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Bon Iver Setlist
The Revolution Setlist
Car Seat Headrest Setlist
Margaret Glaspy Setlist
Rock the Garden 2017 Schedule
1:00 pm - Gates open
Main Stage 2:30 pm - Margaret Glaspy 3:45 pm - Car Seat Headrest 5:15 pm - Ben Booker 7:00 pm - The Revolution 8:45 pm - Bon Iver Garden Stage 4:40 pm - Dwynell Roland 6:20 pm - Bruise Violet 8:05 pm - Dead Man Winter 10:00 pm - Gates close Bon Iver Tour Dates
08/12/2017 Copenhagen, Refshaleøen Haven Festival
09/09/2017 Santa Fe, NM Opera Noise For Now 09/15/2017 Cork, Sounds From A Safe Harbour 09/19/2017 Utrecht, NL TivoliVredenburg 09/21/2017 Paris, France Salle Pleyel 09/22/2017 Paris, France Salle Pleyel 09/23/2017 Paris, France Salle Pleyel 09/25/2017 Blackpool, UK Opera House 09/27/2017 Edinburgh, UK Edinburgh Playhouse 09/28/2017 Edinburgh, UK Edinburgh Playhouse 10/14/2017 Los Angeles, Festival Of Disruption 10/15/2017 Los Angeles, Festival Of Disruption The Revolution Tour Dates
08/11/2017 Atlantic City, NJ Resorts Atlantic City
08/12/2017 Uncasville, CT Wolf Den 09/04/2017 Nightshift Labor Day Music Festival Benjamin Booker Tour Dates
8/26 - Lexington, KY - Moontower Music Festival
9/8 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom 9/9 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret 9/10 - Seattle, WA - Neumos 9/13 - Salt Lake City, UT - State Room 9/15 - 9/17 - Telluride Blues & Brews 2017 9/29 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern 9/30 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom 10/3 - Dallas, TX - Trees 10/4 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall 10/6 - 10/8 - Austin City Music Festival 2017 10/9 - Nashville, TN - Basement East 10/10 - St. Louis, MO - Old Rock House 10/11 - Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck 10/13 - 10/15 - Austin City Music Festival 2017 10/16 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall 10/17 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick 10/18 - Toronto - Virgin Mobile Mod Club 10/20 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair 10/22 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall 10/23 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club 10/25 - Atlanta, GA - The Loft 10/26 - Birmingham, AL - Saturn 10/27 - 10/29 - New Orleans, LA - City Park Car Seat Headrest Tour Dates
07/30/2017 Wayhome Music And Arts Festival
08/01/2017 Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, OH 08/03/2017 Higher Ground South Burlington, VT 08/04/2017 Osheaga Festival 08/05/2017 Lollapalooza Aftershows 08/06/2017 Lollapalooza 08/11/2017 Suvilahti, Flow Festival 08/12/2017 Oya Festival 08/15/2017 Mojotic Festival 08/17/2017 Paredes De Coura 08/19/2017 Pukkelpop Festival 08/27/2017 Rock En Seine Festival 08/29/2017 O2 Forum Kentish Town, London 08/30/2017 O2 Ritz, Manchester 08/31/2017 Stylus, Leeds 09/01/2017 Drumlanrig Castle @ Electric Fields 09/02/2017 End Of The Road Festiva 10/07/2017 Austin City Limits 10/08/2017 House Of Blues Houston 10/09/2017 House Of Blues Dallas 10/11/2017 Aztec Theatre, San Antonio, TX 10/14/2017 Austin City Limits Margaret Glaspy Tour Dates
8/11 - Vancouver, BC- Biltmore Cabaret
8/13 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile 8/15 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel 8/16 - Santa Barbara, CA - Soho Restaurant 8/17 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour 8/19 - Eugene, OR - HiFi Music Hall 8/20 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios 9/23 - Ithaca, NY - Cayuga Sound Festival Read More
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The annual Rock the Garden (presented by The Walker Art Center and local public radio station 89.3 The Current) returned to the Walker Art Center last Saturday, July 22, 2017, after a temporary relocation to Boom Island in 2016.
This year’s event was sold out to Walker Art Center and Minnesota Public Radio members, before tickets were made available to the general public.
Between the two stages at Rock the Garden, the majority of guests parked at the main stage. The smaller stage, dubbed the “Garden Stage”, was located near the Cherry & Spoon, and was meant for the local bands.
Garden Stage
Dwynell Roland
There was already a big crowd gathered around the Garden Stage, thanks to DJ Travis Gorman, playing songs to the crowd. Gorman recently won City Pages’ “Best Hip-Hop Producer” in 2017.
Dwynell Roland, looking really pleased at the crowd, freestyle some raps from his fourth record Popular Nobody. Although the record got some major buzz from The Current, the rapper is ever humble on his Rock the Garden appearance, stating, “You’re probably asking yourself, who is this kid?”
Roland also proudly displayed his custom T-Shirt with a Brian Oake tweet that read “Listening to @DwynellRoland on @TheCurrent. Damn. There's no denying talent.”
The highlight of his show was when he invited local favorite Rhymesayers, Doomtree’s P.O.S on stage to help sing ‘Been Here’ and Devon Reason with Finding Novyon to sing ‘Ride The Wave’.
Bruise Violet
From rap to punk, Bruise Violet dressed up for the occasional, complete with snakes on their microphone stands. This was a special show for the trio (guitarist Emily, drummer Danielle, and bassist Bella), as it was Danielle’s 21st birthday. She happily wore a sash that read “Birthday Bi****: 21 and hot, buy her a shot”.
Starting with ‘Talk S*** Get Hit’, followed by ‘I Cried for 45 Minutes Because of Passive Aggressive Guinea Pigs’, you can just tell that the young band was inspired by riot grrrl bands like Bikini Kill and Babes in Toyland (which is actually where they got their band name from).
Danielle mentioned that their ‘A**** Song’ was written when she was 17, before playing something a little more recent, like ‘Teacher’ from their new EP Trophy Wife (2017) and ‘Wasted’ from Survival of the Prettiest (2015).
Dead Man Winter
From hip hop to punk, and now bluegrass, Americana band Dead Man Winter. As mentioned time and time again, bluegrass is massive in Minnesota, and this band drew in the largest crowd... possibly thanks to the fact that the majority of the band members (inger/guitarist Dave Simonett, bassist Tim Saxhaug, and fiddler Ryan Young) are from the super popular Trampled by Turtles band.
We’ve already previously mentioned that the band headlined First Avenue in February 2017 to promote their record Furnace. Listening to the band on stage, the folky band’s songs deals with very personal topics, such as divorce / breakup and how life is a struggle and unexpected acts of god (‘This House Is On Fire’, which was play early in their set).
Main Stage
Margaret Glaspy
New York, by the way of California, Margaret Glaspy, with new bassist Daniel and drummer Tim Kuhl, started Rock the Garden 2017 off to a proper start.
The majority of her set is taken from her solo debut album Emotions and Math (ATO Records), but you can tell that the former The Fundies singer was hard at work writing new songs. She played two of them near the end of her set, the latter of the two had some of the best lyrics, “I’m not your father, I’m not your mother. I’m not your sister trying to waste your time. I’m not the tax man.”
We liked what we heard and looking forward to hearing more from Glaspy’s forthcoming sophomore album.
Car Seat Headrest
Seattle, Washington’s Car Seat Headrest was a big favorite from the younger audience of Rock the Garden. The quartet (singer/guitarist Will Toledo, guitarist Ethan Ives, drummer Andrew Katz, and bassist Seth Dalby), jokingly said that, “Our drummer quit before the show... so we’re going to try something different.”
We’re not exactly sure what they meant by their drummer quitting, as far as we know, it’s still the same drummer Andrew Katz (who is also in the band Skinny Teeth). Still, it felt like it was a much shorter set, our notes only show six songs on their set.
Despite the lack of songs (even though they have recorded 13 albums), the fans loved them. Every time you look at the crowd, you can see them mouthing and singing along to Will Toledo’s heartfelt, emotional, depressing songs. Their best song ‘Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales’ had everybody in front singing. We now know why the popular band sold out their previous Minneapolis show last year.
Car Seat Headrest’s Teens of Denial is available now on Matador Records.
Note: Will Toledo changed his shirt from soundcheck to taking the stage in a black turtleneck. It was uncomfortably hot at the show, that Bruise Violet’s Emily had to mentioned it on their Garden Stage appearance. Emily said that she asked Toledo, “Aren’t you hot under that sweater?”... to which he blankly stared at her, then looked down and didn’t respond.
Benjamin Booker
Since the last time we saw Benjamin Booker at Festival Palomino 2015, he’s released his sophomore album Witness (ATO Records).
Apparently, Booker reconnected with an old school friend Kelly, at the show. He tried to embarrass her, and later say that in 9th grade, she had a cool Modest Mouse T-Shirt, right before playing ‘Witness’.
Booker’s unique raspy vocals, combined with raw, soul-rock, was fun to hear and dance to, even though there is an underlying reference to police brutality in the new album title track.
The Revolution
The festival collectively caught its second wind by early evening as the most anticipated performance of The Revolution hit the stage for a celebratory hour-long set. As Prince’s best known band, there were rumblings of its reformation before the Purple One passed, but that event was the catalyst to regroup and get back on the road once again, some thirty years after the band initially dissolved.
“Ohhh yeah…make some noise!” bassist Brownmark said, to get the party started with ‘Computer Blue’ from the classic Purple Rain soundtrack (WB Records, just re-released in expanded format) as the classic lineup of the group, guitarist Wendy Melvoin, keyboardists Lisa Coleman and Matt Fink (still in surgical scrubs) and drummer Bobby Z took to the stage.
The band plays remarkably tight as ever, the product of both Prince’s intense rehearsals back in the day, and their consistent touring since their first shows back, at First Avenue last September. “This song is more appropriate than ever” Melvoin remarked before an abbreviated ‘America’, with she and Brown sharing lead vocals, though Justin Vernon would make a surprise appearance to help out with ‘Erotic City’.
Stokely Williams (of Mint Condition) then came to lead the party for the rest of the set, beginning with the workout of ‘Let’s Work’, with no one in the crowd able to stay still. “These songs belong to you guys now, we’re just the band” Melvoin said, before the closing ‘Purple Rain’ which had everyone clapping and singing along, as well as many looking and pointing to the sky, in remembrance.
Bon Iver
With the sun tucking beyond the horizon, Bon Iver emerged for their headlining seventy-minute set, beginning with all but the last track of new album, 22, A Million (Jagjaguar Records). Justin Vernon was dressed casually in Orioles baseball cap and charity t-shirt and backed by full band including a cheekily named five-piece horn section, and local native Mike Lewis on bass/sax.
The capacity crowd of 11,000 hushed for the quieter parts and cheered at the louder crescendos, with Vernon noting, “we were here a while ago” referring to their initial appearance at the 2008 installment and being the first to be invited back, “…it seems like a long time ago now”.
‘29 #Strafford APTS’ was “a song about an apartment that never really existed…or did it?!” Vernon mused, the former folk artist now morphed into an experimental, electronic-tinged backwoods Radiohead of sorts.
“That song was called ‘Minnesota, WI’” Vernon said after the 2011 song, “a lot of people in the world don’t know where these places are… I kind of like that”. A roar went up for the magnificent ‘Holocene’ then Vernon went back to 2007’s ‘Creature Fear’ and ‘Skinny Love’ armed with an acoustic guitar seated in low light near the front of the stage, to end the main set. “We’ve only got two minutes” he said, darting back out quickly to grateful fans, managing to squeeze in the encore of 2011’s ‘Beth/Rest’ as the city’s curfew time approached.
This year’s event was sold out to Walker Art Center and Minnesota Public Radio members, before tickets were made available to the general public.
Between the two stages at Rock the Garden, the majority of guests parked at the main stage. The smaller stage, dubbed the “Garden Stage”, was located near the Cherry & Spoon, and was meant for the local bands.
Garden Stage
Dwynell Roland
There was already a big crowd gathered around the Garden Stage, thanks to DJ Travis Gorman, playing songs to the crowd. Gorman recently won City Pages’ “Best Hip-Hop Producer” in 2017.
Dwynell Roland, looking really pleased at the crowd, freestyle some raps from his fourth record Popular Nobody. Although the record got some major buzz from The Current, the rapper is ever humble on his Rock the Garden appearance, stating, “You’re probably asking yourself, who is this kid?”
Roland also proudly displayed his custom T-Shirt with a Brian Oake tweet that read “Listening to @DwynellRoland on @TheCurrent. Damn. There's no denying talent.”
The highlight of his show was when he invited local favorite Rhymesayers, Doomtree’s P.O.S on stage to help sing ‘Been Here’ and Devon Reason with Finding Novyon to sing ‘Ride The Wave’.
Bruise Violet
From rap to punk, Bruise Violet dressed up for the occasional, complete with snakes on their microphone stands. This was a special show for the trio (guitarist Emily, drummer Danielle, and bassist Bella), as it was Danielle’s 21st birthday. She happily wore a sash that read “Birthday Bi****: 21 and hot, buy her a shot”.
Starting with ‘Talk S*** Get Hit’, followed by ‘I Cried for 45 Minutes Because of Passive Aggressive Guinea Pigs’, you can just tell that the young band was inspired by riot grrrl bands like Bikini Kill and Babes in Toyland (which is actually where they got their band name from).
Danielle mentioned that their ‘A**** Song’ was written when she was 17, before playing something a little more recent, like ‘Teacher’ from their new EP Trophy Wife (2017) and ‘Wasted’ from Survival of the Prettiest (2015).
Dead Man Winter
From hip hop to punk, and now bluegrass, Americana band Dead Man Winter. As mentioned time and time again, bluegrass is massive in Minnesota, and this band drew in the largest crowd... possibly thanks to the fact that the majority of the band members (inger/guitarist Dave Simonett, bassist Tim Saxhaug, and fiddler Ryan Young) are from the super popular Trampled by Turtles band.
We’ve already previously mentioned that the band headlined First Avenue in February 2017 to promote their record Furnace. Listening to the band on stage, the folky band’s songs deals with very personal topics, such as divorce / breakup and how life is a struggle and unexpected acts of god (‘This House Is On Fire’, which was play early in their set).
Main Stage
Margaret Glaspy
New York, by the way of California, Margaret Glaspy, with new bassist Daniel and drummer Tim Kuhl, started Rock the Garden 2017 off to a proper start.
The majority of her set is taken from her solo debut album Emotions and Math (ATO Records), but you can tell that the former The Fundies singer was hard at work writing new songs. She played two of them near the end of her set, the latter of the two had some of the best lyrics, “I’m not your father, I’m not your mother. I’m not your sister trying to waste your time. I’m not the tax man.”
We liked what we heard and looking forward to hearing more from Glaspy’s forthcoming sophomore album.
Car Seat Headrest
Seattle, Washington’s Car Seat Headrest was a big favorite from the younger audience of Rock the Garden. The quartet (singer/guitarist Will Toledo, guitarist Ethan Ives, drummer Andrew Katz, and bassist Seth Dalby), jokingly said that, “Our drummer quit before the show... so we’re going to try something different.”
We’re not exactly sure what they meant by their drummer quitting, as far as we know, it’s still the same drummer Andrew Katz (who is also in the band Skinny Teeth). Still, it felt like it was a much shorter set, our notes only show six songs on their set.
Despite the lack of songs (even though they have recorded 13 albums), the fans loved them. Every time you look at the crowd, you can see them mouthing and singing along to Will Toledo’s heartfelt, emotional, depressing songs. Their best song ‘Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales’ had everybody in front singing. We now know why the popular band sold out their previous Minneapolis show last year.
Car Seat Headrest’s Teens of Denial is available now on Matador Records.
Note: Will Toledo changed his shirt from soundcheck to taking the stage in a black turtleneck. It was uncomfortably hot at the show, that Bruise Violet’s Emily had to mentioned it on their Garden Stage appearance. Emily said that she asked Toledo, “Aren’t you hot under that sweater?”... to which he blankly stared at her, then looked down and didn’t respond.
Benjamin Booker
Since the last time we saw Benjamin Booker at Festival Palomino 2015, he’s released his sophomore album Witness (ATO Records).
Apparently, Booker reconnected with an old school friend Kelly, at the show. He tried to embarrass her, and later say that in 9th grade, she had a cool Modest Mouse T-Shirt, right before playing ‘Witness’.
Booker’s unique raspy vocals, combined with raw, soul-rock, was fun to hear and dance to, even though there is an underlying reference to police brutality in the new album title track.
The Revolution
The festival collectively caught its second wind by early evening as the most anticipated performance of The Revolution hit the stage for a celebratory hour-long set. As Prince’s best known band, there were rumblings of its reformation before the Purple One passed, but that event was the catalyst to regroup and get back on the road once again, some thirty years after the band initially dissolved.
“Ohhh yeah…make some noise!” bassist Brownmark said, to get the party started with ‘Computer Blue’ from the classic Purple Rain soundtrack (WB Records, just re-released in expanded format) as the classic lineup of the group, guitarist Wendy Melvoin, keyboardists Lisa Coleman and Matt Fink (still in surgical scrubs) and drummer Bobby Z took to the stage.
The band plays remarkably tight as ever, the product of both Prince’s intense rehearsals back in the day, and their consistent touring since their first shows back, at First Avenue last September. “This song is more appropriate than ever” Melvoin remarked before an abbreviated ‘America’, with she and Brown sharing lead vocals, though Justin Vernon would make a surprise appearance to help out with ‘Erotic City’.
Stokely Williams (of Mint Condition) then came to lead the party for the rest of the set, beginning with the workout of ‘Let’s Work’, with no one in the crowd able to stay still. “These songs belong to you guys now, we’re just the band” Melvoin said, before the closing ‘Purple Rain’ which had everyone clapping and singing along, as well as many looking and pointing to the sky, in remembrance.
Bon Iver
With the sun tucking beyond the horizon, Bon Iver emerged for their headlining seventy-minute set, beginning with all but the last track of new album, 22, A Million (Jagjaguar Records). Justin Vernon was dressed casually in Orioles baseball cap and charity t-shirt and backed by full band including a cheekily named five-piece horn section, and local native Mike Lewis on bass/sax.
The capacity crowd of 11,000 hushed for the quieter parts and cheered at the louder crescendos, with Vernon noting, “we were here a while ago” referring to their initial appearance at the 2008 installment and being the first to be invited back, “…it seems like a long time ago now”.
‘29 #Strafford APTS’ was “a song about an apartment that never really existed…or did it?!” Vernon mused, the former folk artist now morphed into an experimental, electronic-tinged backwoods Radiohead of sorts.
“That song was called ‘Minnesota, WI’” Vernon said after the 2011 song, “a lot of people in the world don’t know where these places are… I kind of like that”. A roar went up for the magnificent ‘Holocene’ then Vernon went back to 2007’s ‘Creature Fear’ and ‘Skinny Love’ armed with an acoustic guitar seated in low light near the front of the stage, to end the main set. “We’ve only got two minutes” he said, darting back out quickly to grateful fans, managing to squeeze in the encore of 2011’s ‘Beth/Rest’ as the city’s curfew time approached.
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Bruise Violet |
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DJs Mary, Andrea, and Jade |
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DJs Brian Oake and Jill RIley |
DJs Philip Bither and Mark Wheat |
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Margaret Glaspy |
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Bruise Violet |
Dwynell Roland |
Dead Man Winter |
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Margaret Glaspy |
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Car Seat Headrest |
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Car Seat Headrest (Soundcheck) |
Car Seat Headrest |
Benjamin Booker |
Benjamin Booker |
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The Revolution |
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