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Rocktober: October 7, 2015

Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area on October 7, 2015.

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SLASH
at Mill City Nights
Wednesday, 10/07/2015, 8pm (Sold Out)
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Legendary Guns N Roses guitarist Slash is headlining Mill City Nights next Wednesday, October 7th. The show has long sold out.

Show up early to check out British rock/blues trio RavenEye (singer/guitarist Oli Brown, bassist Aaron Spiers, and drummer Kev Hickman). After a massive successful tour in Europe, Slash extended his invitation for the UK band to rejoin him on his upcoming US tour.

RavenEye's self-titled debut EP has been riding high in the Amazon best sellers list, be sure to pick up a copy when you see them in person.

Tour dates:

10/02/15 Marksville, LA Paragon Casino Resort
10/04/15 Louder Than Life Festival
10/07/15 Minneapolis, MN Mill City Nights
10/09/15 Calgary, AB Centre At Grey Eagle Casino
10/10/15 Edmonton, AB Northern Alberta Jubilee
10/12/15 Vancouver, BC Queen Elizabeth Theatre
10/13/15 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre
10/15/15 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot
10/16/15 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
10/18/15 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre
10/20/15 Chandler, AZ Wild Horse Pass Hotel
10/21/15 Anaheim, CA House Of Blues
10/23/15 Hollywood, CA Hollywood Palladium
10/24/15 Temecula, CA Pechanga Resort & Casino
10/31/15 Voodoo Experience
11/19/15 Prague Mala Sportovni Hala
11/20/15 Lodz, Poland Atlas Arena

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FRANK TURNER
at Varsity Theater
Wednesday, 10/07/2015, 6:30pm (Sold Out)
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The always lovely Frank Turner and his band The Sleeping Souls will be in town Wednesday, October 7th at the Varsity Theater to promote his new album Positive Songs for Negative People (released August 7th via Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor UK/Interscope).

Frank Turner is an English folk singer/songwriter who started as the vocalist of a post-hardcore band called Million Dead. His style has definitely calmed down but his talent just keeps on growing.

Frank Turner's music is perfect for right after a break-up. It's deep and depressing but bright and refreshing at the same time. So grab your lighters and gather up the pieces of your broken heart. Frank Turner is coming to make it all better!

Special guests Skinny Lister and Beans on Toast to open.

Don't have a ticket to the upcoming sold out show? No problem, you can meet & greet Turner at Electric Fetus on the same day at 6pm.

Tour dates:

10/02 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore
10/03 Baltimore, MD Ram’s Head Live
10/04 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
10/06 Chicago, IL House of Blues
10/07 Minneapolis, MN The Varsity Theater
10/09 Denver, CO The Ogden Theatre
10/10 Boulder, CO The Boulder Theatre
10/12 Salt City City, UT Urban Lounge
10/13 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
10/15 Seattle, WA The Neptune
10/16 Spokane, WA Knitting Factory
10/17 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
10/19 Sacramento, CA Ace of Spades
10/20 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
10/22 Los Angeles, CA The Mayan
10/23 San Diego, CA House of Blues
10/24 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
10/25 Phoenix, AZ The Press Room
10/27 Austin, TX Emo’s
10/28 Dallas, TX House of Blues
10/29 Houston, TX House of Blues
10/30 New Orleans, LA Voodoo Music Festival

Read More Ezra Furman Last night's show opened with Ezra Furman. The crowd was sparse to begin with but trickled in throughout the night. Ezra's performance had a raw, garage band feeling to it. ...

EZRA FURMAN
at Turf Club
Wednesday, 10/07/2015, 7:30pm ($10)
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Ezra Furman's upcoming tour starts in Twin Cities (St Paul/Minneapolis), and guess what? He recently covered The Replacements "Androgynous".

The upcoming tour is in support of his latest album Perpetual Motion People out now on Bella Union.

Pitchfork wrote, "Perpetual Motion People can never sit right in its own skin, and that's largely where its charm comes from. Furman is the kind of singer who seems to have crammed so many ideas into his head he can hardly decide which ones should fly out of his mouth first. While he's deeply indebted to traditional sounds and familiar structures, he comes alive most when he's sewing fissures into the forms he knows so well."

We previously caught him in June 2013 and described as sound as "raw, garage".

Ezra Furman US Tour Dates:

10/07-St. Paul, MN- Turf Club
10/10-Toronto-Silver Dollar Room
10/11-Montreal-Casa Del Popolo
10/12- Portsmouth, NH- Press Room
10/13-Bridgeport,NY-BSP Kingston
10/14-New York, CMJ –Knitting Factory
12/01-Seattle,WA-Tractor Tavern
12/02-Portland,OR-Mississippi Studios
12/06-San Francisco,CA-Rickshaw Stop
12/08-San Diego,CA-The Casbah
12/09-Los Angeles,CA-The Echo

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VARIOUS
Wednesday, 10/07/2015

Once again, thanks to Rocktober, there are too many shows to write about.

We are not covering these shows below, but I thought they were important enough to mention:

Legendary Germany electronic group Kraftwerk will be at Northrop Auditorium (8pm/$59.50)

Jerusalem In My Heart at Bryan Lake Bowl (7:30pm/$12)

Shamir at 7th Street Entry (6pm/$15)

Lindi Ortega with Smooth Hound Smith will be at Cedar Cultural Center (7pm/$15)

You may recall we caught the singer in 2013 at Icehouse when she was touring in support of Tin Star (Last Gang Records).

Jenny & Tyler at Northwestern College (Naz Chapel) (6pm/$15)

Of this I'm not sure: where the venue is, as the college website does not list the show at all.

UPDATE: University of Northwestern - Naz Chapel (3003 Snelling Ave, St. Paul, MN 55113) ... with special guest Jillian Edwards.

The duo is on tour for their latest Of This I'm Sure album.

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Lindi Ortega at the Icehouse, Minneapolis (11/03/13)

Setlist Tour Dates 11/06 Swift Current, SK Lyric Theatre 11/07 Regina, SK The Exchange 11/08 Edmonton, AB Royal Alberta Museum 11/09 Calgary, AB Commonwealth Bar 11/13 Vancouver, BC Biltmore 11/14 Victoria, BC Lucky Bar 11/15 Seattle, WA Q Café 11/16 Portland, OR White Eagle Saloon 11/18 San Francisco, CA Café Du Nord 11/19 Los Angeles, CA The Mint 11/20 Phoenix, AZ The Western 11/22 Austin, TX Cactus Café 11/24 Houston, TX Mucky Duck 11/28-29 Ottawa, ON National Arts Centre 11/30 Cobalt, ON Classic Theatre 12/05 Guelph, ON Van Gogh’s Ear 12/06 Montreal, QC Quai Des Brumes 12/07 Kingston, ON Grad Club Read More Lindi Ortega Lindi Ortega's third LP Tin Star debut on the top 10 of the Americana chart. Her album was praised by Country Weekly, calling Ortega's music as "haunting" and "atmospheric", while NPR called it "gorgeous". …

Lindi Ortega, along with her veil and little red boots, is currently on tour in support of Tin Star, stopping by the Icehouse in Minneapolis last night, November 3rd.

BRETT DETAR

Brett Detar was the opener, a one-man band who played some folksy, country music with his banjo and acoustic guitar. This is a stark contrast to his previous efforts as guitarist for metalcore Zao and emo band The Juliana Theory. He played tracks from his albums Bird in the Tangle and Too Free to Live (the latter is actually available as a free download, because he felt that it was more important that people listen it).

Seven songs from his set was mostly taken from the new album, kicking off with "Satan's Foot On My Neck", followed by "Damaged Girl". He switched over to acoustic (from banjo) with an older "Coasts" from Bird in the Tangle.

Funny enough, he dedicated the title track "Too Free To Live" to Snoop Doggy Dogg, because it's about a murder spree with someone you love. He ended his set with "The Devil's Gotta' Earn", which made for a nice circle with the 'Satan' song earlier.

So, I did listen to Lindi Ortega's latest album, Tin Star, to get a sense of what to expect for her show. The album was described as "country", but I think this is unfair to her music. I do detect some country influences, sure, but I wouldn't exactly call it country.

As you can setlist, most of the songs are taken from Tin Star, starting off with the title track, "Tin Star", followed by "Hard As This" (my favorite from the new album) and "Waitin' On My Luck To Change".

Ortega had some great banter on stage, they seem strangely deadpanned and rehearsed. From the invisible 'doobie' to pretending to be 'John Tesh', she's quite an entertaining storyteller. The last time she was in Minneapolis (at the 7th Street Entry), I gathered that she got super drunk and chipped a tooth drinking shots all night.

Other random stories that I thought was too funny to not mention, was the very first time she went on national tour opening up for Kevin Costner's band. All she could think of, was "Wow, that's the actor from 'Dances With Wolves'".

Highlight of the set was a slower song called "Lived And Died Alone", which Ortega said, "This is the first song I've written about necrophilia".

For the encore, the very last song, she gave us the option to hear "Little Red Boots" (since she didn't sing it earlier) or "The Day You Die". The audience chose the latter, so they finished with "The Day You Die" from 2012's Cigarettes & Truckstops.

Lindi Ortega is currently on tour; her latest album Tin Star is out now on Last Gang Records.

Lindi Ortega at Icehouse, Minneapolis (11/03/13)

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Girls Girls Girls: Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sky Ferreira, and Lindi Ortega

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Read More Sophie Ellis-Bextor This was a very brief band from 97-99, fronted by Sophie Ellis-Bextor - who went on to have a series of very successful Eurodisco releases. I must admit, I never followed the band that much - they arrived a little too late for me.…

SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR
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The truth is, I've been in love with Sophie Ellis-Bextor when she was singing for Theaudience in 1997. That was 16 years ago; it's unbelievable that she still looks incredibly amazing today!

To this day, I still consider her song* "Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer)" as one of the best moment in dance pop music history.

Anyway, guess what? Ellis-Bextor is back with Wanderlust, her fifth album, produced by none other than Ed Harcourt! The album comes out January 20th, 2014. I'm certain around that time, you'll hear that she will be out on tour! Cannot wait.

Track listing:

1. Birth of an Empire
2. Until the Stars Collide
3. Runaway Daydreamer
4. The Deer & the Wolf
5. Young Blood
6. Interlude
7. 13 Little Dolls
8. Wrong Side of the Sun
9. Love Is a Camera
10. Cry To the Beat of the Band
11. When the Storm Has Blown Over

* Officially a Freemasons song, but "featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor".

Read More Sky Ferreira Sky Ferreira and How To Dress Well are currently on a co-headlining tour. They stopped by Minneapolis at the Triple Rock Social Club last night, April 1st. …

SKY FERREIRA
skyferreira.com

We've been following Sky Ferreira since 2010, and finally, this year I got a chance to see her in person. She didn't play any old songs, which, as I've interpreted it was she was moving on from her early music, and "growing up". This isn't surprising since she did start her career when she was very young, and like most things, we all change as we grow.

Anyway, Sky's debut album Night Time, My Time came out yesterday exclusively on iTunes. If you're still on the fence, her single, "24 Hours" is available for FREE this week as iTunes Single of the Week. Grab it now, I did.

Sky will be heading out on tour in support of Night Time My Time, co-headlining with Smith Westerns:

11/11 -- New York, NY -- Webster Hall
11/13 -- Boston, MA -- The Paradise
11/14 -- Syracuse, NY -- Westcott Theatre
11/15 -- Philadelphia, PA -- The Church
11/18 -- Washington, DC -- 930 Club
11/20 -- Detroit, MI -- The Magic Stick
11/21 -- Columbus, OH -- A&R
11/22 -- Madison, WI -- High Noon
11/23 -- Chicago, IL -- The Vic

Trivia: The actual cover artwork shows her left boob, but most retailers (in the U.S. stores at least), is listing the censored cover artwork. If you must see it for yourself, you can click here [link redacted].

Read More Noah and the Whale Lindi Ortega is currently singing Laura's parts in all the songs with Noah and the Whale for the remainder of the their tour. Lindi is a classic folk singer from Toronto. …

LINDI ORTEGA
lindiortega.ca

Lindi Ortega's third LP Tin Star debut on the top 10 of the Americana chart. Her album was praised by Country Weekly, calling Ortega's music as "haunting" and "atmospheric", while NPR called it "gorgeous".

Tour dates below:

10/30 Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern
10/31 Pontiac, OH Pike Room
11/01 Chicago, IL Space
11/02 Madison, WI The Frequency
11/03 Minneapolis, MN Icehouse
11/06 Swift Current, SK Lyric Theatre
11/07 Regina, SK The Exchange
11/08 Edmonton, AB Royal Alberta Museum
11/09 Calgary, AB Commonwealth Bar and Stage
11/13 Vancouver, BC Biltmore
11/14 Victoria, BC Lucky Bar
11/15 Seattle, WA Q Café
11/16 Portland, OR White Eagle Saloon
11/18 San Francisco, CA Café Du Nord
11/19 Los Angeles, CA The Mint
11/20 Phoenix, AZ The Western
11/22 Austin, TX Cactus Café
11/24 Houston, TX Mucky Duck
11/28-29 Ottawa, ON National Arts Centre Studio
11/30 Cobalt, ON Classic Theatre
12/05 Guelph, ON Van Gogh’s Ear
12/06 Montreal, QC Quai Des Brumes
12/07 Kingston, ON Grad Club

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