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Minneapolis: May 19 to May 22, 2017

Here are some concerts taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from May 19 to May 22, 2017.

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Read More Art-A-Whirl Art-A-Whirl... yeah, it's a dumb name, but what can you do? It's that time of the year again, the NEMAA (Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association) is putting together their annual Art-A-Whirl … Caroline Smith Beginning the evening on the good foot was Minneapolis-based singer Caroline Smith, whose freshly released new album, Half About Being a Woman (United Interests) ...

THE LIQUID ZOO 2017
at Bauhaus Brew Labs
05/19/17-05/21/2017 (Free)
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As part of the Art-A-Whirl event this weekend, Bauhaus Brew Labs has put together its The Liquid Zoo event.

Presented by Down In The Valley, Revival, Parlour Bar, and 89.3The Current, The Liquid Zoo is where best-in-class musicians, artists and food & beverage purveyors collide, igniting an unforgettable experience in which attendees can revel in local & national talent in the company of their friends & community. All events are free for all ages, 21+ to drink.

Lineup

Friday
Nightlights
Viva Knievel

Saturday
Caroline Smith 9:00 PM
Heiruspecs 8:00 PM
Communist Daughter 7:00 PM
Black Market Brass 6:00 PM
Night Moves 5:00 PM
ZULUZULUU 4:00 PM
Royal Canoe 3:00 PM
FRAEA 2:00 PM
SOLID GOLD 1:00 PM
Nooky Jones 12:00 PM
DJ Shane Kramer of TRANSMISSION Music (Day Long DJ)

Sunday
DJ Shane Kramer of Transmission Music

Read More Mark Mallman Did you miss Mark Mallman’s double appearances at the Icehouse last March 25th and 26th? No problem, catch him again at the Icehouse this upcoming Saturday, July 9th. … Marijuana Deathsquads Given the fact that both drummers performed four sets over two nights (both were a part of openers Marijuana Deathsquads as well), any minor missed beat could have been easily forgiven. .… Pert Near Sandstone This was Pert Near’s Ship of Fools 7” Release Party and a party is exactly what it was. This band brought the energy, the fun, and the talent to First Avenue …

WHIRLYGIG 2017
at Indeed Brewing Company
05/19/17-05/21/2017 (Free)
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The annual Whirlygig (part of the Art-A-Whirl weekend festival) will be taking place at the Indeed Brewing Company this weekend. The lineup is listed below.

This event is cash only and will run rain or shine. Wristbands will be required to enter for anyone who will be drinking and cost $1 with proceeds benefitting our charitable giving program, Indeed We Can.

Lineup

Friday May 19th
6pm - Ayvah
7pm - Pornonono
8pm - Andrew Broder
9pm - Marijuana Deathsquads

Saturday May 20th
1pm - Porch Knights
2pm - Ripper
3pm - Matt Latterell
4pm - COZY
5pm - Fury Things
6pm - Nato Coles & the Blue Diamond Band
7pm - Birthday Suits
8pm - The Mighty Mofos
9pm - Mark Mallman

Sunday May 21st
1pm - Inventions and Dimensions
2pm - Jack Klatt
3pm - Gabe Barnett & them Rounders
4pm - Lydia Liza
5pm - Pert Near Sandstone

Read More JMSN Los Angeles' Christian Berishaj, or otherwise known as his stage name JMSN ('Jameson') released his JMSN (Blue Album) last December 9, 2014, via White Room Records. … The Family Crest However, not all is lost, San Francisco's The Family Crest will be in town at the 7th Street Entry on July 6th in support of their album Beneath the Brine (Tender Loving Empire). … Wale Wale is from Washington, DC, and he was/is currently on tour. Since the previous dates have come and gone, below are the one remaining date (he is playing Chicago tonight) … Windhand Windhand has a new album called Soma, coming out September 17th on Relapse Records. The Richmond band also announced a Winter tour with High On Fire and Kvelertak …

Other shows in the area:

05/20/17 Chris Thile to be featured on A Prairie Home Companion at Fitzgerald Theater in St Paul. 4:45pmpm, $31.

05/20/17 Jmsn ( Los Angeles-based singer / songwriter / producer Christian Berishaj) returns to Minneapolis at the Triple Rock Social Club this Saturday. Quiñ and Alcordo to join Jmsn on this show. 8pm, $13.

05/20/17 Low Cut Connie (Adam Weiner, James Everhart, Will Donnelly, Larry Scotton, and Lucas Rinz) will be in town in support of their latest Dirty Pictures (Part 1) via Contender Records. The album was recorded on analog tape at Ardent Studios in Memphis, TN and is now available for pre-order. Scantron to open. 8pm, $11.

05/20/17 The Family Crest is playing Turf Club in St Paul this Saturday. The band’s latest EP Prelude to War is available now. NPR’s All Songs announced the EP earlier this year and said first song ‘Mirror Love’ as “a track urging people to express their political dismay … extends into new sonic territory for the group, capturing the late '70s sounds of the Bee Gees in both beat and chorus" adding “this band is a must–see live!” Trevor Sensor to open. 8pm, $13.

05/20/17 Wale (not to be confused with Whale) to headline Skyway Theatre this Saturday. 7pm, $25.

05/21/17 Bonobo is headlining First Avenue this Sunday in support of his latest record Migration. Fakear will open. 7pm, $25.

05/21/17 Tall Heights will headline the 7th Street Entry on Sunday. Show up early to check out rising Vermont singer/songwriter Henry Jamison in support of his critically-acclaimed EP The Rains (Akira Records). 7pm, $13.

05/21/17 Canadian band The Birthday Massacre is headlining the Cabooze on May 21st. Army Of The Universe and Ludovico Technique to open. 7pm, $10.

05/22/17 This Monday, Windhand will headline the 7th Street Entry. Satan's Satyrs will open. 7:30pm, $15.

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The Staves w/ Trevor Sensor at Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis (03 June 2016)

poster Staves Setlist Hopeless Blood I Bled Sleeping in a Car Black & White No Me No You No More Don't Let Me Down Steady Roses Damn It All Facing West Outlaw Mexico Make It Holy Winter Trees -- Encore -- Tired As F*#k Teeth White Tour Dates 06/09/16 Toronto, Lee's Palace 06/10/16 Montreal, Bar Le Ritz Pdb 06/14/16 London, Meltdown Festival 06/16/16 New York, Bowery Ballroom 06/17/16 Brooklyn, Baby's All Right 06/18/16 Dover, Firefly Festival 06/20/16 Washington, D.C. Rock And Roll Hotel 06/21/16 Carrboro, Cat's Cradleback Room 06/23/16 Atlanta, Smith's Olde Bar 06/24/16 Nashville, High Watt 06/25/16 St. Louis, Off Broadway 06/26/16 Kansas City, Riot Room 07/08/16 - 07/10/16 Winnipeg Folk Festival 07/22/16 - 07/24/16 Newport Folk Festival 08/12/16 - 08/14/16 Eaux Claires Festival Read More The Staves England’s The Staves is a sister trio (Emily, Jessica, and Camilla Staveley-Taylor). If there’s one thing we know about family bands - they have natural harmonizing talents. The Staves’ latest EP .... Trevor Sensor Jagjaguwar’s new signee Trevor Sensor will open this sold-out show. The Illinois native will be singing some songs from his debut Texas Girls and Jesus Christ EP. ....

There’s vocal harmonizing… and then there’s sibling vocal harmonizing…

Call it what you will- a knowledge of each other for their entire lives, something related genetically, or simply hearing the same voices for years and years, but sibling vocal harmonizing seems to have the precise edge when it comes to singing.

Bands like The Corrs, The Jacksons, Beach Boys and more, have all benefited vocally from the family relationship and based on opening night of their North American Tour in Minneapolis, The Staves is a name you can add to that list.

Trevor Sensor

Opening the long sold-out evening at the Cedar Cultural Center was singer-songwriting troubadour from Illinois, Trevor Sensor, whose EP, Texas Girls and Jesus Christ came out at the end of March.  Sounding like being at the crossroads of a young Dylan, Jake Bugg, and Steve Forbert, Sensor moved from piano to acoustic guitar on a “song about death” called ‘The Reaper Man’, ‘Judas Said to be a Man’ and a Bruce Cockburn cover of ‘Pacing the Cage’.

Ending with ‘Nothing is Fair’, the song evoked a Woody Guthrie-like civil unrest about a South Carolina 2015 shooting of an unarmed black man, with Sensor exclaiming “I'm so damn scared for my generation, your mind's so numb, with little patience.” Ferocious one moment, gentle and brooding the next, Sensor’s song range and talent seem to only be growing.

The Staves

Watford, UK folk sister trio The Staves didn’t have to sing a note to have the crowd on their side for their 80 min. performance- the show had already been sold out for months, the rabid but respectful audience gleamed and swooned with their every move, and members of Bon Iver (who they’ve been touring with) and Aero Flynn (drummer Dave Power’s other band) were cheering them on from the back of the room.

Still, the sisters (Emily Staveley-Taylor; Jessica Staveley-Taylor; Camilla Staveley-Taylor) proved endearing, mesmerizing, and a little playful on this, their opening night after recently touring Australia and Southeast Asia.

The synchronicity of their sibling voices was immediately evident in the opening, acapella ‘Hopeless’, a new track added to the extended version of previous full-length  If I Was (recorded in Wisconsin and on Nonesuch Records).

‘Sleeping in a Car’, the title track of their latest EP was played early on, with its minimalist percussion, building tempo, and lyrics admitting that it’s all “bigger than us”. “Who hasn’t slept in a car?” the girls joked after, “What, …wife kicked you out again?’ they continued.

“…Sisters!” someone up front shouted between songs, “…yeah…what else do you see?” they answered back, to crowd laughter.  The trio even laughed off trying to hold a note on the next song and what could be better than three sisters harmonizing? – sometimes looping their own voices to sound like even more of a large choir.

Many of the songs had that “Wisconsin walk in the snowy woods” atmospheric that so many are locally used to with Bon Iver, but the in-tandem vocals and moving melodies often take the songs elsewhere.

‘Don’t Let Me Down’, as an example, done mid-set as their drummer left for a short break, had a spinning, dizzying chorus that took you completely into the rabbit hole along with them.

After saying how familiar they are with the upper Midwest and excited to be “playing some music that was conceived, born and raised around here”, the spanning ‘Damn It All’ started with just quiet plucking and singing, before moving full speed, into something much bigger.

Setlist

Two-thirds of the way through, one of the sisters revealed to the audience how hard it was to harmonize for her, as her earpiece monitor had seemed to inadvertently dial into the wireless frequency of a nearby radio station in the background, only to have the other two sisters admit the very same thing—“ I thought I was going mad”, one replied.

‘Make It Holy’ and 2012’s ‘Winter Trees’ finished the main set, the latter painting the picture effectively with opening lyric, “White winter trees covered in snow I don't mind, I don't mind I think of you now, here in the cold”.

For the encore, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon did not get on stage as a few in the crowd were hoping,  but launching into the new ‘Tired as F*#k’, the girls seemed anything but that.  ‘Teeth White’ ended the evening, an up tempo fun number with lyric “I don't know what to expect / I feel a disconnect / and in all my years I've never felt so young” that proves the road ahead is wide open and in complete harmony.

The Staves at Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis (03 June 2016)

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Minneapolis: June 3, 2016

Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area on June 3, 2016.

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Read More Lany Lany was the opening act. They are a three piece synth-pop band from Los Angeles with catchy, yet dreamy, pop songs. There were songs where I almost ....

OH WONDER
at First Avenue
Friday, 06/03/16, 8pm ($20)
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London-based alt-pop Oh Wonder is headlining First Avenue’s mainroom next Friday, June 3rd. The duo (Josephine Vander Gucht and Anthony West) has already sold out major cities, such as London, Paris, and Los Angeles... so check them out now before they get much bigger.

Oh Wonder’s self-titled debut album is out now via Island, Republic, and Caroline International.

Opening will be Los Angeles’ Lany (stylized as LANY, pronounced ‘lay-nee’). We previously caught the trio (Paul Klein, Les Priest and Jake Goss) in July 2015 and wrote, “I was surprised by the amount of people that knew who these guys were. People were singing along to every word and swaying back and forth to every note. The girls in the crowd were swooning over the singer, who may as well have been a model.”

Expect some of those sing-along fans to be at this Friday’s show.

Tour dates:

05/27/16 Quincy, WA Gorge Amphitheatre
05/28/16 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
05/30/16 Edmonton, AB The Starlite Room
05/31/16 Calgary, AB The Gateway at SAIT
06/02/16 Winnipeg, MB West End Cultural Centre
06/03/16 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
06/06/16 Indianapolis, IN Deluxe
06/07/16 St. Louis, MO The Ready Room
06/09/16 Columbus, OH Wexner Center For The Arts
06/11/16 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
06/13/16 Orlando, FL The Beacham
06/15/16 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle
06/16/16 Firefly Music Festival
06/18/16 Boston, MA Royale Nightclub Boston
06/21/16 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
07/01/16 Rock Werchter Festival
07/08/16 T In The Park
07/15/16 Latitude Festival
07/16/16 Lovebox
07/17/16 Positivus Festival
07/21/16 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
07/22/16 Kansas City, MO Arvest Bank Theatre
07/23/16 Panorama Festival
07/24/16 Wayhome Music And Arts Festival
07/26/16 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Ballroom
07/27/16 Detroit, MI Masonic Temple Theatre
07/31/16 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
08/02/16 Cleveland, OH Jacobs Pavilion At Nautica
08/03/16 Toronto, ON Echo Beach
08/04/16 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
08/07/16 Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival
08/09/16 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
08/11/16 Philadelphia, PA Festival Pier
08/12/16 Boston, MA Agganis Arena

Read More Charly Bliss New York's Charly Bliss opened up the show, a tad later than advertised. But we soon discovered that it was well worth the wait, the young band had a very 90s alt girl ....

PUP
at 7th Street Entry
Friday, 06/03/16, 8pm ($12)
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Toronto’s Pup (stylized as PUP) is headlining the 7th Street Entry next Friday, June 3rd, in support of their sophomore album The Dream Is Over, available tomorrow, May 27, 2016, via SideOneDummy.

Brooklyn grunge-pop band Charly Bliss will open the show; their latest single “Ruby” just came out May 16, 2016. Eva Hendricks is the band's charismatic singer, which The A.V. Club described as “a laboratory fusion of Eddie Vedder and a punk-rock cheerleader”. We previously caught the young band in 2015 and wrote, “It's hard not to like the band, especially seeing singer Eva get really excited about playing their songs.”

Rozwell Kid is also on the bill.

Charly Bliss’ Tour Dates:

5/31 Lakewood, OH @ Mahall's ^
6/1 Detroit, MI @ Pike Room *
6/2 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean *
6/3 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry *
6/6 Seattle, WA @ Vera Project *
6/7 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir *
6/9 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop *
6/10 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo *
6/11 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar *
6/12 Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge ^
6/15 Denver, CO @ Lost Lake Lounge
6/16 Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge
6/17 St. Louis, MO @ The Demo
6/21 Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right

^ with Rozwell Kid
* with Pup and Rozwell Kid

Read More The Staves Flo Morrissey (no relation to Steven Patrick Morrissey) recently announced she's going on tour with The Staves to support her debut album on Glassnote Records. ....

THE STAVES
at the Cedar Cultural Center
Friday, 06/03/16, 7pm ($15/Sold Out)
thecedar.org

England’s The Staves is a sister trio (Emily, Jessica, and Camilla Staveley-Taylor). If there’s one thing we know about family bands - they have natural harmonizing talents.

The Staves’ latest EP Sleeping In A Car is available now.

Jagjaguwar’s new signee Trevor Sensor will open this sold-out show. The Illinois native will be singing some songs from his debut Texas Girls and Jesus Christ EP.

Tour Dates:

06/03/16 Minneapolis Cedar Cultural Center
06/04/16 Madison, High Noon Saloon
06/05/16 Milwaukee Club Garibaldi
06/06/16 Chicago, Lincoln Hall
06/08/16 Pontiac, The Pike Room
06/09/16 Toronto, Lee's Palace
06/10/16 Montreal, Bar Le Ritz Pdb
06/14/16 London, Meltdown Festival
06/16/16 New York, Bowery Ballroom
06/17/16 Brooklyn, Baby's All Right
06/18/16 Dover, Firefly Festival
06/20/16 Washington, D.C. Rock And Roll Hotel
06/21/16 Carrboro, Cat's Cradleback Room
06/23/16 Atlanta, Smith's Olde Bar
06/24/16 Nashville, High Watt
06/25/16 St. Louis, Off Broadway
06/26/16 Kansas City, Riot Room
07/08/16 - 07/10/16 Winnipeg Folk Festival
07/22/16 - 07/24/16 Newport Folk Festival
08/12/16 - 08/14/16 Eaux Claires Festival

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