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California Wives and My Gold Mask at the 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (07/09/13)

Read More My Gold Mask My Gold Mask just kicked off their co-headline National tour with California Wives last week (June 20th). The duo (Jack and Gretta) talked about their tour …

California Wives and My Gold Mask are currently on tour together this summer. Both bands stopped by the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis last night, as part of their tour.

MY GOLD MASK

We've written about My Gold Mask before, but I don't think that would prepare us to see how feisty singer Gretta gets on stage. You can tell they love performing on stage.

In addition to playing songs off their latest album Leave Me Midnight (like "Nightfalls "), the band also showcased a brand new song, I believe it is called "Dangerous". Their 45-minute set also included some older classics from their catalog, including "Violent Eyes" from 2010's A Thousand Voices EP and one of their first song, "Bitches", from their debut self-titled 2009 album.

As for California Wives, the band is from Chicago, and is now in the category of those bands that aren't from their names, like We're from Barcelona, Of Montreal, and, of course, ASIA.

The band played songs off their debut album Art History, including "Purple" (maybe they dedicated this one to Prince?), "Marianne", "The Fisher King", "Tokyo", etc. My favorite of their set is "Los Angeles", with the tambourine really tidy up the song.

California Wives and My Gold Mask are currently on tour. They are in Kansas City, Missouri, tonight, and you know what they say: "Missouri loves company."

California Wives at the 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (07/09/13)

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Going for Gold XIV

Read More My Gold Mask Gretta Rochelle and Jack Armondo are My Gold Mask, and their new album, Leave Me Midnight is coming out February 19th, 2013. Check out "Further It Gets" from the upcoming album…

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My Gold Mask just kicked off their co-headline National tour with California Wives last week (June 20th).

The duo (Jack and Gretta) talked about their tour: "We are excited to have California Wives as tour partners and look forward to spending time on the road with them and getting to know them better. Sometimes you feel like little warriors on the road and it's always nice to have a pack to roam with. Not sure what CW will take away from playing with us but we always learn new things from the bands we play with. Hopefully we all come away with experiences that expand and enhance our way of looking at and making music."

Tour dates below:

06/29/13 Pittsburgh, PA Garfield Artworks
06/30/13 Toronto, ON Drake Hotel
07/01/13 Buffalo, NY Ninth Ward
07/02/13 Columbus, OH Double Happiness
07/04/13 Cincinnati, OH Motr Pub
07/05/13 Milwaukee, WI Cactus Club
07/08/13 Des Moines, IA Vaudeville Mews
07/09/13 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
07/10/13 Kansas City, MO The Record Bar
07/11/13 Lawrence, KS Replay Lounge
07/12/13 Denver, CO Lion's Lair
07/13/13 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
07/16/13 Seattle, WA Barboza
07/17/13 Portland, OR McMenamins White
07/20/13 Los Angeles, CA Bootleg Theater
07/21/13 San Diego, CA Soda Bar
07/23/13 Phoenix, AZ The Rhythm Room
07/24/13 Tucson, AZ Plush
07/30/13 New Orleans, LA Siberia

BRIEFLY:

JESSE WOODS facebook.com Lo-fi folkster Jesse Woods has a debut album called Get Your Burdens Lifted, coming out August 6 via Guns In The Sun. You can get a preview of the LP by checking out his song, "Gold In The Air".

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