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Rocktober: October 28 to October 29, 2024

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28 Oct 2024 Declan McKenna with Vlad Holiday at First Avenue Read More Declan McKenna British singer-songwriter Declan McKenna will be heading to the Garage in Burnsville in support of his new album What Do You Think About The Car?. The show is sold out. … Vlad Holiday Opening the show was American singer, originally from Romania, Vlad Holiday… playing in a near-darkness lighting situation. Holiday’s solo project started in 2017 through Nylon Magazine. ....

28 Oct 2024 Monday

Declan McKenna
with Vlad Holiday
at First Avenue
first-avenue.com

Declan McKenna is touring in support of his third album, What Happened To The Beach?. The tour will stop in at First Avenue, on October 28, 2024. Declan has been enjoying a viral hit on TikTok with his cover of ABBA’s “Slipping Through My Fingers.”

Vlad Holiday at Target Center (12 Aug 2024)

We saw Vlad Holiday in Aug 2024, and noted that “He mentioned that he’ll be headlining the Turf Club, on November 3, 2024, so if you wanted to see him on a more intimate setting, there’s your chance.”

Unfortunately, since he’s agreed to tour with McKenna, it meant that logistically, he actually had to cancel his November 2024 headlining show: “First off, thanks for your support and for buying tickets to my headline show. I am excited to share that I’ll now be opening up for Declan McKenna on tour this month, but that means I need to cancel my Turf Club show on November 3. Good news is that I'll be there even sooner! October 28 at @FirstAvenue in Minneapolis....I really hope you can make it to the new date.”

Declan McKenna Tour Dates

Oct 15 – Port Chester, NY at The Capitol Theatre

Oct 16 – Boston, MA at Roadrunner

Oct 18 – Montreal, QC at Le Petit Olympia

Oct 19 – Ottawa, ON at Bronson Centre Music

Oct 20 – Toronto, ON at HISTORY

Oct 24 – Detroit, MI at The Masonic Temple

Oct 25 – Chicago, IL at The Riviera Theatre

Oct 28 – Minneapolis, MN at First Avenue

Oct 29 – Madison, WI at The Sylvee

Nov 1 – Denver, CO at Ball Arena*

Nov 2 – Salt Lake City, UT at Delta Center*

Nov 4 – Vancouver, BC at Pacific Coliseum*

Nov 6 – Seattle, WA at Climate Pledge Arena*

Nov 7 – Portland, OR at Moda Center*

Nov 9 – San Francisco, CA at Chase Center*

Nov 10 – San Diego, CA at Pechanga Arena*

Nov 13 – Phoenix, AZ at Footprint Center*

Nov 15 – Los Angeles, CA at Cryto.com Arena*

Nov 20 – Pomona, CA at The Fox Theater

*with Sabrina Carpenter

28 Oct 2024 Vince Staples with special guest Baby Rose at Palace Theatre Read More Vince Staples Vince Staples (one third of the hip hop Cutthroat Boyz) started the show with ‘Birds & Bees’ in a dark, deep red smoke. It would make sense that Gorillaz personally asked Staples (and other opener Danny Brown) to open for them ...

28 Oct 2024 Monday

Vince Staples
with special guest Baby Rose
at Palace Theatre
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Vince Staples is touring in support of his eighth studio album, Dark Times, via Blacksmith Records / Def Jam Recordings. The tour will stop in at the Palace Theatre, in St Paul, on October 28, 2024.

Vince Staples at Roy Wilkins Auditorium (20 Sep 2017)

We saw Vince Staples in Sep 2017, and wrote, “Currently signed to ARTium Recordings, Blacksmith Records, and Def Jam Recordings, Staples’ sophomore album Big Fish Theory debut at number 16 on the US Billboard 200 on the strength of his singles ‘Rain Come Down’ and ‘Big Fish’. Staples spent the majority of his set in near darkness with a red backdrop, with the exceptions of ‘745’, which had a custom video of a car driving down a desert freeway, and ‘Big Fish’ with a video of a gold fish.”

Baby Rose to open.

Tour dates:

Oct 11 Austin, TX, US Austin City Limits

Oct 14 Atlanta, GA, US The Eastern

Oct 18 New York (NYC), NY, US Terminal 5

Oct 20 Boston, MA, US Roadrunner

Oct 21 Philadelphia, PA, US Franklin Music Hall

Oct 23 Toronto, ON, Canada History

Oct 24 Washington, DC, US The Anthem

Oct 26 Detroit, MI, US Scottish Rite Cathedral Theatre

Oct 27 Chicago, IL, US Riviera Theatre

Oct 28 St. Paul, MN, US Palace Theatre

Oct 30 Denver, CO, US Mission Ballroom

Nov 2 Seattle, WA, US Showbox SoDo

Nov 3 Portland, OR, US McMenamins Crystal Ballroom

Nov 6 Los Angeles (LA), CA, US Shrine Expo Hall

Nov 7 San Francisco, CA, US The Warfield

29 Oct 2024 Wyatt Flores with Bo Staloch at First Avenue Read More Wyatt Flores Welcome To The Plains is the debut album from Wyatt Flores. Across its 14 epic tracks, Wyatt writes about home, happiness, family and the place that raised him - Stillwater, Oklahoma. The album is happy on one side and heartbreak on the other ...

29 Oct 2024 Tuesday

Wyatt Flores
with Bo Staloch
at First Avenue
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Rising country artist Wyatt Flores is touring in support of his debut album Welcome To The Plains… the fall tour is his largest headlining shows to date, which includes two nights at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, selling out Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre, and First Avenue, in Minneapolis, on October 29, 2024.

Bo Staloch to open.

Tour dates:

October 5—Quincy, WA—Gorge Amphitheatre^

October 10—Oklahoma City, OK—The Criterion†

October 11—Dallas, TX—State Fair of Texas

October 12—College Station, TX—Live at The Station

October 17—Atlanta, GA—The Eastern+

October 18—Raleigh, NC—The Ritz+

October 19—Charlotte, NC—The Fillmore+

October 20—Simpsonville, SC—Greenville Country Music Fest

October 24—Oxford, MS—The Lyric*

October 25—Birmingham, AL—Avondale Brewing Company*

October 26—Little Rock, AR—The Hall#

October 29—Minneapolis, MN—First Avenue#

October 31—Chicago, IL—The Vic Theatre#

November 1—Rosemont, IL—Joe’s Live#

November 2—Madison, WI—The Sylvee#

November 12—Cincinnati, OH—Bogart’s*

November 13—Royal Oak, MI—Royal Oak Music Theatre*

November 15—Pittsburgh, PA—Stage AE*

November 16—Cleveland, OH—Agora Theatre*

November 17—Toronto, Ontario—Danforth Music Hall~

November 20—London, Ontario—London Music Hall~

November 22—Montreal, Quebec—Theatre Beanfield~

November 23—Ottawa, Ontario—Bronson Centre Music Theatre~

December 2—Washington, D.C.—9:30 Club**

December 3—Richmond, VA—The National**

December 4—Philadelphia, PA—The Fillmore‡‡

December 6—Brooklyn, NY—Brooklyn Paramount‡‡

December 7—Boston, MA—House of Blues‡‡

December 13—Nashville, TN—Ryman Auditorium††

December 14—Nashville, TN—Ryman Auditorium++

December 27—Fort Worth, TX—Billy Bob’s Texas

December 30—Tulsa, OK—Cain’s Ballroom##

December 31—Tulsa, OK—Cain’s Ballroom~~

*with special guest Noeline Hofmann
‡with special guest Brendan Walter
^supporting Luke Combs
†with special guest Lance Roark
+with special guest Kaitlin Butts
#with special guest Bo Staloch
~with special guest Zandi Holup
**with special guest Jake Kohn
‡‡with special guest Evan Honer
††with special guests The Great Divide and Lance Roark
++with special guests Evan Honer and Bo Staloch
##with special guests JR Carroll and Wyatt Baker
~~with special guests The Damn Quails and Lance Roark

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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Gorillaz at Roy Wilkins Auditorium, St. Paul (20 Sep 2017) (Updated)

Gorillaz Setlist M1 A1 Last Living Souls 📺 Murdoc BB Saturnz Barz Tomorrow Comes Today Rhinestone Eyes Every Planet We Reach Is Dead Sleeping Powder 📺 Indent: Madam On Melancholy Hill Busted and Blue El Mañana Ascension with Vince Staples Strobelite with Peven Everett Submission with Danny Brown 📺 Noodle BB Andromeda Sex Murder Party with Jamie Principle and Zebra Katz Garage Palace with Little Simz Superfast Jellyfish with De La Soul Kids With Guns 📺 Russell BB We Got the Power with Jehnny Beth -- Encore -- Stylo with Peven Everett Feel Good Inc. with De La Soul 📺 2D BB Clint Eastwood Don't Get Lost in Heaven Demon Days Danny Brown Setlist Side B (Dope Song) Kool Aid Smokin & Drinkin Grown Up 25 Bucks Ain’t It Funny Really Doe When It Rain Pneumonia Attak (Rustie cover) Vince Staples Setlist Birds & Bees Homage Rain Come Down Love Can Be... 745 Loco Surf War Ready Big Fish Norf Norf Read More Gorillaz I'm not going to lie, I love me some Gorillaz-action. Being a fan of Blur and Tank Girl and Dan the Automator, it was only natural that I fell in love with this cartoon band's first single, "Clint Eastwood"…

Gorillaz headlined the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St Paul last week (September 20th) in support of their new album Humanz.

It was the band’s first tour in seven years. As expected, the show sold out, leaving many fans and families standing outside the venue looking for spare tickets. The most interesting thing about the audience is that it was a good mixture of Black, White, and Asian fans. The audience was as diverse as some of the music of Gorillaz.

Vince Staples (one third of the hip hop Cutthroat Boyz) started the show with ‘Birds & Bees’ in a dark, deep red smoke. It would make sense that Gorillaz personally asked Staples (and other opener Danny Brown) to open for them, as Staples (among many others) collaborated with Gorillaz on their new Humanz album.

Currently signed to ARTium Recordings, Blacksmith Records, and Def Jam Recordings, Staples’ sophomore album Big Fish Theory debut at number 16 on the US Billboard 200 on the strength of his singles ‘Rain Come Down’ and ‘Big Fish’.

Staples spent the majority of his set in near darkness with a red backdrop, with the exceptions of ‘745’, which had a custom video of a car driving down a desert freeway, and ‘Big Fish’ with a video of a gold fish.

Detroit’s Danny Brown had a lot of buzz from the crowd coming on stage. Even if the audience were only casual Brown fans, they knew enough to sing along to ’25 Bucks’ and ‘Smokin & Drinkin’, both taken from his critically acclaimed album Old.

‘When It Rain’ and ‘Pneumonia’ was played near the end of his set, which was taken from Brown’s most recent album Atrocity Exhibition (Warp Records).

If you’re in the Detroit area, Brown and DJ Assault & Bruiser Brigade will be taking over Club Fantasy for their “Bruiser Thanksgiving 4” on November 22nd.

As for Gorillaz (a British “virtual band” created by Blur’s Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett), what can we say, other than that they put on a fantastic show. No expenses were spared when it came to audio/visual displays, and bringing in top talents. Seeing the original collaborators on stage really brought their live shows to another level. While most bands would settle for a video duet or employing another band member, Gorillaz spent the extra money on their budget to bring in Peven Everett, Jamie Principle, Zebra Katz Little Simz, Jehnny Beth, and De La Soul.

For the artists they couldn’t get to commit to the tour, notably Popcaan (for ‘Saturnz Barz’) and Del the Funky Homosapien (for ‘Clint Eastwood’), their contributions were shown on the video screen.

On the music portion of Gorillaz is, of course, Damon Albarn on singing duties, but occasional on piano, guitars, keytar, and the melodica, when the song called for it. Mike Smith on keyboards, Jeff Wootton on lead guitar, Seye Adelekan on bass and ukulele, Gabriel Wallace on drums, Karl Vanden Bossche on additional drums and percussion, Jesse Hackett on keyboards, and a gospel choir: Angel Silvera, Petra Luke, Rebecca Freckleton, Michelle, Matthew Allen, and Marcus Anthony Johnson.

For the guest rappers, they often bring an interesting take of their songs. The songs aren’t 100% the same as you hear on the recorded studio album. For example, De La Soul changed some of their verses around, and Zebra Katz brought a visual element to their song by dressing up in a truly unique fashion. The visuals and dancing from Katz and Jamie Principle definitely change the way you perceive ‘Sex Murder Party’.

The biggest surprise, at least for me, was the appearance of Jehnny Beth (from Savages), as she isn’t considered a hip hop or rapper. Savages is more on the punk / rock side of the genre, so hearing her sing with Damon Albarn for ‘We Got the Power’ was a real treat.

We’re happy to see Gorillaz do so well in America, especially because we have previously stated that Albarn’s other band Blur had failed to break America after possibly seeing Blur’s last American show in 2015.

Gorillaz continues their successful Humanz tour:

09/30/2017 KeyArena At Seattle Center Seattle, WA
10/05/2017 Forum Inglewood, CA
10/08/2017 Austin City Limits Music Festiva
10/11/2017 Infinite Energy Center Duluth, GA
10/13/2017 III Points Festival
10/15/2017 Austin City Limits Music Festival
11/01/2017 Rockhal Club Luxembourg, Luxembourg
11/02/2017 Wiener Stadthalle Vienna, Austria
11/04/2017 Royal Arena Copenhagen, Denmark
11/05/2017 Oslo Spektrum Arena Oslo, Norway
11/06/2017 Hovet Stockholm, Sweden
11/08/2017 Samsung Hall Zurich, Switzerland
11/09/2017 Geneva Arena Geneva, Switzerland
11/11/2017 Zenith - Die Kulturhalle Munich, Germany
11/13/2017 BudapestArena Budapest, Hungary
11/14/2017 O2 Arena Prague, Czech Republic
11/17/2017 Max-Schmeling-Halle Berlin, Germany
11/18/2017 Mitsubishi Electric Halle Dusseldorf, Germany
11/19/2017 Alsterdorfer Sporthalle Hamburg, Germany
11/21/2017 Ziggo Dome Amsterdam, Netherlands
11/22/2017 Forest National Brussels, Belgium
11/24/2017 Zenith Paris Paris, France
11/25/2017 Zenith Paris Paris, France
11/27/2017 The Brighton Centre Brighton, United Kingdom
11/29/2017 The SSE Hydro Glasgow, United Kingdom
12/01/2017 Manchester Arena Manchester, United Kingdom
12/02/2017 Arena Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom
12/04/2017 The O2 - London London, United Kingdom
12/05/2017 The O2 - London London, United Kingdom
12/13/2017 Velodromo Montevideo, Uruguay
12/16/2017 Bue Festival

Vince Staple

Danny Brown

Gorillaz Setlist

Gorillaz (Damon Albarn)

Gorillaz (Damon Albarn)

Gorillaz (Damon Albarn)

Zebra Katz

Gorillaz

Peven Everett

Little Simz

Gorillaz with Jehnny Beth

Gorillaz (with De La Soul) at Roy Wilkins Auditorium, St. Paul (20 September 2017)

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Minneapolis: March 15 to March 17, 2017

Here are some concerts taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from March 15 to March 17, 2017.

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Read More Cold War Kids It's the big 10 year anniversary of local radio station The Current, and they've been selling out all their shows. I believe most, if not all, of their shows will be broadcasting live ....

COLD WAR KIDS
at First Avenue
Wednesday 03/15/17, 7:30pm (Sold Out)
first-avenue.com

Fan-favorites Cold War Kids will be back in town in support of their new album LA Divine. We saw the band in 2015 and 2016 and noted that they hadn’t had an album since 2014’s Hold My Home (Downtown Records)... so it’s good to hear that they finally had the time to put together new songs.

LA Divine is CWK’s sixth album, but their first on major label Capitol Records.

JØUR will open the show.

Tour Dates:

3/10 Baton Rouge, LA Varsity Theatre ^
3/11 Fayetteville, AR George's Majestic^
3/12 Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium ^
3/14 Madison, WI Majestic ^
3/15 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
3/17 Columbia, MO Blue Note
3/18 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre ^
3/19 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian ^
3/21 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall ^
3/22 Toronto, ON Danforth Music Hall ^
3/23 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE ^
3/24 Covington, KY Madison Theater ^
3/25 Columbus, OH CD102.6 Day
4/1-2 Houston, TX Houston Whatever Fest
6/09 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Music Festival
8/02 Louisville, KY Palace Theatre *
8/05 Kansas City, MO Starlight Theatre *
8/11 Seattle, WA WaMu Theater *
8/12 Vancouver, BC SeaWheeze Sunset *
8/15 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheater *
8/17 Albuquerque, NM Villa Hispana *
8/18 Las Vegas, NV The Pearl *
8/19 Reno, NV Grand Theatre *
8/20 Eugene, OR Cuthbert Amphitheatre *
8/24 San Diego, CA CalCoast Credit *
8/25 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl *
9/13 New York, NY Central Park *
9/14 Boston, MA Blue Hills*
9/15 Philadelphia, PA Festival Pier *
9/16 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post *
9/19 Charlottesville, VA Sprint Pavilion *
9/26 Birmingham, AL BJCC Concert Hall *
9/28 Oklahoma City, OK The Criterion *

^ with Middle Kids
* with Young The Giant

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Other shows in the area:

03/15/2017 Chuck Prophet will be at the Turf Club in Saint Paul.

03/15/2017 The Revivalists is headlining Fine Line Music Café. The Ghost Of Paul Revere to open.

03/16/2017 Although The Damnwells officially called it quits after sixteen years, the spirit of the band still reside insides singer Alex Dezen - who will be at the 7th Street Entry next Thursday (with "His Band"). Dezen was previously in town last October 2016.

03/16/2017 Ariana Grande is back at the large stadium Xcel Energy Center. Little Mix to open. Be sure to meet Little Mix at the Mall of America for a promo appearance at 3pm that day.

03/16/2017 Academy Award-winning rapper and songwriter/producer Juicy J will be at Myth in support of his new album Rubba Band Business: The Album. Belly (not to be confused with 90s alternative rock band) and Project Pat will open.

03/16/2017 Vince Staples will be at First Avenue. Special guest Kilo Kish will open. Kish’s debut album Reflections in Real Time is available now.

03/17/2017 All Them Witches returns to the Turf Club this Friday, March 17th.

03/17/2017 Martha Davis And The Motels and The Smithereens will be playing Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant.

03/17/2017 Miranda Lambert with Old Dominion and Aubrie Sellers will be at Xcel Energy Center.

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