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Just Like Every Groovy Christmas

It never fails, every year, around this time, we get a ton of new Christmas songs. It’s a tradition, after all.

Read More Silversun Pickups As it had been a decade-and-a-half since Silversun Pickups had last played Lawrence, Kansas; for their longtime local fans, the anticipation of this show at Liberty Hall was years in the making. … Low Low’s Mimi Parker has died. The news came via Twitter: Friends, it’s hard to put the universe into language and into a short message, but ....

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American alternative rock Silversun Pickups recently shared their cover of Low’s “Just Like Christmas.” The song was produced by Butch Vig (Garbage) and all proceeds will be donated to Union Gospel Mission, a charity of Low’s choice, in Mimi Parker’s name. Parker recently passed away in November.

Brian Aubert of SSPU shared, “We’ve been fans of Low’s beautiful music for a long time now. When we heard the news about Mimi’s passing, we were incredibly sad. With Alan’s blessing, we decided to cover one of their Christmas songs, with hopes of raising money for a cause dear to Alan in Mimi’s name. Low’s Christmas is a classic. It was the first one I ever heard that made me feel holiday music could be cool.”

Nikki from Silversun Pickups (16 Aug 2022)

We saw Silversun Pickups in August 2022 and wrote, “As it had been a decade-and-a-half since Silversun Pickups had last played Lawrence, Kansas; for their longtime local fans, the anticipation of this show at Liberty Hall was years in the making.”

Silversun Pickups Tour Dates

Fri, Feb 17, 2023 Birmingham, AL Iron City
Sun, Feb 19, 2023 Knoxville, TN Mill & Mine
Mon, Feb 20, 2023 Asheville, NC Orange Peel
Tue, Feb 21, 2023 Louisville, KY Mercury Ballroom
Thu, Feb 23, 2023 McKees Rock, PA Roxian Theater
Fri, Feb 24, 2023 Cincinnati, OH Bogarts
Sat, Feb 25, 2023 Chicago, IL Radio Show
Tue, Feb 28, 2023 Little Rock, AR The Hall
Thu, Mar 2, 2023 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
Sat, Mar 4, 2023 San Antonio, TX The Aztec Theatre
Sun, Mar 5, 2023 Ft Worth, TX Tannahill's
Mon, Mar 6, 2023 Dallas, TX House of Blues
Tue, Mar 7, 2023 Houston, TX House of Blues
Thu, Mar 9, 2023 Austin, TX Emo's

Read More Linda Lindas 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. .… Paramore Headliners Paramore have reunited, and the pop punk band has released new single, “This is Why” from a brand-new album of the same name, out in late Feb. Recent live sets have opened with the new single, leader Hayley Williams .…

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The Linda Lindas (11 July 2022)

Do you guys remember The Linda Lindas? We saw them open for Japanese Breakfast in July 2022, and honestly, we were way more excited about the opener: “For a young (literally teenagers), new band, they sure had plenty of songs under their belt, as they played a rock/punk fun 43-min set on the first night of the tour.”

The Los Angeles punk band recently stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! and performed their new holiday single “Groovy Xmas.”

Fans can catch The Linda Lindas one last time this year when they headline a sold out show at LA’s Fonda Theatre on Dec. 15. A full rundown of upcoming tour dates including a 2023 tour with Paramore.

Tour dates:

5/27 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Adjacent Music Festival
7/6 – New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center *
7/8 – Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena *
7/9 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center *
7/11 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center *
7/13 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena *
7/24 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena *
7/25 – Portland, OR @ Veterans Memorial Coliseum *
7/27 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Vivint Arena *
7/29 – Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center *
7/30 – St Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center *
8/2 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center *  

* w/ Paramore

Good NEWZ Girls
@GoodNewzGirls

“Every Christmas”, the new single from Nickelodeon’s Good NEWZ Girls recently aired on Nickelodeon’s holiday TV special, The Great Nickmas Tree Sliming… Hosted by That Girl Lay Lay.

The official music video, which was helmed by MTV VMA-nominated director Sarah McColgan, already hit over 1 million views on YouTube alone.

“Every Christmas” is the first holiday single from the new edition of Good NEWZ Girls’ debut EP, Winter Getaway. After listening to the Christmas song, it’s pretty good - if you like auto-tune and pop music. It’s fun, it’s catchy, and kids will love it.

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We♥KC- October 10-16, 2022 Upcoming Shows (Kansas City / Lawrence KS)

Read More Lizzo We’re very proud of local Lizzo making it “big” outside of Minneapolis. The grrrl recently premiered her single/music video for "Humanize" Video on the Guardian. Her album Big GRRRL ...

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Rocktober marches on! Even with haunted houses open and numerous area weekend Fall festivals, there’s still plenty on the concert menu, with many bands making their way north, after playing the first weekend of Austin City Limits Festival in Texas.

Saturday (Oct 14) is particularly log jammed, despite Death Cab for Cutie postponing their tour for four months, so opener Low’s Mimi Parker can recover from cancer treatments.

Here’s what’s happening in the Kansas City/Lawrence, KS metro October 10th-16th.

(Several artists are still requiring precautions for entry, so check with the venue and/or assume vaccination proof, might still be required)

Monday Oct 10

The Midnight, The Truman, $30-$55

Synthwave group led by duo Tyler Lyle (a songwriter from Atlanta) and Tim McEwan (a producer from Denmark) out in support of their fourth full-length, Heroes.

Nashville alt pop band Nightly is set to open.

Tuesday Oct 11

Kid Bloom, Bottleneck-Lawrence, $20

Buzzworthy LA indie pop singer songwriter (aka Lennon Kloser) has a debut album out, Highway (via Position Music) and latest single, “Cowboy”. There’s a retro feel to his slightly psych-tinged music, which caught more widespread attention after his 2020 EP, Blood Sugar and he’s previously supported The Neighbourhood and Lennon Stella.

Fellow LA indie band All Things Blue (led by India "Blue" Coombs and guitarist Jon Joseph) to open.

AWOLNATION w Badflower, The Mysterines, Uptown, $35

More Los Angeles representation as Aaron Bruno and co. return, in support of a recently released covers album, My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers and Me, which includes their versions of Beck, Jewel, Midnight Oil and Grouplove songs. Expect some of those, in addition to their own hits like “Sail” and “Run”. We last caught them outdoors in Minneapolis in 2017.

LA alt rockers Badflower released their appropriately titled second album, This is How the World Ends, at the end of last year and UK’s rising The Mysterines are still touring in support of their debut album Reeling (Fiction Records), who we also caught live headlining back in May.

Goose, The Midland. $35

The CT indie-groove jam band has a new full-length, Dripfield out and is known for their live musical riffing and covers from the likes of The Band, Four Non Blondes, and others. Their seemingly simple name began as an inside joke from when one of the members worked in a Colorado taco shop and ended up sticking.

A R I Z O N A, Granada CANCELED

Wednesday Oct 12

Phoenix, The Midland, $29.50-$59.50

French favorite alt pop rockers have a new album, Alpha Zulu out and expand from their foursome to a six-piece live. We just caught the band live again, last month in Minneapolis, at the tour's first stop and were somewhat surprised they’ve been opening their set with one of their biggest hits, “Lisztomania” but it sets the mood for a fun evening. "Tonight", from the new album features Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, who can also be seen singing along in the music video.

Tai Verdes, The Truman, $25-$50

Cali singer-songwriter who broke it big with last year’s “A-O-K” single returns with new second album HDTV (a follow-up to debut album TV), and a fall tour of the same name.

Lyle Lovett w John Hiatt, Uptown,$59-$125

Two absolute legends perform an acoustic evening (separately and we hope together). Multi-Grammy winner Lovett blends country, swing, jazz, folk, gospel and blues, and has earned distinctions as Texas State Musician and the Americana Music Association’s Trailblazer Award.

Hiatt has been hailed as "one of rock's most astute singer-songwriters of the last 40 years" by the Los Angeles Times and artists from B.B King, Buddy Guy and Emmylou Harris to Iggy Pop, Paula Abdul and Rosanne Cash have all covered his memorable songs.

Slift, Bottleneck. $20-$25

French stoner rockers led by the brothers Fossat who put out a live album, Levitation Sessions, last year. KC pop/rock locals The Moose to open.

Thursday Oct 13

Batushka with Hate and Hideous Divinity, Granada. $25

From Poland, this popular black metal band led by Krzysztof Drabikowski has been relatively silent of late, due to the pandemic and a legal name dispute with a former vocalist, but now seems ready to return to live stages again.

Fellow Polish blackened death metal band Hate and Hideous Divinity, an Italian technical brutal death metal band listed as support, making this a Euro-centric evening of dark headbanging.

Friday Oct 14

Paramore w Young the Giant, Japanese Breakfast, Azura Amph, $36-$205.50

Saving the best for the last, the final show of this outdoor venue’s season features an eclectic alternative triple-bill, that many have waited all year for. Headliners Paramore have reunited, and the pop punk band has released new single, “This is Why” from a brand-new album of the same name, out in late Feb. Recent live sets have opened with the new single, leader Hayley Williams even plays a song from her solo release, and Zac Ferro sings lead on a HalfNoise cover.

Count us as fans of California band Young the Giant, who we last saw in 2019 and who have a new single, “Wake Up” in advance of brand-new album, American Bollywood, coming soon and which will compile four recent EPs. They’ve opened live with the new single so expect that and hits like “Cough Syrup”, “Something to Believe In”, “Apartment” and Superposition” live.

There are fewer more inspiring recent success stories than Japanese Breakfast and Michelle Zauner’s story of going through the grief of her mother’s death to produce a best-selling book, and a huge breakthrough album, Jubilee with hit singles “Be Sweet” and “Paprika” which were performed on SNL and most recently, Austin City Limits, to give the band even more mainstream exposure. We’ve followed Zauner and co. since early 2017 and have caught the band live three times in just over the last year, so yes, we’re steadfast fans and couldn’t be happier at all the success.

Clutch w Quicksand, Helmet, Oct 14, Uptown, $37-$55

A mighty triple-bill as groove rock masters CLUTCH wind down this 26-date run with Helmet and Quicksand. Single "We Strive For Excellence" preceded the latest album, Sunrise on Slaughter Beach, which was released last month on the band’s own label and went Top 3 on the Billboard Hard Rock chart. We caught them live last, back in 2016 at First Avenue in Minneapolis.

Lizzo with Latto, T-Mobile Center, $39.50-$129.50

No doubt she’s Special! – we knew it all along, having followed her for years in Minneapolis (both with group Grrrl Party and then solo) watching her hone her own brand of stardom after arriving from Houston. With new #2 charting album, Special, she collaborates with the likes of Coldplay and it features massive radio hits, “About Damn Time”, “2 Be Loved” and the title track.

She’s graduating to full arenas on this tour that won’t stop until next March in London and fellow rapper Latto, who’s “Big Energy” single from album 777, ruled the Spring/Summer airwaves, will support for this show.

Deorro, The Truman, $30-$50

Mexicali DJ/producer has a new full-length, ORRO, out on legendary dance label Ultra Records, and has recent single collaborations with Gente De Zona, Tiësto, and Los Tucanes de Tijuana w/Maffio. OOKAY and Chuwe are listed as support acts.

G Love and Special Sauce, Steve Tilford Benefit, Granada- Lawrence, $15-$125

The Philly rock, blues and hip-hop trio converges again to play the annual Steve Tilford Benefit outdoors in downtown Lawrence, in support of their latest, Philadelphia Mississippi (via Philadelphonic Records) released in June. We caught last year’s worthy benefit live, featuring a performance from the Michael Franti Trio, and the top ticket price even includes a pre-concert dinner.

Shaquille O Neal aka DJ Diesel, Univ of KS Late Night in the Phog, Allen Fieldhouse- Lawrence, free w RSVP

The reigning NCAA Mens Basketball National Champions begin their title defense with this traditional kickoff rally. The star of Kazaam will be bringing his Shaq-Fu magic and DJ skills to headline the event (we saw him spin during Super Bowl week in Minneapolis) and KU men’s & women’s basketball teams will usher in the unofficial start of the season with scrimmages, skits and more.

This year’s event again will feature the Phog Fest on the front law of Allen Fieldhouse, beginning at 2 p.m. Students will be allowed to enter at 4:45 p.m., with gates for the general public opening at 5 p.m. Admission will continue to be free for fans, however, tickets will have to be claimed online in advance, with all seats outside of the student section, now being reserved.

Death Cab for Cutie w Low, The Midland RESCHEDULED TO FEB 2023

Sales, Granada CANCELED

Saturday Oct 15

Matt Maeson, The Truman, $25-$50

The Virginia native has really exploded onto the scene in the last several years, hitting initially with “Cringe” at the end of 2016 and more recently, last year’s "Hallucinogenics" which topped the Billboard charts. Never Had to Leave is his sophomore full-length, released in August on Atlantic Records, with latest single, “Problems”. He first hit our radar back in 2018.

Charleston alt rockers All Get Out slated to open, in support of full-length, Kodak.

Get Up Kids, Granada- Lawrence, Free

Anyone that recently missed them in KC, can make the half-hour drive West and see the band for free at this 8pm outdoor show downtown.

Boombox Cartel, Aura. $40

Los Angeles-based DJ act consisting of producer Americo Garcia (of Laredo, TX) and writing partner Jorge Medina (of Monterrey, MX) who have a new single out, “Heart of Stone (featuring Nevve) – a night of dubstep, heavy bass, and trap dance music.

Carbon Leaf, Knuckleheads. $22.50

Richmond, VA alt-country/Americana indie-rock quintet is due for new music (their last release was a 2018 album), but also celebrate their 30^th anniversary, so maybe new sounds are in the offering.

Sunday Oct 16

FKJ (French Kiwi Juice), The Midland, $34.50

Tours, France multi-instrumentalist / live looper (aka Vincent Fenton) has a house music record out called Vincent on one of our favorite indie labels, Mom+Pop, and recent single “Greener” features Carlos Santana.

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Japanese Breakfast at First Avenue, Minneapolis (11 July 2022)

Japanese Breakfast Setlist Paprika Be Sweet Kokomo, IN Tactics Road Head Savage Good Boy Heft Boyish (Little Big League cover) The Body Is a Blade Glider Posing in Bondage Machinist Slide Tackle Everybody Wants to Love You -- Encore -- Posing for Cars Diving Woman 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 ... Linda Lindas 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 Japanese Breakfast show at First Avenue, in Minneapolis, on July 11th, had sold out… leaving many fans asking for spare tickets and showing at the venue to try and hopefully buy some limited released tickets.

This show was one of the first official shows of the 5th annual Independent Venue Week, a nationwide program to spotlight over 400 venues, in all 50 states and DC. Naturally, all the First Avenue venues (including 7th Street, Fine Line, Turf Club, Palace Theatre) are on the Independent Venue list… so if you go see a show at any of their venues, you’re supporting locally owned and run businesses. Other venues in the Minnesota area, independently run are Elision Playhouse, Granada Theater, The Fitzgerald Theater, and The Parkway Theater.

Anyway, very excited to burst on stage were The Linda Lindas, their first show in Minneapolis.

Just to clarify, Kristin Kontrol (formerly of Dum Dum Girls) is not a member of The Linda Lindas. Kristin Kontrol did assembled the group for Girlschool LA in 2018…. but the actual band members are: Sisters Mila de la Garza (drummer, 11) and Lucia de la Garza (guitar, 14), cousin Eloise Wong (bass, 13), and family friend Bela Salazar (guitar, 17). For a young (literally teenagers), new band, they sure had plenty of songs under their belt, as they played a rock/punk fun 43-min set on the first night of the tour.

So, as I suspected, the band was inspired by the Japanese film, Linda, Linda, Linda, with their theme song “Linda Linda” (Blue Hearts).

If you caught the Japanese Breakfast show at First Avenue in September, it’s almost the same show, down to the Little Big League song, “Boyish”, and same encore songs (“Posing for Cars” and “Diving Woman”). Most of the changes in the new song were to drop songs like “In Heaven” and “The Woman That Loves You”, and adding new songs - mostly on the second half of the set: “The Body Is a Blade” to “Slide Tackle”.

Still, for the audience, they were still very excited to see Japanese Breakfast again, and always big cheers whenever the gong is used (“Paprika”).

Remaining tour dates:

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

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Linda Lindas (Lucia de la Garza)

Linda Lindas (Bela Salazar)

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Japanese Breakfast at First Avenue, Minneapolis (11 July 2022)

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Minneapolis: This Week (07/17/2022)

As you know, I post the W♥M Minneapolis preview calendar a month in advance. Things may have changed, and/or I just wanted to remind you about the shows that we will be covering this week.

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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:

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 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’). .…

UPDATE: The big news for this week is that Mandy Moore has cancelled her show at First Avenue on July 12th. She explained that she’s pregnant. She thought she could power through, but the long hours on the bus and not getting proper rest was just too challenging. She had to make the decision to cancel the entire 2022 tour.

07/12/2022 Tuesday

Mandy Moore [CANCELLED]
with AHI
at First Avenue
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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

07/14 Mitski with Indigo De Souza at Surly Brewing Festival Field Read More Mitski If you’re one of the cool kids, you’ll be at this upcoming sold out Mitski show at First Avenue’s mainroom. It’s quite a difference, considering that it was only Nov 2015 that Mitski made her debut at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis. …

07/14/2022 Thursday

Mitski
with Indigo De Souza
at Surly Brewing Festival Field
first-avenue.com

We just saw Mitski at the Palace Theatre in St Paul, on 14 Mar 2022, and wrote, “Japanese / American singer / songwriter Mitski headlined the Palace Theatre, in St Paul, on Monday night… bringing in her story-songs from Laurel Hell. The songs are so good that the Guardian had to dub her the “best young songwriter” earlier in February.”

If you missed that show, here’s your second chance to see the story of Laurel Hell by Mitski at the Surly Brewing Festival Field. It is all ages, despite being held at the beer company’s field.

Also note, event starts at 5:30pm (music at 7pm), and I recommend arriving early to get a free event parking spot.

Indigo De Souza to open.

Tour dates:

July 14 - Minneapolis, MN @ Surly Brewing Festival Field %
July 16 - Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
July 22 - New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall#
July 23 - New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall #
July 24 - Philadelphia, PA @ @ Franklin Music Hall #
July 26 - Boston, MA @ Roadrunner #
July 27 - Boston, MA @ Roadrunner #
July 28 - Providence, RI @ Bold Point Park #
July 30 - Montreal, QC @ Osheaga
Aug. 9 - Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield
Aug 10 - Burnaby, BC @ Deer Lake Park ~
Aug 12 - Seattle, WA @ Day In Day Out Festival
Sep 16 - Sep 18 - Los Angeles, CA @ Primavera Sound LA

% support from Indigo De Souza
# support from The Weather Station
~ support from Hurray For The Riff Raff

07/16 Big Gigantic with INZO, Young Franco at Fillmore Read More Big Gigantic Big Gigantic w DJ INZO, Young Franco and Covex, Arvest Bank at The Midland, $23.50-$38 Out on their Brighter Future Tour, the Boulder CO electronic hip-hop jazz instrumental duo …

07/16/2022 Saturday

Big Gigantic
with INZO, Young Franco
at Fillmore
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Genre-bending Boulder, CO-based duo Big Gigantic is on tour in support of their eight studio album Brighter Future 2, available now at all DSPs and streaming services.

Fellow Colorado electronic artist INZO (Mike Inzano) and Young Franco will open.

Tour dates:

07/10 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
07/13 – Oklahoma City, OK – OKC Farmers Market
07/14 – Kansas City, MO – Midland Theatre
07/15 – Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
07/16 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore
07/17 – Chesterfield, MO – The Factory
07/20 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
07/21 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
07/22 – Garrettsville, OH – Funk ‘N Flow 2022 †
07/23 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
07/24 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s
07/27 – Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom
07/28 – Boston, MA – The Roadrunner Boston
07/29 – Washington, DC – Echostage
07/30 – Brooklyn, NY – Rowdytown @ The Brooklyn Mirage
08/22 – Long Pond, PA - Elements Music & Arts Festival †
09/23 – Morrison, CO – Rowdytown X @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
09/24 – Morrison, CO – Rowdytown X @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
10/7-10/9 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Music Festival †
10/14-10/16 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Music Festival †
10/27-10/30 – Live Oak, FL – Suwanee Hulaween † *

† FESTIVAL APPEARANCE
* with NGHTMRE as GIGANTIC NGHTMRE

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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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
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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’). .…

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Mandy Moore
with AHI
at First Avenue
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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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Japanese Breakfast w/ Luna Li at Liberty Hall, Lawrence, KS (2021-10-09)

10/09: Japanese Breakfast at Liberty Hall   Setlist Paprika Be Sweet In Heaven The Woman That Loves You Kokomo, IN Ballad O Savage Good Boy Road Head Here You Come Again (Dolly Parton cover) Boyish (Little Big League song) The Body Is a Blade Tactics Glider Posing in Bondage Slide Tackle Everybody Wants to Love You -- Encore -- Posing for Cars Diving Woman Tour Dates 10/10 - St Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall * 10/11 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall * - SOLD OUT 10/12 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall * - SOLD OUT 10/14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * - SOLD OUT 10/15 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * - SOLD OUT 10/16 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * - SOLD OUT 10/17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * = 10/30 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall 10/31 - Austin, TX @ Levitation 2021 11/1 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger ^ 11/3 - Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress (Outdoor Plaza) ^ 11/4 - Tempe, AZ @ Coca-Cola Sun Deck ^ 11/7 - Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre ^ 11/9 - Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades ^ 11/11 - Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery ^ 11/12 - San Luis Obispo, CA @ Madonna Inn ^ 11/13 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst ^ 11/14 - Perris, CA @ Desert Daze ^ 11/15 - Pomona, CA @ The Glass House ^ 11/16 - Pomona, CA @ The Glass House ^ 3/13 - Madrid, ES @ Sala Independence 3/14 - Barcelona, ES @ Sala Apolo 3/16 - Paris, FR @ La Maroquineire 3/17 - Antwerp, BE @ Trix 3/19 - Amsterdam, NE @ Paradiso Noord 3/20 - Hamburg, HH @ Molotow Musikclub 3/21 - Copenhagen, DE @ Hotel Cecil 3/22 - Berlin, DE @ Franzz Club 3/23 - Cologne, DE @ Luxor 3/25 - Bristol, UK @ SXW 3/26 - Manchester, UK @ Academy 2 3/27 - Glasgow, UK @ St. Luke's 3/28 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Community Room 3/30 - London, UK @ Kentish Town Forum 6/9 - Porto, PT @ NOS Primavera Sound Festival * w/ Luna Li # w/ Charly Bliss ^ w/ SASAMI 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). ... Luna Li Toronto band Luna Li opened the show. The name is really Hannah Kim’s band, a multi-instrumentalist and producer, and she recruited Charise on keys, Sabrina on bass, and Braden on drums, for her live shows. …

It’s enough to feel a little self-inadequate, in the best possible way--

While most of us have spent these pandemic months hunkered down, navigating online meetings, and putting on those “quarantine fifteen” pounds, Japanese Breakfast (aka Michelle Zauner) is living a charmed life-

She’s managed to release an upbeat new album, Jubilee (on Dead Oceans), become a best-selling author (and also have that book optioned by MGM/Orion), make the soundtrack to video game Sable, even create an ice-cream flavor of her own, and now she makes her way back out on tour to play live to her biggest audiences to date.  It’s definitely been her year. 

The tour made its way into the heartland, playing a crowded Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS on a breezy but pleasant Saturday night.  Opening the evening was headliner-approved and one of our new favorite bands, Toronto’s Luna Li.  Like the main act, the four-person band started essentially as a solo project from multi-instrumentalist songwriter Hannah Bussiere Kim and grew from there. Though we didn’t see her play all nine instruments she knows in their forty-minute set, she did switch between several and gave the crowd a healthy taste of her sound from recent instrumental EP, jams (on Real Life Music)  with a full debut, due out early next year. 

Dressed in orange ath-leisure wear, she and her band were a welcome and fitting compliment to the headliner, and Kim often beamed with glee to be playing in these parts for the first time.  The music itself  was lush, swooning and often ethereal, unafraid to go into wordless passages as she took parts of genres and re-launched them onto a unique dreamy plain, even inviting the audience to close their eyes to better experience the soundscapes. 

Also of Korean heritage, Kim praised the headliner, saying seeing them live a few years ago was the first time she could directly relate to someone on stage, which in turn gave her added inspiration to further pursue her own musical dreams.

Like a proud parent, we’ve watched Japanese Breakfast grow from the very beginning-- as previously mentioned, we covered her four times in less than two years – from opening slots in 2016(Mitski at 7th Street in July 2016, Porches at 7th Street in Sep 2016, Slowdive at Palace Theatre in May 2017and then finally headlining at Triple Rock in Oct 2017.

The seventy-five minute set literally opened with a gong-banging beginning as the opening track from Jubilee, “Paprika” found Zauner dancing about in a flowing frilly pink dress and goth boots, smashing the small gong near her keyboard with the song’s chorus multiple times. 

“Be Sweet” also from the new record followed, turning the sound more electronic with the most faithful along the front rail singing “I wanna believe”back to, and along with Zauner.  Zauner paused briefly before “Kokomo, IN” to address the crowd on her first time in the area, smiling often and mentioning she was so pleased to hear her own music playing earlier in stores down the street from the theater. 

After some keyboard tuning, Zauner and band played their deepest cut of the evening, “Ballad O” from 2020’s Pop Songs, an EP made in quarantine with Crying’s Ryan Galloway under the name Bumper but this night,it was re-invented as more of murder-ballad with vocal help from drummer Craig Hendrix. 

With Zauner remaining on piano, the laid back vibes continued with their cover of Dolly Parton’s 1977 hit, “Here You Come Again”, a seemingly obscure choice, but one that found Zauner hitting the twang and cadence of the song and high notes with admirable expertise.  “Boyish”, a 2014 song from Zauner’s previous Philadelphia band Little Big League was next, proving further that the setlist could unabashedly look back, as well as forward.  

“It’s rather unfortunate I have to sing a song about someone I don’t like very much… facing someone I like quite a bit!” Zauner said, prefacing the new and very personal “Tactics” inspired by the toxic relationship with her father, as she sat across from husband Peter Bradley on guitar.

The main set would end with an exclamation in the form of 2016’s “Everybody Wants to Love You” and the crowd joining Zauner and band’s infectious effervescence of joyously being able to play live again, visibly feeding from the energy of the shared musical experience. 

The two-song encore began with the new album’s final track, “Posing for Cars”, an introspective relationship song that Zauner began alone, before the rest of the band eventually joined as the overall volume strengthened and reverb and pedal effects enveloped the song’s ending. 

Zauner sang “I want it all” on the evening’s final song, 2017’s “Diving Woman” and based on her many recent accomplishments and the still-rising success of Japanese Breakfast, it’s fair to say she achieved everything she’s wished for.

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Rocktober in KC - Kansas City / Lawrence / Topeka - October 1-16, 2021

10/01: Avett Brothers at Azura   10/07: St Vincent at Grinders KC   10/07: Buddy Guy at Knuckleheads   10/08: Nation of Language at recordBar   Read More Nation of Language Brooklyn-based synth trio Nation of Language (singer/guitarist Ian Devaney, keyboardist Aidan Noell and bassist Michael Sue-Poi) recently released their single and video for “This Fractured Mind.” The single is from the ...

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Rocktober is upon us! 

What is usually the busiest time of the year for live shows, still is so, despite the continuing health restrictions and general lack of foreign acts coming over. 

It actually started getting busy in early September as more things open, and expect a wealth of choices through mid-November. 

Please continue to check venue sites and socials for their latest, as a few shows have canceled and many have moved locations– St. Vincent preferred an outdoor show, and the Granada Theater in Lawrence has had continuing maintenance and supply delays. 

Here’s what’s happening in the area for the first half of October

(a few recommended shows are highlighted below):

Friday October 1

The Avett Brothers, Azura Amphitheater. $44.50-$69.50

Slaughter with La Guns, Ameristar. $27-$140

Chase Atlantic, Moved to Liberty Hall Lawrence, $22.50/$25.

Sunday October 3

Machine Gun Kelly w JXDN and carolesdaughter, Azura Amphitheater. $68-$237

Casting Crowns w Matthew West, Stormont-Vail Event Center- Topeka $17-$97.

Tuesday October 5

Toadies w. Reverend Horton Heat, Frankie & The Witch Fingers,  Knuckleheads. $25-$30

Deep Sea Diver, RecordBar. $15

Badflower with Dead Poet Society and Teenage Wrist, Moved to The Bottleneck. $22

Rival Sons w/Reignwolf, Jameson Burt, The Truman. $29.50-$60

Ben Folds with Kansas City Symphony, Oct. 5-6, Kauffman Center. $50-$150

Wednesday October 6
Pitbull with Iggy Azalea, Starlight. $39.95-$149.95

Thursday October 7

City Morgue, Granada Theater- Lawrence. $20

Marc Rebillet, Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland. $23-$33

Michael W. Smith, Folly. $25-$75

St. Vincent,  Moved to Grinders KC. $35-$75

We probably first saw aka Annie Clark when she was a member of Polyphonic Spree but things have dramatically evolved in the years since as she has skirted the art-pop fringe, and constantly re-invented herself in Bowie-like fashion.  The latest release is Daddy’s Home (on Loma Vista) which has a 70’s NYC vibe and was co-produced by Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff. 

Clark’s latest band includes the likes of Jason (Jellyfish, Beck, etc) Falkner so the music is in very good hands (note the venue change).

Buddy Guy, Knuckleheads, $62.50

The 85-year young guitar legend.  Nothing else can be said, and despite the hefty door charge, is always worth seeing play his trademark polka-dot guitar and you’re damn right he’s still got the blues. 

Friday October 8

He$H with Bommer and Zia, Granada. $15-$25

Jason Aldean with Hardy and Lainey Wilson, T-Mobile Center. $50-$325

Jelly Roll,  Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland. $25-$30

Nikki Glaser, Uptown. $39.75

Nation of Language, recordBar, $12.

10/09: Japanese Breakfast at Liberty Hall   10/13: Gojira at Midland KC   10/14: Madison Cunningham at Bottleneck   10/15: Steel Panther at Truman   10/16: Alice Cooper at Stormount   10/16: Andrea Bocelli at T-Mobile   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 ...

Saturday October 9

Japanese Breakfast with Luna Li, Moved to Liberty Hall. $25

We remain longtime fans of aka Michelle Zauner, having previously seen her open for : Mitski at 7th Street in July 2016, Porches at 7th Street in Sep 2016, Slowdive at Palace Theatre in May 2017 and then finally headlining at Triple Rock in Oct 2017.  Vu just caught the band in Minneapolis here and the tour continues in support of the aptly-named new album, Jubilee (on Dead Oceans). Despite the pandemic, Zauner is probably having the most successful year to date with a best-selling book out as well. (Note the venue change)

Karrin Allyson, Folly. $20-$55

Marc Anthony,  T-Mobile Center. $64-$184

Primus with Black Mountain, GrindersKC. $37.50-$97

Sunday October 10

Beach Fossils and Wild Nothing with Hannah Jadagu, Granada. $25

Michigander w/ Kat King, RecordBar. $13
Carbon Leaf, Uptown Theater. $20

Monday October 11
Local H w Radkey, Record Bar  $15

Tuesday October 12

Rod Wave, Uptown.(Sold Out)

Erykah Badu,  Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland. $39.50-$170

Wednesday October 13

Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness w/Zac Clark, The Truman. $35-$70

Gojira w/ Knocked Loose , Alien Weaponry, Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland. $25-$50.

The French heavy metallers returnwith new album Fortitude (on Roadrunner Records) and became its best-selling album in the US on its first week and Louder Sound declaring it their best album.  Make sure to show up early for Knocked Loose, a Kentucky hardcore punk band whose latest, 2019’s A Different Shade of Blue (on Pure Noise) was a Top5 of the year choice for Revolver Magazine. 

Flipturn, Riot Room. $15
Tim O’Brien with Jan Fabricius, 1900 Building. $15-$25.

Thursday October 14

Madison Cunningham w/ S.G. Goodman, Bottleneck Lawrence, $18-$20.

The California singer/songwriter has a new EP, Wednesday (on Verve Forecast) in which she covers Tom Waits, Radiohead, John Mayer and The Beatles, and we caught her early on, opening in 2018. The folk-pop artist has a new single, “Broken Harvest” and deserves a listen.

The Front Bottoms, Granada Lawrence. $28

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Prairie Band Casino Mayetta, $30.

Friday October 15
Steel Panther, The Truman, $27.50-$55.

Hair metal will never die, an always entertaining foray into the glory days of the 80’s Sunset Strip era. Although longtime bassist Lexxi Foxx to form a new band, seasoned vocalist Michael Starr and guitarist Satchel, have been in the band more than twenty years.  Latest album from 2019 was called (what else but) Heavy Metal Rules.

Vicki Lawrence and Mama, Ameristar. $40-$145

Legends of Hip Hop feat. Juvenile, Mystikal, Scarface, 8Ball&MJG, Bun B, DJ Quik, Municipal Auditorium

David Ramirez, Matt Costa, Riot Room.

Saturday October 16

Alice Cooper w Ace Frehley, Stormont-Vail Event Center- Topeka, $25-90.

The legendary master of shock rock returns, along with the guitarist known for “Shock Me”.  Alice Cooper released Detroit Stories (on earMusic) earlier this year, named for the city that launched his band’s initial success and was recorded with Motor City musicians to bring a new freshness to a classic sound. We were lucky to see opener Ace Frehley when he played with Gene Simmons for the first time in sixteen years and expect a healthy number of Kiss songs as well as solo favorites. 

Andrea Bocelli, T-Mobile Center. $80-$1,500

One of the musical highlights of the pandemic was the Italian tenor performing on Easter Sunday, in an empty Milan cathedral. His latest album is last year’s Believe (on Sugar Music/Decca) which includes his version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” but hearing his angelic voice live won’t come cheap, with tickets topping in four-figures. 

Pokey LaFarge, Knuckleheads. $29.50

Preacher Lawson, Oct. 16, Ameristar. $20-$35

Liily, Riot Room.  

Alina Baraz, Oct. 16, Uptown - Cancelled

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Japanese Breakfast at First Avenue, Minneapolis (2021-09-19)

Setlist Paprika Be Sweet In Heaven The Woman That Loves You Kokomo, IN Tactics Boyish (Little Big League song) The Body Is a Blade In Hell Glider Posing in Bondage Savage Good Boy Road Head Slide Tackle Everybody Wants to Love You -- Encore -- Posing for Cars Diving Woman Read More Japanese Breakfast Our favorite Korean musician Japanese Breakfast (stagename for Michelle Zauner) is back on tour in support of her new album Jubilee (Dead Oceans Records). ... Luna Li Toronto native multi-instrumentalist and producer, Luna Li (aka Hannah Kim) will open the show. …

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).

Toronto band Luna Li opened the show. The name is really Hannah Kim’s band, a multi-instrumentalist and producer, and she recruited Charise on keys, Sabrina on bass, and Braden on drums, for her live shows.

Originally Hannah was using the name Veins, but felt that it painted her band as “a metal or a dark hard rock band.” So they changed the name to Luna Li, after it ended up on a shortlist of names.

Luna Li kicked off her 40-min set with “Alone But Not Lonely”, a song that she wrote in her first cockroach infested apartment. Yes, the insects have kept her from being completely alone…

By the time she started to play “Trying”, she decided to take off her custom jacket. She wanted to show off the jacket, but it was just too hot on stage.

She then talked about how she wrote an instrumental EP during the pandemic and wanted to play some of those songs for us. The song required the use of her violin… which got huge cheers from all the classical fans in the audience.

The turnout for Japanese Breakfast’s biggest headlining venue to date was quite impressive… and she certainly deserves it.

We previously saw her open for other bands: Mitski at 7th Street in July 2016, Porches at 7th Street in Sep 2016, Slowdive at Palace Theatre in May 2017… before she graduated to headlining her own show at Triple Rock in Oct 2017. This was all in the span of two years!

If you’ve been keeping up with Japanese Breakfast setlists, she’s been playing a different cover song at each show of this tour… making for a new and different setlist every time. Sometime she would ask her fans what songs they want to hear, sometime she covers a song she just likes. For Minneapolis, she covered Little Big League’s “Boyish”.

“Glider” was an interesting choice in this live set. Some people said it was a live debut, but it’s not true, she previously sang it at Summer Game Fest. Not many fans are familiar with the song, as it’s a song from the video game soundtrack Sable, which came out Sept 24, via Sony Music Masterworks.

The rest of the set is a good mix of older albums (Psychopomp, Soft Sounds from Another Planet) and her latest Jubilee.

Remaining tour dates:

9/21 - Ogden, UT @ Ogden Twilight + - SOLD OUT
9/23 - Boise, ID @ Treefort Festival
9/24 - Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall *
9/25 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune * - SOLD OUT
9/26 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune * - SOLD OUT
9/27 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre *
9/28 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom * - SOLD OUT
9/30 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom * - SOLD OUT
10/1 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom * - SOLD OUT
10/2 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent * - SOLD OUT
10/3 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent * - SOLD OUT
10/4 - San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park * - SOLD OUT
10/5 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl *
10/7 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf * - SOLD OUT
10/8 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theater *
10/9 - Lawrence, KC @ Granada Theater *
10/10 - St Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall *
10/11 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall * - SOLD OUT
10/12 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall * - SOLD OUT
10/14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * - SOLD OUT
10/15 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * - SOLD OUT
10/16 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * - SOLD OUT
10/17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * =
10/30 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
10/31 - Austin, TX @ Levitation 2021

^ w/ Mannequin Pussy
* w/ Luna Li
~ w/ Spirit of the Beehive
+ w/ Portugal. The Man = w/ Charly Bliss

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Asian Invasion: Japanese Breakfast, Alice Longyu Gao, Bella Poarch, and Rock of Asia

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Our favorite Korean musician Japanese Breakfast (stagename for Michelle Zauner) is back on tour in support of her new album Jubilee (Dead Oceans Records).

She’ll be headlining First Avenue’s mainroom. Toronto native multi-instrumentalist and producer, Luna Li (aka Hannah Kim) will open the show.

We saw Japanese Breakfast headlined the now-defunct Triple Rock Social Club in Oct 2017 and said, “This was Japanese Breakfast’s first headlining show… We’ve gradually seen her feel more comfortable on stage, and, personally speaking, she was at her finest hour at the Triple Rock Social Club show. The spotlight was finally full focused on her, and she was ready to shine.”

Bonus – enjoy her photo at the Triple Rock below.

For full tour listing, please head over to her website. We’re only listing up to October 2021.

8/28 - Lexington, KY @ Railbird Festival
9/9 - Boston, MA @ Royale *
9/10 - Boston, MA @ Royale * - SOLD OUT
9/11 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony SOLD OUT
9/12 - Harrisburg, PA @ Harrisburg Midtown Arts Ctr *
9/14 - Columbus, OH @ The Athenaeum Theatre *
9/15 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall * - SOLD OUT
9/16 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall * - SOLD OUT
9/17 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall *
9/18 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre * - SOLD OUT
9/19 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave *
9/21 - Ogden, UT @ Ogden Twilight + - SOLD OUT
9/23 - Boise, ID @ Treefort Festival
9/24 - Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall *
9/25 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune * - SOLD OUT
9/26 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune * - SOLD OUT
9/27 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre *
9/28 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom * - SOLD OUT
9/30 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom * - SOLD OUT
10/1 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom * - SOLD OUT
10/2 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent * - SOLD OUT
10/3 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent * - SOLD OUT
10/4 - San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park * - SOLD OUT
10/5 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl *
10/7 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf * - SOLD OUT
10/8 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theater *
10/9 - Lawrence, KC @ Granada Theater *
10/10 - St Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall *
10/11 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall * - SOLD OUT
10/12 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall * - SOLD OUT
10/14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * - SOLD OUT
10/15 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * - SOLD OUT
10/16 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * - SOLD OUT
10/17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * =
10/30 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
10/31 - Austin, TX @ Levitation 2021

^ w/ Mannequin Pussy
* w/ Luna Li
~ w/ Spirit of the Beehive
+ w/ Portugal. The Man = w/ Charly Bliss

Japanese Breakfast at Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis (02 October 2017)

Read More Rebecca Black If you haven't heard Rebecca Black's "Friday" song, then clearly you've been living under a rock. This 13-year-old girl got over 135 million views for her youtube song. Everyone loved the song, even Conan O'Brien made a parody video for his song "Thursday". ...

ALICE LONGYU GAO
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Chinese-born, New York-and-LA-based producer, songwriter, DJ and multidisciplinary artist Alice Longyu Gao is about to head out on her USA tour (some dates with Rebecca Black). To celebrate, she’s releasing her latest single, “Kanpai” (the word means “Cheers” in Chinese, Japanese and Korean).

About the single, Gao shares, “My best friend Madison Emiko Love and I wrote this song three years ago. Her grandma is a Japanese immigrant and we always want to champion & plug our culture everywhere we go. We’ve been waiting to put this song out, cuz back then no one with power in western music realized the power of Asian pop culture, no one really cared to put Asian talents on the table. The material world was asleep cuz they didn't see the money-benefits. 'Kanpai' means cheers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; the joyful vibe translates perfectly throughout the song. The braggy-docious, rap-y bridge part in the song is what I wish for, it's not my reality yet. Last year was dark for me, and for everyone. But now it is time to regroup and restart, this song wakes me up in the morning, it reminds me that I came to this earth with a mission. I aspire to inspire and benefit other people’s lives. I do that through my art.”

Tour dates:

Aug 20, 2021 - Elsewhere - Brooklyn, NY* (SOLD OUT)
Aug 21, 2021 - Soho House - New York, NY ("Kanpai" release party)
Sep 3, 2021 - Berlin - Chicago, IL
Sep 4, 2021 - DNA - San Francisco, CA
Sep 11, 2021 - Club Quarantine @ Knockdown Center - Queens, NY
Sep 16, 2021 - Mahall's - Lakewood, Ohio*
Sep 17, 2021 - Elsewhere - Brooklyn, NY (w/ Cupcakke)
Sep 23, 2021 - Cornerstone - Berkeley, California (w/ Terror Jr)
Jan 13, 2022 - Union Stage - Washington, DC**
Jan 14, 2022 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY** (SOLD OUT)
Jan 15, 2022 - Velvet Underground - Toronto, ON**
Jan 18, 2022 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL**
Jan 20, 2022 - Rickshaw Stop - San Francisco, CA**
Jan 21, 2022 - Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA**
Jan 27 2022 - The Coast - Fort Collins, CO
Jan 28, 2022 - Hi-Dive - Denver, CO

*Food House as supporting act
**Alice supporting Rebecca Black

BELLA POARCH tiktok/bellapoarch “Inferno” is the new song from breakout superstar Bella Poarch and alt-pop visionary Sub Urban. The cover art is obviously a nod to the famous “American Gothic” painting. If you’re on TikTok, you know that Bella Poarch is the #3 most followed creator and the #1 Asian-American influencer in the world with over 77 million followers.

ROCK OF ASIA rockofasia.com Japan’s Rock of Asia is the rock, folk, fusion project by musician Nikki Matsumoto. His latest release is called Asian Anthology. Matsumoto spent 15 years in Los Angeles playing and writing rock music professionally. Rock Of Asia was created in 2010 and it toured in US in 2010, the Middle East in 2012 and 2019.

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Cat Attack II

Read More Mannequin Pussy Philadelphia’s Mannequin Pussy to open. We saw the band in Oct 2017 and wrote that their set was a “high energy 30-min burst of punk rock music”. …

Read more When Animals Attack, Cat Attack, Kat Fancy, Catmandu, Cat Came Back, Cat Fantastic, and A Dream of a Thousand Cats.

MANNEQUIN PUSSY
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Philadelphia’s Mannequin Pussy will be heading out on the post-pandemic tour to promote their album Perfect from Epitaph Records. Ironically, pussy could mean pussycat, but the band has a dog on the cover artwork.

We caught the band in October 2017, opening up for Japanese Breakfast. We noted that their brief 30-min set had a “burst of punk rock” and ended their set with Japanese Breakfast’s touring guitarist helping them play on the song finale.

Guess what ? They’re once again Japanese Breakfast’s touring support until August. In September, they’ll be headlining the tour.

Tour Dates:

JAPANESE BREAKFAST plus Mannequin Pussy 7/21 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore 7/22 Richmond, VA The National 7/23 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel 7/24 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade 7/25 Birmingham, AL Saturn 7/26 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle 7/28 Asbury Park, NJ Asbury Lanes 7/29 New Haven, CT College Street Music Hall 7/30 Jersey City, NJ White Eagle Hall 8/2 Holyoke, MA Gateway City Arts 8/3 Rochester, NY Anthology 8/4 Detroit, MI Saint Andrew's Hall 8/5 Cleveland, OH Agora Ballroom 8/6 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer 8/7 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer 8/8 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer

Headlining Tour 9/14 Chicago, IL Schubas Tavern 9/15 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall 9/16 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry 9/17 Omaha, NE Slowdown 9/18 Kansas City, MO The Riot Room 9/21 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court 9/23 Seattle, WA The Crocodile 9/24 Spokane, WA Lucky You Lounge 9/25 Portland, OR Holocene 9/26 Boise, ID Treefort Music Festival 9/28 Oakland, CA The New Parish 9/29 Santa Cruz, CA The Atrium at the Catalyst 9/30 Los Angeles, CA Teragram Ballroom 10/13 Dallas, TX Dada 10/14 Houston, TX The Secret Group 10/20 Nashville, TN High Watt 10/21 Cincinnati, OH Woodward Theater 10/26 Albany, NY Upstate Concert Hall 10/27 Boston, MA The Sinclair 10/28 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg

BONUS: Here’s a photo of Mannequin Pussy at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis

Mannequin Pussy at Triple Rock, Minneapolis (02 October 2017)

BLACK PUMAS
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With three Grammy nominations (for “Album of the Year,” “Record of the Year” & “American Roots”), it’s clear that Austin’s Black Pumas are on the top of their game.

They’ve also announced a massive 2021 tour (going onto 2022) for their Black Pumas (Deluxe Edition) (ATO Records).

We are only listing their tour dates up to September. For full listing, head over to their website.

Jul 29 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
Aug 5 St. Louis, MO The Pageant (SOLD OUT)
Aug 6 Columbia, MO 9th Street Summerfest
Aug 7 Saint Charles, IA Hinterland Music Festival
Aug 8 Omaha, NE Waiting Room Outdoors ^
Aug 11 Denver, CO Mission Ballroom ^
Aug 12 Denver, CO Mission Ballroom ^ (SOLD OUT)
Aug 13 Dillon, CO Dillon Amphitheater ^
Aug 15 Aspen, CO Belly Up
Aug 17 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot*
Aug 19 Portland, OR Roseland Theater*
Aug 20 Portland, OR Roseland Theater*
Aug 21 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre*
Aug 22 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre*
Aug 28 Lexington, KY Railbird Music Festival
Aug 29 Columbus, OH WonderBus Music and Arts Festival
Sep 2-18 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest
Sep 3-5 Napa, CA BottleRock Napa Valley
Sep 18-19 Atlanta, GA Music Midtown
Sep 13 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel
Sep 14 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel # (SOLD OUT)
Sep 15 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel # (SOLD OUT)
Sep 16 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel # (SOLD OUT)
Sep 23 Los Angeles, CA Performance Venue at Hollywood Park*
Sep 24 Dana Point, CA Ohana Fest
Sep 25 Dallas, TX State Fair of Texas
Sept 25-26 Franklin, TN Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival

PUSSY RIOT facebook.com/wearepussyriot Russian protest art collective Pussy Riot was recently in the news when they sold their first two “Panic Attack” NFTs for $210,000. The NFTs can be seen on foundation.app. They also teamed up with rock guitarist and acoustic troubadour Tom Morello (aka The Nightwatchman and part of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave) and the punk-fueled electronic artist The Bloody Beetroots to help produce “Weather Strike” (featuring Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova) and “Radium Girls” (featuring Pussy Riot, The Interrupters’ Aimee Interrupter, White Lung’s Mish Way, and The Last Internationale). Those songs, as well as five other tracks, will appear on The Catastrophists EP (available June 18th).

MAPLE GLIDER mapleglider.com Tori Zietsch, aka Maple Glider, recently shared her song “Baby Tiger”, featuring her roommate’s cat, Coriander (aka the baby tiger). The song is taken from her forthcoming album To Enjoy is the Only Thing, available June 25th, 2021, via Partisan Records. Zietsch adds: “'Baby Tiger' was written soon after I’d returned home from Brighton. I was really struggling with my mental health, but I was going out and kind of using dating as a distraction from dealing with it. It never really worked. I'd just end up feeling worse when I was alone. Coriander hates closed doors. She'll always want to know what you're doing on the other side. It kind of became comforting to hear her scratch at my door. It was something that felt constant and unwavering and regular at a time when I was a bit vacant. Her energy made me feel lighter...”

CAT CLYDE catclydemusic.com Critically acclaimed singer-songwriters Cat Clyde and Jeremie Albino have released their new album Blue Blue Blue on Cinematic Music Group. We last saw Clyde open up for J.S. Ondara on 29 March 2019 and said, “the self-taught musician held the attentive audience enraptured as she revealed “I’m about to tell you something... but don’t spread it around – you’re the best audience so far”. Taking classic song structures and applying her own more modern spin on them, the Canadian artist came off as humble, talented, and very musically honest.”

PUMA BLUE pumablue.co.uk South London’s Puma Blue released A Late Night Special Live EP on Blue Flowers. The six-track EP came from their concert film “A Late Night Special”. The live EP should give you an idea of what it is like to see Puma Blue live… so mark your calendar for Saturday, August 28th, at London’s Omeara. This is the first live show since headlining EartH in October 2019.

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