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Rocktober: October 27

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10/27 Addison Grace with Madilyn Mei and Brye at Amsterdam Bar & Hall Read More Addison Grace A good thing it was the longest day of the year, as it was also a full night of entertainment, beginning with young Addison Grace, a California-based (by way of Salt Lake City) …

10/27/2023 Friday

Addison Grace
with Madilyn Mei and Brye
at Amsterdam Bar & Hall
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Rising singer-songwriter Addison Grace (he/they) is touring in support of Diving Lessons (AWAL). The album was co-produced and recorded by Cavetown’s Robin Skinner in London.

Addison Grace (21 June 2023)

We caught Grace in June 2023 and said, “A good thing it was the longest day of the year, as it was also a full night of entertainment, beginning with young Addison Grace, a California-based (by way of Salt Lake City) bedroom pop singer-songwriter who developed a social media following after uploading songs on multiple platforms, and who released not one, but two EPs last year, Immaturing and Things That Are Bad for Me.”

Madilyn Mei and Brye to open.

Tour dates:

Oct 21 - Hawthorne - Portland, OR
Oct 22 - Madame Lou's - Seattle, WA
Oct 23 - The Shrine (Basement) - Boise, ID
Oct 25 - Bluebird - Denver, CO
Oct 27 - Amsterdam - Minneapolis, MN
Oct 28 - Sub T - Chicago, IL
Oct 29 - Loving Touch - Detroit, MI
Oct 30 - Mahalls - Cleveland, OH
Oct 31 - Velvet Underground - Toronto, ON
Nov 2 - Brighton MH - Boston, MA
Nov 3 - Mercury Lounge - New York, NY
Nov 4 - Foundry - Philadelphia, PA
Nov 5 - Union Stage - DC
Nov 6 - Canal Club - Richmond, VA
Nov 8 - The Social - Orlando, FL
Nov 9 - Purgatory - Atlanta, GA
Nov 11 - The End - Nashville, TN
Nov 13 - HOB - Cambridge Room - Dallas, TX
Nov 14 - Antones - Austin, TX
Nov 16 - Rebel lounge - PHX, AZ
Nov 17 - HOB Voodoo - San Diego, CA
Nov 18 - Echoplex - LA, CA
Nov 19 - Cafe du Nord - San Fran, CA
Nov 21 - Soundwell - Salt Lake City, UT

10/27 Wheeler Walker, Jr. with Channing Wilson at First Avenue Read More Wheeler Walker Jr. 07/24/2017 Wheeler Walker Jr. sold out his show at the Turf Club on Monday. Kasey Tyndall will open. 7pm, $17/Sold Out. …

10/27/2023 Friday

Wheeler Walker, Jr.
with Channing Wilson
at First Avenue
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Outlaw country rebel rocker Wheeler Walker Jr. is on his “Spread Eagle” tour, stopping by First Avenue in Minneapolis on October 27th.

Channing Wilson to open.

Tour dates:

10/03 - Manchester, NH at The Goat
10/04 - Hampton Beach, NH at Wally’s Pub
10/05 - Philadelphia, PA at Brooklyn Bowl
10/06 - Cleveland, OH at House Of Blues
10/08 - New York, NY at Irving Plaza
10/11 - Indianapolis, IN at The Vogue
10/12 - Columbus, OH at The Bluestone
10/13 - Milwaukee, WI at The Rave
10/14 - Cincinnati, OH at Bogart’s
10/18 - Nashville, TN at The Ryman Auditorium
10/26 - East Moline, IL at The Rust Belt
10/27 - Minneapolis, MN at First Avenue
10/28 - Omaha, NE at The Admiral
10/29 - Kansas City, MO at Uptown Theater
10/31 - Denver, CO at Ogden Theatre
11/02 - Salt Lake City, UT at The Complex
11/03 - Garden City, ID at Revolution Concert House
11/04 - Tacoma, WA at Temple Theater
11/05 - Portland, OR at Roseland Theater
11/07 - Monterey, CA at Golden State Theatre
11/08 - San Luis Obispo, CA at Fremont Theater
11/10 - Del Mar, CA at The Sound
11/11 - Tucson, AZ at Rialto Theatre
11/12 - Albuquerque, NM at Revel
11/14 - Austin, TX at ACL Live
11/16 - Houston, TX at White Oak
11/17 - Fort Worth, TX at Tannahill Tavern
11/18 - Memphis, TN at Minglewood Hall

10/27 Darlingside with Field Guide at Cedar Cultural Center Read More Field Music Anyway, Field Music came on stage exactly at 8:30, and they look like very clean-cut handsome young men. The way they dressed, their haircut, it just seems to me that by the end of their US …

10/27/2023 Friday

Darlingside
with Field Guide
at Cedar Cultural Center
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Acclaimed indie-folk quartet Darlingside is touring in support of their new album Everything Is Alive… stopping by the Cedar Cultural Center on October 27th.

Field Music (15 Mar 2010)

Field Music to open. We caught Field Music in Mar 2010 and said, “As I previously mentioned, I've never heard of Field Music, and I mostly requested to see them live because I liked Clientele, thinking that they'll sound alike... but to be honest, I did not think they were much similar, besides from being both English. That's not to say that they were bad, just different from what I anticipated. They certainly have their fans, though. A friend I ran into was there specifically to see Field Music (then left half way into the Clientele's set), and people did keep shouting out requests. "Sit Tight!" someone in the audience said, in which Peter responded that they'd love to play them, "if only we knew how". ”

Tour dates:

October 1 – Sisters, OR – Sisters Folk Festival
October 3 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
October 6 – Los Angeles, CA – LodgeRoom
October 19 – Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre
October 20 – Fort Collins, CO – Armory FoCo
October 21 – Beaver Creek, CO – Vilar Performing Arts Center
October 26 – Milwaukee, WI – The Back Room at Colectivo Coffee
October 27 – Minneapolis, MN – The Cedar Cultural Center
October 28 – Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk Music
October 29 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark
November 29 – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern Café and Music Hall
November 30 – Washington, DC – Howard Theatre
December 1 – Ardmore, PA – The Ardmore Music Hall
December 2 – New York, NY – Brooklyn Made
December 3 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Little Spa Theatre
December 6 – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom
December 7 – Portland, ME – Portland House of Music and Events
December 8 – South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
December 9 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair – Early Seated Show
December 9 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair – Late GA Show
December 15 – Northampton, MA – Academy of Music Theatre

10/27-10/28 Queen + Adam Lambert at Xcel Energy Center Read More Queen Since Freddie Mercury's death in 1991, Queen has been without a regular lead singer. Various vocalists have temporarily joined on stage, including Elton John, Luciano Pavarotti, …

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10/28/2023 Saturday

Queen + Adam Lambert
at Xcel Energy Center
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Due to overwhelming fan demand, Queen + Adam Lambert have announced the addition of the final eight new dates across North America on their upcoming Rhapsody Tour (which started in 2019). The final eight shows are Baltimore, New York, Boston, St. Paul, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

Expect to hear all of your favorite Queen songs, including “We Will Rock You”, “Radio Ga Ga”, “We Are The Champions”, etc.

Tour dates:

Wed Oct 04 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena
Thu Oct 05 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena
Sun Oct 08 – Toronto, ON — Scotiabank Arena
Tue Oct 10 — Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
Thu Oct 12 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Fri Oct 13 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Sun Oct 15 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
Mon Oct 16 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
Wed Oct 18 — Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
Mon Oct 23 — Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
Wed Oct 25 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
Fri Oct 27 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
Sat Oct 28 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
Mon Oct 30 — Chicago, IL – United Center
Tue Oct 31 — Chicago, IL – United Center
Thu Nov 02 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
Fri Nov 03 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
Sun Nov 05 — Denver, CO – Ball Arena
Wed Nov 08 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center
Thu Nov 09 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center
Sat Nov 11 – Los Angeles, CA – BMO Stadium
Sun Nov 12 – Los Angeles, CA – BMO Stadium

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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Minneapolis: July 21 to July 25, 2017

Read More Blondie One of our favorites, Blondie is playing an intimate show at the Minnesota Zoo this Saturday. I believe this show may be sold out (even at $70 a ticket), as I went to the venue’s website … Garbage Garbage (Shirley Manson, Steve Marker, Duke Erikson, and Butch Vig) is back with their critically acclaimed sixth studio album Strange Little Birds (STUNVOLUME Records). .…

Here are some concerts taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from July 21 to July 25, 2017.

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BLONDIE & GARBAGE
at Mystic Showroom
Friday 07/21/17 (7pm/$65)
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Whatever you do, you cannot miss these two amazing female-fronted bands, Blondie (Debbie Harry) and Garbage (Shirley Manson), together on one bill at Mystic Lake. It’s the best of the 80s and the best of the 90s on this “The Rage and Rapture Tour”.

Blondie’s 11th studio album Pollinator is available now on BMG. Garbage’s new single ‘No Horses’ is available now, proceeds goes to the International Committee of the Red Cross through the end of 2018. They also have an autobiographical coffee table book, This is the Nose That Keeps Me Awake (Akashic Books)... the title comes from their ‘Push It’ song.

Tour Dates:

07/16 - Fiddler's Green , Englewood, CO
07/18 - Kauffman Center, Kansas City, MO
07/19 - Harrah's Council Bluffs, Council Bluffs, IA
07/21 - Mystic Lake Casino, Prior Lake, MN
07/22 - Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL
07/25 - Artpark, Lewiston, NY
07/26 - Sony Centre , Toronto, ON*
07/28 - Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
07/29 - Bethel Woods Center, Bethel, NY
07/30 - Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, Boston, MA
08/1 - Beacon Theatre, New York, NY
08/2 - Mann Center , Philadelphia, PA
08/5 - Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC
08/8 - Seminole Hard Rock, Hollywood, FL
08/9 - Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL
08/11 - ACL Live, Austin, TX
08/12 - Southside Ballroom, Dallas, TX

Read More Rock the Garden The second Rock the Garden music festival on Sunday saw a seemingly bigger crowd, particularly near the front of the stage. … The Revolution Prince was a big deal. When he died unexpectedly, we were shocked and we talked about it for weeks... and we speculated that The Revolution will reunite. And they have! … Bon Iver Bon Iver is a Grammy award-winning American indie folk band founded in 2007 by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. The band also includes Michael Noyce, Sean Carey, Colin Stetson and Matthew McCaughan amongst others. .…

ROCK THE GARDEN
at Walker Arts Center
Saturday 07/22/17 (1pm/$69/Sold Out)
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Rock The Garden is back at the Walker Art Center (after relocating to Boom Island due to construction). This year it’s back to a one-day event... and it’s sold out.

One of this year’s headliners, The Revolution, re-formed after Prince’s death in 2016. They’re back, and if you couldn’t get tickets to RTG, you can try seeing them at First Avenue on Sunday.

The other headliner is Bon Iver (pronounced “bon-nee-ver”, taken from the French words “bon hiver”). We previously saw them in Los Angeles in October 2016 and wrote, “Bon Iver and his band opened with a myriad of hieroglyphics and light fixtures so psychedelic it was like Willy Wonka decided to go into the scary cave to meet a bunch of Egyptians. Seriously though, I’m pretty sure some people who expected a night of mellow acoustics forgot to check out Justin Vernon’s newest album, 22, A Million, his 3rd full-length record. A stark contrast from his chilling falsettos in For Emma, Forever Ago and my favorite Bon Iver, his voice became increasingly overshadowed by the band’s pressing indulgence into the stratosphere of autotuneness. Though the lyrics equally as heartfelt and beautiful, it’s a vastly different feel however I commend him for the drastic change...it shows how much he’s been through in the past 5 years.”

Lineup:

The Revolution
Bon Iver
Bruise Violet
Dead Man Winter
Margaret Glaspy
Car Seat Headrest
Benjamin Booker
Dwynell Roland

Read More Vans Warped Tour Heading out to Van's Warped Tour 2015 at Shakopee, Minnesota, this Sunday ( 07/26th)? Here are just some of the bands listed to appear: …

VANS WARPED TOUR
at Canterbury Park
Sunday 07/23/17 (12pm/$38)
vanswarpedtour.com

The annual traveling music festival Vans Warped Tour is coming back to Canterbury Park this Sunday.

Weirdly enough, they teamed up with Valiant Comics (we love Solar and X-O Manowar), as seen in the tour poster.

Here are just some of those bands playing:

Valient Thorr, TSOL, Silverstein, Sonic Boom Six, Sick Of It All, Save Ferris, New Years Day, Municipal Waste, Hatebreed, Hawthorne Heights, Gwar, Emmure, Creeper, CKY, Candiria, The Ataris, The Acacia Strain, The Adolescents, Our Last Night, Blessthefall, Carnifex, Stick To Your Guns, Futuristic, After The Burial, Dance Gavin Dance, Fire From The Gods, Memphis May Fire, Alestorm, Fit For A King, William Control, Silent Planet, Hundredth, Sammy Adams, Barb Wire Dolls, Counterparts, Stacked Like Pancakes, Bad Cop / Bad Cop, Hands Like Houses, Courage My Love, Watsky, War On Women, Sworn In, Beartooth, American Authors, Being As An Ocean, Sylar, Neck Deep, Trophy Eyes, Too Close To Touch, Jule Vera, I Prevail, Microwave, Knocked Loose, Movements, Separations, Boston Manor, The White Noise , Bad Omens, Andy Black, Feeki, The Gospel Youth, Twilight Creeps, Farewell Winters, Attila.

Read More Andrew Bird We've written about Andrew Bird, a few times. Anyway, critics are raving about Andrew Bird's latest release, Break It Yourself. NPR called it "something beautiful" … The Melvins Second to play Sunday night was The Melvins. These guys have a huge following in Minneapolis. I truly thought they were from here but apparently that's not true ... Waxahatchee Recently White Lung's Mish Way joined Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee in New York's Lower East Side to bring us two memorable acoustic versions ... Colin Stetson Saxophonist Colin Stetson recently teamed up with violinist Sarah Neufeld a collaboration album Never were the way she was (Constellation Records) and a North American tour in June. ... Lowertown Blues Festival Mears Park in St. Paul plays host to the Lowertown Blues Festival this Saturday, a Free Admission seven-hour event features multiple acts in concert, including two-time ...

Other shows in the area:

07/21/2017 Andrew Bird is headlining First Avenue in support of his 12th record Are You Serious (Loma Vista Recordings). Goulden Balls (not to be confused with Golden Balls) to open. 6pm, $36.

07/21/2017 Dashboard Confessional is playing the Myth with All-American Rejects and The Maine. 6:30pm, $35.

07/21/2017 Multi-platinum-selling artist J. Cole will be at the Xcel Energy Center in St Paul as part of his “4 Your Eyez Only Tour” this Friday. 7pm, $29.50.

07/21/2017 Nashville-based Americana singer-songwriter Mary Bragg is playing the tiny Warming House in Minneapolis. Bragg’s Lucky Strike album is out now. Sarah Morris to open. 7:30pm, $10.

07/21/2017 Waxahatchee is headlining the Triple Rock Social Club this Friday. The duo’s latest album Out in the Storm is available on Merge Records. Cayetana and Snail Mail will open. 8pm, $15.

07/21/2017-07/22/2017 The annual Lowertown Blues Festival is taking place at the Mears Park in Minneapolis. This year’s lineup for Friday: Average White Band, Mick Sterling, Chase And Ovation, McNally Smith Indie Rock, and SKA Ensemble. Saturday: Renee Austin, Ken Valdez, The Jimmys, Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, Colin Campbell & The Shackletons, Moses Oakland, Paul Haaland, and Alex Crankshaft Larson. 5pm, FREE.

07/22/2017 Grumpy's Bash at Grumpy’s will feature a lot of fan-favorite bands this year, including Mudhoney, Melvins, Lydia Lunch, Cherubs, The Blind Snake, and Whores. 1pm, $48.

07/23/2017 Saxophonist Colin Stetson will be stopping by the Turf Club in St Paul this Sunday in support of his LP All This I Do For Glory. Justin Walker to open. 7pm, $15.

07/24/2017 Boston’s Bent Knee will be stopping by the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis this Monday, in support of the band’s critically-acclaimed album Land Animal (InsideOutMusic/Sony). AirLands and Oklahoma (from Minneapolis, not Oklahoma) to open. 7pm, $10.

07/24/2017 Wheeler Walker Jr. sold out his show at the Turf Club on Monday. Kasey Tyndall will open. 7pm, $17/Sold Out.

07/25/2017 Electronic producer Mura Masa (aka Alex Crossan) has a self-titled album on Downtown/Interscope Records. He’ll be playing the Fine Line Music Café in Minneapolis on Tuesday. Although he was born in Guernsey, I believe he’s currently based in the UK. Special guest Kučka to open. 7pm, $20.

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