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The Warlocks at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (18 June 2022)

Warlocks Setlist Red Camera Isolation We Need Starpower The Midnight Sun Mr. Boogeyman Double Life I'm Not Good Enough / Party Like We Used To Shake the Dope Out The Dope Feels Good Baby Blue Hurricane Heart Attack Come Save Us Caveman Rock Angry Demons Stickman Blues Zombie Like Lovers Read More The Warlocks Los Angeles’ The Warlocks (not to be confused with Grateful Dead’s original name) is headlining the 7th Street Entry tonight, Saturday, June 18th. …

Los Angeles’ The Warlocks headlined the 7th Street Entry on Saturday, June 18th, in support of their 9th studio album The Chain (Cleopatra).

Opening the show was Detroit’s Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor, playing psych music with a video projection over the band to create an interesting visual effect.

Originally, the band was known as SikSik Nation and played blues-rock, but when changed their music style to garage/psych, they decided it was time to change their name.

Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor’s latest album Good Goddamn is out now.

Minneapolis’ Magic Castles was next. From the banter on stage, it seems like the band joined The Warlocks’ tour for a few dates and finally ended their tour with their homecoming show at the 7th Street Entry.

As you know, we’ve previously mentioned that the local psychedelic band (singer/guitarist Jason Edmonds, singer/guitarist Jeremiah Doering, bassist Paul Fuglestad, drummer Brendan McInerney) used to have a dedicated flutist in the band when we first saw them in May 2016.

The Warlocks closed out the night. The psychedelic band is led by singer/guitarist Bobby Hecksher. The current band features guitarist John Christian Rees, guitarist Earl V. Miller, bassist Christopher DiPino, and drummer Jason Anchondo.

The name (The Warlocks) was briefly used by both the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead, so there is a lot of history of the name and its origin. After the Warlocks’ first show in 1998, they got a lot of comparisons with Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3… and they went on to sign with Bomp! in October 2000.

The group found themselves moving from labels to labels, from Birdman Records, to Mute, to Tee Pee, to Zap Banana/Cargo. Currently, the band is stable on Cleopatra, having released their last three LPs on the record label.

The Warlocks’ The Chain is available now on Cleopatra Records.

Remaining tour dates:

Jun 21 Seattle, WA, US Madame Lou's
Jun 22 Portland, OR, US Mississippi Studios
Jun 24 San Francisco, CA, US The Chapel
Jun 25 Highland Park, CA, US Lodge Room

Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor

Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor

Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor

Magic Castles

Magic Castles

The Warlocks Setlist

The Warlocks

The Warlocks

The Warlocks at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (18 June 2022)

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Brian Jonestown Massacre at First Avenue, Minneapolis (10 Apr 2022)

Brian Jonestown Massacre at First Avenue Setlist We Never Had a Chance Your Mind is My Cafe Charmkins Attack The Future is Your Past The Real Fudge Anemone Nevertheless Number one lucky kitty Do Rainbows Have Ends? Drained Wait a Minute (2:30s to be exact) Pish Servo You Think I'm Joking? Don't Let Me Get in Your Way The Devil May Care Hold That Thought The Mother of All F**kers Forgotten Graves When Jokers Attack Sailor A Word Abandon Ship Read More Brian Jonestown Massacre American psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre was named after the original band leader of The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, and the Jonestown mass murder of over 900 people .… Magic Castles Opening up the MN show will be locals Magic Castles, who we caught in 2013 and loved them: “I actually thought Magic Castles was very good. It's certainly the only band the …

Brian Jonestown Massacre long return to Minneapolis took place at First Avenue in Minneapolis on Sunday, in support of their forthcoming album Fire Doesn't Grow On Trees… set for June 24, 2022. In addition, the band also wrote and have planned their companion album The Future Is Your Past, set for October 2022.

Mercury Rev was originally the band to support BJM… but due to COVID concerns, they dropped out of the tour until April 12th.

Local psychedelic band Magic Castles (singer/guitarist Jason Edmonds, singer/guitarist Jeremiah Doering, bassist Paul Fuglestad, drummer Brendan McInerney) stepped in at the last minute to save the day. This made sense, as Magic Castles previously opened for BJM in May 2016… and we like band, as they were one of the few highlights at the Bathysphere: A Psychonautical Voyage festival in May 2013.

A lot has changed since 2013, apparently the band lost their flutist. Their music was discovered by Brian Jonestown Massacre’s founder/band leader Anton Newcombe… who signed the group to his A Recordings.

Songs on Magic Castles’ set were mostly new songs from Sun Reign and their previous album Sky Sounds.

Brian Jonestown Massacre took the stage a little later than advertised. This is a very large band, featuring singer/guitarist/leader Anton Newcombe, guitarist Ricky Maymi, additional guitarist Hakon Adalsteinsson, keyboardist Ryan Carlson Van Kriedt, drummer Uri Rennert, bassist Collin Hegna, and tambourine player Joel Gion. In addition, there are guitar tuners, and soundboard tech.

With all the players, and tightly controlled sound, the band creates layers and layers of psychedelic soundscape. Singer Newcombe hardly spoke throughout their set, instead letting the music speaks for itself. When he does speak, it’s usually to complain that his guitars weren’t tuned right (and that he has to take a few mins to get it just right before playing).

As you can see from the setlist (see photo below), most of their songs were taken from their latest Fire Doesn't Grow On Trees… which the band admitted that they were just itching to test out these songs live. Newcombe, quoted, “For me, live is where it [these songs] lives or dies. So, for me to get the chance at my age to go off on another world tour for two years and play bigger places, grand theaters, and be at the top of my game, it's an honor as well as a challenge. We are very excited.”

Brian Jonestown Massacre’s upcoming album Fire Doesn't Grow On Trees will be out in June 2022, via A Recording.

Remaining tour dates:

12-Apr | Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
13-Apr | Salt Lake City, UT Metro Music Hall
15-Apr | Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre
17-Apr | Seattle, WA - Showbox
18-Apr | Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre
20-Apr | San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
22-Apr | Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
23-Apr | San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park
24-Apr | Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory OC
28-Apr | Austin, TX - Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater
29-Apr | Dallas, TX - Granada Theater
30-Apr | Houston, TX - The Heights Theater
02-May | Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck
03-May | Saint Louis, MO - Delmar Hall
05-May | Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl
06-May | Birmingham, AL - Saturn
07-May | Atlanta, GA - Terminal West
09-May | Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
10-May | Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
11-May | Washington DC - Black Cat

Magic Castles

Magic Castles

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Brian Jonestown Massacre

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Brian Jonestown Massacre at First Avenue, Minneapolis (10 Apr 2022)

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Minneapolis: May 14, 2016

Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area on May 14, 2016.

Read more Minneapolis Music Guide.

Read More The Brian Jonestown Massacre The Brian Jonestown Massacre we nearly at the top of my list of bands for the weekend and quite a fitting choice to end the Friday evening line-up. .… 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. … …

THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
at First Avenue
Saturday, 05/14/16, 8pm ($20)
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American psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre was named after the original band leader of The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, and the Jonestown mass murder of over 900 people in a remote religious commune. Both topics were subjects of death and conspiracies.

Perhaps The Brian Jonestown Massacre was best known for appearing in the film Dig! with their rival The Dandy Warhols.

We caught the band in Playground Weekender 2010 and wrote, “The Brian Jonestown Massacre we nearly at the top of my list of bands for the weekend and quite a fitting choice to end the Friday evening line-up. Not too raucous for those of us who were looking forward to a nice nap (*ahem*), but by no means boring. Psychedelic-shoe gaze rock, with tambourine included. Sure many of their songs sounded quite alike to me, but the upside is that even though they sounded quite similar, they were all equally as good. The set even saw a guest appearance from Aimee Nash from The Black Ryder.”

Opening up the MN show will be locals Magic Castles, who we caught in 2013 and loved them: “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.”

US tour dates:

5th May 2016 US Washington DC- 9:30 Club
6th May 2016 US Philadelphia PA- Union Transfer
7th May 2016 US Boston MA- Paradise Rock Club
9th May 2016 US New York NY- Webster Hall
10th May 2016 CA Montreal Canada- Le Tulipe
12th May 2016 CA Toronto Canada- Danforth Music Hall
13th May 2016 US Chicago IL- The Metro
14th May 2016 US Minneapolis MN- First Avenue
15th May 2016 US Omaha NE- The Waiting Room
17th May 2016 US Denver CO- Bluebird Theatre
18th May 2016 US Salt Lake City UT- The Depot
19th May 2016 US Missoula MT- Top Hat Lounge
20th May 2016 CA Edmonton Canada- The Starlite Room
21st May 2016 CA Calgary Canada- Marquee Beer
23nd May 2016 CA Vancouver Canada- Commodore Ballroom
24th May 2016 US Seattle WA- Neumo’s
25th May 2016 US Portland OR- Wonder Ballroom
27th May 2016 US San Francisco CA- The Independent
28th May 2016 US San Francisco CA- The Independent
29th May 2016 US Los Angeles CA- Teregram Ballroom
30th May 2016 US Los Angeles CA- Teregram Ballroom
31st May 2016 US Los Angeles CA- Teragram Ballroom
1st June 2016 US Phoenix AZ- Crescent Ballroom
2nd June 2016 US San Diego CA- Belly Up

Photo by Jon Beasley / Isabelle Albuquerque Read More Liquid Music The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music Series, now in its third season, offers performances by artists who bend the distinctions between classical music and other genres, and take their music in new and unique ..... Devendra Banhart Back in 2004, Acid-folk god Devendra Banhart compiled a collection of folk music for some magazine. Much like Nostradamus before him, he managed to predict some of the leading lights of modern folk music … Lucky Dragons At first, I thought their name was Luck Dragon (a reference to The Neverending Story), but I guess they're just Lucky Dragons. Once again, they're based out of Brooklyn … Jessica Pratt California songbird Jessica Pratt will be in town at the Cedar Cultural Center next Tuesday, in support of her latest Drag City album On Your Own Love Again. ... Helado Negro Helado Negro's "Island Universe Story" show at the Ordway Concert Hall for March 21st, 2015, in St Paul. We've already mentioned the show earlier in January, so just a reminder ... Rodrigo Amarante Opening up the show will be Los Angeles, by the way of Rio de Janeiro, Rodrigo Amarante (who was previously in town two weeks ago at Bryant Lake Bowl ...

DEVENDRA BANHART & FRIENDS
at Walker Art Center
Friday, 05/13/16, 8pm ($28)
Saturday, 05/14/16, 8pm ($28)
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We’re big fans of Liquid Music, this weekend they’re bringing in Devendra Banhart for his “Wind Grove Mind Alone” shows.

For the first night (Friday, May 13th): Lucky Dragons, Jessica Pratt, Helado Negro (who previously also headlined his own Liquid Music show), and William Basinski.

For the second night (Saturday, May 14th): Rodrigo Amarante, Michael Gira, and Harold Budd.

Additional details below:

Join us for a two-evening exploration of the musical worlds of singer/songwriter/painter Devendra Banhart. The acid-folk/indie-rock leader is revered for his idiosyncratic career of defying expectations and inspiring musical trends. The program title is borrowed from Dom Sylvester Houédard’s 1974 poem “Wind Grove Mind Alone.”

Copresented with the SPCO’s Liquid Music Series.

Program A: Friday, May 13
Banhart performs a solo set of songs, followed with music by interactive experimenters Lucky Dragons; impressionistic folk-pop from Jessica Pratt, electronic music producer/singer Helado Negro; and sound artist/composer William Basinski.

Program B: Saturday, May 14
Banhart’s full touring band opens, followed by Brazilian singer-songwriter Rodrigo Amarante; LA art-pop duo Hecuba; and iconic ambient/minimal music pioneer Harold Budd. Save with a Ticket Package

Save when you see both evenings of Devendra Banhart & Friends: $50 ($40 Walker members). Purchase a ticket package online, visit the Walker box office, or call 612.375.7600.

About Liquid Music Liquid Music is a concert series presented by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra that expands the world of classical music through innovative new projects, boundary defying artists, and unique presentation formats. Liquid Music performances invite adventurous audiences of all ages to discover the new and the fascinating among the colorful landscape of classical music today.

Read More English Beat Here's a tour teamup that can't be beat: English Beat with The Paul Collins Beat tour! The tagteam ends at the Mill Cit Nights in Minneapolis, but the English Beat continues on their tour in Missouri. .....

THE ENGLISH BEAT
at Dakota Jazz Club
Friday, 05/13/16, 7:30pm ($40-$45)
Saturday, 05/14/16, 7:30pm ($40-$45)
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Although they are known as The English Beat in the USA market and The British Beat in Australia... they’ll always be known as The Beat to fans of two tone ska fans.

The story behind the US name change is because the US already had and established powerpop band The Beat (later known as The Paul Collins Beat). Collins and the UK Beat eventually made-up and actually went on tour together in 2012.

The Beat will be doing a two night residency at the Dakota Jazz Club this Friday and Saturday.

Tour dates:

05/05/16 Scituate, MA The River Club
05/06/16 New York, NY City Winery NYC
05/07/16 Albany, NY Swyer Theatre
05/10/16 Evanston, IL SPACE
05/11/16 Evanston, IL SPACE
05/12/16 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon
05/13/16 Minneapolis, MN Dakota Jazz
05/14/16 Minneapolis, MN Dakota Jazz
05/27/16 Santa Cruz, CA Moe's Alley
05/28/16 Santa Cruz, CA Moe's Alley
06/03/16 Agoura Hills, CA The Canyon
06/11/16 KKLZ Junefest
06/18/16 Apple Valley, MN Minnesota Zoo
06/19/16 Boulevardia
06/22/16 Warrendale, PA Jergels Rhythm Grille
06/23/16 Baltimore, MD Baltimore Soundstage
06/25/16 Boston, MA Royale Nightclub Boston
07/01/16 Ridgefield, CT Ridgefield Playhouse
07/02/16 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero Theatre
07/05/16 Kent, OH The Kent Stage
07/09/16 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall
07/23/16 Portland, OR Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre
07/24/16 Seattle, WA Woodland Park Zoo
07/31/16 OC Fair
08/06/16 Murphys, CA Ironstone Amphitheatre
08/14/16 San Diego, CA Embarcadero Marina Park

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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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