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Minneapolis: May 12 to May 15

05/12 Man or Astro-Man? at 7th St Entry Read More Man or Astro-Man? Man or Astro-Man? I really love that name, even though it sounds dumb. I've seen the band name in the 90s but haven't seen it around for a while. That's probably because their last album, a tour-only album called A Spectrum of Finite Scale …

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05/12/2023 Friday

Man or Astro-Man?
at 7th St Entry
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Alabama’s Man or Astro-Man? is back in town.

Man or Astro-Man? (13 June 2013)

We saw Man or Astro-Man? in June 2013 and said, “As for Man or Astro-Man?, again, I wanted to mention that it was the largest turnout I've ever seen at the Turf Club on a weekday. People, mostly older fans, came out on a Thursday night to support their favorite sci-fi surf band (and assuming that many of them won't make it to work this morning). I showed up at the Turf Club around 8:30pm and had to wait in long impressive line … apparently no one told the astronauts that doors was supposed to be opened at 8, as advertised.”

Tour dates:

May 11 Milwaukee, WI, US Back Room
May 12 Minneapolis, MN, US 7th St Entry
May 13 Chicago, IL, US Subterranean
May 14 St Louis, MO, US Blueberry Hill Duck Room
May 16 Kansas City, MO, US recordBar
May 18 San Antonio, TX, US Paper Tiger
Aug 4 Los Angeles (LA), CA, US The Echo

05/13 Yves Tumor with Pretty Sick and Nation at First Avenue Read More Yves Tumor Yves Tumor, Bottleneck- Lawrence, $25 Experimental electronic and psych pop artist in support of 2020’s acclaimed Heaven to a Tortured Mind, which ended up on many taste-maker sites as a Top 10 of the Year work. …

05/13/2023 Saturday

Yves Tumor
with Pretty Sick and Nation
at First Avenue
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Yves Tumor is on tour in support of Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) via Warp Records.

Yves Tumor (24 Mar 2022)

We saw Yves Tumor in Mar 2022 and said, “Enter Yves Tumor, the recording alias of Miami-born Sam Bowie, an experimental art pop musician/producer now based in Italy, who stopped by The Bottleneck in Lawrence, for a sold-out show in support of fourth studio album, 2020’s Heaven to a Tortured Mind and the more recent The Asymptotical World EP (both on Warp Records).”

Pretty Sick and Nation to open.

Tour Dates:

14 Apr–16 Apr –– Coachella Music & Arts Festival –– Indio CA
21 Apr–23 Apr –– Coachella Music & Arts Festival –– Indio CA
Wed 19 Apr –– Fox Theater –– Pomona CA
Tue 25 Apr –– Marquee Theatre –– Tempe AZ ^
Thu 27 Apr –– Warehouse Live –– Houston TX ^
Fri 28 Apr –– Austin Psych Fest –– Austin TX
Sat 29 Apr –– The Factory in Deep Ellum –– Dallas TX ^
Mon 1 May –– Joy Theater –– New Orleans LA ^
Tue 2 May –– The Eastern –– Atlanta GA ^
Thu 4 May –– Echostage –– Washington DC *
Fri 5 May –– Franklin Music Hall –– Philadelphia PA *
Sat 6 May –– Higher Ground –– Burlington VT *
Sun 7 May –– MTELUS –– Montréal QC *
Tue 9 May –– HISTORY –– Toronto ON %
Wed 10 May –– Majestic Theater –– Detroit MI %
Fri 12 May –– The Riviera –– Chicago IL %
Sat 13 May –– First Avenue –– Minneapolis MN %
Mon 15 May –– Ogden Theatre–– Denver CO %
Wed 17 May –– Knitting Factory Concert House –– Boise ID
Thu 18 May –– Vogue Theatre –– Vancouver BC #
Sat 20 May –– Showbox SoDo –– Seattle WA #
Sun 21 May –– Roseland Theater –– Portland OR #
Tue 23 May –– The Warfield –– San Francisco CA #
Fri 2 Jun –– Primavera Sound –– Barcelona ES
Sat 3 Jun –– We Love Green –– Paris FR
Sun 4 Jun –– Razzmatazz –– Barcelona ES
Wed 7 Jun –– Shoko –– Madrid ES
Fri 9 Jun –– Primavera Sound Madrid –– Madrid ES
Sat 10 Jun –– NOS Primavera Sound –– Porto PT
Sat 4 Nov –– #C2CMLN - Club To Club –– Milan IT
Tue 7 Nov –– Roxy –– Prague CZ
Thu 9 Nov –– Progresja –– Warsaw PL
Sat 11 Nov –– Slaktkyrkan –– Stockholm SE
Sun 12 Nov –– Vega –– Copenhagen DK
Tue 14 Nov –– Paradiso –– Amsterdam NL
Fri 17 Nov –– Huxley’s Neue Welt –– Berlin DE
Tue 21 Nov –– Élysée Montmartre –– Paris FR
Fri 24 Nov –– New Century Hall –– Manchester UK
Sun 26 Nov –– O2 Academy Glasgow –– Glasgow UK
Mon 27 Nov –– 3Olympia –– Dublin IE

All shows with Pretty Sick

Also featuring:
^Izzy Spears
*Frost Children
% Nation
#Evanora Unlimited

05/15 The Bros. Landreth at Turf Club Read More The Bros. Landreth The Bros Landreth are really two brothers from Canada, will open the show, with Madison, Wisconsin's The Sharrows. Tour date: …

05/15/2023 Monday

The Bros. Landreth
at Turf Club
first-avenue.com

The Bros. Landreth are touring in support of Come Morning, an album that marks both a rebirth and refinement of the JUNO-winning band's blend of North American roots music and harmony-heavy soul.

The band was last seen in town on Dec 2015 with The Ballroom Thieves.

Tour dates:

Apr 6 Tyagarah, NSW, Australia Byron Bay Bluesfest
May 15 St. Paul, MN, US Turf Club
May 15 St. Paul, MN, US Turf Club
May 16 Chicago, IL, US Schuba's
May 17 Ferndale, MI, US The Magic Bag
May 17 Ferndale, MI, US The Magic Bag
May 18 Buffalo, NY, US Sportsmen's Tavern
May 19 Brooklyn, NY, US The Sultan Room
May 19 Brooklyn, NY, US The Sultan Room
May 20 Philadelphia, PA, US MilkBoy Philly
May 20 Philadelphia, PA, US MilkBoy Philly
May 21 Vienna, VA, US Jammin' Java
May 23 Charlotte, NC, US Neighborhood Theatre
May 23 Charlotte, NC, US Neighborhood Theatre
May 24 Decatur, GA, US Eddie's Attic
May 24 Decatur, GA, US Eddie's Attic
May 25 Nashville, TN, US Riverside Revival
May 25 Nashville, TN, US Riverside Revival
May 27 Fort Worth, TX, US Magnolia Motor Lounge
May 28 Austin, TX, US 3TEN Austin City Limits Live
May 28 Austin, TX, US 3TEN Austin City Limits Live
May 30 Kansas City, MO, US Knuckleheads
Jun 30 Saskatoon, SK, Canada Sask Jazz Festival
Jul 14 Courtenay, BC, Canada Vancouver Island Musicfest
Aug 18 Grande Prairie, AB, Canada Bear Creek Folk Fest

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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Yves Tumor w/ DOSS at The Bottleneck, Lawrence KS (2022-03-24)

Yves Tumor at Bottleneck YVES TUMOR SETLIST Jackie Romanticist / Dream Palette Gospel for a New Century Medicine Burn Crushed Velvet Operator Cntra Kerosene! Licking an Orchid L & F Mtora ...And Loyalty Is a Nuisance Child -- Encore -- Noid Secrecy Is Incredibly Important to the Both of Them DOSS SETLIST Cherry Strawberry Puppy Look Jumpin' Enigma On Your Mind YVES TUMOR TOUR DATES 25 MARCH Old Rock House St Louis, MO 26 MARCH Headliners Music Hall Louisville, KY 27 MARCH Big Ears Festival 2022 Knoxville, TN 29 MARCH El Club Detroit, MI 30 MARCH Metro Chicago, IL 31 MARCH The Opera House Toronto, ON 1 APRIL Club Soda Montreal, QC 3 APRIL Royale Boston, MA 8 JUNE Ment Ljubljana, Slovenia 9 JUNE Stadtgarten Cologne, DE 9-12 JUNE Melt Festival 2022 11 JUNE Trauma Bar & Kino Berlin, DE 12 JUNE Gretchen Berlin, DE 12-16 JUNE Plissken Festival 2022 15 JUNE O2 Academy Glasgow, UK 16 JUNE Sideways 2022 Helsinki, Finland 17 JUNE – 19 JUNE festival 8 2022 18 JUNE Eden Project St. Austell, UK 20 JUNE O2 Apollo Manchester, UK 21 JUNE O2 Academy Brixton London, UK 22-27 JUNE Glastonbury Festival 2022 Pilton, UK 23 JUNE Electric Forest Festival 2022 Rothbury, MI 6 JULY Mad Cool Festival 2022 Madrid, Spain 7 JULY–14 AUG Poolbar Festival 2022 8 JULY Pohoda Festival 2022 Trencin, Slovakia 8-11 JULY ARTIVIVE Festival 2022 Soliera, Italy 10 JULY Disconnect Code Florence, Italy 13-14 JULY Slottsfjell 2022 Tønsberg, Norway 15-16 JULY Positivus 2022 Riga, Latvia 16 JULY Dour Festival 2022 Dour, Belgium 4 AUGUST Trädgården Stockholm, Sen 6 AUGUST OFF Festival 2022 Katowice, Poland 8 AUGUST VEGA Copenhagen, Denmark 10 AUGUST Sziget Festival 2022 Budapest, Hungary 12 AUGUST Paradiso Amsterdam, NL 13 AUGUST Hangar34 Liverpool, UK 15 AUGUST Boiler Shop Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK 16 AUGUST The Castle and Falcon Birmingham, UK 18 AUGUST Green Man Festival 2022 Brecon Beacons, UK 19 AUGUST All Points East 2022 London, UK 20 AUGUST Parades De Coura Festival 2022 26 AUGUST Sacred Rose Fest 2022 Bridgeview, IL 26-28 AUGUST THING 2022 Port Townsend, WA 27 AUGUST This Ain't No Picnic 2022 Pasadena, CA 30 AUGUST Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR 31 AUGUST Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, BC Read More Yves Tumor Yves Tumor, Bottleneck- Lawrence, $25 Experimental electronic and psych pop artist in support of 2020’s acclaimed Heaven to a Tortured Mind, which ended up on many taste-maker sites as a Top 10 of the Year work. …

Music is still an experiment--

Even though the rock era is over sixty years old, there’s still room for de-construction, re-assembly, genre and gender-stretching boundaries, and further innovation. 

Often, acts that eventually end up as musical trailblazers, begin that kind of journey under the radar: under-appreciated, under-reported on, and considered too “fringe” or “artsy”.  Think of early David Bowie, Prince, Talking Heads, and even Madonna – they were all first thought of as too odd for the mainstream, too eclectic for radio, and too controversial for the hoi polloi. 

Enter Yves Tumor, the recording alias of Miami-born Sam Bowie, an experimental art pop musician/producer now based in Italy, who stopped by The Bottleneck in Lawrence, for a sold-out show in support of fourth studio album, 2020’s Heaven to a Tortured Mind and the more recent The Asymptotical World EP (both on Warp Records).

The night began on a beat, make that many beats, as DJ/musician/producer Doss (not to be confused with a Glasgow musician with the same name) spun a forty-minute set of tunes that worked in her own originals (culled from her 4 New Songs EP- her first new music in some eight years, along with new single, “Jumpin’”) alongside house, rave, trance, and shoegaze bits, and parts of other tunes.

She remains a bit of an enigma, playing secret locations, and keeping most personal info close to the vest, but the capacity crowd was clearly won over by her DJ skills.  No grandstand posing, egging on the crowd, or purposely holding back on that inevitable bass drop; if anything, she was hard to clearly see, even from up front amidst the dry ice smoke and minimal flash and strobe lighting. 

The mostly student-age crowd initially seemed like they had forgotten how to dance (you’d think everyone was locked in their homes for the last twenty months!) until a couple songs in- her own “Strawberry” and “Puppy” were musically intermingled with a hyper-fast version of Madonna’s “Music”, squeaky vocals and all.  By the end, a collective dance energy was formed, and the room temperature was on the rise. 

A new layer of dry ice smoke crawled across the stage as band members (Chris Greatti- guitar; Gina Ramirez- bass; Rhys Hastings- drums) and Yves Tumor strode to the stage to begin their hour-long headlining set with “Jackie” the opener from last summer’s A Symptotical World EP and Tumor crooning, “These days have been tragic” which almost everyone in the now-humid room, could relate to. 

Tumor stalked the stage, not afraid to showcase his gender-fluid stage presence and (like early Prince) his potentially controversial attire- a “69” emblazoned on the back of his studded vest, and “sex” on his front waistband. Not to be outdone, guitarist Greatti had “lick me” on his front chest, and played roaring guitar all night, sounding (and looking somewhat) like 80’s-era George Lynch from Dokken.

Many in the crowd were already fans and very familiar with the songs, singing along loudly on “Dream Palette” and “Gospel for a New Century” with shouts of “We love you!” throughout their set.  Their sound is a meld of post-punk, some goth and darkpop, occasional R&B leanings that flow into feedback and distortion with stadium-sized guitar riffs, that all echo their influences but never directly lift from them – in other words, often indefinable, which is a good thing. 

The pace slowed for “Kerosene”, his studio collaboration with singer/songwriter Diana Gordon and featured blistering guitar work from Greatti (fun fact: the cinematic music video was shot last year somewhat covertly during the pandemic, in five days in nearby Kansas City).  “Licking an Orchid” is a song about… you know, and the main set ended with the curiously named “And Loyalty is a Nuisance Child” had Tumor singing, “I see a sign within your mind, I decide it’s a nice day”, to end things somewhat positively. 

Chants and stomps brought the band back, beginning with Greatti who laid down a stadium-worthy guitar solo, then Greatti himself was laid down, into the crowd atop a throng of audience hands and Tumor smiling as he pushed him off. 

911 is still a joke decades after Flavor Flav declared it, reinforced with the lyrics of 2018’s “Noid” and the evening would end with the Bloc Party-esque jagged guitar riffs that anchored “Secrecy Is Incredibly Important to the Both of Them” with Tumor repeating, “How can I miss you if you won’t go away?” - so they did, disappearing into that dry ice smoke and back upstairs, to rave applause. 

Their musical experiment continues, with progressively successful results and the UK/Europe (as is often the case) has already further embraced Yves Tumor with upcoming high-profile gigs at Glastonbury and also The Eden Project, in support of Nine Inch Nails. 

It’s musically interesting and challenging to know that some artists still want to further expand boundaries as they discover an innovative sound that reflects who they truly are- Yves Tumor is such an artist.  

(note- Tumor uses both he/him and they/them pronouns, so we’ve kept it simple with he/him)

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Yves Tumor at The Bottleneck, Lawrence KS (2022-03-24)

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