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Minneapolis: April 1 to April 2, 2017

Read More Overcoats Overcoats to open. We saw the duo last May 2016 and noted that the two only found out days before the show that they were actually going out on tour with Matt Corby. …

Here are some concerts taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area on April 1 to April 2, 2017. No foolin’!

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MAGGIE ROGERS
at Triple Rock Social Club
Saturday 04/01/17, 7pm ($15/Sold Out)
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With Maggie Rogers’ ‘Alaska’ song hitting Spotify’s Viral 50 in 40 countries and hit #1 in 23 countries (including the U.S.), it’s not hard to see why this 22-year-old multi-instrumentalist sold out her appearance at the upcoming Triple Rock Social Club show. In fact, she’s sold out her entire tour in the UK!

Rogers’ debut EP Now That The Light Is Fading is out now on Capitol Records.

Show up early to check out Overcoats. We’ve seen the duo twice now, and both times were completely different shows.

Tour Dates:

03/30/17 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
04/01/17 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock
04/02/17 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
04/04/17 Toronto, ON Mod Club
04/05/17 Montreal, QC La Sala Rossa
04/07/17 Philadelphia, PA The Foundry
04/08/17 Washington, DC U Street
04/10/17 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair
04/11/17 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
04/12/17 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall
06/15/17 Firefly Music Festival
06/30/17 Rock Werchter Festival
07/16/17 Citadel
08/06/17 Lollapalooza

Read More Green Day Green Day's ¡Uno!, the first in the trilogy of albums, hits stores today (September 25th) via Reprise Records. Be on the lookout* for ¡Dos! on November 13, 2012, and ¡Tré! … Rachael Kilgour Minnesota folk singer/songwriter Rachael Kilgour recently won the grand prize of “NewSong Music Performance and Songwriting Competition” and the 2015 Telluride Troubadour … Foxygen Duo Jonathan and Sam, otherwise known as Foxygen is heading out on tour in support of their latest album ... And Star Power, which just came out today via Jagjaguwar. .... Whitney Newcomers Whitney (not to be confused with the late Whitney Houston) to open. Whitney is led by drummer/vocalist Julien Ehrlich, previously from Unknown Mortal Orchestra. ..…

Other shows in the area:

04/01/17 French multi-instrumental minimalist FKJ will be headlining the Cabooze in Minneapolis in support of his debut full-length, French Kiwi Juice. Dabeull and Cezaire to open.

04/01/17 Singer and actress Bridgit Mendler will be playing the 7th Street Entry with Powers. Mendler has been recently cast in the lead role in “Thin Ice”, a new Fox comedy pilot from “New Girl” creator Liz Meriwether.

04/01/17 Punk rockers Green Day to play Xcel Energy Center with Against Me! .

04/01/17 Comedian Iliza Shlesinger will make you laugh at the Skyway Theatre.

04/01/17 Local singer/songwriter Rachael Kilgour will headlining Cedar Cultural Center. Lucy Kaplansky to open.

04/01/17 Mothership and Black Pussy to play Turf Club in St Paul.

04/01/17 Soul revival band Sonny Knight & The Lakers to play Icehouse.

04/02/17 Foxygen to headline First Avenue. Gabriella Cohen will open.

04/02/17 London’s artist, poet, playwright, novelist, and rapper, Kate Tempest will headline the 7th Street Entry. We saw her in June 2015 and noted, “Beats were somewhat primitive and a hybrid of dancehall, grime, dub, and electro, but served only as the place-setting to Tempest’s machine gun narrative lyrics of truth-telling, anti-consumerism and conformity, desperate street people, and good intentions gone bad.” Tempest’ Let Them Eat Chaos is out now on Lex Records.

04/02/17 Whitney will headlining the Triple Rock Social Club.

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Kate Tempest at 7th St Entry, Minneapolis (13 June 2015)

Setlist The Beigeness Marshall Law The Truth / A Cappella Lonely Daze Theme from Becky Marshall Law part 2 Bad Place for A Good Time The Heist Circles Happy End Poem Hot Night Cold Spaceship The Truth (reprise) Tour Dates 06/19/15 "Sonar" (Barcelona) 06/21/15 Best Kept Secret Festival 06/26/15 Open Air St. Gallen 06/27/15 Glastonbury Festival 06/28/15 Glastonbury Festival 07/03/15 Roskilde Festival 07/04/15 Rock-A-Field Festival 07/16/15 Super Bock Super Rock Festival 07/25/15 Paleo Festival 07/26/15 Tramlines Festival 08/22/15 Pukkelpop Festival 08/28/15 Rock En Seine Festival Read More Kate Tempest Relative UK newcomer Kate Tempest is a unique combination- spoken word artist, performance poet, hip-hop MC, and playwright who won the Ted Hughes Award for spoken word piece, Brand New Ancients. …

Americans are admittedly mostly in the dark about UK rap—

We may know the odd song by the likes of The Streets, Dizzee Rascal, or Lady Sovereign, but nothing seems to have stuck, as rap and hip-hop seem to be a genuine American musical art form, even more so than jazz or country and western.

Even spoken word seems to be regulated to the likes of the beat poets, the wanna-be MCs, and those so angry to right society’s wrongs.  All of that may change with the emergence of UK playwright, novelist, poet, and now recording artist, Kate Tempest who brought all those talents to an often incendiary 70 min. performance at the 7^th Street Entry.

K. Raydio

Locals Botzy and K. Raydio opened with short sets, setting the stage with their own beats and rhymes.  Botzy has had recent EPs and mixtapes (2014’s I’ll be Underground When I’m Dead) and is working towards a full LP, while K. Raydio is coming off recent albums, LucidDreamingSkyline and One Drop, with a sound described as Erykah Badu meets Janelle Monae.  

Kate Tempest then took stage in support of her Mercury Music Prize-nominated Everybody Down (on Big Dada Records), excited and knowing full well where she was – “The home of Prince! The home of Rhymesayers! The home of Purple Rain! The home of you!”, ...and then proceeded to apologize.

“I want to say hello to you before we start, because when we start, I’m just gonna be doing my thing, so if I don’t talk to you, it’s not because I don’t love you” and with that, dove headlong into her flow, promising “I’ll see you on the other side”.

Kate Tempest

Flanked by a percussionist, keyboardist, and background singer, Tempest stalked about the stage, the 29 yr old recalling an urgency unlike vintage wordsmith Patti Smith, if Patti was born a quarter century later in working-class Southeast London.

Setlist

Beats were somewhat primitive and a hybrid of dancehall, grime, dub, and electro, but served only as the place-setting to Tempest’s machine gun narrative lyrics of truth-telling, anti-consumerism and conformity, desperate street people, and good intentions gone bad.

‘Marshall Law’ spins a seedy tale about innocent Becky meeting a dubious video director, while the biting lyrics of ‘The Truth’ force you to face the life you were pretending to live – “it’s true if you believe it, the world is the world, but it’s all how you see it”.

Kate Tempest

Tempest looks like she could be Ed Sheeran’s sister… who should be so lucky, as Sheeran’s verses can’t hold a candle to Tempest’s Gatling gun delivery of verbal percussion.  ‘The Heist’ plays like it could be the soundtrack of a manic Guy Ritchie film, while ‘Circles’ is perhaps her most melodic song, yet still requires your full attention.

‘Happy End’ really wasn’t, as reoccurring protagonist Becky still finds herself in a very Thelma and Louise predicament while her a Capella ‘Poem’ plead with everyone to “hold your own”, in even the most dire of circumstances.

The chill ‘Hot Night Cold Spaceship’ ended the main set, its lyrics asking more questions than it answered and an encore reprise of ‘The Truth’ reminded everyone still mesmerized, that it’s all about perception- “One man's flash of lightning ripping through the air, is another's passing glare-  it’s hardly there.”  Truth.

Kate Tempest at 7th St Entry, Minneapolis (13 June 2015)

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The Perfect Storm

Read More Mercury Prize The Mercury Prize promotes the best of UK and Irish music and the artists who produce it, the 12 ‘Albums of the Year’ Mercury Prize nominees have recently been announced: Kate Tempest - Everybody Down …

KATE TEMPEST
katetempest.co.uk

Kate Tempest: A storm is coming

Relative UK newcomer Kate Tempest is a unique combination- spoken word artist, performance poet, hip-hop MC, and playwright who won the Ted Hughes Award for spoken word piece, Brand New Ancients.

A debut album was next, last year’s Everybody Down (Big Dada Records) which brought more buzz and a Mercury Music Prize nomination.  The Guardian newspaper deemed her “one of the brightest talents around” with The Huffington Post mentioning her as “one of the most exciting young writers working in Britain today”.

See what the buzz is about as she finishes the last shows of her current North American Tour, which includes a weekend stop at the 7^th St Entry in Minneapolis.

Tour dates:

06/10/15 Pittsburgh, PA Brillobox
06/11/15 Columbus, OH The Basement
06/12/15 Chicago, IL Schubas Tavern
06/13/15 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
06/15/15 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon
06/16/15 Pontiac, MI Pike Room
06/17/15 NXNE Festival
06/19/15 "Sonar" (Barcelona)
06/21/15 Best Kept Secret Festival
06/26/15 Open Air St. Gallen
06/27/15 Glastonbury Festival
06/28/15 Glastonbury Festival
07/03/15 Roskilde Festival
07/04/15 Rock-A-Field Festival
07/16/15 Super Bock Super Rock Festival
07/25/15 Paleo Festival
07/26/15 Tramlines Festival
08/22/15 Pukkelpop Festival
08/28/15 Rock En Seine Festival

Read More The Cure This week, we got an announcement that The Cure's latest release will be a live album, recorded at Bestival 2011 (which just happened a few months ago, in September). …

THE SECRET STORM
thesecretstorm.com

It's been six years since Lauren Hoffman released Interplanetary Traveler, but now she's back under her new project called The Secret Storm.

For those not familiar with Hoffman, she was signed to Virgin Records in 1997 and primarily released indie-pop albums. Now without the restriction of the major label, Hoffman has the freedom to write what she loves: depressing, gloomy alt-rock ... citing The Cure has her favorite band.

The Secret Storm's first release "In the Sun" came out last month, but it recently got noticed when they decided to put their music on Pandora Radio.

Hoffman and company (guitarist Tony Lechmanski, cellist Cathy Monnes, keys Ethan Lipscomb, bassist Jeff Diehm, and drummer Jordan Marchini) are incredibly pleased with the renewed interest and will likely put more music on Pandora going forward.

Look for the Secret Storm at Southern Cafe & Music Hall in Charlottesville, Virginia, this July 3rd.

Read More Kate Bush Song of the show is Kate Bush's "December Will Be Magic Again", is a one-off single released in the U.K. in November 1980. …

STORM THE PALACE
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London and parts of Edinburgh's Storm the Palace (not to be confused with Toronto-area based party band Storm the Palace) recently released In Ruins EP on Seattle-based record label Abandoned Love Records.

Storm the Palace started with vocalist/guitarist Sophie Dodds and drummer Gordon Webster... but would later add pianist/accordionist Reuben Taylor and also featured cellist Pippa Murdie and bassist Sam Wilkinson.

The group's music has been described as "romantic, literate and thrilling" and they are inspired by historical sweep, such as German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (not to be confused with hard rockers Skid Row's Sebastian Bach) and the Baroque period and European folk and avant-garde pop... but also they are big fans of Kate Bush, Leonard Cohen and ABBA.

Live dates:

16 Jun 2015 Apples and Pears London
14 Jul 2015 The Plasterers Arms Norwich
30 Aug 2015 Jamboree London

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