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Minneapolis: This Week (01/05/2025)

What’s happening this week.

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31 Dec 2024 Kiss Me ⏤ A 90s New Year's Eve with You Oughta Know at 7th St Entry Read More You Oughta Know We soon found out that Johnson is also the keyboardist in local group You Oughta Know (with singer Sarah Adams, guitarist Marc Zazzaro, bassist Tony Schreiner, and drummer Joe Silberschmidt). …

31 Dec 2024 Tuesday

Kiss Me - A 90s New Year's Eve
with You Oughta Know
at 7th St Entry
first-avenue.com

It’s the annual year-end’s Kiss Me - A '90s New Year's Eve show from cover lover band You Oughta Know (named after the Alanis Morissette song).

You Oughta Know at Wizard World Minneapolis (05 May 2017)

We saw the group in May 2017 and wrote, “As you can see from their setlist, they only cover 90s songs, with the exception of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, but that’s forgivable because they probably discover the song from 1992’s Wayne’s World (based on Silberschmidt as Garth, of course). A cover lover band is good for these kind of events, because most of the audience will know and likely sing along to some of their favorite 90s tunes. After You Oughta Know finished their set, there were DJ Gabe and 7Days A Capella group, ending with a highly entertaining swing dance group Uptown Swing and Hudson, Master Magician (from America’s Got Talent).”

You Oughta Know writes:

🎉 We are SO excited to announce that You Oughta Know will be back at 7th Street Entry at First Avenue & 7th St Entry this NEW YEAR'S EVE for Kiss Me: A 90s New Year's Eve with You Oughta Know!!!

This show is such a fun way to ring in the New Year!! Come dance and sing along to your favorite 90s hits at an intimate, iconic venue surrounded by people and music you love! You Oughta Know will be bringing the Mariah and Shania, Whitney and Britney, No Diggity and No Doubt, and all the fist pumpin', grindin' bumpin' magic you need to start 2025 right!!

THE DEETS
12.31.24
Show is 18+.
Doors at 8pm.

Live music starts at 9pm and goes til 1am (or until we're kicked out)
A respectful attitude and a safe driving plan are non-negotiable MUSTS
Wear your freshest throwback gear and/or your fancy clothes to celebrate

02 Jan 2025 Landon Conrath at 7th St Entry Read More Landon Conrath Minneapolis indie-pop artist Landon Conrath will close out the year with a headline show at the 7th Street Entry on December 30. We will be covering the show. ... Keep For Cheap Minneapolis’ Keep for Cheap is having their Bundle album release party this July 8th at the Cedar Cultural Center. The five-piece band formed in 2018, after singer-songwriters Autumn Vagle and Kate …

02 Jan 2025 Thursday

Landon Conrath
with Kiernan and Alex Delzer
at 7th St Entry
first-avenue.com

Every week in January, local musician Landon Conrath will be playing the 7th Street Entry.

Landon Conrath (30 Dec 2022)

We caught Conrath in Dec 2022, and wrote, “Landon Conrath is one of those conflicted musicians when it comes to finding his way in the music industry. He started off as a drummer in a high school band Harbor & Home (who we saw in July 2019). But when a bike accident led to a broken wrist, he searched for other ways to keep playing music. That’s when he started writing and producing his own music, posting his creations on social media during the middle of the pandemic. And by the time he released “Acetown” he had garnered four million listens on Spotify.”

Support acts will be announced closer to the dates.

Update: For the January 2, Kiernan and Alex Delzer to open.
For January 9, Keep for Cheap and Andrew Garden to open.
For January 16, Charli Adams and Pageant Dress to open.

Residency:

02 Jan 2025 Landon Conrath at 7th St Entry

09 Jan 2025 Landon Conrath at 7th St Entry

16 Jan 2025 Landon Conrath at 7th St Entry

04 Jan 2024 SunDown47 with The Melismatics and Zander at 7th St Entry Read More The Melismatics The Melismatics are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of their debut album, Postmodern Rock, with a worldwide reissue. The re-issued album, released May 1st, features several bonus tracks including ...

04 Jan 2024 Saturday

SunDown47
with The Melismatics and Zander
at 7th St Entry
first-avenue.com

Milwaukee/Minneapolis band SunDown47 is headlining the 7th Street Entry on January 4, 2025. If you’ve got nothing on Friday, they’re playing The Falcon Bowl in Milwaukee, their other hometown.

SunDown47 features members from Men Among Thieves, True Heart Suzi, and Katz Sass, and they have a forthcoming album Along For The Ride coming out this spring.

The Melismatics and Zander (aka Alek Glauvitz) to open.

SunDown47 writes:

Happy holidays everyone! Come join us at 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis on Saturday January 4th with The Melismatics and Zander! This promises to be a great night of music... We promise it will be a great way to start 2025 with big positive vibes!!!

Until then enjoy this rip from our show last summer at US Bank Stadium when we opened up on the Zach Bryan Quittin Time Tour!!

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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Run Westy Run at Turf Club, St Paul (03 Mar 2023)

Mood Swings Setlist Photo of Setlist Hooked Stir It Up Finest Line Crush Rocket (new song) Simple Things Knocked Down Nothing New Honey Generation Y Read More Run Westy Run I am grouping these three shows together because Run Westy Run and Iffy are related. RWR (featuring Daniel, Kirk, Kraig, and Kyle) were never quite as popular as their local peers … Mood Swings So tonight, The Mood Swings will be at the Sauce, at their CD-releasing party. As with previous Susstones showmania, they are cheap ($5, man!) and features a ton of bands (Two Harbors, First Communion Afterparty, …

Twin City music scene veterans Run Westy Run just had their sold-out album release concert for Beyond Reason (Cardinal Drive Records), on Friday night, at the Turf Club in St Paul.

This is their first studio album since 1990’s Green Cat Island, so it’s a big deal to finally get some new RWR songs. The band has a big local fanbase, a few of them were outside the venue begging attendees if they had extra tickets.

To be perfectly honest, I was rather excited to see The Mood Swings. The band, featuring Ashley Ackerson and Sallie Watson, had not released anything new since 2009’s Recessionista. While the band would play on and off gigs, it seemed like they are fairly inactive since 2009.

During the Mood Swings’ hiatus, Ashley would spend more time in her side project BNLX, with her husband, Ed Ackerson (of Polara) - that’s why you saw BNLX albums (the album with their dog on the cover) at the Mood Swing’s merchandise table.

BNLX (20 Mar 2010)

We caught BNLX’s very first concert at Sauce in Oct 2010, which we described, “Despite being just two persons (Ed and Ashley), BNLX had a lot of gear to setup. We're talking a few giant VOX amps and "crazy disco" lights, a Dyno-Fog 2 smoke machine, and a computer that served as backing music and drums. Surprisingly for their "first ever" gig, they seem to have it altogether. They played all their songs from their EP #1, plus a few new one. I don't remember most of them, but one of those songs was "Just Got Paid", which sounds promising.”

Sadly, when Ed passed away in Oct 2019, and I felt that pretty much ended BNLX as a band.

In July 2021, the Mood Swings announced that they are back, their first gig, post-hiatus was for a birthday concert in celebration of the late Ed Ackerson. We haven’t seen the Mood Sings since May 2008, so it’s really cool to see them playing new songs on Friday’s show. One of the new Mood Swings’ song was called “Rocket”, which was played in the middle of their set. Ashley said that the new song will be available in July 2023, as part of a series of 7 inch singles. I’m sure we’ll hear more about it closer to the date.

Before their set finale, “Generation Y”, Ashley introduced the band, with Mark Wade (from The Melismatics) on bass and Mike Reiter on drums.

By the time Run Westy Run took the stage, the Turf Club’s dancefloor was packed.

For those who didn’t know, RWR formed in mid-80s, and pretty soon joined the massive growing Minneapolis music explosion of the 80s and 90s: The Replacements, Husker Du, Soul Asylum, The Jayhawks, and many others. RWR never quite hit the mainstream, but for those into the local Minnesota music scene, they had their fans and supporters.

The three brothers, Kirk, Kyle, and Kraig Johnson - along with Terry Fisher and Bob Joslyn, signed to SST Records and released their self-titled debut album and the follow-up Hardly Not Even, both in 1988. At the height of their popularity, with the release of Green Cat Island, the band joined Soul Asylum on their 1990 national tour.

Run Westy Run quietly called it quits around 1995, although they never officially announced that they broke up. Then, after about twenty years, the band announced they were back with a holiday show at First Avenue in 2013. Kyle Johnson died in 2014, so perhaps the band-get-together was in honor Kyle. Anyway, since then, the holiday shows have become an annual event for the Westies.

Seeing the band on stage, for their Beyond Reason album show, especially the swagger and smile on singer Kirk Johnson, you can tell that the band loves playing live. They look like they are having a fantastic time. They act like they were rock gods, and the screaming fans treated them like they were rock gods…

As expected, the band played mostly new songs from Beyond Reason, including their lead singles, “Milkyway’s Mainframe” and “Christy Casino”. Many of these songs were written decades ago, but now collected and re-worked for the new album. Based on hearing them talk about these RWR songs, they have much more… so perhaps we’ll see another album in the not so far distant future.

Their three-song encore included some of fan favorite’s songs, including the final song, “Cockroach Park”.

While the band never became as famous as Soul Asylum or The Replacements… The band never gave up. In a recent interview with the Star Tribune, guitarist Kraig Johnson, explained, “Even though we never really had our big break back then or whatever, I still had a hell of a time. And that’s why I'm doing this now: It’s so fun.”

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Run Westy Run at Turf Club, St Paul (03 Mar 2023)

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Rock the Garden

Read More Metric As singer Emily Haines said on stage, it's hard to believe that Metric's been around for about 15 years. As the band grow, so have their audience. .…

ROCK THE GARDEN 2013
walkerart.org

Rock The Garden is an annual music festival organized by Walker Art Center and The Current 89.3. As far as I can tell, the popular music festival usually sells out as soon as it is announced to the public because the tickets are first offered to Walker and NPR members.

As usual, whoever the curator is for Rock The Garden does an excellent job in picking the bands. We've previously covered all those bands on the lineup for 2013, which is taking place Saturday, June 15, 2013.

Rock the Garden 2013 Schedule

3:00 pm – Gates open
3:45 – 4:15 pm – Dan Deacon
4:30 – 5:15 pm – Low
5:45 – 6:45 pm – Bob Mould Band
7:15 – 8:15 pm – Silversun Pickups
8:45 – 10 pm – Metric
10:00 pm – Music ends
10:30 pm – Gates close

Here are some news update on each of these bands (since it may have been a while since we wrote about them).

Dan Deacon will be back in the U.S. this summer to tour with Animal Collective. You can catch his interactive video called "Konono Ripoff No 1" over at dandeacon.com/konono.

Low is touring overseas at the moment, there a few dates with Mike Doughty in June, and their new music video "Just Make It Stop" can be seen on youtube.

As usual, Bob Mould is on tour, although no longer for the Copper Blue (Sugar) anniversary tour. He's just announced some new August dates here.

We actually haven't been keeping up with Silversun Pickups, since we covered them three years ago in Australia. The Los Angeles band just showed off their video for "Simmer" at the Onion's A/V Club.

I love Metric, having already seen them a few times in Minneapolis. I'm glad to see the Canadian band is headliner this year. If you can't get enough of singer Emily Haines, she's just joined FLEET4HEARme, a project where proceeds of jewelry design collaborations go towards building a retrofitted recording studio in an orphanage with the organization HearMe. You can check out her designs at Fleet’s website.

Read More Rock the Vine Rock the Vine is a music/wine tasting music festival in Stillwater, Minnesota. This is the third year hosted by the non-profit Rock the Cause organization. …

ROCK THE VINE 4
irockthecause.org

Also, don't forget a week before Rock the Garden is Rock the Vine.

We covered Rock the Vine last year, so I can tell you it's a pretty easy ride to Saint Croix Vineyards in Stillwater (just east of St Paul).

This year's Rock the Vine will take place on Saturday June 8, 2013. Depending on how much you paid for your admission ticket, they all include free bottled water and parking. Paying extra will get you handcrafted beer and wine! Unfortunately, this event is 21+ due to the alcohol.

This year's lineup:

Mark Mallman
Roster McCabe
Actual Wolf
The Melismatics
Van Stee
Fathom Lane
Savannah Smith
Hounds of Finn

I have to say that the free bottled water (including "Vitamin" drinks) is pretty awesome.

The event is organized by Rock the Cause, a nonprofit Minnesota company. Their whole goal is to help finance organizations like Free Arts Minnesota, Minnesota AIDS Project, Open Arms of Minnesota, etc.

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Deluxe Redux

Here are some recent re-issues/re-releases of albums from yesteryears in cool deluxe editions.

Read More They Might Be Giants Did you know that They Might Be Giants started doing "edutainment" albums, such as No!, Here Come the ABCs and Here Come the 123s? They're basically music for children…

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
theymightbegiants.com

I am a long time TMBG fan, ever since I heard that "brand new record for 1990". Like many of you, I was confused at first why they were now writing "children music" (which I believe started with No!), but I eventually understood this as a smart move. You got to get them young!

I own the original No! album, and outside of the flash animation on the CD, I didn't really love the album that much, but then again, it's really not meant for me.

Recently, they band announced a Deluxe Edition of No!, ten years after it was originally released. I didn't see any evidence of a physical version of the Deluxe Edition (but my "research" was limited to searching on amazon). I am assuming there will be a physical deluxe package, but at the moment the digital files are available for purchase as of June 11th (although I am told the album is officially released June 26 via Idlewild Recordings).

Since I had the original No!, I listened to a few songs for comparison and I really couldn't tell if there were any differences. At least my normal ears couldn't tell; I'm no supertaster, er, superhearer.

One of the nice things about reissues is that you end up re-listening to the music again. I'd forgotten how great "Where Do They Make Balloons?" is. I remember putting this song on many mixtapes … and I could've sword I heard some of these other songs like "Robot Parade" on TMBG's Dial-A-Song (although sound over the telephone is so much worse than the radio).

The new/bonus songs on the No! Deluxe Edition are: "Alphabet of Nations" (it's exactly how you'd imagine this song to be), "John Lee Supertaster (live version)", "Violin (live version), "Clap Your Hands (live version)", "Robot Parade (live version)", "Dr. Worm (live version)", and "Stalk of Wheat (live version) ".

If you've never seen TMBG live, the recording does a great job capturing their fun energy (and sometime their songs sounds so different than the recording). Oddly enough, "Dr Worm" from Severe Tire Damage and "Stalk of Wheat" from The Spine are included on the reissue.

Again, if you have kids (or is a kid), and don't already own No!, it's no brainer to get the deluxe version. If you've already own the original CD, I think you should be fine.

MAROON 5
maroon5.com

There's never been a better time for Maroon 5 fans. Singer Adam Levine is on NBC's hit series The Voice (which Lara is addicted to) and they've recently re-released their album, Songs About Jane, under the "10th Anniversary Edition" banner a few weeks ago. The three-time Grammy winners band is not my usual cup of tea, but for the 5 million fans who bought the first release, they can revisit the album with new material.

The 2-disc Deluxe Anniversary Edition includes all 12 original tracks, with unreleased songs like "Take What You Want," "Woman" and "Chilly Winter," as well as "Rag Doll" (a non-album B-side available only internationally) and an alternative mix of "The Sun." The second disc looks interesting - it's set to show you videos from maroon5.com, using PUSH technology.

Still can't get enough of Maroon 5? The band's fourth album, Overexposed, with current hit single "Payphone" featuring Wiz Khalifa, will be arriving June 26th, via A&M/Octone.

Tracklisting Disc 1: 1) Harder To Breathe 2:54 2) This Love 3:27 3) Shiver 3:00 4) She Will Be Loved (Radio Mix) 4:20 5) Tangled 3:18 6) The Sun 4:12 7) Must Get Out 3:59 8) Sunday Morning 4:06 9) Secret 4:55 10) Through With You 3:02 11) Not Coming Home 4:21 12) Sweetest Goodbye 4:31

Disc 2: 1) Harder To Breathe (Demo) 2:18 2) This Love (Demo) 3:22 3) Shiver (Demo) 3:10 4) She Will Be Loved (Demo) 3:09 5) Tangled (Demo) 2:44 6) The Sun (Demo) 3:23 7) Must Get Out (Demo) 3:17 8) Sunday Morning (Demo) 4:12 9) Secret (Demo) 4:10 10) Through With You (Demo) 3:23 11) Not Coming Home (Demo) 3:52 12) Sweetest Goodbye (Demo) 3:30 13) Take What You Want (Demo) 2:26 14) Rag Doll (Original Demo/Non-LP Int'l B-Side) 5:29 15) Woman (Demo) 4:05 16) Chilly Winter (Demo) 2:56 17) The Sun (Alternate Mix) 4:16

Acid House Kings - First Time

ACID HOUSE KINGS
www.acidhousekings.com

Our favorite Swedish record label, Labrador, announced that they are reissuing three Acid House Kings albums on extended digital format and limited edition deluxe 180g vinyl on August 28th, 2012. The vinyl are limited to 500 copies each.

Other than that, I don't have any other details. Will it have new tracks? New/updated cover artwork?

Advantage Acid House Kings (1997)
Mondays are Like Tuesdays and Tuesdays are Like Wednesdays (2002)
Sing Along with Acid House Kings (2005)*

If you were wondering why their first record Pop, Look & Listen isn't being reissued, according bandleader Johan Angergård, he thinks the album "isn't any good."

* The first 2000 copies came with a Karaoke DVD.

THE MELISMATICS
melismatics.com

The Melismatics are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of their debut album, Postmodern Rock, with a worldwide reissue. The re-issued album, released May 1st, features several bonus tracks including the new single "Missing Years" (which you can listen & download on soundcloud).

Fans of the original release may noticed that the new album has been remastered by Ryan Smith with a brand new track order.

50% of all digital sales and $1 from the physical CD of this album will be donated to Twin Cities music nonprofit Rock the Cause.

New track listing:

1. Can't Relate 2. Learning to Walk Away 3. Like People 4. Turn the Inside Out 5. Speaking in Tongues 6. Better Days 7. Mir or Mirror 8. Laza Beam

9. Phase Shifta/Orbit Rate or Bit Rate/Phase Shifta Reprise 10. An Aluminum Place to Hide (Previously Unreleased) 11. Girl in Leather 12. Hey! Look At Me! 13. Moving Forward (Going Nowhere) 14. Sunny Day (Please Go Away) 15. Worlds Apart 16. Missing Years (2012)

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