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Minneapolis: This Week (07/14/2024)

What’s happening this week.

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07/09 The Body and Dis Fig with Cel Genesis at 7th St Entry Read More The Body Metal band The Body will be headlining the Turf Club on Wednesday. Show up early to check out False and Lingua Ignota (aka Kristin Hayter). Lingua Ignota’s Tour Dates: ....

07/09/2024 Tuesday

The Body and Dis Fig
with Cel Genesis
at 7th St Entry
first-avenue.com

Following the release of their acclaimed debut collaborative album Orchards of a Futile Heaven, The Body & Dis Fig have announced a collaborative tour throughout North America this Summer.

Support for this tour will come from Cel Genesis.

Tour Dates

July 3 Troy, NY @ No Fun

July 4 Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz

July 5 Toronto, ON @ The Garrison

July 7 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle

July 8 Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club

July 9 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry

July 12 Seattle, WA @ Vera Project

July 13 Vancouver, BC @ Cobalt

July 14 Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall

July 17 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill

July 18 Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram

July 19 Giant Rock, CA @ Giant Rock

July 20 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar

July 21 Jerome, AZ @ Puscifer Store

July 22 Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar

July 24 Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves

July 25 Austin, TX @ Parish

July 26 Houston, TX @ Last Concert Cafe

July 27 Baton Rouge, LA @ Chelsea's Live

July 28 New Orleans, LA @ The Broadside

July 29 Atlanta, GA @ 529

July 30 Durham, NC @ The Pinhook

August 1 Richmond, VA @ The Warehouse

August 2 Washington, DC @ Songbyrd

August 3 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge

August 4 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's

07/12 Hiatus Kaiyote at Palace Theatre Read More Hiatus Kaiyote Hiatus Kaiyote will be rocking/rapping/dancing it out at the Fine Line Music Café next Wednesday, in support of their latest Choose Your Weapon (Flying Buddha/Sony Music Masterworks). …

07/12/2024 Friday

Hiatus Kaiyote
at Palace Theatre
first-avenue.com

Australian funk and soul band Hiatus Kaiyote is returning to the USA, touring in support of Love Heart Cheat Code (due June 28th via Brainfeeder Records / Ninja Tune).

Hiatus Kaiyote (14 Oct 2015)

We previously saw Hiatus Kaiyote in Oct 2015 and wrote, “Hiatus Kaiyote headlined the show. The Melbourne group features singer/guitarist Nai Palm, bassist Paul Bender, keyboardist Simon Mavin, and drummer Perrin Moss. They've been together since 2010.”

As of this writing, no support bands have been announced.

Tour Dates

6/21 - Indianapolis, IN @ The Egyptian Room

6/23 - Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre

6/25 - Toronto, ON @ Toronto Jazz Festival

6/27 - Montreal, QC @ Festival International de Montréal

6/28 - Boston, MA @ Roadrunner

6/29 - Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall

7/1 - Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring

7/2 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount

7/6 - Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern

7/7 - Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl

7/9 - Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed Indoors

7/10 - St. Louis, MO @ The Big Top

7/12 - St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre

7/13 - Des Moines, IA @ 80/35 Festival

7/16 - Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall

7/17 - Carnation, WA @ Remlinger Farms

7/18 - Portland, OR @ Grand Lodge

7/20 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater

07/12 Kommuna Lux at Tapestry Folkdance Center Read More Ukraine Speaking of which, the audience pulled out the Ukrainian flag during the encore, and helping singing the lyrics of “give them hope, give them strength, give them life, like a candle burning in the black of night”. …

07/12/2024 Friday

Kommuna Lux
at Tapestry Folkdance Center
tapestryfolkdance.com

Ukrainian folk/Klezmer group Kommuna Lux is coming to Minneapolis this week at the Icehouse on July 11th and at the Tapestry Folkdance Center on July 12th. The group is led by its commander Oleg Vasyanovich.

Your admission ticket will let you enjoy some “Odessa Gangsta Folk” as well as help various Ukrainian charities, such as The Rotary Club’s Hospital Beds for Kramatorsk project and help buy medicine and protective equipment to organizations throughout Ukraine through their own 501(c)(3) charity KMLX.

Tour Dates:

July 6 Des Plaines, IL - Tet a Tet

July 7 Chicago, IL - Reggie’s w/ Lynne Jordan

July 8 Madison, WI - North Street Cabaret

July 11 Minneapolis MN- The Icehouse

July 12: Minneapolis, MN - Tapestry Folkdance Center

July 13 Viroqua, WI -Viroqua Music Festival *

July 14 Galva, IL - LevittAMP Summer Concert Series *

July 15 Coralville, IA - Unitarian Universalist church

July 18 Stevens Point, WI - LevittAMP Summer Concert Series *

July 19 Iola, WI - Iola Mills

July 21 Green Bay, WI - LevittAMP Summer Concert Series *

July 22 Chicago, IL - Promontory

July 26: South Bend, IN - Merriman’s Playhouse

July 27: Saline, MI - Acoustic Routes House Concert

July 28: Columbus, OH - Natalie’s Grandview Music Hall

July 30: Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom

July 31: Pittsburgh, PA - Pittsburgh Winery

August 1 and 2 Thomas, WV - The Purple Fiddle

Aug 3 Columbia, MD - Abiding Savior Lutheran Church

*Indicates free shows. Tickets for all other shows are available through the venue.

07/13 Tomb Mold with Horrendous and Maniacal Force at Turf Club

07/13/2024 Saturday

Tomb Mold
with Horrendous and Maniacal Force
at Turf Club
first-avenue.com

Canadian death metal band Tomb Mold is touring in July… stopping by the Turf Club, in St Paul, on July 13, 2024. Their new The Enduring Spirit is out now.

Horrendous and Maniacal Force to open.

Tour dates:

7/04/2024 Lee's Palace – Toronto, ON

7/05/2024 Les Foufounes Electriques – Montreal, QC

7/06/2024 Middle East – Cambridge, MA

7/07/2024 Underground Arts – Philadelphia, PA

7/09/2024 Ace Of Cups – Columbus, OH

7/10/2024 Sanctuary – Detroit, MI

7/11/2024 Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN

7/12/2024 Reggies – Chicago, IL

7/13/2024 Turf Club – St Paul, MN

7/14/2024 The Record Bar – Kansas City, MO

7/16/2024 The Lost Well – Austin, TX

7/17/2024 Club Dada – Dallas, TX

7/18/2024 Siberia – New Orleans, LA

7/19/2024 Boggs Social & Supply – Atlanta, GA

7/20/2024 Will's Pub – Orlando, FL

7/21/2024 Gramps – Miami, FL

7/23/2024 New Radio Room – Greenville, SC

7/24/2024 Chapel of Bones – Raleigh, NC

7/25/2024 The Canal Club – Richmond, VA

7/26/2024 Metro Gallery – Baltimore, MD

7/27/2024 The Brooklyn Monarch – Brooklyn, NY

07/14 St Paul Songwriter Rounds at the White Squirrel Bar Lineup Samuel John Avery Seed Jeff Larson Dawson Sabah Kimyon FINICK Hosted By TJD Read More FINICK FINICK was there to play some songs from her debut album Where Could We Go? (2023). Despite her young age, she’s already put together a summer tour with an appearance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival…

UPDATE

07/14/2024 Sunday

St Paul Songwriter Rounds
feat Samuel John, Avery Seed, Jeff Larson, Dawson Sabah Kimyon, FINICK
at the White Squirrel Bar
whitesquirrelbar.com

According to the website, the St. Paul Songwriter Rounds at the White Squirrel Bar is one of the Twin Cities best places to catch the best in the art of songwriting. The night features 4 to 5 songwriters taking the stage simultaneously, sharing songs and stories one after another!

FINICK at Taste of Minnesota (06 July 2024)

We just saw FINICK at the Taste of Minnesota and said, “Finick was there to play some songs from her debut album Where Could We Go? (2023). Despite her young age, she’s already put together a summer tour with an appearance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival on July 12, the Elliott Smith Tribute show at White Squirrel on Aug 5 (Smith’s birthday is August 6), and then Waterworks Building on Aug 15.”

Jeff Larson is a very common name, there’s a few singers named Larson, including a certain Jeffrey Robert Larson from Minneapolis.

Avery Seed (12 Oct 2023)

Transplant from Rhode Island, Avery Seed recently received the Empower Rising Star Award: “Congratulations to Avery Seed (Music 2024) on receiving the Empower Rising Star Award from TeamWomen. The award was presented at the TeamWomen WaveMaker Awards on October 12, 2023. The Empower Rising Star Award recognizes an Empower Leadership Academy attendee who has applied skills and strategies from the academy to their life and is impacting their community. The recipient demonstrates one or more of the 4 pillars of Empower: Leadership, Confidence, Well-Being, & Resilience, through self-growth and impact on others within their school, academics, team(s), and/or community.”

Dawson Sabah Kimyon is a Minneapolis based solo artist with a passion for musical storytelling.

The Samuel John Band at 7th Street Entry (08 Aug 2024)

Samuel John of the The Samuel John Band will be there. His band is actually having a Minnesota Goodbye EP release party at the 7th Street Entry on August 8, 2024. Other bands on the Aug 8 shows are Aaron Simmons, Adam Brandt and Cole Diamond.

Samuel John writes:

Only a few shows this month which is kind of by design. We’re gearing up for our EP release on August 8th and have a busy August and fall coming up. This month I get to spend more time with my wife Lauren and I have some time set aside for some long overdue get togethers with family and friends. With a full time day job, balance is key ⚖️

3 solo shows this month and one private show with the Samuel John Band. Come hang!
Sunday, July 14th 7PM: The Twin Cities Songwriter Rounds and my first time playing at the locally famous White Squirrel Bar
Thursday, July 18th 7PM: Ryders Saloon supporting Drew Cooper as he passes through town for his first show at Ryders
Friday, July 19th 6PM: Back to hang with the wonderful people at Big Rock Creek for their Fridays at the Farm series

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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Gogol Bordello at First Avenue, Minneapolis (25 July 2023)

07/25 Gogol Bordello with Puzzled Panther at First Avenue Gogol Bordello Setlist Sacred Darling I Would Never Wanna Be Young Again Not a Crime Immigrant Punk Wonderlust King My Companjera Dance Around the Fire United Strike Back Suddenly… (I Miss Carpaty) Focus Coin Trans-Continental Hustle / American Wedding Immigraniada (We Comin' Rougher) Mishto! Start Wearing Purple Sally Pala Tute -- Encore -- Baro Foro Solidarity (Angelic Upstarts cover) -- Encore II -- Victim in Pain (Agnostic Front cover) Alcohol Think Locally, F**k Globally Undestructable Tour Dates 7/27 Chicago, IL - Concord Music Hall 7/28 Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue 7/29 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues 7/31 Toronto, ON - History 8/1 Montreal, QC - MTELUS 8/2 Burlington, VT - Higher Ground 8/4 Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live 8/5 Washington, DC - The Atlantis Read More Gogol Bordello Just to give you a little background on Gogol Bordello, like most of you, we first “discover” the band from the 2005 film Everything Is Illuminated, starring Elijah Wood and Gogol’s singer Eugene Hütz. .…

Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello headlined First Avenue, in Minneapolis, on Tuesday night. This is one of the best live bands we’ve ever seen. Don’t take our words for it, just take a look at some sample photos below, or photos from the start of the tour in Kansas City a few weeks earlier.

Opening up was New York’s Puzzled Panther, with a very brief 25-min set, which included the very first song they wrote called “Non e vero, ma ci credo”, which translate from Italian to mean ‘it’s not true, but I believe it’.

Highlight was seeing Gogol Bordello’s frontman, Eugene Hutz, joining the band for the song “Fake Ass Freedom Fighters.” The song was written for the Stronger Together Vol.1 compilation, a record which promotes women to the front of hardcore punk music shows.

Gogol Bordello (30 Oct 2017)

We still stand by our previously statement about Gogol Bordello, from Oct 2017, stating, “If you really want to see the band, buy your ticket early, you’ll thank yourself later. The band is so great live, and, especially with the popular songs like ‘Start Wearing Purple’ and ‘Trans-Continental Hustle’, will have the audience often going crazy for songs (so watching the audience is also half the fun).”

We did run into a few people, who was seeing the New York band for the first time on Tuesday night. They decided to buy a ticket based on word-of-mouth recommendation.

The large international group is lead by singer/guitarist Eugene Hütz (Ukraine), with violinist Sergey Ryabtsev (Russia), percussionist Pedro Erazo (Ecuador), guitarist Boris Pelekh (Russia), drummer Korey Kingston (USA), bassist Gil Alexandre (Brazil), and accordion Erica Mancini (Argentina). They also used to have two backup singers, Vanessa Walters and Ashley Tobias, but they were absent for this tour… instead for their part, especially in “Dance Around the Fire” and “United Strike Back”, the two girls from Puzzled Panther came on stage to help sing on these songs.

My new favorite Gogol Bordello song is “My Companjera”, which was played incredibly well to an audience, especially hearing the fans sing back the lyrics.

I was somewhat disappointed to seeing that “Trans-Continental Hustle” was shortened, but medley with the chorus of “American Wedding”, to create a new hybrid song. I suppose the band wants to keep that hit song fresh, but personally speaking, I just want to hear more “hey hey hey hey, hali hali ho”.

They played “Start Wearing Purple” near the end of the set. The song appeared in the Everything Is Illuminated in 2005, and has become Gogol Bordello’s signature song.

Before the song was played, I could have sworn that violinist Sergey Ryabtsev played notes from Prince’s “When Doves Cry” (a nod to the purple one?). Still the little doodle yiddle led to “Start Wearing Purple”. The song, of course, went over incredibly well with the audience.

There was a double encore… yes, stick around after the first encore, and you get a special solo Eugene (who would be joined on stage by the band by the end of his mini-set).

Of the encore song, the most important song is a cover of Angelic Upstarts’ “Solidarity”. This 1983 song was originally written to stand with the Polish people against authoritarian and communist authority… but is still very relevant in light of Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking of which, the audience pulled out the Ukrainian flag during the encore, and helping singing the lyrics of “give them hope, give them strength, give them life, like a candle burning in the black of night”.

The new Gogol Bordello’s album, Solidaritine, was put together specifically to support the Ukrainian people in the Russo-Ukraine War. The album is a deeply personal album from Ukrainian-born Eugene Hütz… who still has friends and family stuck in Ukraine.

If the band is playing in your area, go see them! The 2023 tour will end in Washington DC on August 5th.

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Gogol Bordello at First Avenue, Minneapolis (25 July 2023)

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Halestorm w/ Tom Keifer at A Taste of MN (Day 3), Waconia, MN (05 July 2014) concert review

HALESTORM Setlist I Miss the Misery Love Bites (…So Do I) It's Not You Freak Like Me Straight Through the Heart (Dio cover) You Call Me a Bitch Like It's a Bad Thing Innocence Don't Know How to Stop Rock Show Gold Dust Woman (Fleetwood Mac cover) Break In Familiar Taste of Poison Arejay Hale Drum Solo Dissident Aggressor (Judas Priest cover) Mz. Hyde Daughters of Darkness I Get Off -- Encore -- Mayhem Out Ta Get Me (Guns N’ Roses cover) Here's To Us (with Tom Keifer) TOM KEIFER Setlist Night Songs (Cinderella song) It's Not Enough A Different Light Somebody Save Me (Cinderella song) Shake Me (Cinderella song) Heartbreak Station (Cinderella song) The Flower Song Ask Me Yesterday Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) (Cinderella song) Nobody's Fool (Cinderella song) Solid Ground Cold Day in Hell Coming Home (Cinderella song) Shelter Me (Cinderella song) With a Little Help from My Friends (Beatles cover) Gypsy Road (Cinderella song) Halestorm Tour Dates 07/18/14 Oshkosh, WI Rock USA 08/02/14 WKRL K-Rockathon 08/03/14 Inn Of The Mountain Gods 08/15/14 Iowa State Fairgrounds Grandstand 08/16/14 Missouri State Fairgrounds Grandstand 09/27/14 Baltimore, MD The Shindig 11/21/14 Peoria, IL Peoria Civic Center Arena 11/22/14 Evansville, IN Ford Center 12/06/14 Denny Sanford Premier Center 12/11/14 Duluth, GA Arena At Gwinnett Center 12/12/14 Bon Secours Wellness Arena 12/13/14 Birmingham, AL BJCC Arena Read More Taste of Minnesota Taking place the rest of the week is the annual Taste of Minnesota. Due to flooding, the Taste of Minnesota has moved to Waconia and the Carver Country Fairgrounds. …

I admit it- I was of those who had a lot of doubts.

Crowd

Taste of Minnesota was a venerable local 4^th of July weekend tradition locally for many years—first held at the Capitol, it then moved to Harriet Island in St. Paul, before an ownership change and rising admission fees scuttled the event after 2010.  Late last year, It was announced that the widow of the original organizer was bringing the Festival back, but when recent rains overflowed the Mississippi and submerged Harriet Island and its stages, prospects again looked bleak.

A last-minute location change was announced, and with less than a week’s notice, the festival moved west, to the Carver County Fairgrounds in Waconia.  The Hard Rock lineup was saved for Day Three, headlined by up-and-comers Halestorm and Cinderella’s Tom Keifer, and from all accounts, was a well-attended success.

The Flamin’ Oh’s Crow

The day began with sets from some longtime national bands with Minnesota roots—The Flamin’ Oh’s (who have been around since the late ‘70s) played the indoor second stage and Crow (who began in 1967) and Gypsy (first formed as The Underbeats in 1962) each played afternoon sets on the main outdoor stage.  Then, the way cleared for the night’s two headliners, who are both coincidentally from Pennsylvania.

Tom Keifer

Tom Keifer is best known as the lead singer and chief songwriter for 80’s blues hard rock band Cinderella, but recently released a solo album, The Way Life Goes (Merovee Records/Warner Music) which had been in-the-making for over ten years.  Keifer looked like he’d aged fairly well and almost evenly split his 73 min. set between solo and Cinderella songs, along with a Beatles cover thrown in for good measure.

Converting the crowd with opener, ‘Night Songs’, the title track from Cinderella’s 1986 debut album, Keifer dressed in mostly black, with styled jeans and the similarly moppish black hair style as he had almost thirty years ago.

Tom Keifer

Solo album songs ‘It’s Not Enough’ and ‘A Different Light’ followed, using the same blues-based hard rock synthesis that Cinderella has become known for, and fit in seamlessly with the older songs with Keifer’s screechy wail still mostly intact, despite his reported continuous vocal cord issues.  “You ready to rock and roll?” Keifer asked the audience, already knowing the answer, before going into three back-to-back Cinderella hits with his crack band, which included Paul Taylor on keyboards, best known from Winger and Alice Cooper’s 80s-era band.

An acoustic mini set half way through included duets with wife, Savannah Snow, on the new ‘Ask Me Yesterday’’ and Cinderella classic power ballad, ‘Don’t Know What You Got’. “Sing this with me, you’ll know this one”, Keifer remarked before going into The Beatles’ ‘With a Little Help from my Friends’, which was more influenced by Joe Cocker’s soulful version than the Fab Four’s original.  Keifer ended with ‘Gypsy Road’, a blues stomper from Cinderella’s sophomore album, Long Cold Winter, with appropriate set closing lyric, “I drive all night just to see the light”.

The pride of Red Lion, PA; hard rock foursome Halestorm (Lzzy Hale - vocals,  lead guitar, keyboard; Arejay Hale - drums; Joe Hottinger - lead guitar; Josh Smith – bass) was feeling a case of studio cabin fever, as they took a break from finishing their third album (due later this year) to hit the road for some shows this summer.

The band wasted little time in entrancing the crowd, as it opened with radio hit, ‘I Miss the Misery’ from previous album, The Strange Case of… (Atlantic Records). Lzzy Hale was adorned in all black- sleeveless top, leather pants and matching eye liner, while younger brother Arjay banged (and climbed) the drums behind her with restless manic energy.

‘Love Bites’ and ‘Freak Like Me’, which both have local radio airplay, personify the band’s songwriting approach- crunchy riffs, soaring choruses, and somewhat seductively affronting lyrics.  Keeping to their bar band roots and as evidenced on their ReAniMate EPs, the group dove into several well-suited cover songs during their 90 min set, starting with Dio’s 1983 song, ‘Straight Through the Heart’ to a classic Fleetwood Mac song, to the mostly obscure 1977 Judas Priest song, ‘Dissident Aggressor’, and a seething Guns ‘n Roses cover of ‘Out Ta Get Me’, which was saved for the encore.

Lzzy Hale

Hale slowed things mid-set with gentle piano ballad, ‘Break In’, which prompted a bevy of lighters and lit cell phones from the crowd, soon followed by sibling Arejay’s drum solo, which featured dropped beats from legendary hard rock songs, along with the younger Hale playing with maybe the largest drum sticks we’ve ever seen.  ‘Mz. Hyde’ and main set closer, ‘I Get Off’ were also well received, with Hale teasing the audience, “I think we can take it a little further… strut your stuff, Minnesota”.

Halestorm Setlist

The three-song encore saved the best for last; starting with the new and yet-to-be-released, ‘Mayhem’ from the upcoming album, followed by the fierce G’n’R cover, then the band brought Tom Keifer back on stage for a special “guest version” of ‘Here’s to Us’, from A Strange Case of…, which had beer glasses held high and swaying, crowd hands in the air, and everyone assembled on stage, clearly having a good time.

Despite its cloudy recent history, the weather setbacks, and a makeshift forced change of venue, A Taste of Minnesota (as it’s now officially called) brought a satisfying musical platter of acts, at least on this night, with the hope the Festival will continue through any unexpected future obstacles and flourish to regain its previous status as a premier event.

Halestorm at A Taste of Minnesota, Waconia (05 July 2014)

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