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Minneapolis: September 18 to September 19, 2017

Here are some concerts taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from September 18 to September 19, 2017.

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Read More Best Coast Best Coast is currently touring in support of their latest, California Nights, out now on Harvest Records. .... Brilliant Beast Opening up the show was Brilliant Beast, featuring siblings Hannah and Jordan (who was apparently a massive Morrissey fan). They recently released a split EP with fellow Minneapolis band Fury Things, …

BEST COAST
at Turf Club
Monday 09/18/2017 (7:30pm/$20)
turfclub.net

California’s Best Coast just headed out on tour to open up for Paramore… in between dates, the duo (Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno) decided to book some headlining show - one of which is this Monday’s Turf Club in St Paul.

You might recall that we recently saw Bruno with Imaad Wasif earlier in August 2017.

Local brother/sister band Brilliant Beast (Hannah and Jordan Porter) to open.

Tour dates:

9/11/17 Charlotte, NC @ Ovens Auditorium
9/12/17 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar *
9/13/17 Oxon Hill, MD @ The Theater
9/14/17 Lakewood, OH @ Mahall's *
9/15/17 Detroit, MD @ Fox Theater
9/16/17 Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest
9/18/17 Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club *
9/19/17 Sioux City, IA @ Orpheum Theatre
9/20/17 Rapid City, SD @ Ursa Major *
9/21/17 Denver, CO @ Bellco Theatre
9/22/17 Orem, UT @ UCCU Center
9/24/17 Oakland, CA @ Paramount Theatre
9/25/17 Berkeley, CA @ Cornerstone *
9/26/17 Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
9/27/17 Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre
9/28/17 Lincoln, NE @ Lincoln Calling Music Festival
9/29/17 Sugar Land, TX @ Smart FInancial Centre
9/30/17 Grand Prairie, TX @ Verizon Theater
10/2/17 Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre
10/4/17 New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
10/5/17 New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall *
10/7/17 Boston, MA @ Boston Opera House
10/8/17 Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade *
10/10/17 Bethlehem, PA @ Sands Bethlehem
10/11/17 Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall *
10/12/17 Montreal, QC @ Theatre St. Denis
10/13/17 Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
10/15/17 Akron, OH @ Akron Civic Theater
10/16/17 Cincinnati, OH @ 20th Century Theatre *
10/17/17 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium

* - headlining show

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DEAD CROSS
at First Avenue
Tuesday 09/19/2017 (7:30pm/$25)
first-avenue.com

What do you get when you cross Dave Lombardo (from Slayer) with Mike Patton (from Faith No More) and Justin Pearson & Michael Crain (of Retox)? You get Dead Cross. The supergroup’s debut self-title recorded came out on August 4th via Seizure & Desist Records.

Although the band may sound new, the truth is, they’ve been around since 2015, when they made their live debut with vocalist Gabe Serbian in December of that year. Unfortunately, Serbian left the group, so they’ve had to re-record their record … now with Mike Patton’s vocals.

They’ve booked a show at Riot Fest in Chicago this year, and as a special bonus, they’ve added Minneapolis to their limited tour dates for 2017.

Their special guests Secret Chiefs 3 will open.

Tour dates:

09/10/2017 Union Transfer Philadelphia, PA
09/11/2017 Royale Nightclub Boston Boston, MA
09/12/2017 Gramercy Theatre New York, NY
09/13/2017 Warsaw Brooklyn, NY
09/15/2017 St. Andrews Hall Detroit, MI
09/16/2017 Riot Fest Chicago, IL
09/17/2017 Turner Hall Ballroom Milwaukee, WI
09/19/2017 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
09/20/2017 Liberty Hall Lawrence, KS
09/23/2017 Ogden Theatre Denver, CO

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Other shows in the area:

09/18/2017 Andrew W.K. party party party at First Avenue next Monday. Mark Mallman to open. 7pm, $20

09/18/2017 Milwaukee’s punky rapper Juiceboxxx is playing the Minneapolis Eagles Club #34 on Monday. As of this writing, I couldn’t find a listing on the venue’s website for additional information, such as time or cover cost. 8pm, $?

09/19/2017 Tops and Faith Healer (aka Jessica Jalbert) will be playing the 7th Street Entry. 7pm, $10

09/19/2017 Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) will be at Triple Rock Social Club on Tuesday. When Vagabon isn’t too busy opening up for Teagan & Sara, she’s taking her friend Nnamdi Ogbonnaya on tour. Vagabon’s debut record Infinite Worlds is out now on Father/Daughter Records. Ogbonnaya was meant to play here last June 2017 but that show was canceled due to some controversial accusations with the main band Pwr Bttm. 8pm, $10

09/19/2017 Midnight Sister continues their tour in support of their debut record Saturn Over Sunset (out this week on Jagjaguwar). The duo (Juliana Giraffe and Ari Balouzian) was supposed to play Turf Club on Tuesday with D.D Dumbo, but unfortunately, the show has been canceled.

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Harvest Presents - Parramatta Park, Sydney - November 17th 2012

When a friend asked me to Harvest Festival in 2011, I gave an answer that many of you who are a bit older can relate to, that is, that I wasn’t into festivals anymore. In my mind festivals were for people who liked to wear clothing displaying the Aussie flag (which they’d often take off during the day) and who were willing to stand in long lines for smelly toilets and crappy, overpriced food and booze. But lured by a line-up of golden oldies and golden not-so-oldies I allowed myself to be dragged out west to Parramatta Park, and boy was I was impressed, the acts were great, the quirky setup was brilliant and I don’t think I stood in a line for anything for long enough to notice that I was in a line. With an equally eclectic and awesome line-up was announced for 2012 I was keen to go back to see if it could meet that same standard.

First up on the windmill Stage (the second biggest) I checked out a few songs from Dexys Midnight Runners or simply “Dexys”, as they are now known. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting (denim overalls maybe?), but it was a charismatic and fun performance from what I saw and it was a bit of a shame to miss ‘Come on Eileen’ after heading off to the Great Lawn (the main stage) to see the Dandy Warhols. No doubt large parts of the crowd (myself included) have a big soft spot for the Dandys, particularly at their early noughties power- pop perfection peak, and I’ve seen them several times over the years.  A friend later told me he thought their hearts weren’t really in it, but I didn’t really get that; I thought their form was good. Maybe it wasn’t their best ever, maybe they were not so happy to be playing early in the afternoon, maybe they were still suffering a bit from a big night at World Bar the night before. Maybe they should have kept that last part to themselves. Then again they’re not from Sydney, they probably don’t know any better than going to World Bar. 

A quick dash back to the Windmill stage got us up pretty close to the Silversun Pickups. Like many, I’ve been a fan of these guys and gals since first hearing the opening bars of ‘Lazy Eye’ many moons ago now. To say they were impressive and were well received is a huge understatement. They looked great (and like they were having a great time), sounded tight and with Brian Aubert’s distinctive and screeching voice and 90’s-esque power chords it was one of the highlights of the day.

Now Mike Patton is a god and everyone who says otherwise is clearly lame, but despite the bucket loads of talent on the stage it seemed that many people found it a little difficult to get into Mondo Cane’s orchestral versions of old pop songs sung in Italian. True diversity is one the strengths of Mr Patton and Harvest festival in general, but I was just internally sooking a bit that I was watching Mike Patton but not watching Faith No More…. or Mr Bungle…. or Peeping Tom.

I wasn’t really fussed between Cake and Ben Folds Five and at the suggestion of the people I was with, I stuck around at the main stage to see Cake. In hindsight it was probably the wrong choice. I don’t know why but I just couldn’t get into it, I’ve read and heard many describe it as a surprising highlight but their newish, more country sounding material (which was by far the majority of their set) didn’t do a lot for me. There was also a bit of a rant about their former record company, I mean, a rant about record companies? I know Harvest is aimed at an older demographic but please, it isn’t 1996 anymore, and if you’ve got a profile like Cake why would you even need a record company?

Beck was next up on the main stage and with the sun going down he delivered a stomping set that had everyone up on their feet. He played all the well-known stuff for the casual fans as well as some more obscure numbers, all delivered with a raucous swagger. Everyone I could see was moved, literally and figuratively. At the top of his game.

Back at the smaller stage we managed to catch the back half of Grizzly Bear next and, as expected, the harmonies were seamless; they’re a fantastically talented group that deserve all their success and, importantly, can deliver live. Fab.

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The choice between Sigur Ros and Santigold to close out the day was like choosing your favourite child… you know, if those children were full grown fantastically-talented performers who you’d never met before. I’ve appreciated Sigur Ros since Ágætis byrjun and there probably isn’t a more beautiful, atmospheric and ambient band around. Then again I’ve loved the offbeat, catchy, electroclash synthy goodness of Santigold since her debut; nothing has drowned out horrible gym music and got many of us exercising this year like her Master of My Make Believe album. Deciding we wanted an upbeat finish to the day to Santigold we went. I’ll just say “wow”; the costume changes, the moves of her backup dancers (and a backup dancing horse) and the sheer simple freaking hook-y fun of it all. Not one person in the crowd stopped dancing the whole set and most of the way to the train station too, where we met up with friends who had seen Sigur Ros and were on a similar high (though one which involved less dancing). So it seems there really wasn’t a wrong decision of who to see last.

Just on the train station though, someone clearly hadn’t factored in the reasonably-obvious fact that there might be… oh a few thousand extra people there at 10.30 on a Saturday night, so it was  pretty unpleasant ride home for many. That was literally the only problem with the day.

Oh wait, at one point I saw a guy with his shirt off, drinking bourbon. But apart from those two things it was pretty awesome.

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Lincoln and Matt