W♥M223: Rocktober to Snowvember

W♥M223: Rocktober to Snow... (64 mins) Read More Lily Allen Lily Allen is currently in the US, touring in support of her latest album, Sheezus (Regal, Parlophone), stopping by the Skyway Theatre in Minneapolis last night. …

Vu and John recaps Rocktober 2014, plus news/rumors, and November show previews.

News

Macaulay Culkin is not dead. He's in a cover band The Pizza Underground (a Velvet Underground cover band... but the subject matter are all replaced by pizzas). The Pizza Underground was recently in Minneapolis, playing a show with Har Mar Superstar... currently in Texas.

Rumor: Could Liam and Noel be getting back together? With Beady Eye's break up, via twitter.com/liamgallagher, the rumors are coming fast and furious. Noel, on the other hand has a new Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds coming out early 2015 called Chasing Yesterday (Sour Mash Records).

Robert Plant apparently kiboshed a Led Zeppelin reunion guaranteeing $800 mil. from Richard Branson. 35 dates in 3 cities (London, Berlin, NJ).

Artists and digital music sites: U2 uploading new album Songs of Innocence to all iTunes users, Morrissey's music is not online, Taylor Swift pulls hers from Spotify, Garth Brooks self-distributing...

Rocktober 2014

Pre-Rocktober: Lykke Li and La Roux

Rocktober Highlights: Lily Allen, Paloma Faith, Vintage Trouble, Placebo, Pixies, Augustines, and Slowdive.

Honorable mentions: of Montreal, Kooks, and Agnes Obel

Here is a list of all the shows we covered in October:

10/01 Lily Allen at Skyway 10/01 Phantogram at Myth 10/02 Paloma Faith at Triple Rock 10/02 Agent Orange at 7th St 10/04 Kooks at First Ave 10/05 Vintage Trouble at Varsity 10/06 of Montreal at Cedar 10/07 Lucius at Electric Fetus 10/07 Tennis at Fine Line 10/07 Belle & Sebastian at Theatre 10/08 Screaming Females at Triple R 10/08 Banks at First Ave 10/09 We Are Scientists at Turf Club 10/09 Allen Stone at Terminal 5 10/10 Sloan at Turf Club

10/11 Augustines at Turf Club 10/11 Pixies at State Theatre 10/14 Communion Clubnight 10/15 Kina Grannis at Varsity 10/16 Kat Edmonson at Dakota Jazz 10/17 Placebo at Mill City Nights 10/17 Iggy Azalea at TCF Stadium 10/18 Angus & Julia Stone at Cedar 10/22 Dum Dum Girls at Fine Line 10/24 Minus the Bear at Triple Rock 10/27 Ray LaMontagne at Saenger 10/29 Bear's Den at Fine Line 10/30 Agnes Obel at Dakota Jazz 10/30 Kimbra at Fine Line 10/31 Slowdive at Fine Line 10/31 Alt-J at Myth

November Shows Highlight

FKA Twigs at Fine Line (11/14)

Interpol and Hundred Waters at First Avenue (11/14)

Peter Hook and the Light at Fine Line (11/15)

Amanda Palmer at Cedar (11/16)

Suzanne Vega at the Dakota Jazz Club (11/18-11/19)

Stars at Minneapolis (11/19)

Better than Ezra at the Varsity (11/20)

Death from Above 1979 at First Avenue (11/24)

Bonus:

Song of the show is Morrissey's "November Spawned a Monster".

Synthpop Lovelife (previously Viva Brother) and their relationship to Morrissey.

Joe Perry and Steven Tyler (both from Aerosmith) and their rivalry.

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