It's that time of the month again! That's right, the Communion Club Night is taking place on Tuesday, April 21st. This month will feature Canadian band Hey Rosetta!, they previously opened up for Stars last November 2014.
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Yukon Blonde: Stairway.
Dine Alone Music Copyright: (C) 2012 Yukon Blonde. Under exclusive license to Dine Alone Music Inc.
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HEY ROSETTA!
at Triple Rock Social Club
Saturday, 11/14/2015, 7pm ($12) triplerocksocialclub.com
On Saturday November 14th two fine Canadian bands from opposite ends of the country will perform at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The headliner, Hey Rosetta!, is from St. John’s, Newfoundland, while Yukon Blonde, the opener, is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The two previously toured together in 2012. Fittingly, given their vast geographical separation, they are a bit of a yin-yang pairing, but both can be riveting.
Hey Rosetta! is the dark side of the pairing. Their music is at times subdued, and at times anthemic, but always dramatic and moving, often with a sense of sadness. They feature classical instruments (piano, violin, and cello) in addition to more traditional rock instruments. They have released four albums, the first in 2006, and the most recent, Second Sight, in 2014. The latest tour is in celebration of the band's 10 year anniversary.
In contrast, Yukon Blonde resides in the light. Their first album, a 2010 self-titled release was pure pop joy, with some amazing hooks and great harmonies. Their most recent album, “On Blonde” released this year, changes things up a bit but still preserves their energy and brightness. With layers of synths on top of their guitar-driven songs, it is more likely to get the audience up and dancing than their previous efforts.
Tour dates:
11/07/15 Victoria, BC McPherson Playhouse
11/09/15 Edmonton, AB Winspear Centre
11/10/15 Calgary, AB Jack Singer
11/11/15 Saskatoon, SK Broadway Theatre
11/12/15 Winnipeg, MB Garrick Centre
11/14/15 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock
11/15/15 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
11/16/15 London, ON London Music Hall
11/17/15 Kitchener, ON Centre In The Square
11/19/15 Kingston, ON Grand Theatre
11/20/15 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
11/21/15 M Pour Montreal
11/21/15 Montreal, QC Virgin Mobile Corona
11/22/15 Ottawa, ON National Arts Centre
11/25/15 Saint John, NB Kent Theatre
11/27/15 Halifax, NS Rebecca Cohn
If you have an iPod or iPad, you can grab the single to "Tired Oak" by Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas for free on iTunes. …
GOGOL BORDELLO
at First Avenue
Saturday, 11/14/2015, 8pm ($30) first-avenue.com
Start wearing purple, wearing purple!
Gogol Bordello is back celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Underdog World Strike with a double-night at First Avenue. They are playing the entire album from start to finish, plus throwing in some classic hits for this special show.
Also, typically when they double book the venue, it is because they anticipate the shows to sell out. Expect the venue to be sold out or at least 90% packed with fellow gypsy punks.
Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas to open. Hernandez was previously in town as part of the special Red Bull Sound Select, which was at an unbeatable price of $3 with RSVP.
Tour dates:
11/07/15 Austin, TX Auditorium Shores
11/08/15 Dallas, TX Bomb Factory
11/09/15 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom
11/11/15 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
11/12/15 Madison, WI Barrymore Theatre
11/13/15 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
11/14/15 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
11/15/15 Winnipeg, MB Burton Cummings
11/18/15 Edmonton, AB Shaw Conference
11/19/15 Calgary, AB MacEwan Hall Ballroom
11/21/15 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
11/22/15 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
11/23/15 Portland, OR McMenamins Crystal
11/25/15 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre
11/27/15 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
11/28/15 Las Vegas, NV Brooklyn Bowl
12/30/15 New York, NY Terminal 5
12/31/15 New York, NY Terminal 5
01/01/16 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
01/02/16 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
I was shopping around for some of my writers to review this CD for Brian Setzer Orchestra's Wolfgang's Big Night Out, but after listening to a few songs, I love it so much …
Island Records recently signed alt-rock trio Pepper, releasing their self-titled sixth album yesterday (September 3rd) with a new single called "F**k Around (All Night)".
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Colorado's Elephant Revival and the Lowest Pair are currently heading down to "Boats & Bluegrass Festival" and "Maximum Ames Music Festival" in late September, but before stopped
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Colorado's Dirty Gold is the new album from Angel Haze (aka Raykeea Wilson), it is coming out March 3rd, 2014, on Island Records (UK)/Universal Republic (US).
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It's a typical Saturday night with too many shows in the Minneapolis and St Paul area.
I've spotlighted some of the upcoming shows below:
Illinois pop punk and GRAMMY-nominated, multi-platinum Plain White T's was recently in town in June 2015, supporting Rob Thomas, but will be headlining their own show at Mill City Nights.
Matt McAndrew and Beta Play to open ($20/8pm).
You know me, I love Stray Cats and frontman Brian Setzer is responsible for not only bringing back rockabilly, but also swing music with his Brian Setzer Orchestra band. They'll be in town as part of their annual Christmas Tour tradition at Orpheum Theatre. ($53/8pm).
PS The band recently put together a PledgeMusic campaign to produce a limited edition Rockin' Rudolph box sets. Unfortunately only the T-Shirts and the regular box set is available for purchase, see all the details at pledgemusic.com.
Inventive DJ/producer duo The Chainsmokers recently launched their fan-sourced, #TiltTour.... going to cities where they are in demand (with the first 6 cities to pre-sell at least 800 tickets). Count Minneapolis as one of the demanded cities, as they stop in at the Skyway Theatre. Matoma, Shaun Frank and Louis The Child to open. ($20/7pm).
San Diego, by the way of Hawaii, band Pepper (not to be confused with Sandra "Pepa" Denton or London singer Pepper) will play the Fine Line Music Café with their two amigos Ballyhoo! and Katastro. ($23.50/7pm)
Elephant Revival is returning to the Twin Cities at Turf Club in Saint Paul.
LOTT (aka Minneapolis musician, Leah Ottman of We Are The Willows) to open.
($17/8pm/Sold Out).
Two-time "Best Female Hip Hop Artist" MTV VMA nominee Angel Haze will be stopping by The Nether Bar inside Mill City Nights ($15/8pm).
We love Goldfrapp. The discoey band announce a UK tour for March and April 2014.
Get your tickets now, they have previously sold out major European cities, including their show at the Hammersmith Odeon in London (which The Guardian hailing the band’s performance as “majestic”.)
Goldfrapp's latest album is called Tales Of Us. The album came in two flavors: a standard edition and a deluxe edition, which includes a hardcover 40-page book, a bonus CD containing a selection of remixes and live performances of album tracks, plus a DVD with Tales Of Us in 5.1 surround sound, a documentary of the making of Tales Of Us and the breathtaking short films for Drew and Annabel.
Goldfrapp UK Tour dates:
03/26/14 Birmingham Symphony Hall
03/27/14 Manchester The Lowry
03/29/14 Brighton Dome
03/30/14 Portsmouth Guildhall
04/01/14 Bristol Colston Hall
04/02/14 Reading Hexagon
04/04/14 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
04/05/14 York Barbican
04/07/14 Gateshead Sage
Elephant Micah and Hiss Golden Messenger have teamed up to record a 7" split. The split is coming out September 4th. For a limited time, the 7" will come bundle with HGM's .…
Hiss Golden Messenger's reissue of Bad Debt as an Expanded Edition on January 14th by Paradise of Bachelors Records; the album was previously released in 2010. The Expanded Edition restores the album's originally intended full song sequence, plus unreleased tracks.
Hiss Golden Messenger is North Carolina-based songwriter M.C. Taylor and multi-instrumentalist and recordist Scott Hirsch (who currently lives in Brooklyn). The dou has been making music together for twenty years in various incarnations, including six records with the San Francisco's Court and Spark.
Bad Debt Expanded Edition track listing:
1. Balthazar's Song
2. No Lord Is Free
3. Bad Debt
4. O Little Light
5. Straw Man Red Sun River Gold
6. Far Bright Star
7. The Serpent Is Kind (Compared To Man)
8. Call Him Daylight
9. Jesus Shot Me In The Head
10. Super Blue (Two Days Clean)
11. Roll River Roll
12. Drum
On the evening of June 25th, even the temperamental Minnesota weather smiled upon the outdoor stage at Cabooze, where Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros performed their .…
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros' frontman Alex Ebert was nominated for a Golden Globe for "Best Score" for the "All Is Lost" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. The album came out October 1st via Community Music and featured ten original compositions and one new song all written, composed, and produced by Ebert.
"All Is Lost" is a film about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Starring Robert Redford, written and directed by J.C. Chandor.
The 71st Golden Globe Awards will be broadcasting live from Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on January 12, 2014, by NBC. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were announced as the co-hosts for the second time in a row.
Other nominees in the "Best Score" category are listed below, although I thought the winner may be the Mandela soundtrack due to his recent passing?
After catching the very end of The Jezabels (who were on unusually early on in the line-up… in my opinion), Darwin Deez was the first act on our list of must-sees.…
Champs (aka brothers Michael and David Champion from the Isle of Wight) is back with a new single called "Savannah", taken from their debut album Down Like Gold, which will be released on February 24th 2014 on Play It Again Sam (PIAS).
The band will be out on tour with the Jezabels in 2014.
Brink
The Jezabels
Speaking of which, Australia's The Jezabels will be back with a new album on February 18, 2014, called The Brink (PIAS).
Singer Hayley Mary of The Jezabels commented on the "pop music" on their album, "To me, pop is the darkest music of all. If you look not at what pop artists are consciously doing but at what they’re reflecting about the world, pop is the most twisted, weird and scary stuff. If you wanted to study the Earth from an alien perspective, listen to pop music."
The Jezabels and Champs tour dates:
02/24/14 Nottingham Rescue Room
02/25/14 Manchester Gorilla
02/26/14 Glasgow Oran Mor
02/28/14 Belfast Limelight 2
03/01/14 Dublin Button Factory
03/02/14 Dublin Button Factory
03/04/14 Bristol The Fleece
03/05/14 London Shepherds Bush Empire
03/06/14 Brighton Concorde 2
Sharon Van Etten is as easy on the eyes as she was on the ears. She started off "All I Can," and the band played on without any issues. Even when tuning her guitar, Van Etten is a pro .…
Doug Keith will be releasing Pony album on The Village Label. He premiered his song "Pure Gold In the 70's" on SPIN magazine. The song featured one J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), thanks to a dare from singer Sharon Van Etten.
To Keith's surprise, J. Mascis agreed to lend his talen. Keith responded, "I know, right? Mindblowing. Mind blown. He played the most amazing solo that captures exactly what that song is about."
Pony will be released February 11th on The Village Label.
Track listing:
1. Harvest Home
2. I Will Burn For You
3. Long Shot
4. Pure Gold In The 70's
5. The Apostles
6. You Can't Stand To Be Alone
7. Black Metal Black
8. The Weather's F*** Awful
9. The Bone In Your Hand
Ian McGlynn has a new album called Now We're Golden, which just came out earlier this month, June 5th via Bailey Park Records. The album was recorded all over the place, including Paris.…
Now We're Golden is the third album from Ian McGlynn. It is said that the entire album was written on a tiny Casiotone MT-220 keyboard (which he kept with him at all times in case inspiration struck or his schedule suddenly aligned with his songwriting partner Chris Newkirk.)
We've briefly mentioned the album earlier in July, but wanted to mention that at the time of release, it was featured on iTunes New and Noteworthy section and spent two months in the CMJ top 30.
North Pole Vault
Also, worth noting, is that Ian McGlynn has a brand new Christmas-inspired EP called North Pole Vault, which came out December 3rd on iTunes. The EP is a six-song collection of holiday songs, "written in a bourbon haze".
Track Listing:
1
Christmas Morning
2
Our Favorite Christmas Movie
3
Christmas Sleep
4
Meet Me Where The Lights Shine Bright
5
North Pole Vault
6
Meet Me Where The Lights Shine Bright (Reprise)
Mutual Benefit, the latest Jordan Lee project, has a debut album called Love's Crushing Diamond. The album came out on CD on December 3rd
(January 13th in the UK/Europe), and on vinyl on January 7th.
You can listen to his song "Golden Wake" on soundcloud.com.
Mutual Benefit will be heading out on tour in support of Love's Crushing Diamond:
01/13/14 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott
01/14/14 - Montreal, QC @ Il Motore
01/15/14 - Toronto, ON @ Drake Underground
01/18/14 - Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club
01/22/14 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza
01/25/14 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
01/28/14 - Los Angeles, CA @ Centre for the Arts
01/29/14 - Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room
02/01/14 - Houston, TX @ Fitzgeralds
02/03/14 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
02/04/14 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
02/06/14 - Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle
02/07/14 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
02/08/14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
Whales in Cubicles are a London-based trio with a brand new song called "Golden Metal", taken from their forthcoming debut album (to be released on January 27th 2014) via CLUB.THE.MAMMOTH records.
The album was recorded at Monnow Valley Studio with producer Nick Mailing and mixed by Simon Barnicott .
You can download "Golden Metal" for free on Bandcamp.
Tour dates:
01/28/14 – Newcastle – Digital
01/29/14 – Edinburgh – Sneaky Pete’s
01/30/14 – Glasgow – Nice N Sleazy
01/31/14 – Leeds – A Nation Of Shopkeepers
02/01/14 – Manchester – Night & Day Café
02/05/14 – Leicester – The Cookie Jar
02/06/14 – Bath – Moles Club
02/07/14 – Brighton – Prince Albert
02/13/14 – London – Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
02/14/14 – Bournemouth – 60 Million Postcards
02/15/14 – Bristol – Start The Bus
02/22/14 – Reading – Oakford Social Club
The Dividends is singer Sarah Jaffe and producer Symbolyc One (or short, S1), with a forthcoming EP called Far From Away scheduled for release in 2014.
They've released a track from the EP called "Fool's Gold", featuring Raekwon.
The Body Wins
Sarah Jaffe
We've previously written about Sarah Jaffe's album The Body Wins, which I previously said that "it's actually very good. Reminds me a bit of Florence + The Machine, but electronica, with Jaffe's beautiful voice."
S1 talked about Jaffe: "Sarah Jaffe is amazing, I truly believe we have something really special when we're working together. The first three songs we ever collaborated on were picked by major artists—including Eminem's 'Bad Guy'—so it was only right that we proceed and present our ideas through what we know now as The Dividends."
Dirty Gold is the new album from Angel Haze (aka Raykeea Wilson), it is coming out March 3rd, 2014, on Island Records (UK)/Universal Republic (US).
Haze is a rapper who released a free EP called Reservation last year, and quickly was noticed by major label Universal Republic. A few months ago, she released her first single "Echelon (It's My Way)", taken from Dirty Gold.
Track Listing:
01 Sing About Me
02 Echelon (It’s My Way)
03 A Tribe Called Red
04 Deep Sea Diver
05 Synagogue
06 Angel + Airwaves
07 April’s Fools
08 White Lillies / White Lies
09 Battle Cry
10 Black Dahlia
11 Planes Fly
12 Dirty Gold
The Slowdown is a 6-piece indie rock band (Brothers Sam Hoskins on lead vocals/guitars/other instruments and Joe Hoskins on keys,
Josh Johnson on guitar,
Jordan Smith on bass,
Austin Turney on guitar, and Drew Little on drums) from Kansas City.
The band have a forthcoming album Digital Gold, pending release in early 2014 via Celebrity Narrators.
The album's first single and title track, "Digital Gold", which DIY Magazine calls "the poppiest and the most electronic", is available now.
Fri 11/22/2019 • Charlie Parr at Cedar • Kikagaku Moyo at Turf Club • Summer Walker at Myth
• Dreamers at Amsterdam Bar
• Marcus King at Varsity Theater
• Ronnie Milsap at Medina
• Yelawolf at Skyway
Sat 11/23/2019 • Sound+Vision at Valley Creek Mall • Cory Branan at Aster Cafe • Booker T. Jones at Medina
• Whiskey Myers at Myth
• "On A Winter's Night" at Cedar
• Schoolboy Q at Armory
• Chris Janson at Treasure Island
• In Flames at Cabooze
• Sloan at 7th St
• BoDeans at Sheldon
• Yotto at Skyway
Sun 11/24/2019 • Hobo Johnson at First Ave • Third Eye Blind at Myth
• Helmet at Varsity
• Iron Kingdom at Club Underground
Sun 12/01/2019 • Minnesota Orchestra at Orchestra Hall
Mon 12/02/2019 •
Cautious Clay at
Fine Line
Tue 12/03/2019 • Cat Clyde at 7th St
• Brockhampton at Armory
• CeeLo Green at Ames
Wed 12/04/2019 • Vintage Trouble at Amsterdam Bar
• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at Ames
• As I Lay Dying at Varsity
Thu 12/05/2019 • Emarosa at 7th St
Fri 12/06/2019 • Waterparks at Varsity
• Michael W. Smith at Target
• The Motet at First Ave
Sat 12/07/2019 • Jim Brickman at Pantages
• Deadmau5 at Armory
• J.S. Ondara at First Ave
• Lorie Line at Ames
• Steepwater Band at Ballentine VFW
• Morbid Angel at Fine Line
• Sunny Sweeney at Cabooze
• Tiffany at Varsity
Sun 12/08/2019 • Minnesota Orchestra at Orchestra Hall
Mon 12/09/2019 • 5 Seconds Of Summer at Xcel
Wed 12/11/2019 •
Merkules at
Cabooze
•
Batushka at
Skyway
Thu 12/12/2019 •
Mariachi Reyna at
Dakota
•
The Blenders
Pantages
•
Morgan Evans at
Varsity
Fri 12/13/2019 • Blenders at
Pantages
•
Low at
Fitzgerald
Sat 12/14/2019 • Joy Formidable at
Fine Line
•
Glitterer at
Garage
•
311 at
Armory
• Blenders at
Pantages
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David Archuleta at
Cedar
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Hot Tuna at
Fitzgerald
Sun 12/15/2019
• Blenders at
Pantages
Tue 12/17/2019
•
Tonic Sol-fa at
Ames
Wed 12/18/2019 •
Marc Roberge at
Varsity
•
Sounds of Blackness at
Pantages
Sat 12/21/2019 •
Diamond Rio at
Treasure Island
Sat 12/21/2019 • Fixx at Cedar
• BoDeans at
Dakota
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