene, OR - WOW Hall

03/02 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater

03/03 - Seattle, WA - Crocodile

03/04 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Hall

03/05 - Salt Lake City, UT - Metro Music Hall

03/07 - Denver, CO - The Bluebird

03/08 - Estes Park, CO - The Stanley Hotel

03/09 - Estes Park, CO - The Stanley Hotel

03/11 - Kansas City, MO - Record Bar

03/12 - Minneapolis, MN - The Fine Line

03/13 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall

03/14 - Indianapolis, IN - Irving Theater

03/15 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom

03/16 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts

03/17 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair

03/18 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere

03/19 - Baltimore, MD - The Ottobar

03/20 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle

03/21-24 - Knoxville, TN - BIG EARS FESTIVAL

03/25 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West

03/26 - Winter Park, FL - Conduit

03/27 - Tampa, FL - Orpheum

03/28 - New Orleans, LA - Howlin’ Wolf

03/29 - Houston, TX - Secret Group

03/30 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk

03-31 - Dallas, TX - Trees

04/02 - Albuquerque, NM - Sister Bar

04/03 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom

04/04 - Tucson, AZ - 191 Toole

04/05 - Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre

04/06 - Berkeley, CA - The UC Theatre

03/13 Luna with Sam Blasucci and Chatham Rise at Fine Line Read More Luna If you didn’t know, Luna’s known for their wonderful covers, and this show had plenty: The Cure’s “Fire in Cairo”, Willie Loco Alexander’s “Gin”, Velvet Underground’s “Friends”, Mercury Rev’s “Car Wash Hair” ...

03/13/2024 Wednesday

Luna
with Sam Blasucci and Chatham Rise
at Fine Line
first-avenue.com

“The best band you’ve never heard of” Luna is doing a mini-Midwest tour…. Stopping by the Fine Line Music Café, in Minneapolis, on March 13, 2024.

Luna (01 Nov 2017)

We last saw Luna at the Cedar in Nov 2017 and wrote, “Luna broke up in 2005, but Wareham and Phillips (as Dean & Britta) continued their music together, eventually marrying in 2007. Luna’s eventually reformed, at first for a one-off performance for Shine A Light Festival in Brooklyn in 2012, and then as a reunion tour in 2015. The same fans who saw their reunion tour last year, was at Wednesday’s crowded show (which is a good indication of Luna’s dedicated fanbase).”

Sam Blasucci and Chatham Rise to open.

Tour dates:

Mar 13 @ Fine Line, Minneapolis, MN

Mar 14 @ Vivarium, Milwaukee, WI

Mar 15 @ Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL

Mar 16 @ Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL

03/13 Bombay Bicycle Club at First Avenue Read More Bombay Bicycle Club Bombay Bicycle Club and a Shakira reference don’t exactly go together… ..But, the connection will shortly be revealed ...

03/13/2024 Wednesday

Bombay Bicycle Club
at First Avenue
first-avenue.com

London’s Bombay Bicycle Club (BBC) is returning the First Avenue this March 13, 2024.

Bombay Bicycle Club (29 April 2014)

We saw the band in April 2014, and wrote, “Bombay Bicycle Club and a Shakira reference don’t exactly go together…..But, the connection will shortly be revealed… Currently riding high on their recently released 4th full-length, So Long, See You Tomorrow (Vagrant Records), the Crouch End, London band delivered a polished, electric 82 min. performance at the Varsity Theater on a chilly Tuesday night in Minneapolis.”

Tour Dates

Feb 9 Norwich, UK Norwich Nick Rayns LCR UEA

Feb 10 Cambridge, UK Cambridge Corn Exchange

Feb 12 Glasgow, UK Barrowland

Feb 13 Glasgow, UK Barrowland

Feb 14 Leeds, UK O2 Academy Leeds

Feb 15 Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK O2 City Hall, Newcastle

Feb 16 Manchester, UK O2 Apollo Manchester

Feb 17 Southampton, UK O2 Guildhall Southampton

Feb 18 Cardiff, UK Great Hall, Cardiff University

Mar 4 Nashville, TN, US Brooklyn Bowl

Mar 5 Atlanta, GA, US Variety Playhouse

Mar 7 Houston, TX, US White Oak Music Hall

Mar 8 Austin, TX, US Emo's Austin

Mar 9 Dallas, TX, US Granada Theater

Mar 10 Omaha, NE, US The Admiral

Mar 11 Lawrence, KS, US Liberty Hall

Mar 13 Minneapolis, MN, US First Avenue

Mar 14 Chicago, IL, US Metro

Mar 15 Toronto, ON, Canada The Danforth Music Hall

Mar 16 Montreal, QC, Canada Beanfield Theatre

Mar 18 Boston, MA, US Royale Boston

Mar 19 Brooklyn, NY, US Brooklyn Steel

Mar 20 Philadelphia, PA, US Union Transfer

Mar 21 Washington, DC, US 9:30 CLUB

Apr 30 San Francisco, CA, US The Fillmore

May 1 Sacramento, CA, US Ace of Spades

May 3 Vancouver, BC, Canada Vogue Theatre

May 4 Seattle, WA, US Showbox SoDo

May 5 Portland, OR, US Revolution Hall

May 6 Boise, ID, US Knitting Factory

May 8 Boulder, CO, US Boulder Theater

May 9 Denver, CO, US Ogden Theatre

May 10 Salt Lake City, UT, US Kilby Block Party

May 12 Las Vegas, NV, US Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas

May 13 San Diego, CA, US The Observatory North Park

May 14 Santa Ana, CA, US Observatory Santa Ana

May 15 Los Angeles (LA), CA, US The Bellwether

May 17 Mexico City, Mexico Auditorio BB

May 18 Zapopan, Mexico Guanamor Teatro Studio

Jun 24 Outdoor Zagreb, Croatia INmusic Festival

Jun 29 Luxembourg neimënster

Jun 29 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Siren's Call

Jul 12 London, UK Alexandra Palace Park

Jul 25 Wadebridge, UK Rock Oyster Festival

Jul 26 Thirsk, UK Deer Shed Festival

Aug 16 Trondheim, Norway Pstereo 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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W♥M207: Britpop SXSW Extra Bonus

W♥M207: SXSW Extra Bonus (18 mins) Read More Flight of the Conchords Flight of Conchords are a duo from Wellington, New Zealand; Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie. They are, in their own words, "New Zealand's 4th most popular guitar-based digi-bongo …

Hi, this is a special Extra Bonus Podcast episode - basically most of the stuff I had to throw out from last week's recording.

Brody, Orlando, and Michael are our guests on W♥M Radio!

Some throwaway topics:

Laura Marling massages Brody.

Demand for Unofficial SXSW Showcases. Eagulls, not Eagles. Eagulls self-titled album released March 3rd on Partisan.

The Cribs and the infamous bridge collapse in 2007

The list keeps on coming: Oasis, Blur, James, Teenage Fanclub, Boo Radleys, Lemonheads, Soul Asylum, Ben Folds Five... but not Juliana Hatfield and Blake Babies. Vu hates God Bless the Blake Babies from 2001.

Luna/Dean Wareham/Galaxie 500

Select Magazine: The Music Bible

The great Suede debate for "The Drowners"

The beauty of the mixtape

Rodney Bingenheimer (Rodney on the 'Roq)

Jesus Jones

Song of the show is Flight of the Conchords' "Hurt Feelings".

Music For Listeners and the El Chile Group have announced their six straight unofficial SXSW day party. This year will be held at El Sapo on 1900 Manor Road. Details on musicforlisteners.com.

Dean Wareham Double Feature/Sonic Cathedral

Also, as previously announced on news.weheartmusic.com, Dean Wareham released his first ever solo album on Double Feature (US) and Sonic Cathedral (UK).

He'll be heading out on tour in support of the new record:

03/28-03/30 - Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN
04/01 - Atlanta, GA - the Earl
04/03 - Carrboro NC - Cat's Cradle
04/04 - Washington DC - U Street
04/05 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
04/06 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle
04/09 - Toronto, ON - Horseshoe Tavern
04/10 - Ferndale ,MI - Magic Bag
04/11 - Chicago, IL - Old Town School of Music
04/12 - St Paul,MN - Turf Club

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Bathysphere: A Psychonautical Voyage (07/05/13)

Set Times Read More Luna Luna was a 90s dreampop band from New York, who was probably most famous for that revenge-song “Slash Your Tires” off their debut album, Lunapark. After several years … Secret Colours Chicago-based brit-pop Secret Colours is coming to Minneapolis to play a very spacey/psychedelic set starring BATHYSPHERE (featuring Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips… First Communion Afterparty First Communion Afterparty looks like a pack of gypsies doing spacerock for their hippy listeners, at least they tried to bring some 'sun' into Minnesota with their two opening acts: Daughters of the Sun and Sleepy… Magic Castles Opening up Mallman were The Magic Castles and The Alpha Centauri. Magic Castles performing at the Turf Club in Midway, St. Paul ♥ Turf Club, St Paul (11/7/09) … Shoegazing Although "shoegazing" emerged from the UK in the late 80s, it wasn't until the early 90s, that the name really kicked into popularity because the UK music press (NME and Melody Maker) .…

Fans of psychedelic rock and shoegaze music are in for a treat as "Bathysphere: A Psychonautical Voyage" music festival kicked off last night and continues on to today at First Avenue and 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis.

For those new to the legendary First Avenue music venue, there are three stages within the building: The Main Room (First Ave), the Entry (7th Street Entry), and The Record Room (for DJs). For last show, the doorway between the Entry and the Main room was opened and free for fans to move back and forth between the two stages.

Most of the bands on the bill kept to the set time, but we'll learn later that wasn't the case with the Entry stage. Covering both stage proved to be a little difficult since set overlap and sometime you're forced to make difficult decisions to watch one band over the other.

We'll start with the Entry first.

DRIFTWOOD PYRE

It's tough to be the first band on, especially on the smaller of the two stages. Driftwood Pyre started their set while the vast majority of the audience was still over at Magic Castles, or had not shown up on time. Still, if you missed this band, members of the group would later resurface on the main stage with First Communion Afterparty.

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.

Unfortunately, due to my commitment to cover Cheval Sombre and poor planning on my part, I ended up missing Pony Trash and VonVeederVeld (who was off schedule).

PANTHER RAY

Panther Ray were about twenty minutes late, so I did manage to squeeze in a few songs. I have in my notes that this band is young and good looking, especially with the shorts, side-burns and 60s inspired clothing.

LIGHTFOILS

Chicago's Lightfoils was headlining the Entry stage. They played music that was more along my cup of tea, which is shoegazey and maybe dreampop. You know the formula: fuzzy whirlpool of guitar noise and indistinguishable ethereal vocals.

Their brief set included some new songs as well as some tracks from their self-titled EP, including "How It Is" and "Into Deep Sea".

Now for the main stage:

MAGIC CASTLES I actually thought Magic Castles was very good. It's certainly the only band the featured a flutist on an explosive jam at their set closer. Wasn't familiar with their music, but I did like the boy/girl songs they were playing.		SECRET COLOURS Like all the bands on the main stage, a projector displaying graphics or images of the band on the background. This was no different for Chicago's Secret Colours, who played tracks from their recently released album Peach to some psychedelic or images of the sun. Highlight of Secret Colours' set was when singer Tommy Evans busted out the melodica to play "Blackhole".
CHEVAL SOMBRE Cheval Sombre was a bit of a "supergroup", having Dean & Britta and Sonic Boom as his backup band. His set was on the quieter side, almost folky country at times. He showcased some songs from his Mad Love release, including "Once I Had a Sweetheart" and "Red Moon".		FIRST COMMUNION AFTERPARTY First Communion Afterparty said on stage that this was their first show in three years! They played songs from an upcoming album, which was supposed to have been released earlier this month, but is now delayed until later. I am assuming later this Summer, you will see more First Communion Afterparty.
SONIC BOOM Sonic Boom (aka Peter Kember) needs a little explanation. Kember and Jason Pierce started Spaceman 3, and when the band split, Pierce went on to do more space rock in the guise of Spiritualized, while Kember seem to be doing this weird one-man experimental music. Sonic Boom played an hour set, compared to all other bands, so it tells me that he must have a lot of material to draw from throughout his career as a producer, musician, creator of E.A.R. (Experimental Audio Research), and as Sonic Boom.		DEAN & BRITTA As for Dean & Britta, they were both in Luna, but for this tour, they are playing pre-Luna Dean Wareham's band Galaxie 500. With three albums (spanning between 1998-1990) to draw from, Dean & Britta had a lot of material to work with, including "Temperature's Rising", "When Will You Come Home", "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste", "Fourth of July" (how fitting!), "Tugboat" and the encore "Ceremony". While the majority of their songs were sung by Wareham, there is one exception: Britta took over "Listen, The Snow Is Falling", which, apparently was originally written by Yoko Ono.

Dean and Britta at First Avenue, Minneapolis (07/05/13)

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